How to Convert .MKV to .AVI

[justinax]

Hello guys.........i need some help with mkv files......

i have two mkv files of 700 mb each.......how do i convert them to avi format......?

Regards.....


Justin........

[Kurtnoise]

Depends of your video and audios streams in your MKV.

First step : extract/demux each streams to see the A/V format.

[Selur]

Quick&Dirty:

The first step is to be able to playback the file you want to convert with all normal directshow based players.
For this you might need to install newest ffdshow (http://www.aziendeassociate.it/cd.asp?dir=/ffdshow) and enable it to decode the material you use as input (for special audio/video streams special filters might be required)

If playback works in players like wmp6.4, mpc, bsplayer,... everything should be fine.

1. install avisynth (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=57023&package_id=72557&release_id=366697)
2. write into a new text file with an .avs extention:
DirectShowSource("ThePathtoTheFileYou want to convert")
e.g. DirectShowSource("d:\myFile.mkv")
3. open the avs file in Virtual Dub and convert to avi

Cu Selur

[chongy5]

I prefer just putting the MKV files into MKVExtract, and with the resulting files, just muxing them together in VirtualDub.

[foxyshadis]

That only works if it's a vfw-mode mkv, mkvextract isn't smart enough to apply avi hacks to every format. It'll mess up vfr files too.