I been doing trials and error on my behalf through research on google. Some methods I used was like demuxing the audio and video.. the process was too complicated and tedious (yes I did it though) but it came out corrupted or wrong- even after converting mkv to avi with no sound and stripping the audio (ac3 5.1) separately. I then muxed them together with AVIMux_GUI. Other programs I am aware does not support muxing and saving it to avi container nor even accept avi as a whole. I tried some programs that claimed it did like "avidemux 2.6" and all it did was encode the video mkv to avi.. it did nothing as far as making it true .avi. And some of my other media players would confirm this since it reads avi's and this one (or many I made) came out corrupted but played well on my PC. I'm using mkv video files mainly with 5.1 channels. I am also dealing with ac3 right now but, wondering if its possible to do this with dts. I have some videos on my computer that is avi and has 5.1 channels and plays well on my external media players. But I don't know how that person did it.. since its from an outside source. Any help guys? I know its possible but I suppose its probably more complicated than what I did.. the only other alternative is to convert the videos I have with 5.1 channels to mp4. Majority of video converters accept output to ac3 with the exception of using mp4 only. I'm trying to avoid mpeg and mkv. Thus converting mkv (for example) to avi but retain the 5.1 audio(ac3/dts).
I haven't used AviDemux version 2.6 much, but there was no problem converting from the mkv to avi container. The video and audio were simply copied and the 5.1 ac3 functioned fine. The top image is the mkv file source, the lower image, the avi output.
I'm still scratching my head on that one... what did you do with the info after? I never used mediainfo but I saved the mkv info as text. Does it only give you the information? How did you convert mkv to avi with audio intact? By the way, I think I may have figured out why some of my external media players haven't been playing my muxed videos (mkv to avi).. they were not xvid/divx processed.. thus perhaps I did everything right but it was just a plain avi container. Xvid/divx might have been the little problem in all this mess.. thanks in advance for further assistance.
That's the information showing what was in the MKV container before conversion and after conversion to AVI. AviDemux simply changed container formats. Nothing was encoded. The video and audio streams were copied without encoding. And as you alluded, the playback device (PC, external media player, standalone DVD player) used for playback must: Recognize the container. Have a codec that can decode the content.
I see.. well thats useful. And I have gotten a bit further to my goal. I used mediainfo for that outside source video I talked about (avi container with ac3 audio) and here is what was reported: General Format : AVI Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave Format profile : OpenDML File size : 3.21 GiB Duration : 2h 9mn Overall bit rate : 3 540 Kbps Writing application : VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 (build 2542/release) Writing library : VirtualDubMod build 2542/release The compression method was lossy for the video which is exactly what I want. But it has xvid codec.. Video ID : 0 Format : MPEG-4 Visual Format profile : Advanced Simple@L5 Format settings, BVOP : 1 Format settings, QPel : No Format settings, GMC : No warppoints Format settings, Matrix : Custom Muxing mode : Packed bitstream Codec ID : XVID Codec ID/Hint : XviD The same with the audio: Audio ID : 1 Format : AC-3 Format/Info : Audio Coding 3 Mode extension : CM (complete main) Format settings, Endianness : Big Codec ID : 2000 Duration : 2h 9mn Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 448 Kbps Channel(s) : 6 channels Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz Bit depth : 16 bits Compression mode : Lossy ^ that is the information regarding the outside video source I looked into. I tried to find out how that person did it.. and went with virtualdub 1.5.10.2 as that what he used to write it. The problem now, when I load an MKV file on virtualdub 1.5.10.2, it gives me this error: I been on this several hours and I thought I take a rest. I have checked, I do have all the codecs (ffdshow) installed. I do have avisynth installed. So I dont know what virtualdub 1.5.10.2 wants exactly. I have tried other varies attempts using cmd line for ffmpeg. But I literally got stuck using the command lines for the specific job. Especially for my goal to convert MKV video with ac3/dts to avi with lossy quality and audio (ac3) intact while having XVID/DIVX encoded. I found out it needs to be xvid or divx which is what my dvd player/ external media player can decode. Unless this has to be compressed? -__- (excuse my ignorance.)
VirtualDubMod is an old modified version of VirtualDub. If you want to open mkv files using the up to date version of VirtualDub, you have to install the DirectShow filter plugin for the video and the AC3-ACM codec for ac3 audio. It's easier to use AviDemux 2.6.0 which uses self contained codecs. Note the sample mkv input file properties are XviD and AC3 5.1 Choose to copy the video and audio and output as AVI.
AviDemux 2.6 does not work at all. Wasted two hours converting a movie with xvid avi exactly how you showed in the picture above. Tested on my media player and it did not work. Showed video as corrupted once again.. I might just give up on this. Seems there is no way of doing it and if there is, there aren't many elaborate tutorials. I'll stick with mp4 I suppose is what everyone prefers than avi anyways. I'm still open to doing this but that avidemux will not help at all. Thanks.
All right. I been busy so I didn't come by as soon as I should have. But I finally made it work. The tools I used were: VirtualDub 1.4.8 AC3 support by RaStr Avisynth (of course) MKV2AC3 1.03 (to convert audio to ac3) 1. Opened the avs file in virtualdub. 2. Imported the ac3 file created by mkv2ac3. 3. Chose proper numbers, compression/audio/video etc. 4. Muxed it all together. Wallah! High quality video with avi container. Problem solved.. wow so many good programs I found and this one did the better job. Almost no quality loss with 5.1 audio crisp.
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Hmm never used Pazera.. too late for it though I like the viruldub style. However, since you know Pazera well, does it support output to ac3/dts? and does it support batch mode?
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