mkv with flac

[lpn1160]

As an experiment I encoded some files with xvid and flac as the audio and put them in a matroska container, after installing coreflacdecoder, they played fine with mpc. So I learned that the matroska container and the right combination of splitters/decoders plays absolutley wonderful. Great experiment, now what, I wanted to try demuxing the file, however vdubmod doesn't demux a proper flac file (errors), mkvextract says it doesn't recognize the format, so I should choose an extension (.flac, duh!). But it also produces files with major errors that the "flac frontend" can not repair. Also trying to write a wav from within vdubmod is a no-go.
This is no big deal for me I was just curious if anyone has tried this succesfully or not.

Thanxs all

[Atamido]

You could always use Graphedit and connect the decoded audio to a wav output then reencode to flac.

[Mosu]

mkvextract says it doesn't recognize the format, so I should choose an extension (.flac, duh!). But it also produces files with major errors that the "flac frontend" can not repair.

I guess that you're using the mkvextract GUI because there's no such message in mkvextract itself. I'm guessing further that mkvextract GUI does not use the "--no-ogg" parameter in which case mkvextract creates FLAC-in-Ogg files. Maybe that "flac frontend" doesn't recognize those files?

The correct command line for extracting "raw" FLAC files would be

mkvextract tracks source.mka --no-ogg 1:extracted.flac

[lpn1160]

Mosu,
My command line skills are not that great, however after a few attempts I GOT IT!!!
Thank you very very much, worked like a charm!!!!

[Mosu]

Good to hear that it's working for you.