Problem Burning MKV to DVD

[Aradath]

I'm new to the whole Video/Audio Encoding thing, and starting with MKV files didn't help. I've spent the last couple of months trying to find out how I can burn a ~320-360MB MKV file to DVD.

I followed the guide on the Matroska site which said to use DVD Santa. I got an error saying that the 2 Audio streams within it were not compatible. So, I demuxed the container and got an AVI video stream, 2 AAC audio streams and a Subtitle track. Now, I simply assumed that I could just reencode the streams to MPEG2 and AC3, Author a DVD and be done with it. But it turns out that the Video Stream is "shorter" than the audio stream, and I haven't been able to find anything on lengthening video.

Does anyone know if it's possible to reencode the streams to said file types so that the Video plays as long as the Audio?

[multicone]

This file is likely a VFR (Variable Framerate) anime, so demuxing to AVI is not really a progress. DVD Santa is incompatible with 5.1 Dolby surround tracks, and most likely the AAC audio in your MKV are HE-AAC encoded 5.1 audio tracks.

I see two ways :

1. Use Foobar2000 to reencode the 5.1 audio in your MKV to high bitrate 2.0 Vorbis or MP3 (its only a temporary file, so size doesnt matter), and then use mkvmerge to make a new MKV without the 5.1 AAC but use the 2.0 sound.
Then encode the DVD with DVD Santa.

2. Use http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/ to create a MPEG2 video from the MKV, and an AC3 5.1 audio, then use DVD Authoring tools to make DVD from that.

[Aradath]

I'll try them both.

Thanks a lot for your help! :D

[cool_thing76]

multicone
I have the same problem exactly..I tried method 1 and but foobar says it doesn't support the .mkv file..So

I\m trying method 2..I downloaded MediaCoder..but then got lost on how to convert the video stream to mpeg2 and the audio to AC3 5.1 ..

So could you plz elaborate abit on this..??
Regards..

[multicone]

There is a great MKV to DVD converter called X-to-DVD. A Guide is here : http://www.dvd-guides.com/content/view/158/59/

[cool_thing76]

thank you so much multicone..I will try it..

[cool_thing76]

Hi Multicone,
I tried ConvertXtoDVD and it looks great but it gives me the attached error message