Converting h264 to avi?

[Pas]

Hi, me again, with another stupid question that could most probably be answered with a link.

Anyway, there's some footage that's been encoded as MKV H264, and I extract it using the MKV extractor, leaving it as a .h264 file. How do I convert that to an avi file?

(if another thread has already asked this, i apologize in advance, so please just leave a link to the thread)

Cheers.

[Scintilla]

If you're talking about putting the H.264 stream into AVI without re-encoding: you don't. H.264 in AVI is a never food.

If you have to use the footage, serve it with AVISynth's <b>DirectShowSource()</b> command and either use the script directly or convert clips to lossless AVI.

[Rapture**]

If you have to use the footage, serve it with AVISynth's <b>DirectShowSource()</b> command and either use the script directly or convert clips to lossless AVI.

x2.

with another stupid question that could most probably be answered with a link

Exactly. If you'd look trough this forum section,you could find like 20 of threads like this that have been appearing lately.

[Pas]

Sorry, I only looked down page 1. My bad.

[Gepetto]

Sorry, I only looked down page 1. My bad.

Use the Search button at the top of the page

[Qyot27]

If you have to use the footage, serve it with AVISynth's <b>DirectShowSource()</b> command and either use the script directly or convert clips to lossless AVI.

Actually, FFmpegSource is a better option now, since it's frame accurate. The only thing it lacks is the ability to compensate for audio sync when dealing with VFR (by utilizing an FPS conversion like DirectShowSource's convertfps parameter), which isn't really important if you're just going to edit with the footage and not pay attention to the audio. Of course, most MP4s and MKVs I've come across haven't used VFR - it seems to be mainly a WMV issue as far as that kind of thing goes.

The doom9 announcement thread with link to the newest version of the plugin:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=127037