Extracting H264 from a MKV Container...

post-it · Post by **post-it** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 6:45 pm

TAB .. my hero ^_^

too bad I arrived late ~_~

.. is there a Tutorial on how to "to export to a different container" with VLC ?

Tab. · Post by **Tab.** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 6:59 pm

Yeah, I'm back -- in black -- apparently, after two years. Anyway, the export wizard is pretty simple to figure out. Lemme fire up VLC here and see...
Okay, File>Wizard, select Transcode/Save to File, Existing Playlist Item, make sure "Transcode Video" and "Transcode Audio" aren't checked (unless, of course, you want to convert the video or audio), select whatever container you want, the file to save to, and you should be set.

Purge · Post by **Purge** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 7:00 pm

Tab. wrote:VLC allows you to export to a different container as well if you don't want to recompress (which you'll have to with AVISynth).

um cant you just rename extension?

Tab. · Post by **Tab.** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 7:15 pm

Purge wrote:
Tab. wrote:VLC allows you to export to a different container as well if you don't want to recompress (which you'll have to with AVISynth).
um cant you just rename extension?

LOL
No. Computers don't work that way.

post-it · Post by **post-it** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 7:45 pm

TAB

THx; sometimes I make things too complicated ^_^

Tab. · Post by **Tab.** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 7:55 pm

Cool. Glad to help.

OtherSideofSky · Post by **OtherSideofSky** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 1:39 pm

How do you use VLC player to export to a different container? Is it possible to keep audio and subtitle streams when you do this?

Tab. · Post by **Tab.** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 5:13 pm

OtherSideofSky wrote:How do you use VLC player to export to a different container?

I just said how to do this :|

Tab. wrote:Yeah, I'm back -- in black -- apparently, after two years. Anyway, the export wizard is pretty simple to figure out. Lemme fire up VLC here and see...
Okay, File>Wizard, select Transcode/Save to File, Existing Playlist Item, make sure "Transcode Video" and "Transcode Audio" aren't checked (unless, of course, you want to convert the video or audio), select whatever container you want, the file to save to, and you should be set.

And yes, you can keep audio streams. Dunno about subtitle.

OtherSideofSky · Post by **OtherSideofSky** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 9:06 pm

Sorry about that. I guess I should make sure to read everything more carefully.

Zero1 · Post by **Zero1** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 7:23 am

The reason this does not work is because H.264 in AVI is a hack; some decoders deal with it, others simply follow the specification and fuck up on hacked files. I suggest you find a better way round it than putting H.264 in AVI, perhaps convert it to lossless using directshowsouce to serve the video to vdub