Conversion from .mkv to AVI

kiarrens · Post by **kiarrens** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 8:05 pm

Sorry if this has been asked before, I did a search of the forum and didn't come up with much of anything, nor have I seen it in the guides (although it's entirely possible I missed it somewhere in there...).
I've got the first two episodes of Romeo x Juliet and want to do a little trailer to get people interested in the series, but they're .mkv files. VirtualDub won't read them (Error: Found a frame with only one (forward) ref, unhandled!), DGIndex won't read them, Vdub won't read them if I change the extension to .avi or .mpg, and neither AVS scripts (AVISource or DirectShowSource) are working.
Any suggestions?

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 8:15 pm

Does VirtualDubMOD work?

Also, what version of AVISynth are you using, and what error do you get when using DirectShowSource()? Have you tried specifying <B>audio=false</b>?

Purge · Post by **Purge** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 8:16 pm

what type of files are they, xvid or h.264?

theres a tool called mkvextract but i've never used it

download the raws

kiarrens · Post by **kiarrens** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 8:21 pm

Scintilla: Looks like AVS2.0, I'm pretty sure it's the newest version, I had to do a re-install about a month ago so I've got the latest version of the App. VirtualDub works for everything else, just not for this type of file, I guess...
DirectShowSource doesn't give me any type of an error, it just freezes VDub and the program crashes ("not responding"). Still freezes when I try with audio=false.

Purge: Since I can't load them into Vdub, I don't know how to determine which compression they are, XviD or h.264. I'll look for the raws, thanks.

Thank you both for responding so quickly. ^^ This is really annoying that it won't work.

kiarrens · Post by **kiarrens** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 8:22 pm

Oh wow nevermind there's a Vdub error...

Avisynth open failure:
DirectShowSource: Could not open as video or audio.

Video returned: "DirectShowSource couldn't open file ___ Cannot play back the file. The format is not supported.

Same for audio.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:10 am

AVISynth 2.0.x is really old at this point. Latest stable version is 2.5.7, which you can get from <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... 57023">the Sourceforge page</a>; just make sure to uninstall any previous versions first, and don't try it if you're currently in the middle of an editing project, as it may screw things up.

meleechampion · Post by **meleechampion** » Tue May 08, 2007 10:10 pm

I'm getting the same error, and I have the latest AviSynth. Theres gotta be an easier way to use these files...

meleechampion · Post by **meleechampion** » Tue May 08, 2007 10:30 pm

nevermind. found this topic, and that led to a solution.