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Convert MKV to Xvid to play on Xbox360

Optimist posted 2008 Feb 14 02:57

Hi Im new to this forum, though not to the site, so if im posting the wrong place or this have already been descussed please direct me there (been searching around a bit, also tryed to google this, without much luck on both attempts) Ive been trying, for the past 2 weeks now, to finde a simple and effective way to convert a few MKV 1080p files to Xvid, so i can copy them to a HDD and plug that in through the USB port on my Xbox360. However i keep running in to walls here and there. first i tryed vidora, which gave me one format that i could play on my PC but the Xbox denied to play it, and the same happend with a lot of other programs untill i finaly found a combination, or more specific two ways depending on the video and audio stream quality. First way: Is to use AVIDemux to convert the MKV format into one type of Xvid and thereafter use Virtualdub to convert it yet again into an Xvid format. what i dont get here is that my Xbox denies to play the first type of xvid format i get but not the second one, ive tryed Gspot to figure out whats the diffrence is between thoes two without much luck, all i can see is the the "name" of the codec is diffrent on the two movies though both are Xvid. Second way: Close to the first one but if the MKV file contains DTS sound i have to Split the MKV into .h264 and .dts where i then converts the .h264 into and avi file, and the DTS into and MP4 witch only contains the soundtrack in MP3 format, after that i use Quam, i thinks its called, to merge them and then virtualdub, to convert it into the xvid format my Xbox360 likes. Thies two methoeds are realy time consuming, and it whould be nice if anyone knew of some sort of way to "one click" convert them. Or why i might have to convert them twice, maybe a codec conflict or something. all i can say is that im a bit lost to why it have to be this complex to transcode one movie format into another. *I can upload a few pictures of Gspot when i get home.

guns1inger posted 2008 Feb 14 03:08

It is complex because a) mkv is not a simple format to work with b) More and more mkvs are using high quality H264 video, but the conversions tools are still catching up c) DTS is a very non-standard audio format for mkv or avi files, and difficult to convert (not many tools to do it) If the audio content was not DTS then I would suggest alltoAVI, but I don't know how it would handle the DTS portion. I am surprised that the AVI Demux Xvid is rejected.

Optimist posted 2008 Feb 14 03:17

: If the audio content was not DTS then I would suggest alltoAVI, but I don't know how it would handle the DTS portion. Ive tryed this aswell, was also rejected by the Xbox360.

Optimist posted 2008 Feb 14 12:07

This is the file i get after AVIDemux which wont run on my Xbox

Optimist posted 2008 Feb 14 12:08

And this is the one i get after ive used AVIDemux and VirtualDub, IE ive used Virtualdub on the above file I can see there are some diffrences, but i dont know why one is working and the other aint, and why the two programs encode Xvid in two diffrent ways.

acid_burn posted 2008 Jun 18 21:53

just search up XenonMKV, it will demux and all that crap in one step, its fast and its free and works perfectly

craig198 posted 2008 Aug 11 15:56

ive used xenonmkv for 2001 space oddessy and it worked like a charm. tried star wars and it came out all pixely and all the sounds were very low like arnold Schwarzenegger.

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