Trouble editing a mkv file

[pyro224]

Hi. I have an mkv file that is about 5 mb too big to fit on a cd, so I wanted to cut the credits out so it would fit.
I tried to open the mkv file in VdubMod and got this error message:

"Only handle [S_TEXT/] subs for the moment."

This mkv file has both english and chinese subtitles. Is there a way I would be able to cut the credits off at the end? Or perhaps is there another avi editor that would be able to import the mkv file in?

Thanks in advance.

[datascab]

Maybe you could extract the subs and then open them in Subtitle Workshop and alter the overall length to your new duration.

Re-mux your mkv unchecking the subs.

When you happy put your subs back in.

Another option would be to redo your audio at a lower bitrate.

Maybe you could make up the shortfall that way?

HTH

Data

[Atamido]

I would use the splitting option in mkvmerge and tell it to split at the point you want to cut at.

[ChristianHJW]

Cyrius, the developer of VirtualdubMod, has done an incredible job with matroska implementation, but he recently couldnt keep up with the high development speed of matroska, thats why many formats we can mux into matroska today are not supported in it.

As Pamel told you, simply use mkvmerge/mmg and the file split function to cut 702 MB from your file. As your subs are very likely in vobsub format, their size should be between 2 - 6 MB, depending on the length of the movie and the subs themselves. So, if you dont need them at all you also have the option to simply demux them using the same program, to achieve the file size you want ....

[pyro224]

Ok I have downloaded mkvmerge, but it looks like a dos based program so I wouldnt really know what command lines to use with this to split it....Lets say I know what time I want to cut (ie: total length of the movie is 1 hour and I want to cut off at the 55 minute mark)

How would I go about doing this? (i like GUIs so I can figure things out, i have no dea what im doing here)

[datascab]

http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/index.html#dlinst_binaries

go here and get the whole package, got a nice gui

hth

data

[ChristianHJW]

Originally posted by pyro224 How would I go about doing this? (i like GUIs so I can figure things out, i have no dea what im doing here) ... there is a GUI coming with, called mmg.exe ....

[pyro224]

mkvmerge failed with a return code of 3? :confused:

i also tried to remove a subtitle track...but for some reason the output file had a doubled length of time..but once you past the half way mark (the end of the original file) the slider would then jump to the beginiing of the file again. Could this be caused by the fact that the file I am trying to edit is already a split part 2 file?