Mvk to Avi indepth help needed

The Shogun · Post by **The Shogun** » Thu May 11, 2006 12:31 am

Ok I got this prob I want to turn this mvk file I have to an avi but in the processe I got a couple error messages and the subtitles won't load either Im just trying to add subs to the avi but keep the mvk, I have pics as to where the prob is

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y154/H ... error1.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y154/H ... error2.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y154/H ... /error.jpg

If anyone can help me i will be most honored.

Joe88 · Post by **Joe88** » Thu May 11, 2006 5:16 pm

I got a good solution to this , use jMEnc2. Swicth it to normal mode and you can convert OGM/MKV to AVI. It automaticalloy rips the first audio codec. So your gonna have to play with the file first in Virtual Dub Mod.

Joe88 · Post by **Joe88** » Thu May 11, 2006 5:19 pm

Sorry I forgot to add something. Another way to do this it to first open then file in virtual dub mod. Then set it direct stream copy. Then press F7. Select to save it as a OGM instead of a MKV. Now wait a little bit for it to convert.
Now download the program OGMtoAVI.
Drop the OGM in the program and hit preserve subtitiles and hit convert and your done.

The Shogun · Post by **The Shogun** » Thu May 11, 2006 9:40 pm

didn't work for some reason

The Shogun · Post by **The Shogun** » Thu May 11, 2006 9:50 pm

Accutaly it did work but I want to embed to subtitles

Duthek · Post by **Duthek** » Fri May 12, 2006 12:49 am

once you have an ogm you still have to take it to the .avi

as long as you preserve subtitles it will create an .avi with hardsubs

i don't think you took it through that last step, or if you did you missed the subtitle option

The Shogun · Post by **The Shogun** » Fri May 12, 2006 9:14 am

what your saying is that after I convert the ogm, convert the avi again too cause I didn exactly what he said

Qyot27 · Post by **Qyot27** » Fri May 12, 2006 10:56 am

Okay, because of all the problematic advice already given in this thread, there is an easier and more convenient way to do this (although it takes more time to explain). Via AviSynth (http://www.avisynth.org/; it also comes with the AMVapp).

Open the MKV file in VirtualDubMod. Go to Streams. Click on one of the subtitle streams and hit Demux. Do that for both of them. You'll probably also want to extract the audio stream, but if you do, make sure that you've got something that can convert Vorbis to Wave (oggdrop can do it, I think, and dBPowerAMP Music Converter can if you install the Ogg plugin for it). If you decide to extract the audio, go ahead and disable all the streams (both audio and subtitles), select Direct Stream Copy from the Video menu, and save the file as an AVI.

If you decide to keep the audio in the file, you'll need to use Graphedit, but that's more complicated to try to set up properly. I'll explain that later if you'd rather do it that way. The advantage is pretty much only that you don't have to bother with saving the audio separately and you don't have to save the video to a new file either. The script to load for this method is still pretty much identical to what I have further down the page, though.

You'll need the VSFilter.dll plugin (if you can watch the file with subtitles in Windows Media Player, Media Player Classic, whatever, you have it). After installing AviSynth, just copy VSFilter.dll (which should be in C:\Windows\system32) to C:\Program Files\AviSynth\plugins. If you can't watch the file with subtitles in those players, or if you don't want to mess with navigating into the system32 folder, VSFilter can be downloaded here: http://www.free-codecs.com/download/DirectVobSub.htm.

Now, all you have to do is set up a simple script (just open up Notepad, type it up, and save the file with a .avs extension). I'm assuming you've extracted both subtitle streams, the audio stream, and the video stream separately and converted the audio to Wave.

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video = AVISource("title.avi").TextSub("subtitle1.srt").TextSub("subtitle2.ssa")
audio = WAVSource("title.wav")
AudioDub(video,audio)

Note: obviously, replace title.avi, title.wav, subtitle1.srt, and subtitle2.ssa with whatever the actual filenames are.

That's it. Now just load the script back into VirtualDubMod and follow the Org's XviD encoding guide (right here: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/avtech/xvid.html). Make sure that you also follow the directions in the section after that, concerning compressing the audio to MP3 (for simplicity's sake, use the Lame ACM option). It's best to have the audio compression done outside for quality's sake, as in my [biased, as a general warning] opinion, that makes sure the video looks as good as it can with no chance of interference, but that's just personal preference. For simple purposes (i.e. if you aren't anally retented about having the utmost video quality), using the audio compression option in VDubMod while encoding your video should be fine.

The Shogun · Post by **The Shogun** » Sat May 13, 2006 4:56 pm

...fuck it, its too much and im tired of the files the progs and the late night crams trying to make it work, thanks for all the advice from u guys, Ill just leave them be.

Joe88 · Post by **Joe88** » Sat May 13, 2006 5:59 pm

That second way I posted should work.

I use it all the time that way. Oh well.