Mkv Conversion

[nagidar]

I need a good conversion program for the irritating Mkv file type.
I tried Total Video Converter but the conversion often fails.
Tia

[UncasMS]

into what format do yxou want to convert?

and WHERE do you want to play the file?
(assuming you want to burn it to a media and play it back on a blu-ray player a conversion is not necessary)

[rago88]

If you don't have a blu-ray player but want to convert to blank media to play on a set top player via a dvd+R for example,
then convertxtodvd3 will encode the files to audioTS/videoTS files to burn.

I use it many times to convert blu-ray files to standard dvd files.

[MilesAhead]

DVD Flick seems to be able to convert to standard DVD also. I've only tried a couple of conversions but it seems to work ok. For subtitles I use MKVextractGui to save the subtitle stream to a file with the same basename as the video in the same folder. Then DVD Flick picks it up when you drag & drop the video file onto flick.

[nagidar]

Mkv Conversion

Thanks for the help.
I want to convert Mkv to Avi for playback on a standard Dvd Player.
Tried ConvertXtoDvd but still got errors..not on every video but about 1 in 7.
I'll try Dvd Flick and see how it goes.

[MilesAhead]

If you want to convert to .avi try AviDemux. If you want to do one pass mode on Windows, I recommend getting the gtk version 2.4. The xvid one pass mode on 2.5 doesn't produce nearly the quality on output. Also when you load the .mkv file it will probably say something about 264 detected do you want to use "safe mode". Every time I didn't click Yes it crashed, so I recommend trying with the safe mode. Not sure if it can handle converting DTS audio to Surround 5.1 but DVD Flick seems to succeed.

[soup]

This player has DivX capability? I have never used this, but it looked simple enough to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0di0k211_tc

[rago88]

I have done about [10] 1080i or 720 movies to regular dvd with no problems using convertxto dvd3..

lucky I guess..

I also set my conversion for DL media..
verbatim dvd+r DL.

[paglamon]

I want to convert Mkv to Avi for playback on a standard Dvd Player.

MKV and AVI are both container formats. You can simply extract the streams in the MKV(using MKVExtratGUI) and put them in an avi container by muxing the streams using AVIMuxGUI. Now,often the video stream inside the MKV will be x264.And x264 in avi will not play in standalones.If that is the case, use Virtualdub or AVIDemux(as Milesahead had suggested) or MeGUI to reencode the files to XviD/DivX in avi.

[nagidar]

MKV Conversion

Thanks for all the replies..I found a freeware program "Total Video Converter" that works well and converts to all formats.