Video Recording/Playback/Editing/Converting/etc.

bmwracer wrote:Unfortunately, you're relegated to watching the video on your PC, since most (all?) standalone DVD players don't support .mkv... :sweat:

Unless you have one of those media players, those all seem to support .mkv files.

Jav_sol wrote:Unless you have one of those media players, those all seem to support .mkv files.

Yup, like the one I posted here: http://jdorama.com/viewtopic.php?p=840299#840299 :victory:

Jav_sol wrote:I was under the impression that the benefit of .mkv over .avi was the file size. For basically the same video quality an .mkv can be a lot smaller in size than an .avi. For example, I have a .mkv movie that's 400MB and the quality (sound and video) is comparable to the .avi file I downloaded that's around 800MB.

Nope, incorrect. The video file inside a .mkv can be anything, as I pointed out above. .mkv is just a "container".

Anime Dad wrote:Nope, incorrect. The video file inside a .mkv can be anything, as I pointed out above. .mkv is just a "container".

Yeah, just like avi... I guess the .mkv is a more versatile container.

And also a pain a in ass. :bleh:

You should've used the existing Conversion thread.

Please read the Posting Guidelines before starting any new threads.

Merging.

Downloaded Maiko Haaan!!! the other day, but I couldn't get DVD Shrink to work with it: I kept getting a "divide by zero" error during the analysis phase. :sweat:

Ended using an alternate program, DVD Rebuilder, and it didn't have any problems... Odd. :headscratch:

Anyone ever try converting .mkv to .avi?

I'm converting (using avidemux) this one large file (4GB+) and the audio is out of sync with the video after conversion... :sweat:

Haven't seen it happen with other .mkv files... Just this big one... Wonder if that has something to do with it. :headscratch:

bmwracer wrote:Anyone ever try converting .mkv to .avi?

I'm converting (using avidemux) this one large file (4GB+) and the audio is out of sync with the video after conversion... :sweat:

Haven't seen it happen with other .mkv files... Just this big one... Wonder if that has something to do with it. :headscratch:

.mkv is just a container. Look for mkvtoolnix, it allows you to extract the various files in the container.

Anime Dad wrote:.mkv is just a container. Look for mkvtoolnix, it allows you to extract the various files in the container.

I did use that to extract the file... But after the conversion, the audio sync was off. :sweat:

I don't see how the file size could affect it, yet that seems to be the only apparent difference.

bmwracer wrote:
I did use that to extract the file... But after the conversion, the audio sync was off. :sweat:

I don't see how the file size could affect it, yet that seems to be the only apparent difference.

Weird.

I don't bother with that any more, since ConvertX to DVD handles mkv's beautifully from version 3 on :)

Anime Dad wrote:I don't bother with that any more, since ConvertX to DVD handles mkv's beautifully from version 3 on :)

Have you ever tried it with a large (4GB+) .mkv file?

bmwracer wrote:
Have you ever tried it with a large (4GB+) .mkv file?

Nope. The only thing that large i've ever downloaded was an .iso file :sweat:

Anime Dad wrote:Nope. The only thing that large i've ever downloaded was an .iso file :sweat:

So ka.

I've done the conversion from .mkv with no problems until I ran into this 4GB file... Guess I'll have to do some Googling. :sweat:

Hardsubbing Nodame - Finale for Evie and I noticed that the subs are out of sync during the hardsub process... :sweat:

Then I realized that the .mkv video is 23.98fps, not 29.97fps... :doh:

Hi everyone. What avi to dvd program do you use?

Thanks. :)

niknik wrote:Hi everyone. What avi to dvd program do you use?

Thanks. :)

Most people seem to use ConvertX2DVD.

bmwracer wrote:
Most people seem to use ConvertX2DVD.

True. It's the idiot-proof alternative ;)

Anime Dad wrote: idiot-proof

I should be using, then. :sweat:

But I'm too dumb to know that. :beaten:

Ack, I bungled yesterday's avi to mpg encoding: I forgot that the video has to be 704x480, not 704x396 to be compliant with DVD-Video... :sweat:

Starting all over again.

http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/i-love-free-collection-audio-and-video-converters.htm

Maybe worth trying for those looking for free video and audio converters. You don't need to go looking for password/code.