Matroska

CaTaClYsM · Post by **CaTaClYsM** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 9:01 pm

Need to figure out how to make a matroska file. I've got graph edit, I've got MKVmerge (and get errors.) so what do I do.

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 9:08 pm

Vdubmod can make them. Of course, I'm not all that experienced with matroska yet, and these might not be "proper" mkv files. Just a suggestion though.

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 10:17 pm

In my experience it's been as simple as

mkvmerge stream1.avi audio.wav -o output.mkv

where stream1.avi contained a DivX-compatible XviD video stream, audio.wav was the audio, and output.mkv was the output Matroska container.

I was using the Linux build of Matroska but the functionality should still be the same...

CaTaClYsM · Post by **CaTaClYsM** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 1:20 am

mkvmerge doesn't work and Vdub mod wont work with RM video, and I don't know if it works for OGG audio. So long story short, those two methods are out.

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 7:56 am

CaTaClYsM wrote:mkvmerge doesn't work

What do you mean by "doesn't work"? Is an error message given? The only mkvmerge Windows binaries ones I know of require the Cygwin DLLs -- do you have those? (I can't remember if they come with the package or not.)

RealVideo video streams are broken at the moment IIRC, but Vorbis audio is supported.

Tab. · Post by **Tab.** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 1:54 pm

Realvideo isn't broken, that was fixed awhile ago.

CaTaClYsM · Post by **CaTaClYsM** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 6:13 pm

libiconv.dll is what it's asking from on mkvmerge and mmg. so far theres no luck getting it to work, even with the cygwin.dlls

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 8:40 pm

CaTaClYsM wrote:libiconv.dll is what it's asking from on mkvmerge and mmg. so far theres no luck getting it to work, even with the cygwin.dlls

libiconv is a GNU library that performs Unicode representation <-> internal representation conversion. Learn more here.

There's probably packages of the win32 dll floating around but it may be easier to just install Cygwin: http://www.cygwin.com

Tab. · Post by **Tab.** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 8:42 pm

Damnit cat, you could have saved yourself such troubles had you IMed me saying that's the problem.

CaTaClYsM · Post by **CaTaClYsM** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 10:05 pm

again trythil, CYGWIN DOESN'T WORK.