.MKV question

Vanity · Post by **Vanity** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 12:59 am

Hey guys i have to ask something, i reconverted a ergo proxy video from .mkv to avi.(xvid) and the quality was all distored and what not. I wanted to know if there is a better codec i could convert it to instead of avi. Something that could be edited in sonyvegas and with great quality instead of avi.

Autraya · Post by **Autraya** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:07 am

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fyi .avi isn't a codec it's a container.

You can try editing with .avs from sony vegas and bait n switch, if you dont know what I'm talking about then I suggest you Read <a href=http://www.a-m-v.org/guides/avtech31/>ErMaC & AbsoluteDestiny's Friendly AMV Guides</a>.

Or

Try making either uncompressed, huffyuv or lagarith .avi files. "Huffyuv" & "Lagarith" being lossless codecs. Both are included in the amvapp a link to which is on the page I linked you to before. You should use virtualdubb to make the the lossless files.

There are other options like VFAPI's and such but meh.

Vanity · Post by **Vanity** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:17 am

My bad i thought it was a codec. Yea i was thinkin' on using vdub but wasn't sure because i didn't want to waste my time and phail but noiw i know it's safe thanks to you =D.

Vanity · Post by **Vanity** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:21 am

oops i got a problem how do i get .mkv into vdub =[. It won;t open it.

Iamshadowkiller · Post by **Iamshadowkiller** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:45 am

You can always use MkvToolnix to extract the video stream from the .mkv file.

MkvToolnix

Also, you might want to use Mkv Extract GUI to make the extraction easier.

I'm hoping that from here you can take it. Most likely the file will be in xvid or divx format, but if it's in h264 you might be able to import using DirectShowSource in VDUB or you might have to go as far as using command line avc2avi, but now we're getting too far ahead, good luck champ.

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Zero1 · Post by **Zero1** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:24 pm

Buy the DVDs and use the org's guides, or did the org's stance on downloaded source suddenly change?

Vanity · Post by **Vanity** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 8:37 pm

Yea i needz to buy fuckin dvdz..it's really noobish to download them.

Iamshadowkiller · Post by **Iamshadowkiller** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 2:14 pm

Everybody shup, you asked, I answered, don't go all moral.

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Vanity · Post by **Vanity** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 9:13 pm

haha i understand =D