Muxing h264 encoded video in mkv

[bokkoman]

Hi
I encoded an anime with gknot, only the video, it made an mkv file from it. So i extracted the video from the mkv, demuxed the audio from the dvd, had my own made subtitles and tried to mux the with mkvtoolnix 1.8.0 (mkvmerge).

But when pressing start i get this error:
Error: 'C:\NARUTO\Naruto Movie 2.avi' track 0: You are trying to put AVC/h.264 video from an AVI or a similar VfW
(Video for Windows) compatible source into a Matroska file in the so-called 'VfW compatibility mode'. Please note that
this is not the official way to store AVC/h.264 video in Matroska. Therefore proper playback of such files cannot be
guaranteed, and we strongly urge you to use the native Matroska-mode.

I dont know what to do? I tried to mux the original mkv video file in the new mkv but then i get the same error. Do i need to reencode the video?

thanks.

[bond]

gknot and virtualdubmod do not create mkv files in native mode for avc, the recommended mode

for getting a native mkv file, demux the video to raw .264, mux the .264 to .mp4 with yamb and mux the .mp4 to .mkv with mkvmerge

sounds hard, but isnt and you will get a correct file

[bokkoman]

Ok, so how do demux the video to raw .264? With mkvextract?

like:
mkvextract tracks "video.mkv" 1:movie.264?

and where do i get the other program?

thanks for quick respond :)

**edit**
Ok thanks m8, i got it all to work now :)
Its running smoothly and i think i did a good job for the first time :p

thanks again for your help.

[chilledoutuk]

Its running smoothly and i think i did a good job for the first time.
You mean x264 and autogk did a good job:D

[giandrea]

Can't mkvmerge mux raw 264 video to Matroska without passing through MP4box?
If not, why?

[imcold]

No, it can't, since it doesn't have a h264 parser.

[Sharktooth]

imcold is right. it would be really usefull if the matroska guys can implement h264 parsing in mkvmerge.

[bond]

its good getting people used to mp4 ;)

[Haali]

Actually there is an h264 parser in my DS muxer. So doing something like

dsmux dest.mkv source.mkv

should convert it to native mode mkv.