Help on MKV Converting

00falcon · Post by **00falcon** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:10 pm

hi i got some anime that is in MKV format and i want to turn it into avi or mpeg but my converter doesn't work either is my media player it and i need a converter that can do the job right and i was hoping if someone would help me out with this problem

thanks in advance to all that tried and to all that helped

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:27 pm

you can solve this problem by buying the anime instead of downloading it.
but if that's not an option (like for anime that isn't liscenced...though you could still import the dvds), then VirtualDubMod can handle mkv streams and convert to avi

cupdear · Post by **cupdear** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 3:53 am

U can use WinAVI to convert .mkv to .avi or other formats.

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:26 am

or you can use virtualdubmod, which is free and doesn't put a watermark in your video if you don't pay $30 for the program

Gepetto · Post by **Gepetto** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 8:05 am

Kariudo wrote:VirtualDubMod can handle mkv streams and convert to avi

"How do I do that?", you ask?

Look no further.

Here's how you do it:

1: open the MKV/OGM in virtualdubmod,
2: go to the "streams" tab, deactivate all audio,
3: then go to the "video" tab and select "Direct Stream Copy"
4: now File>Save As... and save as an AVI.

You'll have the video with no audio in AVI. If the file doesn't open in VDM, load it through a directshowsource AVS with the killaudio() command.

IF IT STILL DOESN'T WORK, you need to convert to lossless:
1: Download HuffYUV.
2: Open VirtualDubMod again, deactivate the audio, but this time select "Fast Recompress" on the video tab.
3: Video>Compression, select HuffYUV.
4: File>Save As...

Done. You have a huge lossless AVI file. If it's too big, then save clips rather than entire episodes.

This was uncalled for, but better safe than sorry.

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 6:24 pm

So far all the advice here won't work if the video contains h.264, even if Vdub can take an MKV it won't get far if the video is something it can't decode. Unless you use the AVISynth DirectShowSource templete to get it in first.

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 6:25 pm

Nevermind, it was mentioned. I need to stop posting on forums when I'm sick...

Gox777 · Post by **Gox777** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 7:15 pm

There's also a program called AVI-Mux which works well for parsing mkvs.
http://www.alexander-noe.com/video/amg/

An MKV is really just a regular AVI video, (xvid or divx usually), combined with selectable audio tracks and/or separate subtitle tracks.
When you use AVI-Mix or Vdub, it simply extracts the video from the MKV container without having to do any re-encoding. (takes WAY less time, hard drive space, and no loss of quality).

00falcon · Post by **00falcon** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 8:07 pm

Gox777 wrote:There's also a program called AVI-Mux which works well for parsing mkvs.
http://www.alexander-noe.com/video/amg/

An MKV is really just a regular AVI video, (xvid or divx usually), combined with selectable audio tracks and/or separate subtitle tracks.
When you use AVI-Mix or Vdub, it simply extracts the video from the MKV container without having to do any re-encoding. (takes WAY less time, hard drive space, and no loss of quality).

when i scroll down and i see the download, which one do i click on to get the program?

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 8:20 pm

you want the binary