Convert MKV

[Jynks]

Hi there I just got a nice MKV rip but I can not play it properly on my TV. I was woundeirng if you guys knew a easy way to convert it to an AVI or somthing... I thought MKV was just a container with a normal XviD video inside it but VdubMOD can not direct stream copy the data into a normal avi..

any other ideas on how to do it?

[mxyzptlk]

mkvextract will do the trick

http://corecodec.org/projects/mkvextractgui/

[spudthedestroyer]

alternatively you can upgrade your player to a modified xbox and you won't need to.

[^Rogue^]

alternatively you can upgrade your player to a modified xbox and you won't need to.

I knew that he was gonna say that.

[spudthedestroyer]

alternatively you can upgrade your player to a modified xbox and you won't need to.

I knew that he was gonna say that.

/me punches Rogue in the face
did you know i was going to say that one?

[Jynks]

Hi. I haev a nice encode of a movie I mate made for me but I am having trouble playing it on my Xbox Media Center. It seams to play fine on my computer. Before you swithc off, I have never had any problems before with playing MKV on the Xbox.

When I load the MKV in VdubMod I get errors, and the picture dose not display. nor can I use direct stream copy to resave it as a MKV. I can not do full processing mode as it will not decomress properly (eg VdubMod has no images in the in/out window) The file dose play fine on th system though media player classic though.

The error VDubMOD gives me is:


Anyway when I run MKVextract GUI I can extarct the vidio and the audio I get a AC3 file and a "Track1.h264" file. Wicth can not be loaded in vdub.

I ran MVKveriffy ot try and find the problem and got this

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(mkv parser) note:
  File type: Matroska v1

(mkv parser) note:
  Seekhead contains link to another Seekhead

(mkv parser) note:
  chapter end has not been written

(mkv parser) note:
  chapter end has not been written

(mkv parser) note:
  chapter end has not been written

(mkv parser) note:
  chapter end has not been written

(mkv parser) note:
  chapter end has not been written

(mkv parser) note:
  chapter end has not been written

(mkv parser) note:
  chapter end has not been written

(mkv parser) note:
  chapter end has not been written

(mkv parser) note:
  chapter end has not been written



Can anyone help? I am not sure why Ican not load the video file into VDUBMOD.. The video decodes in media player classic just not Vdub.... why would that be? Dose anyone haev a direct link to a codec install for just "H264"?

[Jynks]

alternatively you can upgrade your player to a modified xbox and you won't need to.

I do use a modded Xbox. It is a problem with teh gfile.. MKV plays fine most times but this one dosn't for some reason.

[^Rogue^]

alternatively you can upgrade your player to a modified xbox and you won't need to.

I knew that he was gonna say that.

/me punches Rogue in the face
did you know i was going to say that one?

/me ducks

Close one. No need for violence.

Jynks: Is this about Hellraiser? If so, I've tried it on the xBox too with not success.

[Jynks]

Is this about Hellraiser?

is there a fix?

[dinky]

upgrade: hellraiser 2.0?

[^Rogue^]

Is this about Hellraiser?

is there a fix?

Nope, just wanted to make sure we had the same movie on our minds.

[spudthedestroyer]

you tried to repack it? there's probably an error in the container header. XBMC probably can't find the droids its looking for. There's a mkvstrip application.

I've had to repack badly muxed avi files, for example "Where the Buffallo Roam" released by usb

Dose anyone haev a direct link to a codec install for just "H264"?

Can't ffdshow replay x264? BTW, if there's super advanced features of h264 the xbmc might drop frames, but they will play.

[Jynks]

narr can not find that app spud.

I think you are right that it is a container error as thevideo looks great and theaudio is fine.....

[spudthedestroyer]

have you looked at the official homepage for applications, they have loads.
http://www.matroska.org/downloads/windows.html

MKVextract also has readme files and help files which explain how to use it.

[mxyzptlk]

h264 is a quicktimecodec,for some reason they start to use it more & more nowadays

normally it can be downloaded free anywhere

as spud said,you should check the readme files

I know mkvextract can do the trick,but have never used it myself.I only use mkvtoolnix to mux avi + mass audio & mass subs to mkv (for the animescene that is)

but I've asked around with some animeencoders as well & they all say the same:mkvextract should be able to remove the avi from the mkv container

[Jynks]

Like i said in the post I can extract thefiles fine but for some reason even though I can play the file fine on my system I can not seams to load it inti Vdub. With the extracted video and audio.. now what?

[mxyzptlk]

yeah,for some reason,vdub doesn't seem to like h264 (gspot also doesn't like it)

so you now have an avi & an mp3?

[mxyzptlk]

looked a few things up for ya,this is how it(should)work they said



1 demux video +audio with mkvextract
2 mux video+audio to avi with avimux

hope it works for ya

[^Rogue^]

looked a few things up for ya,this is how it(should)work they said



1 demux video +audio with mkvextract
2 mux video+audio to avi with avimux

hope it works for ya

3 You could even release the result
4 My gratitude would be off the scale

[El Mariachi]

yeah, I would even buy an X-Box then.