Help converting from an MKV file

[TriGGiT]

Im trying to open an MKV file to convert it to lagarith for editing ive tryed to open it with virtual dub but virtual dub doen not seem to accept MKV file.
Iv tryed with virtual dub mod which does accept MKV file by parsing them, but this MKV fiel is giving me the following error

http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/4839/mkvfile.jpg

what other options do i have to convert from an MKV file.

Thanks

[mirkosp]

MKV in virtuald is only partially supported, so in your case you have to load the MKV with an avisynth script. Use the directshowsource or the ffmpegsource.

[SenTrix]

And make sure you download the amvaap and ffmpegsource.

[onikinou]

Hi, I have the same problem as TriGGiT trying to load MKVs into VdubMod and getting those errors.

I tried dl'ing and installing the programs listed above but I can't get them to work for some reason.

Can someone provide details or instructions on how I should install these files?

[SenTrix]

Did you use avisynth?

[onikinou]

Well I dl'ed amvaap and ffmpegsource.

I installed Amvaap and it seems to have avisynth and vdubmob packaged with it.
When I install it and it runs the test I get the error message either "run out of memory" or "MSVCP71.dll was not found."
And when I uninstall it, all the loaded files in my adobe premiere amv project are messed up.

ffmpegsource has some zipped files I have no idea what to do with.

Is there a proper order to things? Am I doing something wrong? The only codec pack I had installed prior to this is cccp, Should I uninstall that? Please help. >_<

Urgh, I feel so n00b and frustrated (!). I just wanna make an AMV. I hate you MKV!! >_<

[onikinou]

oOOooK... .I've been working at it and I now have the same problem as the screenshot listed in the first post. I installed amvaap, what nnext?

I'm getting close! I can feel it!

[LUCHOO]

With VirtualDub 1.8.8 and the filter DShowInputDriver.vdplugin in a folder PLUGIN32,.. Easy Open

[Inan]

make a script

and type this in

DirectShowSource("C:\anime.mkv")


then load the avs file into vdub and it should work

[chui101]

First, clean up your DirectShow filters with CCCP Insurgent or something. If you have old versions of random codecs lying around (one of my old computers had 3 different releases of ffdshow on it, when I went to perform some maintenance on it at one point, wtf?)

Next, install Haali Media Splitter and ffdshow tryouts. Both of these are packaged in CCCP, but the latest CCCP release is a bit dated. It may be better to install the latest individual components yourself if you have experience with codecs or if you have time to burn figuring them out.

Optional step, sometimes required, if it doesn't work go back and do this: Re-install AVISynth.

Next, you need to make sure your MKV file only contains audio and video data. Get MkvToolNix and use mkvmerge to merge the audio and video tracks from the old MKV into a new one.

Now, you should be able to use the DirectShowSource() filter in an AVISynth to serve frames from the MKV file.

For some reason, I couldn't get CoreAVC or Cyberlink to work with AVISynth (Couldn't connect to output pin, I think was the error), so make sure ffdshow is set as your highest priority avc/h264 decoder if you're using an mkv containing a h264 stream.