Matroska Files

[hydrax]

Ok, so I got myself some episodes in a .mkv container for the dual audio bla bla...

Here come the noob questions. When I load the .mkv's into VDM how can I use the script editor because it doesn't seem to do anything when I enter commands...which is probably because I haven't loaded it through avisynth. But how do I do that since using a DirectShowSource template failed.

One more question, using the SUPER encoder why doesn't lagarith show up as a codec under the .avi container for encoding? only huffy shows and I've got both installed.

[BauziOLD]

Ok, so I got myself some episodes in a .mkv container for the dual audio bla bla...

Here come the noob questions. When I load the .mkv's into VDM how can I use the script editor because it doesn't seem to do anything when I enter commands...which is probably because I haven't loaded it through avisynth. But how do I do that since using a DirectShowSource template failed.

shhh! It´s not alowed to talk loud about such footage. Look at the site rules!


Make an avisynth script with DirectShowSource("C:\path of file\file.mkv") and it WILL work unless there is nothing wrong in your system.
Open it in VDM, open scirpt editor (if it was loaded sucessfully in VDM you´ll see the content of the script now), make changes and press F5 for save & refresh in VDM preview.

That´s all.

One more question, using the SUPER encoder why doesn't lagarith show up as a codec under the .avi container for encoding? only huffy shows and I've got both installed.

Some programs don´t support Lagarith such as WMM (as I learned last week ^^')

[hydrax]

I tried the first option but VDM says it can't find the video stream, hmmm.

[BauziOLD]

I often had problems, but:

-If I can´t open it directly, I could open it with avs
-If avs doesn´t work too... I reinstalled CCCP
--> It worked again

Have a close look at your codecs with Sherlock:
http://www.updatexp.com/sherlock-codec-detective.html

If all fails with avs:
-Render out looseless clips and load them with avs back into VDM for some changes.

Uhm... Tell us what´s inside of the Matroska: x264, XviD? ...

[Dante]

sometimes codec packs work, but other times they clash with stuff already on your computer. I don't see you needing much more that the <a href="http://haali.cs.msu.ru/mkv/"> Haali Media Splitter</a> for parsing the .mkv and <a href="http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video ... ffdshow</a> for decoding the audio and video. Once installed, they should work automatically when dealing with .mkv files (4 icons will be active in the system tray).

[Purge]

Ok, so I got myself some episodes in a .mkv container for the dual audio bla bla...

Here come the noob questions. When I load the .mkv's into VDM how can I use the script editor because it doesn't seem to do anything when I enter commands...which is probably because I haven't loaded it through avisynth. But how do I do that since using a DirectShowSource template failed.

use VDM to "direct stream Copy" or encode a lossless version of just the video source so you dont have to deal with .mkv container.

think of SUPER like VLC player - it uses only its own codecs which are included when you download it - lagarith is not included so it dosn't use it.

[hydrax]

Sherlock showed the ffdshow codec as faulty and re-installing it didn't help. I was planning to encode them to a lossless codec and then do all the script work, which I've now done. Thanks for the replies.