What to do if you are stuck with an .mp4 file.

[hasteroth]

Dunno if it exists yet but I'm too lazy too check.

Use FFVideoSource()

And open the damn thing in Virtual Dub.

Basically this is for people who don't have the brain capacity to figure it out for themselves. It's essentially the exact same thing you'd do with an .mkv

Btw you might wanna throw a little KillAudio() in there too.

I cannot express this enough though, do not use downloaded footage.

[FunStorm]

Use FFVideoSource()

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You might wanna throw a little KillAudio() in there too.

When you are using FFVideoSource() you are already killing audio. And imho this all is kinda obvious to anyone who is capable of working with AviSynth.

[hasteroth]

Use FFVideoSource()

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You might wanna throw a little KillAudio() in there too.

When you are using FFVideoSource() you are already killing audio. And imho this all is kinda obvious to anyone who is capable of working with AviSynth.

Obviously. And w/e killaudio() unnecessary. Leave it out

Basically this is for people who don't have the brain capacity to figure it out for themselves. It's essentially the exact same thing you'd do with an .mkv

Yeah. I was bored. I've just spent an hour explaining this to someone else. Figured I may as well throw it here.

[mirkosp]

Perhaps if you read the guides in the whole you'd know it's covered in there already and you could just point to there when someone asks since it's explained better.

Also:

I cannot express this enough though, do not use downloaded footage.

<Hacchinya_DS> lol
<Hacchinya_DS> u suck
<Hacchinya_DS> i checked for quality
<Hacchinya_DS> they be good

[Qyot27]

The basic problem isn't that the info isn't out there, it's that people are too lazy to use the damn Search option. Or for that matter, actually read down the fucking page. Seriously, you can often have 5 or 6 'How can MKV convert I should?' topics on the first screen of many of the Video forums here. People are just inept and refuse to maintain proper etiquette; they'd prefer to have everything handed to them instead. Even though it was answered the exact same way not three topics down from the one they started.

This is one reason why I prefer the way Doom9 handles it - you can't post for two weeks after signing up in order to learn the ropes and lurk, and threads can be shut down for being so exhaustingly redundant. Maybe it comes off as more elitist, but there's no excuse for constantly having to repeat ourselves like that.

How about this: a contextually-adaptive forum robot that automatically responds with the standard methodology when the words 'convert' and 'MKV' or 'MP4' show up in the first post of a topic.

[Scintilla]

How about this: a contextually-adaptive forum robot that automatically responds with the standard methodology when the words 'convert' and 'MKV' or 'MP4' show up in the first post of a topic.

That sounds like me four years ago.

[Bakadeshi]

Does amvapp actually come with ffmpegsource now? I had to download mine separately, and i'm using amvapp 3.0.

and btw you should mention that you should use ffmpegsource (or variations of it like ffvideosource) for anything that you'd use Directshowsource for since its frame accurate (good for editing), while the later is not. (bad for editing)

[mirkosp]

Does amvapp actually come with ffmpegsource now? I had to download mine separately, and i'm using amvapp 3.0.

and btw you should mention that you should use ffmpegsource (or variations of it like ffvideosource) for anything that you'd use Directshowsource for since its frame accurate (good for editing), while the later is not. (bad for editing)

Yeah, the amvapp 3.0 stable does have ffmpegsource2, but it wasn't there in the beta. A thing I'd like to point out is that DSS2 is frame accurate too, though, and I find it better for example for .m2ts files, which aren't frame accurate with ffmpegsource/2.

And yes, I'm aware of dgavcindex, but I find it terribly slow, dss2 works faster for me.

[Qyot27]

I will note, however, that the version of FFmpegSource2 that it 3.0 includes is several versions old (which one in particular, I'm not sure). The plugin is now no longer considered beta, as of 2.11.