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| How to convert matroska MKV to AVI or OGM to AVI | ||||||
| Baldrick posted 2004 Oct 18 10:46 | ||||||
| Matroska .MKV file and .OGM are new container formats similiar to .AVI. They can contain DivX, Xvid video, OGG audio, several audio tracks, switchable subtitles. But if you want it to play it on a standalone dvd player with divx/xvid support you must convert it to AVI with MP3 audio and text subtitles(if any). No reencoding of the video is required, the audio will be reencoded to mp3.
Tools required: matroska / MKV Codec Ogg DirectShow Filter / OggDS / OGM Codec VirtualdubMod Lame MP3 ACM Guide: Install all codecs and tools. Start VirtualdubMod Demultiplex/Separate video,audio and subtitles and convert audio to mp3 1. Open the .mkv or .ogm, File->Open video file (If you receive an error read this) 2. Select Streams->Stream list 3, 4. Right click on the audio track you want to keep, select Full-Processing 5. Right click on same audio track again and select Compression 
1. Choose Lame MP3 2. Select bitrate 
1. Select the audio track you want to keep again 2. Click Save WAV to convert it to mp3, ignore that it says WAV, save it as track2.mp3 3. Select the subtitle track 4. Click Demux to save it as video.srt/sub 
1. Select File->Save as to save the avi video to a file, the video won't be reconverted 2. Select Direct Stream Processing 3. Select avi and save the new video as track1.avi 
Multiplex/Join audio and video 1. Open the new created track1.avi, File->Open video file 2. Select Streams->Stream List 3. Add the mp3 audio file 
1. Select File->Save as to save the avi video and audio, the video and audio won't be reconverted 2. Select Direct Stream Processing 3. Select avi and save the new video as video.avi 
Done. You should now have one video.avi (and a video.srt/sub file if any subs).[/b] You can delete the track1.avi and track2.mp3. | ||||||
| Baldrick posted 2004 Oct 18 11:32 | ||||||
| VirtualdubMOD doesn't work with all types of MKV and OGM video. But you can use:
MKVExtractGUI to extract video, audio and subtitle from MKV files. and OGMDemuxer tool to extract video, audio and subtitle. It is a command line tool but just drag and drop the .ogm file on the OGDemuxer.exe and it will separate all files automatically. After that continue from the Multiplex/Join the video,audio in the guide above. But you must first convert the ogg audio to mp3, you can use for example dbpoweramp. | ||||||
| absinthecarolinas posted 2004 Oct 21 08:06 | ||||||
| Another nice guide, baldrick. Thanks! :)
LAME doesn't show up in my codec list in VDubMod, though I do have the codec. Would you happen to know how to register it with Windows without installing, or any other way to get VDubMod to see it? -abs | ||||||
| Baldrick posted 2004 Oct 21 08:36 | ||||||
| You must install the lame mp3 acm codec, right click on the LameACM.inf and select Install. | ||||||
| absinthecarolinas posted 2004 Oct 21 09:30 | ||||||
Got it! Thanks, -abs | ||||||
| A.R.K posted 2004 Nov 30 22:42 | ||||||
| hey baldrick, thats a very nice tutorial!
but, i just wanted to know... the subtitles that i saved from the .ogm file, how can i get them to be on me .avi file? when i tried to add it to the Stream List with the audio, it only saved the audio and not the subtitles. any help would be great! thanks | ||||||
| Mr. SoAndSo posted 2004 Dec 02 16:52 | ||||||
| Need help here........
When I go to save the mp3 it says MPEG audio sync error: try disabling MPEG audio time correction Is there any way to solve this? | ||||||
| Baldrick posted 2004 Dec 03 16:01 | ||||||
| ark: you can't include the switchable subs in the avi file, you can have separate avi and subs files. or you can add permanent subs by using the vobsub filter. | ||||||
| boedha posted 2005 Jan 26 15:12 | ||||||
| First of all tnx for making this tutorial. But at this moment it isnt really working for me. I installed all the tools i needed and oggvorbis. The anime is ogm. Videocodex is xvid (xvid mpeg-4,ffdshow mpeg-4 video decoder, xvid mpeg-4 video decoder) and audio: oggvorbis(no codex). When i do it with virtualdub everything is ok until i do save as: no avi.when i try with demux im not able to save to file because its used by something else(no idea what) and i also have no mp3files to select.heeeeelp :cry: | ||||||
| MnBthunDER posted 2005 Jan 29 13:51 | ||||||
| For my situation, I've succeeded in splitting the ogg files using OGMDemuxer, which contains the avi, 2 dubs and the srt. I use VirtualDubMod to get 1 of the dub and save into .mp3 and when I wanted to combine the .avi, .mp3 and the .srt file (tried on OGMDemuxer version and VirtualDubMod version). the .avi and .mp3 has no problem except the subtitles just does not show. I'm wondering what I had missed out and really need help in this. Thanks a lot and any help would be appreciated | ||||||
| xXGokuXx posted 2005 Jan 29 19:31 | ||||||
I have a proglbem here...
I get this error on #4 when I want to save the file as "video.srt/sub" Pic: 
What should I do to fix this problem? | ||||||
| sushifrenzy posted 2005 Jan 29 22:00 | ||||||
| i tried to download OGMdemuxer, but it doesnt work... along with the fact that i downloaded vobsub, which worked, but when i try to save the .avi file with the sub and sound, only the sound is saved.. :| help please. | ||||||
| boedha posted 2005 Feb 01 15:20 | ||||||
| it seems we all have the same probs.now all we need is someone who knows how this damn things works :D | ||||||
| Le_Blur posted 2005 Feb 06 11:09 | ||||||
| Hey,
I've printed off your guide and am currently following it to the letter. I came to install Lame MP3 (in the manner described) and was confronted with the following message: "The software you are installing for this hardware: Sound, video and game controllers has not passed Windows Logo testing to verify its compatibility with Windows XP. Continuing your installation of this software may impair or destabilise the correct operation of your system either immediately or in the future. Microsoft strongly recommends that you stop this installation now and contact the hardware vendor for software that has passed Windows Logo testing." Is this to be taken as a serious threat, or is it merely Microsoft attempting to restrict the movements of small companies who do not have the funds to pay for Microsoft's corporate blessing? I noticed from your screen shot that you also use XP, and I assume you also came across this problem when installing Lame MP3. Do I continue or find another program to compress audio streams to MP3? | ||||||
| boedha posted 2005 Feb 06 18:35 | ||||||
| windows says pretty easely if it isnt 1 of there products m8.Just install it :D | ||||||
| boedha posted 2005 Feb 06 18:39 | ||||||
| i noticed that ogmdemuxer doesnt seems to work if the ogmfiles arent properly encoded.maybe thats youre prob shushi. Test it out with other ogmfiles from another anime(for example evangelion: thats the 1 i just converted 8) | ||||||
| sushifrenzy posted 2005 Feb 08 19:07 | ||||||
| :o youre probably right.. but i dont have other ogm files.. :|
and when i try to install ogmdemuxer.. it says under show details: output directory: C:\WINDOWS\system32 Skipped: ogg.dll Skipped: vorbis.dll Skipped: vorbisenc.dll Skipped: OggDS.dll Registering: C:\WINDOWS\system32\OggDSuninst.exe Completed so i dont think it actually installed if it skipped all of them.. | ||||||
| boedha posted 2005 Feb 10 13:56 | ||||||
| i dont think oggvorbis is properly installed m8 | ||||||
| sushifrenzy posted 2005 Feb 10 21:02 | ||||||
| i downloaded ogg vorbis... and now what do i do?! it still isnt working.. | ||||||
| docMA posted 2005 Feb 17 11:54 | ||||||
| Hello!
Just wanted you to know that I love your guides! They are easy to understand (even for me here in germany). thank you! | ||||||
| Mr.Hitman posted 2005 Feb 23 19:30 | ||||||
| what if your trying to convert .VOB file to avi, and abstract the subs and such from it... I can't get this process to wrok because the subs don't show up in the process list. | ||||||
| ChristianHJW posted 2005 Mar 02 01:02 | ||||||
| I know this thread is quite some time old, but it needs to be mentioned that VirtualdubMod development has come to a halt since more than a year. As a result of this, it won't be able to handle most of the modern matroska files anymore, especially those with VFW ( Variable Framerate ), Realvideo, h.264 and vobsub subtitles.
The recommended tool to extract video/audio/subtitles streams from MKV files is therefore mkvextract from the mkvtoolnix package ( current version 1.4.0 ) from http://mkvmerge.matroska.org. While mkvmerge is an easy to use CLI tool ( command line ), there is an experimental GUI from a long-time supporter of the matroska project, more about it here : http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=73819&highlight=mkvextract | ||||||
| voicu_n posted 2005 Mar 30 17:44 | ||||||
| Hi...
Baldrick, i have a problem ...after i load my ogm file in vdobmode i cannot see the stream for subtitle...only the one for audio .... But if i play the file with media player clasic i have subtitles.... Next to the ogm file i also have a idx file ...wich if is not next to ogm file i dont have anymore sub in clasic media player... How come ...help pls... How can i get the demux the sub???? | ||||||
| CrisCr0ss posted 2005 Apr 07 19:05 | ||||||
| wow i have been lookin all over for a way to convert an ogm to avi and i at last have found it thanks a lot.. appreciate it. | ||||||
| blinkassassin posted 2005 Apr 23 17:59 | ||||||
| how do u get the video.srt and the video.avi all in one?
cause when im running video.avi WITHOUT the video.srt in the same folder, there are no subtitles :(. I need to convert files to .avi and have the subtitle in the avi it self because im trying to get it to dvd | ||||||
| shoes27 posted 2005 Apr 27 09:55 | ||||||
| ChristianHJW, i used mkv extract on my mkv file. How do i now join the avi and aac file together? | ||||||
| taydu posted 2005 May 29 21:11 | ||||||
| i have problem
the mkv file is 25 mins long i used mkvextractgui to extract the avi, aac, srt file. The avi file is only 19 mins long, but the aac files is 25 mins long how do i fix it? | ||||||
| p_l posted 2005 May 31 03:29 | ||||||
Once again your tutorial and follow-up help me. In this case, VDubMod extracted an .srt subtitle file that Subtitle Workshop wouldn't open, saying it was invalid or broken. I finally found this thread and used MKVExtractGUI, then was able to open the .srt in Subtitle Workshop and convert it to the .txt format Ulead DVD Workshop requires, and now everything works fine. I have a DVD with selectable, in sync subtitles. Thanks again. :) | ||||||
| BetaMaster posted 2005 Jun 22 22:16 | ||||||
| This worked great the first time... thanks!
However, the second time, I can't seem to extract either of the audio tracks. I get an ACM error at the start of each attempt. I tried a different OGM file, and it worked just fine. Any idea what is happening? Steve | ||||||
| celtic_druid posted 2005 Jun 22 22:57 | ||||||
| What audio does the ogm that doesn't work use? Vorbis is not the only option. ogm also supports AC3, mp3 and aac. | ||||||
| BetaMaster posted 2005 Jun 28 18:04 | ||||||
| You hit it on the money - it's audio is Lame MP3. Obviously can't be compressed can it :-) | ||||||
| celtic_druid posted 2005 Jun 28 19:51 | ||||||
| Well windows comes with an ACM mp3 decoder so it should work fine. No point converting if it is already mp3 though. | ||||||
| quickfyre posted 2005 Jul 06 18:54 | ||||||
| Alright I've right click and installed the lame mp3 .inf file, but it still does NOT show up on my virtualdubmod selection
Any ideas? | ||||||
| phatk9999 posted 2005 Aug 03 02:32 | ||||||
| Is there a way to put back the subs I took out in the initail virtualdub process? I need the subs to show up before I switch the final AVI to VCD-compliant MPG | ||||||
| Baldrick posted 2005 Aug 03 04:45 | ||||||
| phat: http://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=272736 | ||||||
| tubigan posted 2005 Aug 17 05:27 | ||||||
| IS it necessary to have Pentium 4 to convert mkv/ogm to avi properly? I only have Pentium733mhz, can i still encode them? | ||||||
| celtic_druid posted 2005 Aug 17 05:57 | ||||||
| Can't see any reason at all why it wouldn't work on a Pentium. However at 733MHz, I would say that you have a PIII. | ||||||
| tubigan posted 2005 Aug 17 07:25 | ||||||
| Oh yeah, it's Pentium3 733mhz to be precise, sorry my mistake in typing, hehehe. So based on this, how long would it take to encode? | ||||||
| FF_Fanatic posted 2005 Aug 18 12:14 | ||||||
| How many space is need???
When I saved the avi video and audio, it started making something strange with 2 windows behind... And it stopped at 5 mins of video, 'cause there wasn't more space in my hard drive... When I go see it, it has 6GB for 5 mins!!! What's this?? | ||||||
| celtic_druid posted 2005 Aug 18 21:01 | ||||||
| It means that you were saving raw RGB instead of direct streaming. | ||||||
| b_9904 posted 2005 Sep 20 10:15 | ||||||
| hey,
my virtual dub mod crashed when i installed lame ac3. what can you suggest to fix this problem? thanx | ||||||
| celtic_druid posted 2005 Sep 20 10:28 | ||||||
| What version of lame? | ||||||
| PK_125 posted 2005 Sep 21 18:14 | ||||||
| 2. Click Save WAV to convert it to mp3, ignore that it says WAV, save it as track2.mp3
i need help with this step please. it is as you say the only thing in 'save file type' has only .wav, and tried to save but it says No audio decompresser could be found to decompress the source audio format. need help here please! | ||||||
| celtic_druid posted 2005 Sep 21 20:15 | ||||||
| What audio format does the original use? Personally I would demux and convert it seperatly via say BeSweet. | ||||||
| p_l posted 2005 Sep 21 21:56 | ||||||
From the Audio menu, choose Full Processing Mode, then select the Audio menu again and click on Compression. Your compression choices will appear, including MP3 if you have it on your system.
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| celtic_druid posted 2005 Sep 21 22:03 | ||||||
| mkv can use various audio formats though and ACM is really not the best interface to handle them by. For instance I don't think there is a decent ACM decompressor for aac if PK_125's file happens to have aac audio. | ||||||
| PK_125 posted 2005 Sep 22 08:02 | ||||||
| wat do i have to d/l to get MP3 on the audio compression list? im not sure wat audio format the video is in, but looking at the streams list, it says
Desc: Audio stream 1 [tag 0x0000, Unknown Wave format], ID [A_AAC/MPEG4/LC/SBR], 6ch, 22050Hz, 155.1kbps | ||||||
| celtic_druid posted 2005 Sep 22 08:10 | ||||||
| Well there ya go. It does use aac, 6 ch he-aac in fact. I very much doubt that there is an ACM decompressor that can handle that.
Try decoding with mplayer or use mencoder to remux the video and re-encode the audio in one go. | ||||||
| b_9904 posted 2005 Oct 05 11:37 | ||||||
the one in baldricks download link | ||||||
| b_9904 posted 2005 Oct 05 11:58 | ||||||
| VOBSUB HELP
can anyone please point me to a tutorial for vobsub? | ||||||
| yinsw posted 2005 Nov 27 05:59 | ||||||
| In the MKV, when I play the file, the duration is about 24++ minutes, but when I extract out the file, the .AVI is only 19 minutes and the .AAC which I've converted to .MP3 is 24 minutes... Using AviMUX to combine the video/audio/subs makes the audio/video out of sync.. Any idea why this happens? | ||||||
| celtic_druid posted 2005 Nov 28 23:15 | ||||||
| Sounds like it uses VFR (Variable Frame Rate) video. When you demux to avi the video becomes CFR (Constant Frame Rate) and is no longer in sync with the audio. Since avi doesn't support VFR you would need to re-encode the video. | ||||||
| Mr.K posted 2005 Dec 22 15:31 | ||||||
| I also have a problem with extracting sound
it says like this after this step 2. Click Save WAV to convert it to mp3, ignore that it says WAV, save it as track2.mp3 
what to do please help ....? | ||||||
| celtic_druid posted 2005 Dec 22 20:52 | ||||||
| I think I already covered aac audio above. As the popup says when you first run VDubMod; its matroska support is quite out of date. You can use mkvextract to demux the aac stream. | ||||||
| Mr.K posted 2005 Dec 23 03:35 | ||||||
i did use this program the audio extracted as (aac) then when i run the program [ dBpowerAMP Music Converter ] in order to convert the (aac file ) into wav the (aac file ) doesn't appear in the list to chose it . do u know other program to convert it to wav or mp3 ? | ||||||
| celtic_druid posted 2005 Dec 23 05:30 | ||||||
| dBpowerAMP probably expects the aac to be in an mp4 file. Then again maybe there is a plugin for raw aac? Be carefull that it detects that it is he aac, otherwise you will loose the SBR part. | ||||||
| Mr.K posted 2005 Dec 23 06:57 | ||||||
sorry , but .. i didnt understand this what is mean ?? :!: | ||||||
| celtic_druid posted 2005 Dec 24 06:16 | ||||||
| With a raw aac stream there is no header to signal if a file is he-aac or not. If a decoder doesn't detect it correctly then it misses out on the SBR part. | ||||||
| fruity kitten posted 2006 Jan 03 19:56 | ||||||
| when i try to open the .mkv with virtualdubmod tis message came out.
"birtual block not handled" i can't open the .mkv file can anyone tell me wat's wrong with it? thx. Its only the one file that does it the rest were fine when I did them. Its annoying, can anyone help me please? The virtualdubmod I have is 15.10.1 | ||||||
| celtic_druid posted 2006 Jan 04 09:23 | ||||||
| VirtualDubMod's mkv support is out of date. There is a popup to that effect with some recommendations when you first run it. | ||||||
| fruity kitten posted 2006 Jan 04 11:48 | ||||||
| So what should I do than? :shock: | ||||||
| celtic_druid posted 2006 Jan 04 12:35 | ||||||
| Follow a guide that doesn't use VDubMod. mkv might be similar to avi in the fact that it is a container format. It is however much more powerfull so you can't simply remux everything that is in mkv to avi.
Check out mkvextract for extracting streams. If the video is avi compatible, it will give you an avi. If it is VFR though, it won't be the length as the audio. ogm to avi is much easier. ogm doesn't support VFR and the video is always compatible with avi. | ||||||
| NightwolfFUS posted 2006 Jan 04 12:48 | ||||||
| I'm also having a perplexing problem. Up until September of this last year, I was originally able to use VirtualDub, Lame MP3, and the Ogg tools as instructed by the OGM to AVI guide to convert my OGM files to AVI. I remember succeeding because I have a number of converted OGM files. All of a sudden, however, VirtualDub now refuses to recognize the OGMs at all. I constantly get an error/warning message after trying to open both the OGM video file and even when I've tried using OGM Demuxer to turn the OGM video into an AVI. VirtualDub will still not open the file correctly in either case. The error message reads: "Couldn't locate decompressor for format 'XVID' (unknown). VirtualDub requires a Video for Windows (VFW) compatible codec to decompress video. Direct Show codecs, such as those used by Windows Media Player, are not suitable. Only 'Direct stream copy' is available for this video." What exactly does this mean? I vaguely remember having to download a 4th tool to get it to work, and I remember that it was NOT the matroska package but I can't remember what it was. I have received the MKV outdated message when VirtualDub first starts up, but I wouldn't think that would effect OGM files.
Anyone know what might be wrong? VirtualDub's screen is supposed to turn black once it's opened the video file. That I do remember. Any help would be appreciated. Edit: Would I be better off using OGM to AVI as well? Not sure. | ||||||
| fruity kitten posted 2006 Jan 04 13:49 | ||||||
| Is there anyway you could give me a step by step of what to do cause I downloaded the MKVextractgui but it says its missing a mkvomerge.exe or a mkvextract.exe.
How do I get it or what do I do Im totally clueless here please help me.
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| fruity kitten posted 2006 Jan 04 15:27 | ||||||
| Oh by the way its a show that I cant seem to find in english except for the one file i have.
If I can find a different anime than I wont even bother but I have re- coded all the other ones except for this one file and thats why I want to know how to fix it. | ||||||
| mboulton posted 2006 Jan 04 19:23 | ||||||
| god a day's wait to post is excrutiating when you'd love an answer.
anyhoo, i managed to follow the intructions for converting my mkv file to mpeg then i can convert to divx and burn, but it only let me do it the one time and then wehn i was doing the first couple of steps the second time it said my demo had expired but it wouldn't say the demo of what ? i downloaded so many different things i'm not sure what's expired, and why would it expire after 1 day and 1 try at it. weird ! and help please ! thanks alot ! michael. | ||||||
| celtic_druid posted 2006 Jan 04 22:00 | ||||||
| @NightwolfFUS, you need to install XviD.
@fruity kitten, MKVextractgui as the name implies is simply a GUI. It requires mkvtoolnix. mkv->mpg->.divx? Makes little sense. | ||||||
| whitejremiah posted 2006 Jan 04 23:46 | ||||||
| you would honestly be better off going like mkv>avi+audio tracks and subs>dvdr this way you can retain everything and still have the switchable subs...this way is also a bit more accurate to the original, most likely. | ||||||
| NightwolfFUS posted 2006 Jan 05 12:25 | ||||||
Thanks, celtic_druid! That worked. I realized last night finally that it was Divx/Xvid that I was missing. The thing is, I remember older versions of the Divx codec allowing VirtualDub to open the OGM files, but this time, it didn't so downloading the Xvid worked just the same. Thanks again. | ||||||
| fruity kitten posted 2006 Jan 07 01:14 | ||||||
I just wanted to say was thank you. I got it to work so I dont have problems anymore. It took me a bit to figure it out but non the less I got it and I am very grateful. So I thank you again celtic druid | ||||||
| sakuya_su posted 2006 Jan 14 20:35 | ||||||
| Guys, a new program just came out for batch converting OGM/MKV to AVI with subtitle and audio:
http://alltoavi.sourceforge.net/ | ||||||
| AKAI SHUICHI posted 2006 Mar 13 09:43 | ||||||
| Hello ALL
THanks for this method .. and explaination but i had some proplems .. 1. after i choose "FULL PROCESSING" mode i choosed Commpression And Selected the same option that you've done but .. when i wanted to save it as a WAVE THE message Appeared 
hmm ... then i tried to save it as AVI directly .. but the message Appeared 
PLZ help me quickly plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz | ||||||
| celtic_druid posted 2006 Mar 13 09:59 | ||||||
| Your audio is aac and I don't know of any working ACM aac decoder. Not a good idea really anyway.
Could be that you are just missing a decoder for the video, could be that it really isn't compatible with avi. As I already said VirtualDubMod's mkv support is out of date. Fact is that VfW/ACM really aren't equiped to properly handle mkv's advanced features so VDubMod or any VDub based app will probably never handle mkv properly. It was fine a couple of years ago, but basically I would forget about VDubMod for mkv's since most of the mkv's are probably now native AVC, etc. | ||||||
| sakuya_su posted 2006 Mar 14 01:10 | ||||||
| yeah well even my alltoavi(well its actually a mencoder shell) does not do H.261, well it does support it but my feedback of errors while converting a H261 or H.264 is like pretty much 80%
my advise is just watch it as it is and curse the ppl who released it with a strange format XD | ||||||
| celtic_druid posted 2006 Mar 14 03:09 | ||||||
| I wouldn't call H.264/AVC a strange format. | ||||||
| sakuya_su posted 2006 Mar 15 01:33 | ||||||
| ah well not really a strange format but its just MEncoder cant really convert it.. | ||||||
| Matryx posted 2006 Apr 09 23:55 | ||||||
| the subtitles doesn't seem to work when I demux it. | ||||||
| TheEmperor posted 2006 Apr 20 11:03 | ||||||
| I converted the mkv to avi but the video plays in different time of audio i hear the audio in wrong time what should i do, someone told me to check the interleaving but i dont know what to do ?
and how to know the different length between video and audio to know how long to correct ? | ||||||
| celtic_druid posted 2006 Apr 20 11:20 | ||||||
| If the mkv is VFR (Variable Frame Rate) then the audio and video aren't supposed to match when remuxed to avi. Since avi doesn't support VFR, the video length changes. | ||||||
| TheEmperor posted 2006 Apr 20 11:24 | ||||||
| So what to do before it was coverting correct now the audio always delay about 7 seconds | ||||||
| celtic_druid posted 2006 Apr 21 01:58 | ||||||
| Well if the source file is CFR, then there is no problem. | ||||||
| oOone_luvOo posted 2006 May 31 13:45 | ||||||
| this guide worked great. i managed to separate everything and put it back together, but my audio is slightly off which makes watching it annoying. Any way to solve this problem or guides that tell me how? | ||||||
| snooks posted 2006 Jun 01 01:44 | ||||||
| Hi there. I'm new with this video conversion thing... I followed your instructions (to convert mkv files to avi files with subs) but whenever I try to save the audio to mp3 format, I keep getting this message:
Error initializing audio stream decompression: The requested conversion is not possible. Check to make sure you have the required codec (Microsoft Audio Codec) I've tried looking it up but I can't seem to find this codec. Please help. Thanks! | ||||||
| celtic_druid posted 2006 Jun 01 03:25 | ||||||
| Believe I already covered the above. You audio would be aac or something else that can't be decoded via ACM. Could also be wavepack, vorbis, etc. Mkv supports numerous audio formats. | ||||||
| popol24 posted 2006 Jun 05 07:52 | ||||||
| this guide is great and thanks heaps! but is there a way to convert a big bunch of ogm files to avi? cos with this guide, i can only convert one ogm file at a time, unless i'm missing something... | ||||||
| celtic_druid posted 2006 Jun 05 10:58 | ||||||
| Use mencoder
for %%f in (*.ogm) DO (mencoder.exe -ovc copy -oac mp3lame -aid # -noskip "%%f" -o "%%~nf.avi") I'm sure there would be other guides though. | ||||||
| muji posted 2006 Jun 11 19:46 | ||||||
i have the same sound fomat detected! nevertheless, i got the acc converted to wav, then to mp3, but the result of putting the video n audio together,,,,,,,well the timing was off! :o pls advice :oops: :wink: :x | ||||||
| celtic_druid posted 2006 Jun 12 00:00 | ||||||
| If your mkv is VFR (Variable FrameRate), then it will loose sync if you assume it is CFR and avi supports CFR only. | ||||||
| Tiribulus posted 2006 Jun 14 21:38 | ||||||
| AAC anyone?
I have some mkv files that have aac encoded audio. I installed an aac decompressor I got from freecodecs.com which allowed Goldwave to open and convert the demuxed aac files to mp3, all of which went without a hitch. The trouble is when I remux the re-encoded mp3 files to the extracted avi file you'd need a calendar to measure how outta sync the audio is from the video. Is this just a matter of trial and error with the skew tool? I hope not, a major pain. I should mention Vdubmod complains, when I open the mkv file, about possible vbr issues, but doesn't say whether it's the audio or the video. Thanks, >>>--Tiribulus-> :D PS, I didn't see the post above before posting mine. It looks like I'm in the same boat as this guy except I went straight from aac to mp3. | ||||||
| Lucas54 posted 2006 Jun 16 06:05 | ||||||
| When I want to convert my ogm into an avi it won't work. It was doing fine up until a mouth ago. VirtualdubMod keeps crashing then gives an error that it was because of this xvid.dll thing. So I tried to reinstall everything even xvid but nothing works. It won't convert anything. I really need to get some files converted so I can have more hard drive space. HELP PLEASE!!!!! :cry: | ||||||
| zadesu posted 2006 Jun 16 07:01 | ||||||
| Hello everyone,
Hope someone can help me with this. Been at it the whole day googling for solutions but couldn't find any. I'm not a techinical person so pardon my noobness. :) I'm trying to convert a .mkv file to .avi, which i then wish to split up so i can upload to youtube in parts. When i run MatroskaDiag on the .mkv file, this is what i get: Track 1 : Subtitles - Codec : SubStation Alpha (S_TEXT/SSA) - Possible filter : VSFilter/DVobSub - Installed : yes, in C:\Program Files\Matroska Pack\VSFilter.dll (1.0.1.2) - Link : http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli - Language : English (eng) Track 2 : Video - Codec : Microsoft VFW compatibility mode (V_MS/VFW/FOURCC) - Fourcc : XviD MPEG-4 codec (XVID) - Possible filter : Xvid - Installed : yes, in C:\WINDOWS\system32\xvid.ax - Link : http://www.xvid.org - Possible filter : ffdshow - Installed : yes, in C:\Program Files\ffdshow\ffdshow.ax (1.0.2.1998) - Link : http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow - Language : Japanese (jpn) - Pixel Width : 640 - Pixel Height : 360 Track 3 : Audio - Codec : AAC Low Complexity (A_AAC/MPEG2/LC) - Possible filter : CoreAAC - Installed : yes, in C:\WINDOWS\system32\CoreAAC.ax (1.1.0.642) - Link : http://coreaac.corecodec.org - Language : Japanese (jpn) - Sampling Frequency : 48000 - Channels : 2 Attached file : l_10646.ttf (316.39 KB) Attached file : LACUI___.TTF (57.98 KB) So i've made sure the subtitles, video and audio codecs are properly installed. I then opened the file in VirtualdubMOD and began following the instructions in the first post of this thread. But when i came to this step, "Click Save WAV to convert it to mp3, ignore that it says WAV, save it as track2.mp3 " i got this error message instead: "No audio decompressor could be found to decompress the source audio format." I noticed that in the Stream List, the audio track is listed with "unknown wave format". If the codec for the audio was properly installed, why am i still not able to decompress it? I'm very confused now... :( Can someone help pls? | ||||||
| luife posted 2006 Aug 18 14:19 | ||||||
| i need help i need to convert mkv files to avi and i was trying to follow baldrick`s steps, i donwload the 4 applications that baldrick said and when i try to install VirtualDubMod theres a error that says it doesn`t find the file CORONA.DLL what should i do | ||||||
| Bully9 posted 2006 Sep 22 09:36 | ||||||
| Excellent tutorial Baldrick, but I couldn't get alltoavi to convert - or virtualdubmod to open - or MKVExtractGUI to demux an mkv file. So i adapted a way i found somewhere else on the web for converting rmvb to avi. Having found the fps of the matroska file from mediainfo, i created a simple avisynth script in notepad:
#ASYNTHER MKV 23.976fps DirectShowSource("%f", fps=23.976, convertfps=true) and saved it as mkv23.976.AVST in the virtualdubmod template file. Then i opened the mkv file in VDM using the template i'd created now shown in the drop-down at the bottom of the open file dialogue box, and it worked fine. Actually, if you abort the conversion, VDM produces a .avs file that you can use to open the mkv in normal virtualdub. I'm sure that it's possible to just write this script in the first place, but as i really haven't a clue about avisynth, this way was best for me. Anyway you can use virtualdub to rencode video and audio as divX/mp3 if you want. I hope this helps someone - it would've saved me a great deal of time. | ||||||
| azumi_yo posted 2006 Sep 29 18:49 | ||||||
I get this exact same problem. I even tried to onvert the AAC with superAVconverter and it still wouldn't work. | ||||||
| ripjames posted 2006 Oct 14 04:55 | ||||||
| OK i've use the MKVextractgui thing to extract allt he files I need and i end up with the vid file as .h264 and I can't seem to do anything with it is there away I can use the file to make an avi? or is there no way to do that with h264? | ||||||
| C-W posted 2006 Oct 16 09:40 | ||||||
| are there a guide how to use the MKVExtractGUI tools?? | ||||||
| celtic_druid posted 2006 Oct 16 10:10 | ||||||
| Guide? Tick streams you want to extract and extract. No need for a guide.
As for .264 file to avi. No point really. For SAP compatiblity you would need to convert to XviD/DivX anyway so you may as well leave it as an mkv. If you really really want to do it though avc2avi can. | ||||||
| Scooterinab posted 2006 Oct 21 14:28 | ||||||
| Could someone please tell me how to convert from this shitty MKV format? MKVExtract does NOT work. I am completely unable to extract the video from the MVK file.
Anyone who encodes into MKV should be SHOT! | ||||||
| Bully9 posted 2006 Oct 21 17:52 | ||||||
| I posted a method 5 posts back - have you tried it? | ||||||
| torrentcrazy posted 2006 Oct 22 01:06 | ||||||
| Any tips for dealing with a Variable Framerate video? As stated before, the audio and video will be different lenghts if the video was Variable Framerate. Are there any hints, steps, guides, tricks, anything please, on converting Variable Framerate .mkv to constant framerate .avi and have the video/audio synch match up?
*edit* I changed the framerate in Vdubmod to match the audio. That put the video at 24.5 fps. Now the question is will 24.5 fps work for divx in a standalone dvd player? I know divx at 29.97 plays fine. | ||||||
| Scooterinab posted 2006 Oct 22 10:43 | ||||||
I get an AVI Filter error when I load using the script. It does create a small AVS file, but I get the filter error when I try to open that. Down with MKV. | ||||||
| celtic_druid posted 2006 Oct 22 22:28 | ||||||
| Nothing wrong with mkv. It is just when people try and move from mkv to a less advanced container like avi. AVISynth3 should handle mkv's better via gstreamer anyway.
Setting the framerate to an average to match the audio will probably not result in constant audio sync. | ||||||
| jthekk2 posted 2006 Oct 23 20:22 | ||||||
| So the steps that were stated in the first step work almost 100% of the time for ogg files. The mkvs, in my case at least, are more troublesome. I can successfully extract the srt and aac files using mkvextract, but the video will not extract. when it does extract, it is put in an avc format or an h264. alltoavi presents the same problem, however it gives me an mp3 and srt along with the h264 file. how can one convert this h264 or avc file to a useable avi format that can have the mp3 and srt files added into it using virtual dub? | ||||||
| celtic_druid posted 2006 Oct 23 21:22 | ||||||
| mkvextract simply extracts. So if the mkv contains AVC, then you get AVC out. Only thing is that it extracts it raw rather than as an mp4.
For converting a nativce AVC mkv to an avi for a SAP I would suggest converting the mkv rather than demuxing the video. | ||||||
| torrentcrazy posted 2006 Oct 26 19:29 | ||||||
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| Bonchick posted 2006 Nov 12 22:46 | ||||||
| Thank you very much, Baldrick, for this tutorial. It perfectly works for me. Thanx! | ||||||
| azumi_yo posted 2006 Nov 20 19:24 | ||||||
| This is a nice software. you just drop an OGM or MKV in it and presto you have a nice AVI on the other end. It also can deal with those annoying AAC audio you sometimes get in MKVs. And it supports h264
http://alltoavi.sourceforge.net/ | ||||||
| chaos_maiden posted 2006 Nov 21 01:01 | ||||||
This is a very handy piece of software, it works quite well for the most part, but there are still some bugs in its ability to deal with h264 video and aac audio. If you use it for an mkv that has either of these, make sure you play it back before you burn it, it more often than not turns out with corrupted subs and no audio. If you do encounter this problem, I suggest that you use mencoder directly on the mkv and then add subs using virtualdub. | ||||||
| chaos_maiden posted 2006 Dec 02 23:55 | ||||||
| Does anyone know of a tool for extracting vobsub formatted (.sub) subs from an mkv? mkvextract just says its an unsupported format and skips it. Virtualdubmod gives me the same error if I try to use that to extract the sub stream. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. | ||||||
| celtic_druid posted 2006 Dec 03 03:04 | ||||||
| You must be running an old build of mkvtoolnix. | ||||||
| Nameles84 posted 2006 Dec 22 00:12 | ||||||
| The guide is really great and I like it.
But it did not show how to add sub-titles. And I tried to use the same last guide to add sub-title of my .mkv file, but the result shows that no subtitle is added. I've also use vobsub (drag & drop), but it says, "Couldn't load C:\XXXXXX\XXX\XXXXXXXXXX\XX\video.srt." Is there any other way to add sub-titles? Cuz I need to convert the .avi to .mp4. Thx :) | ||||||
| celtic_druid posted 2006 Dec 22 04:27 | ||||||
| If the avi is MPEG-4 or AVC (need to be demuxed to raw first) then you can remux together with the srt using mp4box/yamb.
No good if you want/need hard encoded subs. In which case you could use AVISynth with textsub(). | ||||||
| Nameles84 posted 2006 Dec 22 06:04 | ||||||
| Erm... my apologies if I'm not clear.
My objective is to get the .mkv file converted into PSP .mp4 w/ sub-tile (The Subtitle compress with the video.) First by converting .mkv (with the sub) compressed to .avi, then using PSP video 9 to convert to .mp4 I'd used virtualdubmod 1.5.10.2 and followed out the guide: Video.avi Sound.wav Script.srt I'd first joined the Video, Sound & Script together with virtualdubmod. The result is there is Video & Sound, but no Script. The I tried joining them together 1 by 1: (Video + Sound) then added the Script. Still, the same result: Video+Sound, No script. I'd used Vobsub as recommanded, using Submux then mux the (Video+Sound) with the Script. It sound a msg saying. ""Couldn't load C:\XXXXXX\video.srt." That's what I'm trying to say. | ||||||
| celtic_druid posted 2006 Dec 22 07:03 | ||||||
| PSP video 9 uses ffmpeg right? ffmpeg supports mkv's directly. No subs though I guess.
Muxing the sub won't help. Submux is more likely to ruin the avi. If you want to mux subs to an avi, I would suggest AVI-Mux GUI. Won't help though as I said. Anything that can handle the subs mux, will handle them externally. Textsub for instance will require that they be external. ffmpeg supports AVISynth input so you could frameserve. Something like video = avisource("demuxed.avi") audio = wavsource("demuxed.wav") audiodub(video,audio) textsub(demuxed.srt) alternatively just: directshowsource("original.mkv",fps=?) | ||||||
| Nameles84 posted 2006 Dec 22 07:59 | ||||||
| Yes, PSP video 9 can straight away convert .mkv to mp4 straight away, but it does not have the option to mux the subtitle in yet.
well, AVI-Mux didn't work. But what you mean by using Textsub 'externally'? | ||||||
| celtic_druid posted 2006 Dec 22 08:49 | ||||||
| I mean that as per above; textsub requires an external subtitle. If you were to mux the sub into the avi, then it wouldn't be able to load it. AVI-Mux GUI does work though. Just that like I said, not much point. Only advantage is that you get a single avi rather than an avi, plus sub files.
Not a matter of muxing subs. If it was you could have gone with my original suggestion of using mp4box. But PSP's don't support MPEG-4 ttext subs. | ||||||
| Nameles84 posted 2006 Dec 22 09:03 | ||||||
| well, let's get started: the mp4box.exe execute by itself.
Does it need other programs to run it? | ||||||
| celtic_druid posted 2006 Dec 22 11:03 | ||||||
| Generally it is statically linked, so yes it executes by itself and it doesn't need anything else to run.
As I said though PSP's don't support ttext subtitles (at least not as far as I know). mp4box I believe also supports Nero style vobsubs, but then I really doubt that PSP's can handle those. Muxed subs are only of use if the player can handle them. If not, then they get ignored and you may as well have a file without subs. | ||||||
| Nameles84 posted 2006 Dec 22 11:09 | ||||||
| Now I'm getting confused. :-/
Cuz the mp4box.exe opens a DOS window then it disappear. It does not start a installation :o Should it be placed in Folders? | ||||||
| celtic_druid posted 2006 Dec 22 11:26 | ||||||
| It is a commandline app and there is no install. What you would want is yamb, which is a GUI for mp4box (that's why I originally said mp4box/yamb). | ||||||
| Nameles84 posted 2006 Dec 22 11:46 | ||||||
| Got it, so I'll put the mp4box.exe file into yamb.
I've mux the (video+sound already together) with the subtitle file. I've double click the mp4 file to play using QuickTime, and it display an error msg: 'Error 2010 : the movie contains some invalid data' something is went wrong :-/ Sorry to trouble again. | ||||||
| Mienboi00 posted 2006 Dec 30 18:54 | ||||||
| i was recently messing with my windows movie maker... found out that ffd show was causing my wmm to crash and so i uninstalled it...then i said screw wmm and didnt want to use it anymore. And When i tried to use the Converter this happened...look at the picture below =p
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/LiLNai/problem.png how can i fix this problem? thanks | ||||||
| celtic_druid posted 2006 Dec 30 23:02 | ||||||
| Install Xvid. | ||||||
| NiTeCr4Lr posted 2007 Jan 08 07:48 | ||||||
| Hey,
First of let me say this guide was extremly helpfull to me. But now i have about 150 episodes to convert.. and doing that this way would simply take to much time. I tried OGMDemuxer but it saves in ogg files instead of my desired mp3 even the mode to save it to wav simply doesnt work, and it doesnt support the wildcard "*" like you can use in DOS, so id have to type all the file names of 150 files to convert them all.. Plus id have to put all the mp3 in the avi's using Vdub which again would take to much time. So my question is.. isnt there a simple way to extract only the video(AVI) and audio files (MP3) And prefferably a fast way to put the mp3 in the avi's again aswell ? | ||||||
| ferryman posted 2007 Jan 08 15:37 | ||||||
It's based on memcoder and MKvtoolnik and works fine with OGMs and most MKVs (though it does have some problems with H264 MKVs). It's also much faster. | ||||||
| NiTeCr4Lr posted 2007 Jan 08 16:25 | ||||||
| Hey nice ferryman, Though.. i need to set a codec while i dont want to since with virtualdubmod i can just use the compression allready used.. and compressing it again would be a bit strange eh? waste of quality to compress a compressed vid again, virtualdubmod just puts out the avi with the compression allready used in the ogm simply put.
and a lot of the program's option descriptions are blacked out hence i cant see what im doing here :S, but a very close try though Check the link for a screenshot of the program: http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/9994/weirdkf7.jpg | ||||||
| efritsch posted 2007 Jan 08 21:57 | ||||||
I have the same issue and using that tool, I can get the audio, or the video, but not both in the same file and with the blacked out parts, I can see what I'm choosing. Edit: I went to the site and found a screencap of a working program. If nothing else, you can see what you would be choosing now.  | ||||||
| NiTeCr4Lr posted 2007 Jan 25 11:43 | ||||||
| ...? | ||||||
| stadironin posted 2007 Jan 30 18:28 | ||||||
Hello.Thanks for your tutorial.I got my Matroska file successfully recoded to avi-file and can see it on my computer screen. However when I play it on my standalone DVD-player to watch it on TV the picture starts to scramble. It fills with these rectangular boxes.Sound is ok and text too but the picture gets screwed. Matroska file had AAC-audio and I made it lame-mp3. I used MKVEGUI to extract those files from the .mkv and then dBPowerAMP 11.5 for the AAC to mp3 -conversion. Then VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2.b2542 to rebuild the package again. I really would like to see my movies on my TV-screen too so plz help me here. | ||||||
| Baldrick posted 2007 Jan 30 18:34 | ||||||
| Try reconvert it using avi recomp. It will make it more divx dvd player compliant. | ||||||
| stadironin posted 2007 Jan 31 08:09 | ||||||
Unbeliavable! Your my man definitely! Worked like a charm.Thank you thank you thank you. | ||||||
| fruity kitten posted 2007 Feb 08 18:29 | ||||||
| Recently I lost all my codecs and when I try and reinstall them all again my virtualdub wont import my OGM files it says that it cant read the decompressor or something and I need a Directshow Codec but when I try and download what I need nothing seems to work..think you can give a girl a hand please.... | ||||||
| ftp1234 posted 2007 Feb 13 18:53 | ||||||
| Hi
I have .avi files with .xvid video and .ogg audio I used the given tutorial to convert my files to .avi (with .xvid video and .mp3 audio) I have lots of these files. 1. Is it necessary for me to save separate audio, video files, and then recombine. Is it possible in virtualdubmod to directly use SAVE AS to do 'direct copy' on video, and 'full processing (ogg to mp3 conversion) on audio, from the input .avi file, and save the output directly to a new .avi file (with both audio and video)? 2. Apart from 'job handler', is it easy to write a generic script for virtualdubmod to accomplish my task? thanks, Ftp | ||||||
| scienceboy posted 2007 Feb 27 20:55 | ||||||
| thanks for the guide!
i just have a small problem i start with something that is 250 megabytes, and when i save the AVI file, it ends up being something that is 30 gigs! What should i do? thanks! | ||||||
| Baldrick posted 2007 Feb 28 05:13 | ||||||
| scienceboy: select video->direct stream copy in virtualdubmod. | ||||||
| scienceboy posted 2007 Feb 28 19:43 | ||||||
| thank you!
that worked! | ||||||
| kaitokun posted 2007 Mar 13 21:43 | ||||||
| hi
i have a mkv with a rmvb two ogg and one srt, i can extract the ogg and srt but when i want extract the rmvb mkvextract tell me that L:\programas\mkv>mkvextract tracks dai01.mkv 1:video.rmvb Warning: Extraction of video tracks with a CodecId other than V_MS/VFW/FOURCC is not supported at the moment. Skipping track 1. Nothing to do. Exiting. what i can do? :S thx | ||||||
| torrentcrazy posted 2007 Mar 25 13:50 | ||||||
| kaitokun,
Re-encoding may be your only option. Open the clip in Virtualdubmod or Tmpgenc or any other encoder for which the following work around fits: http://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=284288&start=0&postday ... highlight= Set your encoding paramaters and re-encode the video. There may be a way to extract the .rmvb without re-encoding, but I have no clue. | ||||||
| Ladymedusa posted 2007 Apr 29 11:56 | ||||||
| the mkvextractgui on your post is good keep it
because it downloads mkvextract 1.5 the 1.6 doesnt work it keeps looking for its .exe your guides are easy to understand Thank you LM P.S Anyone has a good free avi splitter tool? | ||||||
| radware59 posted 2007 May 21 20:56 | ||||||
| I noticed some people had the same problem as me, the vobsub can't open the video.srt file.
I didn't notice any reply to that problem, but I figured it out myself. When you demux the text stream you have to change to ascii format. The vobsub mux program apparently can't open utf8 text format. | ||||||
| imkool posted 2007 Oct 06 02:53 | ||||||
| im having a different problem. when i use mkv extractgui. it work fine all the other time except for these other files.
when i extract the audio file and video files the program said that it was successful. when i check it the audio and video file was there at the usually sizes but i cant open the video file enen though the audio one works fine? | ||||||
| crow32 posted 2007 Oct 08 20:34 | ||||||
| small question. when I extracted the LAME AC3 file I can't find the .inf file thus I can't install it. Plz help. | ||||||
| drgonzo67 posted 2007 Oct 14 07:21 | ||||||
| I would really appreciate some help with a problem I have. I'm trying to demux some audio commentary files from a mkv video file, but can't seem to do it. I tried using VirtualDubMod and after reading this thread I also tried MKVExtract (I used the command line version to see what is going on because the GUI does not provide any information). It seems the audio is encoded as AAC, but MKVExtract doesn't recognize it and therefore will not extract it. Any tips?
Thanks a lot in advance. | ||||||
| DoiCho posted 2007 Nov 11 01:28 | ||||||
Download LAME ACM MP3 Codec 3.98 beta 6 here: http://www.free-codecs.com/download/LAME_ACM_Codec.htm | ||||||
| Raziel 665 posted 2008 Jan 17 10:43 | ||||||
| Right, my first post here. I've been following this guide for the most part and some other guides and they've been extremely usefull so far, but now I'm stuck and clueless on how to continue.
I was trying to convert a MKV to AVI, to play it on a standalone. However, early in the guide it went wrong. VirtualDubMod wouldn't open the file, something about a TEXT error, so I used thed MKVExtractGUI. This resulted in a .h264 file and a .AAC audio track. I used Free MP3 Wma Audio Converter to code the AAC track to Lame MP3. Then I used AVC2AVI to convert the .H264 file to AVI, but thats where things go wrong. The AVI I end up with is 7 seconds shorter than the original file, causing the audio to slowly drift out of synch as the movie goes along. How do I make the Audio and Video track match up again? Also, I'm getting the idea that there has to be an easier way to do this, cause its really a lot of long work, especially for a rookie like me. | ||||||
| poisondeathray posted 2008 Jan 17 12:01 | ||||||
| @Raziel 665
My understading is that AVC2AVI doesn't re-encode the .h264 video stream (and thus you are left with h.264 in AVI container) 99.999% of standalone players will not play AVC - before you continue, you should check to see if it does, or if it supports DIVX/XVID. You might have to re-encode the video stream. While you are at it, check to see if your standalone supports AAC audio, because you might have to re-encode that too | ||||||
| Raziel 665 posted 2008 Jan 17 12:59 | ||||||
| @poisondeathray
The Standalone players I want to play it on are the PS3 and/or Xbox360. I looked up if they could play it, and from what I could see, they should. But to be sure, I though I'd try to see if the induvidiual stream I had could be played on either of them. I wasn't able to play the raw .h264 file that I converted to Avi using AVC2AVIgui on either of the machines. I wasn't able to play the .AAC file either. However, I was able to play the .AAC file that I converted to MP3. So the Audio re-encodeing isn't a problem. So I guess, after I find out how to produce a valid playable file of the raw .h264 file, I'll have to convert it to something else again, before joining the Audio and Video stream, if I want to ever play it on either machine? (I must say, this is proving to take much more time than I imagined when I first started, but I really want to learn how to do it right now.) | ||||||
| poisondeathray posted 2008 Jan 17 13:14 | ||||||
| You might want to check these out:
gotsent mkv2vob tversity There has been a few threads covering this recently, and many problems stem from the Xbox360 or PS3's not recognizing the output file, they seem to be very picky Make sure you comply with supported specifications http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/systemuse/xbox360/digitalmedia/ ... ackfaq.htm Good Luck | ||||||
| Raziel 665 posted 2008 Jan 17 13:48 | ||||||
| Hmm, those programs seem like just what I need. I have the entire day off tomorrow so I'll start trying those programs first thing in the morning.
As for Tversity... I've been using Nero Media Home to stream content to my console's before they got their DivX updates, but TVersity seems to support a great deal more media fomats than Nero did, so I'll be sure to replace that aswell. Thank you very much Poisondeathray, you've been a great help. | ||||||
| marknyc5 posted 2008 Feb 03 15:26 | ||||||
| I used MKV Wizard to extract three files from an mkv file: aac, ass and h264. How can I combine these into an avi or mpg?
Thanks! | ||||||
| Baldrick posted 2008 Feb 03 15:40 | ||||||
| marknyc5: Use instead alltoavi. avi with h264 with aac doesn't go well together. | ||||||
| marknyc5 posted 2008 Feb 03 16:07 | ||||||
| Thanks.
I tried alltoavi with no luck. First I get this error message: H264 video detected! Do you want to switch to more restriced mode? (RECOMMENDED) If I click yes, I get this: H264 reguires the use of No Skip Option, please choose a frame rate. For more details, read in the FP5 window Then I have lots of options, like Video Encoder locked to XVID and a box for a prefix, which currently reads trans_ When I click on Convert, I get a very fast conversion (a couple of seconds), but I don't see any new file and don't know how to find where it went if there was one created. I'm sorry if this has been covered before. It there is a step by step guide to converting a h264 mkv with alltoavi, I'd be happy to read it. Thanks, Mark | ||||||
| shortaznkid99 posted 2008 Mar 08 18:38 | ||||||
| I tired to install the Lame MP3 and get the message "The software you are installing for this hardware: Sound, video and game controllers has not passed Windows Logo testing to verify its compatibility with Windows XP." I click "Continue Anyway" but then I get the message "The file 'LameACM.acm' on Lame MP3 Install Disk is needed." What am I doing wrong? o_O | ||||||
| thefritz posted 2008 Mar 17 12:57 | ||||||
Sorry, I'm a bit new at this, but I downloaded the Lame MP3 codec from the link provided, but there is no "LameACM.inf" file to right click on. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. | ||||||
| poisondeathray posted 2008 Mar 17 13:18 | ||||||
Do you have "hide extensions for known file types" checked in the folder options? If this is the case, you would only see "LameACM", which is the same thing with extension hidden. | ||||||
| thefritz posted 2008 Mar 17 15:21 | ||||||
Thanks, but no. the only exe file is simply titled "lame" and upon double clicking it, a DOS window pops up for a moment, then nothing. Here's a screenshot of what's in the folder... IMG]http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a324/fritzblog/lame_screen.jpg[/IMG] http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a324/fritzblog/lame_screen.jpg Again, any help is appreciated. | ||||||
| poisondeathray posted 2008 Mar 17 15:28 | ||||||
| Did you download the the lame acm version, not the standard version?. It's not an .exe either, it's .inf.
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/LAME_ACM_Codec.htm Don't double click it. Right click and choose install. | ||||||
| thefritz posted 2008 Mar 18 12:02 | ||||||
| D'OH! Got it working now. Thanks for the help guys. | ||||||
| Tsunade-sama posted 2008 Apr 10 15:38 | ||||||
| I just successfully converted a mkv file to avi with Prism Video Converter -- free version, not a trial version and has no watermark. All of the video is in sync with the audio, the subtitles are intact, good quality, & the entire video (23 min.) is converted (not just the first 10 like the Super converter I tried first). I'm relieved... maybe it'll help some others as well!
http://www.nchsoftware.com/prism/index.html | ||||||
| mikeyled36 posted 2008 Apr 11 14:22 | ||||||
| Thanks!!! Prism Video Converter seems to work very well and it's very simple!! | ||||||
| Esario posted 2008 Apr 15 16:16 | ||||||
| Hello.
I'm trying hard to - convert - a mkv file to avi and I just tried Prism Video Converter. The sound in the file is okay, but the video doesn't show / work. I get the same problem as marknyc5 when I try it in alltoavi (I'm sorry, I don't know how to quote : s). I tried using VirtualdubMod as well but it says something about requiring a "video for windows" which I can't find... I can't even open mencoder.exe. I have windows XP. I read about "matroskasplitter" but I don't where to put it. Actually, I just want to open a file as an avi file in VirtualDub, in order to extract and save a song in mp3... So if you know how to extract only the audio (in an - understandable - file format) from a mkv file, would be enough for me. I hope someone has some answers - thanks! | ||||||
| poisondeathray posted 2008 Apr 15 16:53 | ||||||
| @Esario -
If you want to extract the audio from an .mkv file, use mkvextractgui, it part of the mkvtoolnix tookit. It will extract whatever format the audio is presently in. From there you may have to convert it to something else (If it wasn't mp3 already) Cheers | ||||||
| Esario posted 2008 Apr 15 16:55 | ||||||
| Okay, thanks, but I realized that the video wasn't working because I happened to delete some important codecs. Prism video converter actually worked well, so the problem is solved. | ||||||
| coolcat9 posted 2008 May 02 05:13 | ||||||
| Seems like a compatibility issue for Vista.. when opening the mkv file its parcing more than the file itseld and and the program stalls... could it be my file is too big? im opening 4.7G of mkv file. Does anybody had encounter this problem? To be specific i want to convert the Police live in japan as mks, and want to convert it to DivX. | ||||||
| sooojaded posted 2008 May 05 06:15 | ||||||
| I've been trying to convert an mkv file to avi file using Baldrick's methods.
There are some .mkv videos where the video format is recognised, so I didn't have any problems with that. However, there are 2 videos of mine that the VirtualdubMod didn't recognise. When I opened it, A whole list of errors about different frames in stream 1 having only forward references, and one of them was the frames were weirdly ordered, and another was that "Couldn't locate decompressor for ÿÿÿÿ (unknown). VirtualDub requires a Video for Windows (VFW) compatible codec to decompress video. Directshow codecs, such as those used by Windows Media Player, are not suitable. Only 'Direct stream copy' is available." When I saved it as AVI the error was "The source video stream uses a compression algorithm which is not compatible with AVI files. Direct stream copy cannot be used with this video stream". I used MKVextractGUI to demux the video stream, but the video file was 0kb and couldn't be opened by VLC. I've also tried using Prism Video Converter, the error was "Could not open source video". I used Gspot to identify the missing codec, This error appeared under the Proposed Codec Solutions and tests box "Rendering failed. The following error is reported by Directshow: 0x80040265: [unknown]" The movies were claimed to be encoded by h264. I believe it was already installed on my computer because I already have quicktime player on my com. But I'm not sure why it couldn't recognised. Anyone knows what to do next? EDIT: I managed to extract a .h264 file with the MKVextractGUI. Now the problem is, how do I convert it to a DivX video without change in duration? I used AlltoAVI but the duration changed from 1:30:36 to 1:27:57. I speculate that one solution is to uncompress fully then recompress to a DivX video. I think so because it worked for my audio files (uncompressing then recompressing for me has solved many out of sync problems). But I don't have enough disc space to do that. Any ideas? Sorry for going too off-topic. EDIT 2nd time: My main question has moved here. | ||||||
| AkikoKi posted 2008 May 05 19:03 | ||||||
| Okay this guide is really awsome and works great
one quick question I get my video all nicely converted using VirtualDub and mkvmergeGUI. but how do I add the subtitles in so that they play with the video. I'm new to this whole thing so I havn't figured it out help please. Until then I'll continue to toy with it. | ||||||
| coolcat9 posted 2008 May 05 22:34 | ||||||
| Thanks for a detailed Info sooojaded, I will get back as soon as i have done experimenting with The Police mkv files. hopefully i will learn whats wrong with my first attemp | ||||||
| sooojaded posted 2008 May 06 00:18 | ||||||
Akikoki, do you mind soft subs? you can demux the subtitle file into the separate file, but same folder as your video, then install VobSub. So far that has been the way for me where the subtitles will be loaded automatically if you run the video, be it MKV or AVI. | ||||||
| yingyangboy posted 2008 May 18 06:08 | ||||||
| Thanx for the instructions, but currently im having problems with the audio. I have been converting all these ogm and mkv files to avi formate, however these the last remaining mkv files i am having trouble saving/converting the audio to mp3. I've been using virtualdubmod as per the instructions. Under the stream list the audio wanting to convert is as follows:
Source: Matroska File Desc: Audio stream 1 [tag 0x0000, Unknown Wave format], ID [A_AAC/MPEG/LC/SBR], 2ch 22050Hz, 60.3kbps Length: 00:20:43.193 I selected it...full processing, compression picked lameMP3 however all the selections are ABR, I picked one tried to save as wave and it wont let me...none of the selections ..i keep getting following error No audio decompressor could be found to decompress the source audio format. Please advise what i can do. Thanx | ||||||
| CaptainM posted 2008 May 31 08:46 | ||||||
| @Baldrick
Thanks for this post. I have been trying to convert .mkv file to AVI format without any success. I have read a couple of forums but get stuck each time when I try to open .mkv file in Virtualdubmod. It tries to open the file and then returns "Couldn't locate decompressor for format 'ÿÿÿÿ' (unknown). VirtualDub requires a Video for Windows (VFW) compatible codec to decompress video. DirectShow codecs, such as those used by Windows Media Player, are not suitable. Only 'Direct stream copy' is available for this video." What does that mean? I have tried the MKVextractGUI but not sure how the program works. It seems to just create another .mkv file. I have added an input, eg the .mkv file and it shows me the contents of the container and when I "mux" it another .mkv file is created. What does this program do exactly? I thought it split out the contents of the mkv container. I have tried to find and install the codecs, splitters etc that some forums have talked about but I am not going to lie - I don't know what I am doing. I am running Vista x32. All I want to do is to convert the .mkv file to .avi You post looks excellent but I cannot get past step One!! Can you help me please? From your tool list I have Lame 3.97, VirtualdubMod and I think I have the Codec for Matroska. Thanks in advance for your help CaptainM
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| Silvertroy posted 2008 Jun 02 23:33 | ||||||
| How do i use the lame thing? i extracted the dl folder and theres nothing inside to install with. | ||||||
| rogue_gamecube posted 2008 Jun 10 16:30 | ||||||
| That guide sounds great, and while it will likely work, I'm currently looking for a better solution than converting any audio to mp3.
I have tried a few programs, and while they disseminate the video properly, they are very lackluster for identifying multiple subtitles and audio streams. I have a bunch of mkv's that contain two different sub formats and, most importantly, two audio streams. The program that has worked best so far has been Video Cleaner by River Past. Problem is, it cannot identify the two audio streams. One is stereo, the other is some crazy HE-AAC 5.1 stream. I picked up the AAC codec, it still doesn't find it. This wouldn't be a problem if that stream was the one I wanted in the first place. Is there a codec for that specific kind of AAC audio? I'd prefer not to have to convert it to stereo mp3 from the 5.1 source, a lot will be lost in the transfer. This will be played on my 360, so it can handle HD audio. Thanks for any help with this subject, I'll keep looking around and update if I find a better solution than the OP's. | ||||||
| necrobutcher posted 2008 Jun 10 16:58 | ||||||
speaking of alltoAVI, i just converted a video and the sound is now out of sync by a long way. ideas?? | ||||||
| Baldrick posted 2008 Jun 10 17:28 | ||||||
| Try other all-in-one converters like xvid4psp.
If you want more help then you MUST give us more information about the mkv. Post a screenshot from mediainfo for example. | ||||||
| rogue_gamecube posted 2008 Jun 10 23:59 | ||||||
There's the info using that software you linked me. As you can see, Video Cleaner recognizes the DivX file and English stereo audio stream, but the Japanese stream is :shock: . Let me know if I can, at the very least, rip the AAC audio and convert it to a standardized AAC stream that I can play on my 360 (AC3 to pack with the DivX, or mp4 compatible AAC and convert the DivX to h264... I can't think of anything else at the moment). Preferably, I'd love to keep the audio as anything but a stereo mp3 source, thanks for the assistance Baldrick :). | ||||||
| Bullet2k4 posted 2008 Jun 13 19:19 | ||||||
| after so much time there hasnt been an easier way of doing this?oh boy.time to learn and do the encoding all over again. | ||||||
| davidw89 posted 2008 Jun 24 08:38 | ||||||
Doesn't work, probably won't work and has NEVER WORKED with MKV despite VirtualDubMod "claiming" to "support" it
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| KujaTheDarkOne posted 2008 Aug 14 15:09 | ||||||
| I have a problem with the Lame ACM thing. I've downloaded it properly and everything, and have right clicked and chosen 'Install'. But all that happens is something very briefly pops up and goes away. For all I know that's what is supposed to happen, but then when I open VirtualDubMod there is no Lame codec to select.
Could someone please help me figure out what's going wrong? If it helps, I'm using 64-bit Windows Vista. | ||||||
| jblm posted 2008 Sep 23 15:04 | ||||||
| I've converted ogm to avi with VirtualDubMod and Lame.
The first step was to export the wav file with full processing mode and conversion = no conversion (PCM). Second: disable the ogg stream, add the exported wave choose full compression, Lame and bit rate. Fast recompress the video with DivX or Xvid | ||||||
| zachattackary posted 2008 Sep 29 16:24 | ||||||
| I find I can convert almost any format using the freeware program: Any Video Converter
It's interphase is quite easy to use with most of the customizations in the scroll box to the right side of the screen website link 
....edit..... and currently I'm converting an mkv file to avi Also for those interested they also make a great audio converter called: Any Audio Converter which for some reason isn't linked to at their other site. Has a very similar interphase. website link | ||||||
| Chosen1 773 posted 2008 Sep 30 15:17 | ||||||
| Alright I got the MKVExtractGUI working along with the Virtualmod Dub however there are some file where it converts everything but the Video saying it's not compatable or something what should I do? | ||||||
| Ai Haibara posted 2008 Oct 01 15:19 | ||||||
| Use something other than VirtualDubMod. VirtualDubMod's support for MKV is rather dated, and doesn't support VFR/AVC video streams, for example. AVIDemux might work better. Or, if you'd still rather use VDubMod, you could always write an AVISynth script to framserve the video stream into VDubMod instead. | ||||||
| suppervillain posted 2008 Nov 14 03:33 | ||||||
| please help... i tried this guide i mean the really first post.. with all the codecs and stuff didnt notice the date... now after doing all that it failed so i gave up on it.. but now i realize all of my videos only play the audio the video is gone.. so please help me anyone.. it also applies to the newly downloaded stuff.. only the audio comes out.. thanks | ||||||
| winx62 posted 2009 Jan 04 14:13 | ||||||
| Thanks for the tutorial, so far so good. But when i try to save my audio file, i choose LAME and 192 kbps and try to save it as track2.mp3 and i get this error
No audio decompressor could be found to decompress the source audio format. Any ideas here? Thanks, Dane  | ||||||
| uniks posted 2009 Feb 17 14:59 | ||||||
| WORST.CONVERSION.GUIDE.EVER. | ||||||
| ns posted 2009 Feb 27 12:45 | ||||||
| Yeah, that's why in 7 pages of comments baldrick hasn't answered anyone's questions. You really should actually USE the conversion process BEFORE you post it. | ||||||
| ssalim posted 2009 Apr 01 17:55 | ||||||
| When i use MKVExtract_GUI, it extracted the audio but couldn't find the video... I tried again and it finished in 1s. Weird. | ||||||
| Ai Haibara posted 2009 Apr 01 18:00 | ||||||
| ssalim: Are you using the latest versions of MKVExtractGUI and mkvtoolnix, with both installed to the same directory? | ||||||
| ssalim posted 2009 Apr 01 18:33 | ||||||
| Only got the latest mkvextractgui... I'll install the toolnix then try again. Thanks! | ||||||
| ssalim posted 2009 Apr 01 18:41 | ||||||
| Ok it extracted the .avi... now I have that and an .ac3
What tool do I use to mux them? toolnix only mux them back to .mkv which doesn't make sense. Virtualdubmod doesn't open this .avi file. Latest version. Thanks. | ||||||
| Ai Haibara posted 2009 Apr 01 20:08 | ||||||
| What error message do you get when you try to open the video in VirtualDubMod? (Are you sure it's an .avi, and not a .264 file?) You're probably just missing a VfW (Video for Windows) codec for h.264-encoded video. You might also give AVIdemux a try. | ||||||
| zarlaan posted 2009 Jun 22 14:39 | ||||||
| I've been reading so many different forums etc on how to do this (MKV to DVD). I was successful in using MKVExtractGUI to extract the raw video (h264) and the audio (.dts). From there I used avc2avi to convert the h264 into avi and then used VirtualDubMod to combine the avi and dts files, direct stream copy, into 1 avi file. I then used tmpgenc authoring works 4 to burn my dvd.
The only problem I had with this process is that when trying to create chapters tmpgenc seemed to take several minutes just to create 1 chapter or just freeze. Even using GOM player to play the avi caused the player to freeze when trying to jump around. I was able to burn it to DVD without any issues so long as I skipped the chaptering part or just created the vod files and then put those back into tmpgenc authoring again to create chapters. Hope thats clear... So my question is there any problem with doing it this way? Why would GOM player freeze when trying to jump around the avi created with virtualdubmod? What is another way to do it once you have the raw h264 and dts files? edit. Just realized that the audio on the DVD i'm playing know is showing dolby digital II instead of DTS. What would of caused that? |
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