Preserving English and Japanese versions in MKV

[nonoitall]

This newbie needs help! :) I've got some anime DVDs I want to convert to H.264 and package in MKV files, but I want to preserve both the English and Japanese versions of the episodes. I've dug around a bit and understand that MKV can contain multiple video streams (multi-angle), and obviously multiple audio streams as well. Does this work even if the streams are of different lengths? For example, the Japanese credits are significantly longer than the English ones, but the episode itself is basically identical regardless of language (video-wise, not audio-wise, of course). Assuming that's possible and I had the following files, how would I go about assembling them? (Just as an example.)

openingcreds_eng.mkv (2:00)
openingcreds_jap.mkv (1:15)
episode.mkv (20:00)
closingcreds_eng.mkv (2:30)
closingcreds_jap.mkv (1:45)

Can mkvmerge do this? Any examples or links to guides you can provide are greatly appreciated, as this doesn't seem to be a very common discussion topic on the net. Thanks in advance!

[foxyshadis]

It can do it, but no players will properly play it. Angst! The only way to get it working is to have separate files and segment UIDs. They're a bit of a black art, but you can create hardcoded playlists that way - or you can just use a real playlist, like m3u, pls, or aspx, that players will understand, but loading times will occur between each segment.

If you want to encapsulate everything in one file, look into mp4 menus & scripting, there's probably a way to do it there. If not, then maybe via m2ts or evob.

[nonoitall]

Guess I'll look into MP4 then. Thanks for the insight!