mkv2vob: New App to Remux MKV x264/AC3 which play on PS3

[davidbb]

I have a possible solution to the problem of fitting dvd5 mkv's onto a single layer disc. I have found that by demuxing the streams and reencoding the AC3 track to 192kbps, then remuxing again before running through mkv2vob almost always produces a file that will fit on a single layer dvd when burnt. Sound quality does not suffer too much, and unless you are an audiphile you probably won't notice.

As Mkv2vob uses besweet to encode DTS to AC3 it would probably be fairly simple to do this ac3 to ac3 within the program and have a checkbox in the options to choose whether to re-encode audio or not.

Hopefully we can have this feature built in, simply because DVD5 burning is so much more reliable than DVD9

[naj]

Even better than that would be a possibility to set output bitrate or file size, that way you could control every aspect of the encoding...

[serum1911]

heya there,

i tried to install mkv2vob but the installer always fails with:

http://pic.leech.it/images/a914error.jpg

i tried install on a vista ultimate x86 system and on a vista enterprise x64 system - both fail with same error.

i tried running as admin - tried compatibility mode - i tried to just exract the content from the exe and run the mkv2vob.exe but then it says "error getting mkv info"

pls help - i really need this cool prog up n running :) thx in advance

i have one more question - since the new version doesnt work for me i am still running an older one which uses h264info for level changing to 4.1. this takes an awful amount of time. i didnt get why the prog did not just change one byte - my own tool did the level change in like 20ms. or does h264info do a compliance check?

and last: excuse my bad english - not a native speaker here.

serum


i have the same problem,been looking for answers but nothing yet

Is there any chance the installer will be fixed?!

[zAndy1]

Hello
I'm trying to transcode a movie (Alien vs Predator II) and I recieve the following massage - "Insufficient Disk Space on Drive D, You have 106.75GB you need 32540.38GB".
I need 32540.38GB? I think it's a bug, no?

Are you definitely on the latest version as that bug was fixed a few versions ago now!

[Bunny_Wabbet]

Are you definitely on the latest version as that bug was fixed a few versions ago now!

thanks for the fast answer
I'm using version 2.2.2. I believe it's the latest

[e3henri]

I have a problem that the created file is corrupt, but it is playable in PS3 anyway.
PS3 says "corrupt data", but plays it anyway
Windows MEdiaplayer can not play it.
I'mt trying to create a x264 output file.
Without sub there is no transcoding and with there is. I have tried both divX and x264 and the output is the same corrupt file

[e3henri]

I have noticed that SRT files are really inserted into the picture and the file has to be transcoded (which takes about 1,5h for a 30 min file on my Core2Duo 2,66Ghz).
I think PS3 can use embedded subtitles instead, an transcoding is not neccessary.
My plan was to use mkv2vob to create a xvid file without subtitles (no transcoding) and when run aviaddxsubs to embedd a SRT subtiles file. But aviaddxsubs says that the file is not a valid AVI (probably related to the problem I posted a few minutes ago).
Is the approach I suggest possible? And could it be automaticly created by mkv2vob in an upcoming release?
I hope it is possible to avoid 5h transcoding sessions for a single movie.

THank for a great program, I have previously tried an early version but the audio and pictures was totally out of sync, but with the current version everything works just fine.

[Bajunid]

Hi,
thanks for the prog. An almost perfect prog I must say.

Just one question. I tried the trascoding option (due to subs) but I'd really like to increase the qulity of transcoding. how can it be done?

[3r1c]

Is there any chance the installer will be fixed?!

this is something wrong with your computer not the installer.
specifically some warez versions of windows xp are missing some files, this is because you downloaded a bad release. you need full cd and reinstall.

[3r1c]

I have a problem that the created file is corrupt, but it is playable in PS3 anyway.
PS3 says "corrupt data", but plays it anyway
Windows MEdiaplayer can not play it.
I'mt trying to create a x264 output file.
Without sub there is no transcoding and with there is. I have tried both divX and x264 and the output is the same corrupt file

if it plays on ps3 then what is the problem?

[3r1c]

Hello
I'm trying to transcode a movie (Alien vs Predator II) and I recieve the following massage - "Insufficient Disk Space on Drive D, You have 106.75GB you need 32540.38GB".
I need 32540.38GB? I think it's a bug, no?

what setting have you got in regional settings in windows control panel?

[eitach]

what setting have you got in regional settings in windows control panel?

Yeha change it to English (US), it's worked for me!
for converting movie 4.5 GB you will need 15-20 freespace. for movie 8 GB you will need 32-35 freespace

[3r1c]

Yeha change it to English (US), it's worked for me!
for converting movie 4.5 GB you will need 15-20 freespace. for movie 8 GB you will need 32-35 freespace

What was it at before?

[gordho]

hey 3r1c, any thoughts on making mkv2vob work on more then just mkv? mkv2vob and tversity are generally all i need for all my ps3 video needs but every now and then i will get a wmv or other vid that just needs some slight tweaking to play properly but since the slight tweaking happens in several different programs it can be a pain.

[Bunny_Wabbet]

What was it at before?

Hello
when I changed it to be English U.S it worked. so you are right, the problem is in the "Regional settings".
I'm using the Hebrew settings

I have no problem changing it when ever I need to convert a large movie, but if it's not a problem for you to fix it, I would be most grateful

Thanks for a great software

[rsaini]

Unfortunately, yes - I get a similar problem on Vista (Ultimate) since v2.2.2. In my case I get a VirtualDub Error box saying: "Cannot detect file type of "xxxxxxxx.xxx".

Because all recent versions force an upgrade to the latest (or can I just rename loader.exe?) I have fallen back to v1.05 for the time being.

Still, I'm not complaining. This is still a fantastic tool for PS3 owners.

I'm getting the same issue...never had a problem until this week...anyone else?

I've tried what was mentioned earlier in this thread regarding file name, renamed the file 'text.mkv' and placed in root of c:\ and still get 'Muxing Failed!' Tried seperating video/audio and re-joining with mkvmerge but no help

[Swieep]

Hi,

I read about this error, and did not have any problems, now a few days later the problem is here.

I do not have any special chars in filename or directory names. Also when I used the batch/directory method only 2 of the files got this error so a directory problem it was not.

Just to be sure I renamed the file to s707.mkv and moved it to c:\ and used file remux and directory remux and both failed.

Other info, I downloaded the latest tsmuxer and started tsMuxerGUI and when I openend one of the files an error popped up:

"Some tracks not recognized. This tracks was ignored."

The other file did not give this error.

The other file does have a @ in the track info..

[maka1986]

Hey thanks for putting up such a great program.

I have a minor problem with the subtitles.
I put a ts file and a srt sub file in the same folder and after the hardsubing is done the subs are off with the picture shown.
I noticed a pattern in it.
When opening the srt file with notepad each line is numbered starting from 1.
but the first line of subs that is shown in my encoded file is the line numbered 101.
How should I edit the srt file so that the subs will match?

Thanks for any help.

EDIT:

Well I looked into it and it `s more that it shows subs that are supposed to be played around the 10th minute at the beginning of the encode.It`s strange.

[3r1c]

Just an update.

tsmuxer does not work with any mkv created with the latest version of mkvmerge.

so any mkv made with mkvmerge v2 converted with mkv2vob will show "muxing failed" error.

i posted this bug in the tsmuxer thread a while ago and nothing seems to be happening. i will make a work around of extracting the streams seperately like the old version did.

[jdryyz]

Let me start by saying what everyone else says first -- GREAT PROGRAM!

I use this with mkv files created by Handbrake 0.9.2. It does a wonderful job. However, since Handbrake works best on the Mac, I am forced to switch to my PC to run mkv2vob. It creates a lot a tedium as you may imagine. I tried looking for solutions to create my mkv files on the Windows side. DVD Fab Platinum does a similar job as Handbrake does and the results are pretty much the same except for one-- mkv2vob doesn't like the mkv files create by DVD Fab Platinum (it says invalid mkv file)

Is there any chance this could be fixed?

[3r1c]

Can you upload a sample (25-50mb or so) file created with dvd fab and i will test it.

If you can do this quickly i will put it in the update tonight.

[3r1c]

upload to rapidshare or somewhere and post link. dont attach it to the forum.

[jdryyz]

http://rapidshare.com/files/111648647/nostalgia.zip.html



upload to rapidshare or somewhere and post link. dont attach it to the forum.

[emu]

I have a possible solution to the problem of fitting dvd5 mkv's onto a single layer disc. I have found that by demuxing the streams and reencoding the AC3 track to 192kbps, then remuxing again before running through mkv2vob almost always produces a file that will fit on a single layer dvd when burnt. Sound quality does not suffer too much, and unless you are an audiphile you probably won't notice.

As Mkv2vob uses besweet to encode DTS to AC3 it would probably be fairly simple to do this ac3 to ac3 within the program and have a checkbox in the options to choose whether to re-encode audio or not.

Hopefully we can have this feature built in, simply because DVD5 burning is so much more reliable than DVD9


hello can you tell me the procedure you use for this

[3r1c]

hello can you tell me the procedure you use for this

192kbps ac3 audio is awful.
for stereo mp3 this is good, but ac3 is 6 channels. so the bitrate needs to be higher.

[Swieep]

Glad you found the problem..
Good luck in fixing it yourself..
Kudos to you!
:thanks:
Just an update.

tsmuxer does not work with any mkv created with the latest version of mkvmerge.

so any mkv made with mkvmerge v2 converted with mkv2vob will show "muxing failed" error.

i posted this bug in the tsmuxer thread a while ago and nothing seems to be happening. i will make a work around of extracting the streams seperately like the old version did.

[hexperience]

MKV2VOB transcodes this video when set to auto. (2.2.2)

Shouldn't this one just mux without any changes?




General #0
Complete name : C:\c.mkv
Format : Matroska
File size : 4.37 GiB
PlayTime : 1h 53mn
Bit rate : 5528 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2008-04-17 02:35:38
Writing application : mkvmerge v2.2.0 ('Turn It On Again') built on Mar 4 2008 12:58:26
Writing library : libebml v0.7.7 + libmatroska v0.8.1

Video #0
Codec : AVC
Codec/Family : AVC
Codec/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Codec profile : High@L4.1
Codec settings, CABAC : Yes
Codec_Settings_RefFrames : 4
PlayTime : 1h 53mn
Bit rate : 4660 Kbps
Width : 1280 pixels
Height : 528 pixels
Display Aspect ratio : 2.424
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Chroma : 4:2:0
Interlacement : Progressive
Language : English

Audio #0
Codec : AC3
PlayTime : 1h 53mn
Bit rate mode : CBR
Bit rate : 640 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Rear: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Language : English

[3r1c]

hexperience, that file is missing the x264 header so mkv2vob cant detect the settings used to encode it.
likely this is because you cut it with mkvmerge which does not preserve the headers properly.

jdryyz, your mkv file is completely corrupted, it wont even play at all and the header is invalid.

Codec profile : 0@L0.0
Codec settings, CABAC : No
Width : 16 pixels
Height : 32 pixels
Display Aspect ratio : 0.500

[jdryyz]

Something must have happened during the upload as it plays back fine with VLC. I can try again. I can also try not zipping it first.

jdryyz, your mkv file is completely corrupted, it wont even play at all and the header is invalid.

Codec profile : 0@L0.0
Codec settings, CABAC : No
Width : 16 pixels
Height : 32 pixels
Display Aspect ratio : 0.500

[3r1c]

hmm it does play with vlc, but not with windows media player like all my other mkv's do.

anyway this is a problem with the mkv is invalid not a bug in mkv2vob.

[3r1c]

Hi all
I am really glad about your program 3r1c, the 2.2.2 version fixed some issues for me!
But I still have a movie that when I transcode it in x264 the output file is very small (2,4 MB).
You can dowload the small (15 MB) mkv here and try it yourself:
http://www.laessoe.dk/mkv2vob/sample.mkv

Looking forward to hear your comment :)

looks like a problem with the sample, which is also missing the x264 header.

the headers in this sample says the bitrate is 420kbps which is what mkv2vob takes and uses to reencode, but this is wrong.

if you encode the full movie which should have the x264 header it should work properly.

[3r1c]

V2.2.3 1/May/2008
Fixed some ac3 streams not accepted by tsmuxer (muxing failed error).
Added check if your windows regional settings interfere with math decimal functions and show a warning to change it (can cause disk space errors or out of sync if not fixed).
Added check on the return values of some tools, to better detect crashes that still result in a "success" status even though it failed.
Updated tsmuxer to 1.8.4(b)

[jdryyz]

Didn't mean to imply that mkv2vob had a bug in this regard just something it didn't like about DVD Fab created mkv's. I might try sending them feedback.

Thanks.

hmm it does play with vlc, but not with windows media player like all my other mkv's do.

anyway this is a problem with the mkv is invalid not a bug in mkv2vob.

[glmike]

Great program, but on quite a lot of movies i get the error from virtualdub "cannot detect file type" at the end of the conversion process.

Some of those files still play on the ps3, and some do not.

Is this a bug with mkv2vob or is it something i can repair with another program ?

[lillprinsen]

i get mencoder (or something) error after half the movie. I transcode with .srt subtitles. This happenend the first time after the update. pleez help.

[john.doe]

Hello

I use mkv2vob 2.2.2 und 2.2.3 in order to play my mkv files on my ps3. With some movies (x264 coded) it is very fast - they do not need a transcode - with other movies it is awful slowly - movies needs to be transcoded (Intel Core2Duo T7500 @2,2 GHz, 2GB of Ram) it tooks up to 20 hrs for a 2 hrs lasting movie in 1080p (using Windows Vista SP1).

Is their any way to speed it up or see if the files needs to be transcoded before I start the process?

thank you

[Stealth3si]

I can't get the program (v2.2.3) to work at all in winxp sp3 (no anti-virus atm). It doesn't start up. I double-click on the icon "mkv2vob," which refers to the loader.exe file, but nothing happens.

Also, can I just just use any burning program to burn the vob file in data mode? if so, which data mode on dvd-r? BTW I'm transporting the file to a remote PS3 w/ no PC connection.

great invention btw! thx and best of luck 2 ya!

[canoehead]

Let me start by saying what everyone else says first -- GREAT PROGRAM!

I use this with mkv files created by Handbrake 0.9.2. It does a wonderful job. However, since Handbrake works best on the Mac, I am forced to switch to my PC to run mkv2vob. It creates a lot a tedium as you may imagine. I tried looking for solutions to create my mkv files on the Windows side. DVD Fab Platinum does a similar job as Handbrake does and the results are pretty much the same except for one-- mkv2vob doesn't like the mkv files create by DVD Fab Platinum (it says invalid mkv file)

Is there any chance this could be fixed?

You know there is a handbrake for Windows? Also, it you have VMFusion or Parallels you could run mkv2vob in that - ie in a virtual machine on the Mac. If you don't need to transcode the video this works fine - if you have to transcode you will stab your own eyeballs out long before it completes.

All that said, while I love this program, since it is a painless way of converting acquired mkvs into VOBs for the PS3, in your case you control the MKVs. If you can make them so that they are level 4.1 and Ac3 out of the box, then you might consider just remuxing them into m2ts files using tsmuxer - that should produce a very PS3 compatible file.

[jdryyz]

Yes. It's nowhere near as good as the Mac version. In fact, its unusable for me. And, yes, I know about the other Virtual Machines apps. I've tried them and didn't like them either.

I'm afraid I do not follow your second suggestion. Why make the audio 4.1? And unless tsmuxer is available for the Mac (quick check says no) then I might as well stick with mkv2vob.


You know there is a handbrake for Windows? Also, it you have VMFusion or Parallels you could run mkv2vob in that - ie in a virtual machine on the Mac. If you don't need to transcode the video this works fine - if you have to transcode you will stab your own eyeballs out long before it completes.

All that said, which I love this program, since it is a painless way of converting acquired mkvs into VOBs for the PS3, in your case you control the MKVs. If you can make them so that they are level 4.1 and Ac3 out of the box, then you might consider just remuxing them into m2ts files using tsmuxer - that should produce a very PS3 compatible file.

[canoehead]

4.1 refers to the AVC / h.264 level - ie the version/settings of the video codec that is PS3 compatible. That is what detirmines whether mkv2vob will need to transcode the video - level 4.1@high is the highest the PS3 can do. A lot of mkvs on the intertubes are 5.1, which is were mkv2vob has to do the very time consuming transcoding.

[canoehead]

tsmuxer works well in the virtual machine programs. It is a part of mkv2vob, and if you are making mkvs that are ps3 compatible in their essential elements, it should save you a little time.

[B4tm4n]

And unless tsmuxer is available for the Mac (quick check says no).

I run tsMuxer on my Macbook without installing windows, use crossover to run it.

[goldberg]

hi
thanks for your great program is it possible you you could put a cutting feature in your program so we could cut off the credits so we could fit the movie on a dvd5
thanks

[3r1c]

hi
thanks for your great program is it possible you you could put a cutting feature in your program so we could cut off the credits so we could fit the movie on a dvd5
thanks

There is already, use split function.

[Bunny_Wabbet]

V2.2.3 1/May/2008
Fixed some ac3 streams not accepted by tsmuxer (muxing failed error).
Added check if your windows regional settings interfere with math decimal functions and show a warning to change it (can cause disk space errors or out of sync if not fixed).
Added check on the return values of some tools, to better detect crashes that still result in a "success" status even though it failed.
Updated tsmuxer to 1.8.4(b)

Hey
I think I know what the problem is, I use the hebrew regional settings and it didnt work before.
The thing is when I changed the "Display leading zeros" from ".7" to "0.7" it statrted working

I hope it helps, good day

[goldberg]

hi
is it possible with your program to cut the credits from the movie with a movie like twister for example and put it on 1 dvd5 when i try your splitting feature it puts the 1st disc at 4.27gb if it used more of the dvd5 or if i could cut the credits some of the mkvs would fit
your up there with great dvdshrink programmer maybe nero will steal u away aswell
is there any site that hosts all your previous versions of your program
thanks again

[JeffRosenthal]

I posted this a week ago and would really like some help! I'm not going to stop till I get your program to work I've tried it on numerous files and It won't work I get "Error Getting MKV Info" This is becoming very frustrating. Now when I use Tmuxer alone I have no problem with any files..I'm running Vista 32. Can someone at least suggest a solution?
Jeff

[Stealth3si]

Same here Jeff. The program doesn't execute when I double-click on the "mkv2vob" shortcut, which actually refers to "loader.exe" file. Nothing happens and I'm suspecting this is a dormant (trojan) virus or some malignant form of spy/mal-ware. So instead I execute the "mkv2vob.exe" file and it works but I'm getting the same "Error Getting MKV Info" problem you're having whenever I load up an MKV file. :confused:

[JeffRosenthal]

Well I hope someone can tell us why the program won't work why we keep getting this error. Like I said TMuxer is no problem at all,but I really want to use this program..Thanks for validating my problem......Jeff

[zoran786]

I can not change my matroska file as newest version giving me error

" could not parse mkv file" please help?

orig file: ck-nt2-sample.mkv

[Audioboxer]

Hey 3r1c,

One of the members on Neowin has said he converted 3 MKVs and all audio channels are playing apart from voice???

Could you have a look in MKV2VOB and see if anything is causing this?

Need more details?

Thanks

[params7]

BESPLIT CRASHED



This is the error I get in all of my videos I try to convert in mkv2vob. Its even happening with videos it successfully converted before.

[pcm1ke]

3r1c,

Would it be possible to implement an ABORT button in the main program window that would kill all processes so that if I decide I want to NOT continue I can quit the process easily (right now you have to use Task Manager to kill all the individual processes).

Also, would it be possible to implement some way of notifying the users PRIOR TO starting the process that a particular MKV is going to need to be transcoded? At times if a movie needs to be transcoded I just assume not do so and move on to something else.

Aside from these two points, so far this application has worked wonderfully!

Thank you very much.

[john.doe]

Aside from these two points, so far this application has worked wonderfully!

Thank you very much.

I second these two request and the "thanks".

and an esteminated time that the transcode process need would be great as well.

And a question to all.

What is faster for transcoding?

Windows XP (32bit)
Windows Vista 32bit or 64bit?

And what performanceboost would I have if I sell my AMD x2 BE-2350 and buy a Quad Core either an AMD or an Intel Q9300/Q9450 ... take the transcode process advantage of the 4 cores and the L2 Memory?

[navycrow]

Hello,
I wanted to say i love this program. I can finally see my MKVs on my PS3. This prog is so cool !!
But i've an issue with two files. The last version resolves one files but i've always a problem with the other.
I've a MKV with these specs :
General #0
Complete name : E:\Next.2007.1080p.HDDVD.x264.VO-VF.mkv
Format : Matroska
File size : 8.37 GiB
PlayTime : 1h 36mn
Bit rate : 12.5 Mbps
Encoded date : UTC 2008-04-03 19:14:08
Writing application : mkvmerge v2.0.2 ('You're My Flame') built on Feb 21 2007 23:40:55
Writing library : libebml v0.7.7 + libmatroska v0.8.1

Video #0
Codec : AVC
Codec/Family : AVC
Codec/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Codec profile : High@L5.1
Codec settings, CABAC : Yes
Codec_Settings_RefFrames : 8
PlayTime : 1h 36mn
Bit rate : 10.7 Mbps
Width : 1920 pixels
Height : 800 pixels
Display Aspect ratio : 2.400
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Chroma : 4:2:0
Interlacement : Progressive
Title : Next (2007)
Language : English

Audio #0
Codec : AC3
PlayTime : 1h 36mn
Bit rate mode : CBR
Bit rate : 640 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Rear: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Title : AC3 5.1 640 Kb/s
Language : English

Audio #1
Codec : AC3
PlayTime : 1h 36mn
Bit rate mode : CBR
Bit rate : 640 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Rear: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Language : French

Text #0
Codec : SSA
Codec/Info : Sub Station Alpha
Language : English

Text #1
Codec : SSA
Codec/Info : Sub Station Alpha
Language : French

When i use MKV2VOB. It transcodes the video into MPEG2 and tell me the conversion was successfull. But when i play it on the PS3, it doesn't work. I've a black screen, it seems to recognize the AC3 stream but not the MPEG2 stream. But nothing is played. I've also tested to transcode into x264 but the problem is the same. On my PC the VOB plays correctly.:confused:

[MrSTI]

When i use MKV2VOB. It transcodes the video into MPEG2 and tell me the conversion was successfull. But when i play it on the PS3, it doesn't work. I've a black screen, it seems to recognize the AC3 stream but not the MPEG2 stream. But nothing is played. I've also tested to transcode into x264 but the problem is the same. On my PC the VOB plays correctly.:confused:


The first thing i can sugest on trying here is to remove part of the movie. Say the end credits or maybe the Title sequence at the beginning.

I have had a similar problem with 720p, 1080p, DTS and non-DTS tracks and for some rason when i chop a few seconds off or in the case of Equilibrium (search the thread) we had to chop the first 31secs (title stuff) and it all worked ok.

As to why you need to do this i', not sure and maybe one of the other guys could answer that.

Cheers

[MrSTI]

Video #0
Codec : AVC
Codec/Family : AVC
Codec/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Codec profile : High@L5.1
Codec settings, CABAC : Yes
Codec_Settings_RefFrames : 8
PlayTime : 1h 36mn
Bit rate : 10.7 Mbps
Width : 1920 pixels
Height : 800 pixels
Display Aspect ratio : 2.400
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Chroma : 4:2:0
Interlacement : Progressive
Title : Next (2007)
Language : English


The highlighted part is something i have noticed in common on a couple of things that havnt worked also. I think (pretty sure) read something along the lines that the PS3 is L4.1 Compatible. Again i cant say exactly what this means though. Just a common occurence between similar problems.

[jdryyz]

Curious. The mkv files I generate using Handbrake are done so by selecting the 5.1 track from my DVD source and then have it "passthrough". The result is a high-quality 5.1 audio mkv file with the video compression only slightly increased. The files are playable using VLC and possibly other media players but mkv2vob is needed for PS3 compatibility. No transcoding is required.

4.1 refers to the AVC / h.264 level - ie the version/settings of the video codec that is PS3 compatible. That is what detirmines whether mkv2vob will need to transcode the video - level 4.1@high is the highest the PS3 can do. A lot of mkvs on the intertubes are 5.1, which is were mkv2vob has to do the very time consuming transcoding.

[untouchablestyl]

3r1c thanks so much for the program!
I was wondering if there have been any developments with the installations problems? I have read all 103 pages just to find an answer and did not find any thing other than redownload and install. I have two computers and one seems to install it fine while the other gives me problems( they both run xp however one has service pack 2 and the other has service pack 3( this is one I am having the problem with)). I also read what you said about bootleg versions of windows. Also other programs seems to work ie mkvextract, h264info, tsmuxer and of course I haven't had any problems installing anything else. If you have any ideas they would be greatly appreciated btw the error that i am getting when I try to install is this is not a valid win 32 application, I think it might just be a installation conflict with service pack 3. Can anyone verify that they are using xp pro w/ service pack 3 and mkv2vob?

[3r1c]

Same here Jeff. The program doesn't execute when I double-click on the "mkv2vob" shortcut, which actually refers to "loader.exe" file. Nothing happens and I'm suspecting this is a dormant (trojan) virus or some malignant form of spy/mal-ware. So instead I execute the "mkv2vob.exe" file and it works but I'm getting the same "Error Getting MKV Info" problem you're having whenever I load up an MKV file. :confused:

Both of these problems suggest your computer is not allowing one process to execute another.

here is what happens.

loader.exe starts, it immediately runs mkv2vob.exe and continues in the background to check for updates.
mkv2vob.exe runs other tools such as mkvinfo.exe which you are getting errors.

something is preventing these program executions from working, possibly some kind of antivirus.

can you try download this
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=C717D943-7E4B-4622-86EB-95A22B832CAA&displaylang=en

it should be in included in windows xp, but its the only thing i can think of.

[pcm1ke]

3r1c,

For some reason mkv2vob wanted to transcode a 1080p video stream that didn't need to be transcoded, any idea why that may occur? I confirmed that it did not need to be transcoded by simply demuxing, DTS -> AC3, then remuxing the video, AC3, plus subtitles with tsmuxer and the video shows up just fine on my PS3.

Just curious... how do you determine whether or not a video needs to be reencoded? (fyi: it was already 4.1)

[MrSTI]

I've had a couple mor hurdles this afternoon myself. They include Man On Fire 720P DTS and The Incredibles 720P.

The problem with these is a little strange. Shows up on the PS3, plays fine on the PS3 yet only is about 1-2mins long and the file size reported by the PS3 supports that also.

I tried cutting 10sec of the beginning of Man On Fire and re ran it through mkv2vob and the result was strange. I now get 32mins of playback (again the file size reported via PS3 supports this length of time) yet on the PC all size's etc are fine.

I am going to try the earlier fix we had with Equilibrium by stripping the DTS etc. and see if that fixes it.

Cheers

[cingo]

First of all sorry for my bad english but i will try to explain what problem i have.

If i mux with mkvtool the mkv file and ac3 sound with a audio delay, the muxed mkv file is out of synch. On the Pc it is not out of synch but on the PS3 it is out of synch. Can someone tell me what i have to do or what i make wrong.

Can Mkv2Vob or PS3 handle Audio delay?

[Fric]

Thanks a lot for this happy aplications :)


I'm trying to convert a movie that doent's have a 16:9 resolution ratio but when played on a pc using media player it strech to a 16:9 aspect ratio.

When i convert using mkv2vob and play it on PS3 the actors are thinner ant taller...

How can i solve this problem?


Thanks in advance :D

[serum1911]

this is something wrong with your computer not the installer.
specifically some warez versions of windows xp are missing some files, this is because you downloaded a bad release. you need full cd and reinstall.


erm, i stated before i hava vista ultimate. and its a dell with a preinstalled vista - well nvm, but please dont accuse me without any reason of using pirated software, especially in your situation where you are distributing software without having the permission of the original authors....

...im out

[Stealth3si]

Both of these problems suggest your computer is not allowing one process to execute another.

here is what happens.

loader.exe starts, it immediately runs mkv2vob.exe and continues in the background to check for updates.
mkv2vob.exe runs other tools such as mkvinfo.exe which you are getting errors.

something is preventing these program executions from working, possibly some kind of antivirus.

can you try download this
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=C717D943-7E4B-4622-86EB-95A22B832CAA&displaylang=en

it should be in included in windows xp, but its the only thing i can think of.
Thanks! It works now. You wouldn't happen to know how to burn the .vob file onto a dvd-r for PS3 compatibility now would ya? So for instance, I use Nero Lite for my burning needs so should I burn it in DVD-ROM (UDF) mode 2.5 physical partition?

Well I hope someone can tell us why the program won't work why we keep getting this error. Like I said TMuxer is no problem at all,but I really want to use this program..Thanks for validating my problem......Jeff
Try 3r1c's advice on installing the MS Windows Script 5.6. :) It worked for me so it should work for you too! :helpful:

[nunyabuizness]

Thanks! It works now. You wouldn't happen to know how to burn the .vob file onto a dvd-r for PS3 compatibility now would ya? So for instance, I use Nero Lite for my burning needs so should I burn it in DVD-ROM (UDF) mode 2.5 physical partition?:

I just burn my vobs to dvd's with the normal settings. udf 2.5 isnt necessary unless you are burning an avchd dvd (which in this case, we are just burning as data) so you should be able to just stick with the default settings

[Stealth3si]

I just burn my vobs to dvd's with the normal settings. udf 2.5 isnt necessary unless you are burning an avchd dvd (which in this case, we are just burning as data) so you should be able to just stick with the default settings

I see. :thanks:

[MrSTI]

There is certain movies in DTS that will just not work in MKV2VOB. This has been like this for quite a few builds - It's not 3r1cs fault but the applications he uses to convert DTS to AC3.

For the problematic movies, you'll need to convert to AC3 yourself, then run your newly muxed MKV file through MKV2VOB - You may need to select "never transcode" on this new MKV you created as sometimes MKV2VOB goes to transcode when it isn't needed,

from one of my older posts,

I've manually converted the DTS audio to AC3 by doing the following,

1) MKVextract used to separate .DTS and Video (I used MKVextract GUI)
2) Tranzcode 0.4 to separate DTS to 6 WAV mono channels (I used TranzGUI)
3) WAV to AC3 Encoder 1.1 to create 6 Channel AC3 (use MuxWizard under file to insert WAVS & then make sure you set the bitrate to 640 on the slider, then hit encode)
4) MKVmerge to create new MKV file of original video plus newly created AC3 track


Files you need - http://www.mediafire.com/?29dclihdiyg

To elaborate on the points, use mkvextractgui.exe to extract the DTS audio from your mkv.

You'll have a .dts file now.

Load tranzcode 0.4, open the dts file, set to 6 channel mono, then extract. You'll have 6 WAV files now.

Open Wav to AC3 encoder and use muxwizard. After encoding you'll have a .AC3 file.

Open MKVmergeGUI, load the original MKV, uncheck the DTS audio, drag/open the AC3 file in MKVmerge, and check the AC3 audio. Then click mux.

You'll now have a new MKV file, with AC3 audio.

Run it through MKV2VOB and it will work!

Pretty easy to do, doesn't take long once you get it right.

By the way, download mkvtoolnix and install it from here - http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/ - Above rar is missing MKVmergeGUI.exe I think

I wanted to post the above (or LINK HERE (http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1119636&postcount=1661))again in case people couldn't find it or forgot about it. Following the above, i was able to fix my problem with Man On Fire 720P DTS (Oh BTW there was also a secondary 2ch Vorbis file that i had to delete to get it work in mkv2vob also). Which worked perfectly and no need to chop any of the movie off like some of the movies.

I still had a problem with The.Incredibles.2004.720p.HDTV and not sure why. Tried chopping credits etc. and all i would get was anywhere between 2-30mins worth of playback. Then retried with the original file (untouched) and converted with mkv2vob to "m2ts" format and voila all good. Perfect playback, length etc.. Below are the video stats for it,

Codec : AVC
Codec/Family : AVC
Codec/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Codec profile : High@L5.1
Codec settings, CABAC : Yes
PlayTime : 1h 55mn
Bit rate : 3759 Kbps
Width : 1280 pixels
Height : 528 pixels
Display Aspect ratio : 2.424
Frame rate : 11.988 fps
Chroma : 4:2:0
Interlacement : Progressive
Language : English

Not sure if anything there helps, though the FR seems strange, playback in MPC shows the normal 23.9. The above stats is what shows in MediaInfo.

Sorry for the long post, though hopefully this might help others out and or help 3r1c fix any possible problems.

[gsx95]

Hi, I have used this program a number of times successfully, until it upgraded itself to the latest version. Now I get an "error repairing ac3" message when trying to join .ts files. I could not find this message when I searched this thread. Any ideas on what I could do? Thanks in advance...

[mmace]

for the last 2 weeks the scene released Smallville 720p MKV episodes have got "Muxing failed" errors (so I've had to watch the SD versions :( )
never had this problem before and I don't have the problem with all the other US TV shows I download. I've tried forcing it to transcode each time too (mpg, MPEG2) but all I get is audio and a black picture.
Any ideas?

this weeks version was S07E18

I'm always using the latest version btw

[MrSTI]

for the last 2 weeks the scene released Smallville 720p MKV episodes have got "Muxing failed" errors (so I've had to watch the SD versions :( )
never had this problem before and I don't have the problem with all the other US TV shows I download. I've tried forcing it to transcode each time too (mpg, MPEG2) but all I get is audio and a black picture.
Any ideas?

this weeks version was: Smallville.S07E18.720p.HDTV.x264-CTU

I'm always using the latest version btw

That is quite weird as i grabbed to the same one "smallville.s07e18.720p.hdtv.x264-ctu.mkv" ad ot worked perfectly. Although the week before, so EP17 didnt work at first. Then i choppd the first 3 seconds of it and re-ran it through mkv2vob and all was good again.

Runnig Vista Ultimate 32Bit. I'll get the rest of the specs tomorrow.

Cheers

Ps I'm not sure if our comments are allowed due to the content ie. ownlaoding etc..

[untouchablestyl]

I have a question that might be off topic I have hulk hd 720P:

Complete name : C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\Desktop\Movies\HD Rips\Hulk.720p.5.1.wmv
Format : Windows Media
File size : 7.84 GiB
PlayTime : 2h 18mn
Bit rate mode : VBR
Bit rate : 8123 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 15.0 Mbps
Encoded date : UTC 2007-05-14 22:14:54.203

Video #0
Codec : VC-1
Codec/Family : VC-1
Codec/Info : Microsoft
Codec description : Windows Media Video 9 Advanced Profile -
PlayTime : 2h 18mn
Bit rate mode : VBR
Bit rate : 7361 Kbps
Width : 1280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display Aspect ratio : 16/9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Resolution : 24 bits
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.333
Language : en-us
DeviceConformanceTemplate : AP@L3

Audio #0
Codec : WMA3
Codec/Info : Windows Media Audio 3
Codec description : Windows Media Audio 10 Professional - 768 kbps, 48 kHz, 5.1 channel 24 bit 2-pass VBR
PlayTime : 2h 18mn
Bit rate mode : VBR
Bit rate : 717 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Language : en-us
DeviceConformanceTemplate : M3


Does anyone know how to get the audio to play? as I know the ps3 doesnt support WMA3

[pcm1ke]

Had another quirky issue yesterday in which converting a file with ENG audio and ENG subs resulted in the subs being hardcoded (mpg output). Not sure why the subs were encoded if the audio and subs were both ENG (I didn't choose to encode subs no matter what). Any ideas?

[prophetizer]

so this app is really great. i don't know if this is related to this app or not, but i recently moved my ps3 to another room, and it's now wireless. so i've tried copying the remuxed files to an SD card, but the ps3 can't see it. has no problems with other video files, just remuxed mkv. does anyone know why that may be?

[mmace]

That is quite weird as i grabbed to the same one "smallville.s07e18.720p.hdtv.x264-ctu.mkv" ad ot worked perfectly. Although the week before, so EP17 didnt work at first. Then i choppd the first 3 seconds of it and re-ran it through mkv2vob and all was good again.

Runnig Vista Ultimate 32Bit. I'll get the rest of the specs tomorrow.

Cheers

Ps I'm not sure if our comments are allowed due to the content ie. ownlaoding etc..cheers, what did you use to chop it down by 3 secs?
I'm on Vista Ultimate 32bit too. Never had this problem before or with anything else

if the channels here showed them in HD and within a week of them airing in the states then there's be no need for downloading! (like Sky One HD here in the UK do with Lost & Prison Break)

[codyunderblood]

hey, im relatively new at this stuff, and i read through about 30 pages (this thread is huge) and cant really find an answer, so i have a few questions..

i've been downloading mkv's that are about 4.4 gigs or so, that i've been wanting to put on my ps3..since they are too big to fit on the external, i've first used mkvmerge to split the files, and then mkv2vob to convert it to mpg

when i convert to mpg, the first parts of the spliced file do not go through any transcoding, however, the 2nd and or 3rd do..

when they are transferred to the ps3, the first file that was not transcoded in mkv2vob shows up on the ps3 as an "AVC" file, and looks fantastic, however, parts 2 and 3 show up as "MPEG2" files, and the quality looks diminished

my question: is this normal? is there a better way to do this, or to get around it? should i not be converting to mpg?

also, when i try to make it into a vob, the file is always a little too big to fit on a dvdr-5, is this common, or do they usually fit?

thanks

[3r1c]

do not split with mkvmerge, mkvmerge does not properly duplicate the headers from the first file into the other segments.
use the split function in mkv2vob.

[nunyabuizness]

@codyunderblood

if you do not mind not watching the credits, either fine the timecode and cut them off using mkvmerge or use mkv2vob to split it (i havent tried the second, i just use dvd9)

if you dont mind stopping the movie in the middle, use mkvmerge to split it, then set transcoding to auto for the first half. if it doesnt need transcoding, then set transcoding to "never" just for the second half.

[um3k]

So, uh, I'm just wondering here; is this thread invisible to mods or something?

[Quatre]

no just some ppl are stupid and give the full file name when they should not but your post should be deleted also for adding nothing but trying to take away from the thread. what is your purpose and goal? to blow the whistle on the few ppl that absent mindidly gave a full file name probably mostly for the reason to make it easier for others to help them or solve the problem.

So hopefully you will get lost then if you aren't supporting the program and thread and just trying to cause trouble and i'll keep my post useful (even though I dont even use this program that much anymore) by reminding others to list the actual file name so that we dont get trolls like you anymore.

[f13dfx]

3r1c:

Great program! First time user. I ran the split function to allow me to fit one of my mkv movies on 4 dvd's converting to the .m2ts extension.

I removed the "s" so the extensions are now .m2t but for some reason when I burn the files on DVD-R's using UDF File protocol (at 16x burning speed), they do not play properly. Some play for about 5 minutes then basically freeze. :(

I'm probably doing something wrong or not doing something when I burn these files or convert them.

Can someone give me some advice.

Thanks in advance!

[MrSTI]

cheers, what did you use to chop it down by 3 secs?
I'm on Vista Ultimate 32bit too. Never had this problem before or with anything else

if the channels here showed them in HD and within a week of them airing in the states then there's be no need for downloading! (like Sky One HD here in the UK do with Lost & Prison Break)

I'm in the same boat as you, regarding the airing of episodes, if not even worse here in Aus.

As for splitting grab MKVtoolnix (http://www.videohelp.com/tools/MKVtoolnix) which also has a few other things that help with the DTS problems that have been mentioned. I only need to chop 3 seconds (beginning, just a night club seq' that doesn't matter)off EP17. As i mentioned though EP18 was more than fine for me. Why it didn't work for you i don't know. Problem is i don't have the original on the PC now as i have already converted it, so we cant compare to see if there is any difference.

If you have any other problems just let us know.

Also to above comments, my bad of posting the file name, it still could've been understood with out doing that.

Cheers

[daxie]

Hi, I have used this program a number of times successfully, until it upgraded itself to the latest version. Now I get an "error repairing ac3" message when trying to join .ts files. I could not find this message when I searched this thread. Any ideas on what I could do? Thanks in advance...

I have the same issue...

[params7]

BESPLIT CRASHED



This is the error I get in all of my videos I try to convert in mkv2vob. Its even happening with videos it successfully converted before.


Does anybody have a solution to this problem? i tried reinstalling mkv2vob but it still has this error.

[zzebulonn]

2.3.3 is not working for me i've reverted to previous version i have 2.3.1

They always say BeSplit crashed.

[params7]

thanks, i'll try the older versions.

[MrSTI]

I findit strange all these problems popping up for people. Since the upgarde i've had less problematic conversions ie. Ones that would go through the whole process then only to not work on the PS3 or they work and only play a few minutes of it.

I did the Auto update thing and all is finr. BTW zzebulonn it's on version 2.2.3. I can only think there must be some conflicts onpeoples PC's that might be causing this.

I have this, the MKVtoolnix suite, Nero 7.?.?.?, Mega Lite Codec Pack and VLC and some MP3 splitter program on a fresh Vista instal (besides some games) and thats it.

Hopefully we can work something out for you guys, as no doubt you'll agree it's probably one of the best solutions out there so far (Thanks 3r1c), except for the DTS issue every no and then.

Cheers

[3r1c]

v2.2.3 checks the return code after executing each conversion program.

i did test that it worked correctly on both vista and xp.

i think alot of problems some people are having with running the external programs (error parsing mkv, crashed etc..) are due to having custom settings for the windows command prompt.

mkv2vob runs all the tools through the windows cmd.exe in order to get the output, i have not yet found another way to do this.

[params7]

How do I turn off auto update on this program? On the latest 2.2.3 version I get the BESPLIT crahs error, on the older version 2.2.1 I don't, see the posts above.

So how do I stop it from auto-updating??

edit :
Oh 31rc, btw, you've made one hell of an app. This app saved me lots of money when I was just going out to buy a new SDTV + divx player when I found this, and decided to build an X264 collection for my existing HDTV connected to my ps3 instead. Keep up the good work man.

[ckamc]

its too bad DTS conversion to ac3 cant be done any easier.

the attempt by the author is pretty good but during some of these action movies you can tell how much of a nose dive the conversion does... its just not there like some of these videos provided that are ripped to ac3 instead of dts

i think thats my only issue, the dts... other than that I love this app for everything else.

[ancarloro]

"memcoder error"

Anyone whit that error, some movies in "transcode mode" :) , had that error, in my case " transformer´s" and " 27 Dresses". That could be for the realese ?
any help ?



3r1c - man you are a genius :) great program, thanks for your hard work.

[zzebulonn]

v2.2.3 checks the return code after executing each conversion program.

i did test that it worked correctly on both vista and xp.

i think alot of problems some people are having with running the external programs (error parsing mkv, crashed etc..) are due to having custom settings for the windows command prompt.

mkv2vob runs all the tools through the windows cmd.exe in order to get the output, i have not yet found another way to do this.

When they say BeSplit crashed my video is AC3 + H264 and is not transcoded / splitted. Is it normal that BeSplit is used in that case?
I can also add that my Windows install is a new fresh install of XP SP3 .

[johnmerrick]

does anybody know how to sync fix an mkv if the audio is slightly behind the video? i have done an audio delay before (mkvmerge gui format specific options) but not this way round.

thanks

[Settepotet]

Can somebody please explain me why the PS3 don't support DTS soundtracks in mkv files?

It fully supports it on BluRay/DVD, so I just wonder why it won't play it from other sources...

[nunyabuizness]

does anybody know how to sync fix an mkv if the audio is slightly behind the video? i have done an audio delay before (mkvmerge gui format specific options) but not this way round.

aight check it. first make sure your comp can play it (cuz the audio would lag slowly, more and more, on mine before i realized i was an idiot)
next, get media player classic
go to the play tab and go down to audio
under the audio switcher tab (it should go there by default) theres a box for audio time shifting
so jack around with it until you find the right value, then remux using that value in mkvmerge.

[tomek_fcb]

hello I have serious problem about mkv2vob soft when i transcode the movie with subtitles the splitting is crashed i dont know why second problem when i transcode movies with subtitles from mkv to vob file the movie is shorter than original mkv file for example Transformers length 2h 23min after transcoding is only 1h 13min somebody help me? greetings!

[MrSTI]

hello I have serious problem about mkv2vob soft when i transcode the movie with subtitles the splitting is crashed i dont know why second problem when i transcode movies with subtitles from mkv to vob file the movie is shorter than original mkv file for example Transformers length 2h 23min after transcoding is only 1h 13min somebody help me? greetings!

This is similar to what's happened to a few of us already. What i suggest to try is cutting a small amount of the Movie off, say 3-10 secs off the begnning or end credits. This has woked for me, when i have had the exact same problem as you.

Why this happens i dont think anyone knows as of yet, but like i said cutting a bit of the movie (i have always just cut a few sec's off the begining) it has worked "FOR ME" atleast.

Cheers

Ps HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME back on topic:)

[johnmerrick]

aight check it. first make sure your comp can play it (cuz the audio would lag slowly, more and more, on mine before i realized i was an idiot)
next, get media player classic
go to the play tab and go down to audio
under the audio switcher tab (it should go there by default) theres a box for audio time shifting
so jack around with it until you find the right value, then remux using that value in mkvmerge.

Thanks very much! i'll give it a go.

[3r1c]

Thanks very much! i'll give it a go.

wont work because mkv2vob doesnt support audio shifting.
you will need to re-encode the audio with the offset and mux it into a mkv with mkvmerge.

[KopfSick]

Love the software! Just have one question. When transcoding, does the choice of MPEG-2/XviD/x264 affect the resulting quality, resolution or just filesize? If it affects quality, is it noticable for the common eye?

[Sephiroth0000]

Just updated to the lastest MKV2VOB (great program by the way) and now whatever file I throw it just simple responds with Error:mencoder crashed....what gives?

[burnsdg]

Can somebody please explain me why the PS3 don't support DTS soundtracks in mkv files?
Simple, really. Because Sony hasn't made the PS3's firmware able to do that. And nobody has any idea if they ever will.

[burnsdg]

When transcoding, does the choice of MPEG-2/XviD/x264 affect the resulting quality, resolution or just filesize? If it affects quality, is it noticable for the common eye?
Well, only YOU can truly answer that! At the same bitrate or same file size, in "quality" terms you should get a "better" picture from x264, then xvid, then MPEG2. MPEG2 will be fastest to finish if transcoding is required and create a larger output file, so if YOU can tolerate the visual difference then go that way if time is important. If time isn't important, I'd stick with x264. I don't think 3r1c has ever told us officially what bitrates he uses when transcoding, or how he goes about determining what bitrate to use if it's variable. Nor are there options you the user can set to enable a higher bitrate. But even knowing that wouldn't matter really (other than for us techno-junkies). In all honesty, YOU have to play with the settings and figure out what works best for YOU. What looks great to you on a 37" 720p LCD might not look good to someone else on a 52" 1080p Plasma, so nobody will ever be able to truly answer your question but you.

So much of the "quality" of the transcoding result is dependent on the bitrate of the source file. If it's a 1.5Mbps mkv, the results (and file sizes) would be drastically different if you MPEG-2 transcoded at 1.5Mbps versus 15Mbps (or some number in between). There is of course a point of diminishing returns where a higher output bitrate won't give any noticeable improvement for a given input bitrate, but that point is subject to much conjecture and there is NO 100% true answer. Since ALL are "lossy" compression schemes, ANY transcode will have lower perceived "quality" than the source. The ideal situation is for the PS3 firmware to support MKV container playback natively AND support the various compression formats (for which PS3 has codecs) that can be stored in an MKV container. But who knows if Sony will ever give us that???

[Sephiroth0000]

31rc (or anyone with revelant knowledge),

I have been using MKV2VOB pretty much problem free but for some reason now regardless of what mkv I put into MKV2VOB I get an error after it saids it needs transcoding... Error:Mencoder crashed. I have attempted uninstalling, reinstalling, using another computer and checking all my codec settings (K-Lite Codec Pack full 3.8) but can't see what is causing this? Can anyone at all shed any light on this?

[SpeedracerX]

Thanks for a great program!

I recently had a problem converting mkv, it appears that during a conversion process it errors out with the message "BeSplit Crashed", I think on phase 2. When converting from AAC to AC3. Is there any workaround? I checked BeSweet and the version is current and the beta doesn't seem to make any difference.

TIA

[zzebulonn]

the only workaround i found is to use the previous version and to rename the exe to avoid auto update each time you launch.

[bigtony04]

hey guys. I keep getting this BeSplit Crash thing after the files tries to get encoded. The program will work but just before it finishes doing its job, it shows me this BeSplit Crash therefore, the file would can not be completed. In fact, i can't even see the output file. I currently have K-lite codec pack installed, and here are my computer specs.

Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3 (2600.xpsp.080413-2111) (final version)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
System Model: HP Pavilion dv9500 Notebook PC
BIOS: Ver 1.00PARTTBL
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5250 @ 1.50GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory: 2038MB RAM

Maybe I should try to see if the program works if I remove k-lite codec pack.

edit: I even removed k-lite codec pack from my system, yet I am still getting the same problem as before. Can someone please point me in the right direction on how to use this application properly?

[zzebulonn]

hey guys. I keep getting this BeSplit Crash thing after the files tries to get encoded. The program will work but just before it finishes doing its job, it shows me this BeSplit Crash therefore, the file would can not be completed. In fact, i can't even see the output file. I currently have K-lite codec pack installed, and here are my computer specs.



Maybe I should try to see if the program works if I remove k-lite codec pack.

edit: I even removed k-lite codec pack from my system, yet I am still getting the same problem as before. Can someone please point me in the right direction on how to use this application properly?

i've the same problem with 2.2.3, with previous version all is working perfectly.

[bigtony04]

i've the same problem with 2.2.3, with previous version all is working perfectly.

if its like that, then can someone upload the old version to rapidshare, zshare, sendspace, etc? Any uploading site will do.

[MrSTI]

if its like that, then can someone upload the old version to rapidshare, zshare, sendspace, etc? Any uploading site will do.

Just goto Videohelp.com (http://www.videohelp.com/tools/mkv2vob) (linked straight to mkv2vob) and you get all the previous versions there.

It's strange that all these people are having problems with the latest version. I've done atleast 10 conversions so far and no problems at all, if anything less problems for me have occured. Although i think none of them have had to have been transcoded, so i will give a movie i know that needs transcoding and see if i get the same problem and will get back to you guys soon.

Cheers

Edit - Doing a test now on a movie that needs transcoding with a couple of pics that i'll add with task mng, to show what is being used.

[MrSTI]

Well i have just done a 1080P 6.6gig movie that needed Transcoding ans all is perfect. Plays back on the PS3 fine and more importantly no errors in mkv2vob. I'm using Vista Ultimate 32bit. I took some images of the process with mkv2vob and task manager to show what is happening.

Whether if any of the below helps i don't know. But hopefully by sharing some things we might be able to get to the bottom of things.

Start of the process - With the pics i blocked what i was Transcoding for certain reasons:devil:
http://forum.doom9.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=8401&stc=1&d=1210568798

Middle of the process
http://forum.doom9.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=8399&stc=1&d=1210568808

End Of Process
http://forum.doom9.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=8400&stc=1&d=1210568808

Also below are all the stats of the particular file i Transcoded.

General #0
Complete name
Format : Matroska
File size : 6.52 GiB
PlayTime : 1h 21mn
Bit rate : 11.4 Mbps
Movie name :
Encoded date : UTC 2007-03-06 21:14:05
Writing application : mkvmerge v2.0.2 ('You're My Flame') built on Feb 21 2007 23:40:55
Writing library : libebml v0.7.7 + libmatroska v0.8.1
Cover : Yes / Yes / Yes

Video #0
Codec : AVC
Codec/Family : AVC
Codec/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Codec profile : High@L5.1
Codec settings, CABAC : Yes
PlayTime : 1h 21mn
Bit rate : 10.3 Mbps
Nominal bit rate : 10.8 Mbps
Width : 1920 pixels
Height : 1040 pixels
Display Aspect ratio : 16/9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Chroma : 4:2:0
Interlacement : Progressive
Title :
Writing library : x264 - core 54 svn-627
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=6 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=7 / brdo=1 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=24 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=2 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=0 / threads=2 / nr=0 / decimate=0 / mbaff=0 / bframes=4 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / wpredb=1 / bime=1 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40(pre) / rc=2pass / bitrate=10800 / ratetol=1.0 / rceq='blurCplx^(1-qComp)' / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30
Language : English

Audio #0
Codec : AC3
PlayTime : 1h 21mn
Bit rate mode : CBR
Bit rate : 640 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Rear: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Title : AC3 5.1 640 kbps
Language : English

[nunyabuizness]

General #0
Complete name
Format : Matroska
File size : 6.52 GiB
PlayTime : 1h 21mn
Bit rate : 11.4 Mbps
Movie name :
Encoded date : UTC 2007-03-06 21:14:05
Writing application : mkvmerge v2.0.2 ('You're My Flame') built on Feb 21 2007 23:40:55
Writing library : libebml v0.7.7 + libmatroska v0.8.1
Cover : Yes / Yes / Yes


how were you able to obtain a 6.52GB, 1080p rip at 11.4Mbps?
the most i see on 1080p rips are 8gb, 8mbps
just intrigued

[bigtony04]

Just goto Videohelp.com (http://www.videohelp.com/tools/mkv2vob) (linked straight to mkv2vob) and you get all the previous versions there.

It's strange that all these people are having problems with the latest version. I've done atleast 10 conversions so far and no problems at all, if anything less problems for me have occured. Although i think none of them have had to have been transcoded, so i will give a movie i know that needs transcoding and see if i get the same problem and will get back to you guys soon.

Cheers

Edit - Doing a test now on a movie that needs transcoding with a couple of pics that i'll add with task mng, to show what is being used.

thanks its now working. I using one of the old versions. So if anyone is getting a BESPLIT error, use one of the older versions! it will work!

Also, does anyone know how to disable auto update for this program?

[MrSTI]

how were you able to obtain a 6.52GB, 1080p rip at 11.4Mbps?
the most i see on 1080p rips are 8gb, 8mbps
just intrigued

I cant really say how it was done at that Mbps, but i suppose it comes down to the encoder doing the Encode and their skills, along with the programs they are using. If you want more info PM me.

thanks its now working. I using one of the old versions. So if anyone is getting a BESPLIT error, use one of the older versions! it will work!

Also, does anyone know how to disable auto update for this program?

Not a problem happy to help out. At the same time something must be happening with these other people that are having the same problem, when there are some of us using the updated version with no problem.

As for the Auto update, i think it was mentioned above, that you can change the name of the .exe file and that will do the trick. Havnt tried it myself though and i'm sure 3r1c could help more on this also.

Cheers

[pxr5]

I'm also using the updated version and have had no problems whatsoever. I've encoded 1080p files, that needed transcoding, to both mpeg and x264. This is in WinXP.

Very odd that so many people are having issues when others aren't

[RedSwirl]

Okay, first of all this program is a lifesaver for me. I wouldn't be able to get most of my HD anime on my PS3 without it (don't know why those guys use mkv anyway).

After getting the 2.2.3 update, a 720p 5GB movie that I couldn't convert before went through perfectly. But now I'm getting that same BeSplit Crash with other files.

The Files that did go through the crash went through a whole different process too. On the one that worked (but would say "muxing failed" before the 2.2.3 update) it just said "transcoding video" and then something like "muxing."

On this other file it goes through a whole other process where it does something in 3 parts, then something else to finally say "BeSplit Crashed."

Should I try another format like AVI?

This is all in Windows Vista by the way.

[Sephiroth0000]

I have downgraded to version 2.2.0 and went all the way right up to 2.2.3 and still errors....nothing about my setup has changed (Vista32, K-Lite Codec full 3.8, VLC Media player) I either get mencoder crashed or error transcoding....this is now beginning to become very irratiting. Is there an error log or aything in MKV2VOB we can look at to try and work out where its going wrong?

[DCFreak]

Hi everyone

First i want to say that mkv2vob is really a great tool for converting media files for usage on the ps3 :)

The reason i'm posting here is that i detected a bug in the creation of the avi container when transcoding to XviD. I transcode to XviD because i want to be able to use soft subs in 1080p media files and stream that to the ps3.

When such a file is streamed (or copied to the internal hdd), after about 44/45 minutes the AC3 DD5.1 is mixed to stereo and the ps3 also wrongly identifies the container as mp4.

Since a few days a new version of AVIAddXSubs is released (v7.1) that can handle the AVI-2.0 container format (previously only AVI-1.0 with 4GB filesize limit, and as such unusable for 1080p content). This new version rebuilds the container while muxing the subs in, and that makes the bug go away.

[kreegee]

is it possible to add an option to disable audio transcoding? i have a mkv with h264 and aac (5.1). if i remux it with mkv2vob (whatever target container), the sound gets transcoded to ac3, resulting in either drastic overdrive (with "boost ac3") or cracking (without "boost ac3").

when i create my own mp4 with MKVextractGUI und MP4Box, everything just works fine (without any transcoding) - but this is quite a detour...

ps: also had the beSplit crash before downgrading.

[ancarloro]

too many "memcoder error´s" in last movies , any help ? I transcode many movies with last version of mkv2vob, but now i can´t converte to vob many of realeses.

[stesmi]

Is there a way to figure out exactly WHY it decides to transcode video and/or audio?

I just ran mkv2vob on a file that had 384kbps AC3 5.1 sound and it wrote "Repairing AC3" and then reencoded my 5.1 sound to 2.0 which is not quite what I was after. I know the PS3 handles AC3 5.1 just fine (unless it's broken of course).

Original:
Audio #0
Codec : AC3
Bit rate mode : CBR
Bit rate : 384 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Rear: L R, Subwoofer
Sampling rate : 48 KHz
Language : English

After mkv2vob:
Audio #0
Codec : AC3
Bit rate mode : CBR
Bit rate : 384 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : L R
Sampling rate : 48 KHz

This is according to MediaInfo. Just noticed something though ... 384kbps AC3 2.0? Sounds .... high.. ?

[ancarloro]

Memcoder error in last versions , no solution ? in some movies work fine , but other´s.... :(

ANY HELP PLEASE !!!

[azyd]

I feel for all you people that have the memcoder error, but have any of you thought to include the name of the movie thats giving you problems........ maybe its not just memcoder, it might me the movie.

cuse telling us..... well 3r1c that you have a memcoder error with out telling him(us) what movie caused the error isnt very helpfull.

[Horo]

i also did a file that had DTS sound and it transcode it to 2 channel AC3 only...

[3r1c]

Is there a way to figure out exactly WHY it decides to transcode video and/or audio?

I just ran mkv2vob on a file that had 384kbps AC3 5.1 sound and it wrote "Repairing AC3" and then reencoded my 5.1 sound to 2.0 which is not quite what I was after. I know the PS3 handles AC3 5.1 just fine (unless it's broken of course).

Original:
Audio #0
Codec : AC3
Bit rate mode : CBR
Bit rate : 384 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Rear: L R, Subwoofer
Sampling rate : 48 KHz
Language : English

After mkv2vob:
Audio #0
Codec : AC3
Bit rate mode : CBR
Bit rate : 384 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : L R
Sampling rate : 48 KHz

This is according to MediaInfo. Just noticed something though ... 384kbps AC3 2.0? Sounds .... high.. ?

Your original file really had 2 channel audio with the other 4 being null channels, this was "repaired" showing the correct value of 2 channels.
The "Repairing AC3" step does not do any transcoding or compression, it just remux.

[stesmi]

Ah ok. Thanx for enlightening me. The file however does not play on my PS3. It plays in the preview miniwindow but when I try to play the file - nothing, which is weird. Just a black screen and pressing the button for more info shows it standing still at 0:00.

Preview miniwindow = after copying the title over the network it plays the first few seconds over and over on the dashboard.

Are you interested in any more info to try to track this down? If so, just let me know and I'll give you as much as I can. I'm running latest mkv2vob btw.

[3r1c]

I already have files that have this problem but I do not have a solution.

The AC3 streams seems to be corrupted somehow.
Even remuxing it still results in problems.

I do not know the cause of the problems, but most likely whoever created the mkv is using a buggy ac3 encoder.

Some files that go through the "Repairing AC3" step will work perfectly, but others will freeze with black screen and not play.
These problems started happening a while ago, for months nobody has this problem.
I suspect a bug in a recent update to an ac3 encoder, but as ac3 encoders do not put any identifying headers in the files i cannot track it down.

[stesmi]

Alright. So I guess my next step is to demux it and reencode it using another ac3 encoder. I'll try that in a bit and see if it helps. (And then remux of course)

[ancarloro]

That realeses dont convert to .vob , memcoder error :


National Treasure Book of Secrets PROPER 720p BluRay x264-
NGR

Into the Wild 720p HDDVD x264-Chakra

27 Dresses 720p BluRay x264-REFiNED

[Flomsen]

Hi

Thx for a nice apps :)

I have some problems with danish character in subtitles ÆØÅ don't shows normal.

Req to the new version:


Moving Subtitle position up and down



Thanks,
Flomsen

[Sephiroth0000]

Hmmm,

With regards to the mencoder crashed error it was with Batman Begins 1080P (VC-1 Codec) yet the big robot movie worked fine (MPEG4-AVC).....concindence? National Treasure: Book Of Secrets, 27 Dresses and Into The Wild......what codecs do they use? Im no genius with regards to codecs but could it possibly be presenting a problem? Or what about the MKVMerge you have to use to put the MKV video and AC3 audio together? Could that be causing this?

Oh and 31RC do you know exactly what is making mencoder crash at all? Is it something wrong with the MKV file itself?

EDIT: Oh and also I used a TruHD audio source for Batman Begins which I then converted to AC3?...could that of caused me the problem?

[japr99]

Request to new version:

it´s possible the opcion when transcoding fit video and audio into one or two dvd´s and output Blueray format for make bluerayDVD for PS3 ?, Thanks.

[3r1c]

Hmmm,

With regards to the mencoder crashed error it was with Batman Begins 1080P (VC-1 Codec)


are you sure the mkv is VC1 or the blu-ray source is?
mkv with VC1 is not supported.

[rotatorkuf]

hi there

i was having problems with "muxing failed"

apparently, the new version fixes this, through "repairing ac3"

i'm just curious, what exactly was the fix? why do some seemingly good ac3 audios need to be repaired?

[Sephiroth0000]

are you sure the mkv is VC1 or the blu-ray source is?
mkv with VC1 is not supported.

The original source is VC-1. All im doing is ripping the HD DVD/Blu-Ray and then running the EVO(s) through EAC3TO and getting a VIDEO ONLY mkv file, then I do the audio and mux them together via MKVMerge. Like I said I proclaim to be no genius in this respect but just thought it was weird how the big robot movie works (MPEG4-AVC) but the VC-1 file I have does not.

Oh and I also find when I load up the single files into MKVMerge it does have either VC-1 or MPEG4-AVC in the file name before muxing. It probably means nothing but hey if you don't ask you don't know.

EDIT: Also 3r1c is there anychance of putting an error log in the program so it can least show us where it is going wrong? Because the program itself when it works is superb and I am eager to use this program again.

[stesmi]

rotor: Look at my post above and his reply below it - it's not as if it was 50 pages back ..
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1137899#post1137899

[naj]

Just to let all you guys know, AVIAddXSub has been updated to v7.1:

AVI 2.0 support, files over 4GB and PS3
From version 7.1 AVIAddXSubs supports AVI 2.0 file generation. This means that it can handle avi files bigger than 4GB. AVI 2.0 is an extension to AVI 1.0, which had a limit of 4GB.
This feature is intended mostly for PS3 owners because PS3 can play videos of high resolution (up to 1080p) and so files can easily overcome 4GB. But while trying to implement the feature I found that the "market" generally is not ready for such big files especially when they contain XSUB streams. I saw a lot of problems in various applications (players and some avi analyzers) that cause me headache because originally I thought the problem was in my code. Even DivX Player (from www.divx.com) is not able to handle big AVI 2.0 files with XSUB subtitles correctly. It crashes on exit and it doesn't show them.
Because I don't own a PS3, I am not sure if PS3 can show XSUB subtitles in such files. So PS3 owners have to inform me about the current situation for avi files above 4GB: If subtitles for those files do not appear then, possibly, only one thing we can do: Wait for a new firmware version that does its job better. But if all goes well... then I will fix this paragraph and... celebrate.

UPDATE: One user told me that PS3 works fine with avi files above 4GB generated from AVIAddXSubs and displays the incorporated subtitles as expected. But I want confirmation from more users first to... open champagnes!

http://www.calcitapp.com/AVIAddXSubs.php

[Fenix]

Hi there,

I get an error extracting DTS to WAV always at 0,99 GB (1.067.524.140 bytes) files, and I don't why!
Anyone knows if there is a size limitation?

BTW I checked the time lenght of both two wave files and it's 1.32.40, then a crossed to the Video (MKV) lenght and they have the same 1.32.40! I don't know why we got an error extracting since both wav's seem to be okay. I think the error has something to do with muxing back to AC3.

Thanks in advance,

Regards,

[Rotor]

rotor: Look at my post above and his reply below it - it's not as if it was 50 pages back ..
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1137899#post1137899



If you're going to be sarcastic, please get the name of the person right! I think it was rotatorkuf you were referring to...

Rotor

:stupid:

[stesmi]

EDIT: Ignore. Nothing to see here. Move along.

[stesmi]

If you're going to be sarcastic, please get the name of the person right! I think it was rotatorkuf you were referring to...

Rotor

:stupid:

It was yes. I shortened his name (as so often so many do) and I am sorry that I did not know you (with your 6 total posts including this one) had that exact name. My bad. (and I also noticed I should have written rotat and not rotor as his name is rotatorkuf.

[ancarloro]

Another memcoder error :

Live Free Or Die Hard 2007 PROPER 720p BluRay x264-SiNNERS


P.S.- I tink is from the realese, i try 3 diferent versions of National Treasure Book of Secrets 2007 , only IAPULA do not the memcoder error , and work fine.

[_leech_]

Has the quality of MPEG2 transcoding dropped? I transcoded a roughly 12GB h.264 MKV into MPEG2 and the final size came up to... 12GB. Isn't it supposed to be much higher because MPEG2 needs more bitrate to reach the same level of quality?

[rotatorkuf]

If you're going to be sarcastic, please get the name of the person right! I think it was rotatorkuf you were referring to...

Rotor

:stupid:

lol yeah

sorry about that

i plead ignorance

[mmace]

any chance of forcing borders to make the videos 1920x1080 or 1280x720 so we can make blu-rays from the videos?
really love the software and would love this as an added feature!

[djhazardous]

How come the FAT32 (4GB) option makes the movie too big for a 4GB Memory Stick? Part 1 of my encoded video is 3.90GB whereas my memory stick only holds 3.81GB. :confused:

Anyway, great program and thanks for the continuous support!

[_leech_]

Alright, I can definitely confirm that there's something really wrong with the MPEG2 transcoding. Just did a transcode of a 7.94GB h.264 MKV (with AC3 audio, so no audio transcoding was done) and the final MPEG2 VOB came out to 6.94GB, a full gigabyte less. There's macro blocking everywhere.

[Chouonsoku]

3r1c: Is there anyway to make it so that mkv2vob will honor DAR tags already in place by some matroska files and apply them to the remuxed or transcoded files? I know that the mp4 container supports the tags, not sure about the others.

[ancarloro]

i will try explain with my bad english.
In the realese "Live Free Or Die Hard 2007 PROPER 720p BluRay x264-SiNNER", make the momcoder error if in the splitter file options we choose any option not the DVD5 Slipt, if we choose another split option that make the "memcoder error". Its strange . I will try with another movies.

[founditalso2]

I have been using mkv2vob succesfully several times. Very nice software indeed.

I do insert subtitles which means that the video is transcoded. I use the x264 option and most of the time I di add the .srt file as an additional file in the directory in which the mkv resides.

I have used Mediainfo to understand 'input' and 'output' and noticed that the fps for most of the files does not change.

For one video however is changed from 23.976 to 25.000 fps. Why would it do this? Which software is used to do the transcoding. How to set the fps?

I do not understand this. Anybody?

The only thing that I see is different with this one video is that I did not insert an .srt file because the subtitle I needed was in the mkv.

If needed I can post the complete Mediainfo stuff but maybe somebody knows what is going on?

[metoo999]

Question about the DTS to AC3 conversion: Does the bitrate stay the same or does it automatically lower it to standard AC3 bitrate?

[clotz2000]

Question about the DTS to AC3 conversion: Does the bitrate stay the same or does it automatically lower it to standard AC3 bitrate?

It lowers the bitrate from 1500kbps(DTS) to 640kbps(AC3)
When I show the info while the video is playing on my PS3 it goes up and down which indicates to me that it's Variable Bitrate but it's still set at 640kbps

[stesmi]

Question about the DTS to AC3 conversion: Does the bitrate stay the same or does it automatically lower it to standard AC3 bitrate?

Max allowable bitrate with normal AC3 (not EAC3) is 640kbps so that's what it encodes it at.

It lowers the bitrate from 1500kbps(DTS) to 640kbps(AC3)
When I show the info while the video is playing on my PS3 it goes up and down which indicates to me that it's Variable Bitrate but it's still set at 640kbps

I'm not so sure - I encoded an audio track myself and used CBR AC3 640kbps (and tried 192kbps 2.0 as well) and it was not steady on the PS3 - no big jumps, only small, but still.

[nunyabuizness]

Another memcoder error :

Live Free Or Die Hard 2007 PROPER 720p BluRay x264-SiNNERS


P.S.- I tink is from the realese, i try 3 diferent versions of National Treasure Book of Secrets 2007 , only IAPULA do not the memcoder error , and work fine.

BTW, you are not supposed to use the original names of the files which insinuate that you downloaded them

also, is that the 6GB release? because if it is, it doesnt need transcoding. I converted mine and watched it earlier today

[ithagen]

I also got error during installation on Vista (Installation ended prematurely because of an error), but I found a solution that worked for me. Start a Command Prompt (right click and run as Administrator) and type "regsvr32 VBScript.dll". Run mkv2vob setup again, and the problem should be solved.

[kaddaro]

Hi, I'm following this title for a while but this is my first message. I didn't have much trouble with muxing infact only one movie gave a muxing error but when it comes to transcoding I have only succeded in one file. I generally use transcoding for changing the file to Divx inorder to enable subtitles. Process starts and ends without any error but when it is completed there is no transcoded file, it just disappears. Has anyone experienced such a problem or am I the only one facing it everytime I try.

By the way I want to thank you 3r1c to let me use my ps3 for the main reason I bought it.

[ancarloro]

BTW, you are not supposed to use the original names of the files which insinuate that you downloaded them

also, is that the 6GB release? because if it is, it doesnt need transcoding. I converted mine and watched it earlier today

But i insert subtitles, and need to do the transcode. Of course i not use the name of realese, is too long, and i insert subs and put short names in the 2 files.

[Sephiroth0000]

Has anyone actually got to the bottom of this mencoder crashed error at all or not really? 31rc any suggestions on what we can do? Oh and also with regards to an error log being within the program??

[nunyabuizness]

i understand that the main problem that is being addressed is the crashing of mencoder, and i am lucky enough to not have that problem. that being said, has anyone transcoded a file using x264, burned the file to dvd, but the movie only plays to a certain time and resets?
for example, my Batman Begins 720p rip (8GB) transcoded overnight and after wasting 2 dual layer dvds to get it to burn, the file on the 3rd stopped playing after 1:07:21 and immediately restarted without skipping a beat. was anyone unlucky enough to suffer the same?

[MrSTI]

i understand that the main problem that is being addressed is the crashing of mencoder, and i am lucky enough to not have that problem. that being said, has anyone transcoded a file using x264, burned the file to dvd, but the movie only plays to a certain time and resets?
for example, my Batman Begins 720p rip (8GB) transcoded overnight and after wasting 2 dual layer dvds to get it to burn, the file on the 3rd stopped playing after 1:07:21 and immediately restarted without skipping a beat. was anyone unlucky enough to suffer the same?

This is the exact same thing that has happened to myself and a few others. I cant remember (Audioboxer perhaps, maybe) work out a possible solution to it. A few things that appear to make the movie/episode shorter (i have had 3mins out of 2hrs to similar to yourself).

Do a quick search in this thread for my posts (gotta get to work soon) and also Audioboxer. Some quick things that have worked have been to chop anywhere between 2sec-31sec(Equalibrium) (this takes a few steps, but hopefully you will find it in our posts) and then re do it through mkv2vob.

Cheers

PS Still a bummer for all you that keep getting crashes still. Mine has done everything i have thrown at it so far.

[CowTipper]

I am converting 1080i TS files and whenever i try to run it through MKV2VOB, i get an error saying "error repairing AC3" what does this mean? how do i fix it?

[stesmi]

That error is described one or two pages back. It's a 5.1 stream with only 2.0 channels containing audio data.

[CowTipper]

is there anyway of fixing that? I am assuming i would have to re encode the audio

[stesmi]

What I did when I got that error was extract the ac3 stream from the MKV and then reencoded it manually and not trusting mkv2vob with the job. I used besweet for the job. That way works. Mkv2vob has failed every time in getting a working file when I didn't.

So 1) Extract stream 2) BeSweet to reencode manually to 2.0 3) Put the MKV together again 4) MKV2VOB.

I guess you could replace 3) and 4) and just run tsmuxer by yourself, but I chose to do it that way becuause I need to change High@5.1 to High@4.1 and it's either 3) Put MKV back together 4) MKV2VOB OR 3) h264info to change 5.1 to 4.1 and 4) tsmuxer. MKV2VOB is way faster on my machine than h264info in changing 5.1 to 4.1 so it's faster but needs more diskspace to just slap the mkv back together and mkv2vob it.

[Sephiroth0000]

Hello everyone,

This may be abit off topic so bear with me. Having nothing but recent agro and @!"% with MKV2VOB I have downgraded to one of the original releases of MKV2VOB which offers no splitting or options leaving me with complete massive Vob file at the end of my transcode. I have been reading into the PS3 and its harddrive structure and found it to be apparent to a format called REISERFS (Linux format) Now I have scoured up and down the web looking for a program that allows me to convert a HDD to the REISFERFS format but with no success (no machine with linux on it im afraid).....Does anyone have a Linux PC that they could use to format a HDD (prefabely one over 4GB) to the REISERFS format and then see if the PS3 accepts it in the dashboard because if it does then by rights we can load up files bigger then 4GB and no longer have a file size restriction.

[superluck666]

this soft is perfect, just perfect, it only can get better, if you can add a option when you do the re-encoding, to set a maximun output size, that will be fantastic.

[ancarloro]

my problem whit "memcoder error" its solve, i split all the movies with dvd5 , works on any movies that had the "memcoder error" before, its strange.


PS. - Sorry my english :) but i think you undestand that i wrote.

[clotz2000]

Hello everyone,

This may be abit off topic so bear with me. Having nothing but recent agro and @!"% with MKV2VOB I have downgraded to one of the original releases of MKV2VOB which offers no splitting or options leaving me with complete massive Vob file at the end of my transcode. I have been reading into the PS3 and its harddrive structure and found it to be apparent to a format called REISERFS (Linux format) Now I have scoured up and down the web looking for a program that allows me to convert a HDD to the REISFERFS format but with no success (no machine with linux on it im afraid).....Does anyone have a Linux PC that they could use to format a HDD (prefabely one over 4GB) to the REISERFS format and then see if the PS3 accepts it in the dashboard because if it does then by rights we can load up files bigger then 4GB and no longer have a file size restriction.

You do realize that you can copy a large VOB file to the PS3 with tversity and it will play it just fine... I've copied a file as large as 13GB and it plays fine. I just keep all my HD vobs on an external connected to my PC, usually the transfer takes about 10-20mins depending on how big the vob is.

[Sephiroth0000]

You do realize that you can copy a large VOB file to the PS3 with tversity and it will play it just fine... I've copied a file as large as 13GB and it plays fine. I just keep all my HD vobs on an external connected to my PC, usually the transfer takes about 10-20mins depending on how big the vob is.


I have never used Tversity before.

[djhazardous]

How come the FAT32 (4GB) option makes the movie too big for a 4GB Memory Stick? Part 1 of my encoded video is 3.90GB whereas my memory stick only holds 3.81GB. :confused:

Anyway, great program and thanks for the continuous support!

Anyone?

[CowTipper]

What I did when I got that error was extract the ac3 stream from the MKV and then reencoded it manually and not trusting mkv2vob with the job. I used besweet for the job. That way works. Mkv2vob has failed every time in getting a working file when I didn't.

So 1) Extract stream 2) BeSweet to reencode manually to 2.0 3) Put the MKV together again 4) MKV2VOB.

I guess you could replace 3) and 4) and just run tsmuxer by yourself, but I chose to do it that way becuause I need to change High@5.1 to High@4.1 and it's either 3) Put MKV back together 4) MKV2VOB OR 3) h264info to change 5.1 to 4.1 and 4) tsmuxer. MKV2VOB is way faster on my machine than h264info in changing 5.1 to 4.1 so it's faster but needs more diskspace to just slap the mkv back together and mkv2vob it.

I did all that but is there anyway to keep it 5.1 sound, the ac3 i extract is 5.1 but when i put it back into the mkv with mkvmerge it changes to 2.0 sound

[rahzel]

Anyone?
probably because a "4GB" memory stick isn't actually 4GB, but 4,000,000 kb? correct me if i'm wrong. bottom line is, its not actually 4GB.

[rahzel]

so does the ps3 play 1080p videos put through mkv2vob now? i remember a while back it had issues, or was it just a size limitation? i tried putting a 1080p sample video, and it played on my ps3.
if there is a size limitation, what is it?

sorry... i'm sure this was answered somewhere in this thread, but its hard to find the answer since there are so many posts with the word "1080p" in it.

edit: i know 3r1c doesn't condone this, but i chose to never transcode btw. if i set it to automatic, it trancodes it. but again, i chose never and the 1080p file played fine on the ps3.

[stesmi]

Yes, I have found files where it transcodes stuff when it's not needed and I have found a few isolated cases where it didn't transcode and it WAS needed - but since I was going through lots of files I didn't keep track of which they were or I would have reported those cases.

[Sephiroth0000]

so does the ps3 play 1080p videos put through mkv2vob now? i remember a while back it had issues, or was it just a size limitation? i tried putting a 1080p sample video, and it played on my ps3.
if there is a size limitation, what is it?

sorry... i'm sure this was answered somewhere in this thread, but its hard to find the answer since there are so many posts with the word "1080p" in it.

edit: i know 3r1c doesn't condone this, but i chose to never transcode btw. if i set it to automatic, it trancodes it. but again, i chose never and the 1080p file played fine on the ps3.


I have always done 1080P via MKV2VOB. The problem I have is keeping the file as a single file and moving it over. But I am currently looking into not needing to split the files anymore. At the moment there are two options available

1st option is the ReiserFS format which I spoke of briefly above or the 2nd option is to make the file an MP4 using MKV2VOB and then moving the MP4 over via WMP11 (yes there is a MP4 registry patch for WMP11)

[stesmi]

TVersity does MP4 - just use that?

[djhazardous]

probably because a "4GB" memory stick isn't actually 4GB, but 4,000,000 kb? correct me if i'm wrong. bottom line is, its not actually 4GB.

Well if that is the case then what is the FAT 32 (4GB) option for?

I assumed that the FAT 32 (4GB) option meant flash memory as that is FAT 32 media?

[Sephiroth0000]

TVersity does MP4 - just use that?

I may actually...just been reading up on it. I think I have worked out how to avoid any errors with MKV2VOB (even the latest version) I have figured how to completely avoid transcoding with any file (and no not because I have turned transcode off its set to AUTOMATIC) Providing you use the H264 codec for the video and AC3 oblivously for the audio wrapped up in MKV. extension then MKV2VOB has no reason for transcoding and just starts muxing straight away (done 3 or 4 tests now and all work beautifuly)

At the moment I use EAC3T0 to demux the EVO's and get the video MKV but it oblivously is not doing it in H264....can anyone point me in the right direction? Also what is the best muxing program to use

(I was using Handbrake 0.92 for the MKV and was doing it with DVD rips but unfortunately it does not do EVO's)

[ancarloro]

:(
Some movies continue to do the "memcoder error" , and in split dvd5.
Any solution ?

[Sephiroth0000]

:(
Some movies continue to do the "memcoder error" , and in split dvd5.
Any solution ?

Help me to figure out how to use the H264 codec for video in the MKV container ad I can assure you you'll get the 'mencoder error' no more....Hell it won't even need to transcode :)

[stesmi]

Well if that is the case then what is the FAT 32 (4GB) option for?

I assumed that the FAT 32 (4GB) option meant flash memory as that is FAT 32 media?

FAT32 max filesize is 4GiB (2^32 bytes). If you have a USB drive/memory stick/cellphone/whatever that is FAT32 formatted you can stick files on it but the files can never be larger than 4GiB each. You can however split them in pieces so if you have an external USB drive with 320GiB of storage, formatted as FAT32 you can split your 12GiB movie into 3 parts. (that is of course an example ..).

[ancarloro]

Help me to figure out how to use the H264 codec for video in the MKV container ad I can assure you you'll get the 'mencoder error' no more....Hell it won't even need to transcode :)

i Think with subtitles the mkv2vob need to transcode always.
i transcode always to h264, i will try other options in transcode codec mode. My output file extension its also always .Vob, will try another´s.

[x400]

havent checked in in awhile, thanks for the continued updates makes things soo much easier :) the new interface is great too

[x400]

have you upped the DTS to 1.5mbps?? i remember the last time i was on you had it at 640kbps but 1.5 would be great appreciated ^^

[clotz2000]

have you upped the DTS to 1.5mbps?? i remember the last time i was on you had it at 640kbps but 1.5 would be great appreciated ^^

I believe AC3 is what you're talking about and it's very unstable any higher than 640 which is why it's set to default in mkv2vob. That's just what I've been told and found out on several forums. I don't think BeLight supports encoding higher than 640.

[djhazardous]

If you have a USB drive/memory stick/cellphone/whatever that is FAT32 formatted you can stick files on it but the files can never be larger than 4GiB each..

That's the problem you see, my memory stick is FAT32 formatted but it has a maximum size of 3.81GB, when my movie gets splitted the first part is always 3.90GB making it too large.

[stesmi]

Yes, because 4GiB is 2^32 bytes and 4GB (harddrives always has / usb drives do nowadays) is 4*10^9 bytes. Get another memory stick or use another media (usb harddrive) - I believe that option was added to stay within specs of FAT32 and not so that people with 4GB usb drives could use it otherwise "where's the 2GB / 8cm DVD-R / ED / whatever option?". I agree there should maybe be more options though than those that exist but without a generic option to specify size there'll always be someone that it doesn't work for.

[djhazardous]

I see, thanks stesmi.

Now that's been put to bed I request appreciatively to 3r1c that you could add more splitting options in the next version of MKV2VOB.

Many thanks.

[x400]

I believe AC3 is what you're talking about and it's very unstable any higher than 640 which is why it's set to default in mkv2vob. That's just what I've been told and found out on several forums. I don't think BeLight supports encoding higher than 640.

ah i see, thanks for the info :( hehe ah well still sounds good at 640 ^^

[stesmi]

AC3 simply isn't specced higher than 640kbps. For higher you use EAC3.

[anothadave]

Request to new version:

it´s possible the opcion when transcoding fit video and audio into one or two dvd´s and output Blueray format for make bluerayDVD for PS3 ?, Thanks.


an option like that would be very useful! mkv2vob spent several hours transcoding "bourne ultimatum" and the resulting file was 10gb. since it was transcoding it anyway im sure it could of done it to fit onto a dvd9.

some more detail on the errors would also be useful, transcoded "transporter" and after it done all the hard work it stopped and said "unable to mux - crashed"

[mbriody]

I've been using this for a while now with no problems but over the weekend I found two files that won't convert:

One is a movie with details as follows:

-----------------------
---Video Information---
-----------------------
container : mkv
codec : x264
bitrate : 6100 kbps
resolution : 720p (1280x720)
frames/sec : 23.976

-----------------------
---Audio Information---
-----------------------
codec : DTS 2.0
bitrate : 754 kbps
subtitles : None

There error I get is "Error extracting DTS to WAV!"

The second is a 720p TV episode with the following details:

Video Codec: H264
Res: 1280x720
Framerate: 23.975
Audio Codec: a52
Channels: 6
Samplerate: 48000 Hz

with this one I get "Could not parse mkv file!"

Is there anything I can do to diagnose these errors more or workaround them?

[The Belgain]

Looks like a nice app - I've currently got an Xbox 360 and annoyingly there's no way to play h264 files on it without either transcoding the video or transcoding the audio to stereo AAC.

What exactly does the PS3 support video-wise (both this thread and Google don't seem particularly enlightening). From this thread, it looks like it supports h264 and ac3 in a vob container? But not DTS audio in vob? Does DTS multichannel audio get transcoded to 5.1 ac3? Are other multichannel codecs supported (eg. FLAC 5.1)?

And in which cases does mkv2vob actually need to do any video transcoding? If it's just a case h264 files with level > 4.1, isn't it enough to just set the level flag to 4.1 in the stream and hope for the best?

[anothadave]

Looks like a nice app - I've currently got an Xbox 360 and annoyingly there's no way to play h264 files on it without either transcoding the video or transcoding the audio to stereo AAC.

What exactly does the PS3 support video-wise (both this thread and Google don't seem particularly enlightening). From this thread, it looks like it supports h264 and ac3 in a vob container? But not DTS audio in vob? Does DTS multichannel audio get transcoded to 5.1 ac3? Are other multichannel codecs supported (eg. FLAC 5.1)?

And in which cases does mkv2vob actually need to do any video transcoding? If it's just a case h264 files with level > 4.1, isn't it enough to just set the level flag to 4.1 in the stream and hope for the best?



basically thats what mkv2vob does...it sets it to 4.1 takes about 5mins on average to do an mkv. the ones that take longer are the ones with DTS audio, theyre converted to AC3 5.1 audio and take about 15mins for those. occasionaly mkv2vob will transcode the video if it detects something that the ps3 wont like. so far ive done about 20 mkvs and only 3 needed to be transcoded. all the rest where just extracted and set to level 4.1. very pleased with it so far. made life a lot easier!
a couple of tweaks would be nice, ability to select the bitrate for the AC3. sometimes the resulting file is slightly too big for a dvd5, so being able to have 448kbps audio can reduce the size just enough to squeeze onto a dvd5. also having an option for dvd5/dvd9 target size for transcoded video would be good too. Theres not really much to do with the video file if it cant fit onto a dvd

[SurroundBoy]

It would be great if the next update included an option to re-encode the AC3 Audio. It's necessary to do this, otherwise, the finished mkv2vob file won't fit on a 4.37gb DVD.

Every time I go through MKVExtract, BeSweet to re-encode the AC3 to a lower bitrate, MKVMerge to remux, the audio slowly, but surely, gets out of sync with the video. I set the proper frame rate when remuxing but it always manages to do no good for the sync issue.

[stesmi]

It would be great if the next update included an option to re-encode the AC3 Audio. It's necessary to do this, otherwise, the finished mkv2vob file won't fit on a 4.37gb DVD.

While I can see the point in the option that wasn't what the program was designed to do to begin with but could be a nice addition.

[DiRTDOG]

Is there a way to get earlier versions of mkv2vob? The latest one seems to produce more files that have the "speed up" effect. The previous version seems to produce more stable files for me. Thanks for the great app and any help.

[B4tm4n]

Is there a way to get earlier versions of mkv2vob? The latest one seems to produce more files that have the "speed up" effect. The previous version seems to produce more stable files for me. Thanks for the great app and any help.


http://www.videohelp.com/tools/mkv2vob?oldversions=1#download

[Glorioso]

3r1c, i still have the problem that i dont get the final file when i have a source with DTS and choose Xvid as codec.

Can u make a destination size?

[DiRTDOG]

Thanks a lot B4tm4m!!

[kreegee]

is it possible to add an option to disable audio transcoding? i have a mkv with h264 and aac (5.1). if i remux it with mkv2vob (whatever target container), the sound gets transcoded to ac3, resulting in either drastic overdrive (with "boost ac3") or cracking (without "boost ac3").

when i create my own mp4 with MKVextractGUI und MP4Box, everything just works fine (without any transcoding) - but this is quite a detour...

sorry to bump this, 3r1c, any chance to get this in the next version? i just had another aac file which took a lot of time to transcode just to end up with a messed ac3-stream. as said, the ps3 seems to play aac just fine.

btw, no chance to play dts on the ps3?

[3r1c]

sorry to bump this, 3r1c, any chance to get this in the next version? i just had another aac file which took a lot of time to transcode just to end up with a messed ac3-stream. as said, the ps3 seems to play aac just fine.

btw, no chance to play dts on the ps3?

it doesnt play aac just fine, if you are using optical audio cable the ps3 converts aac 5.1 to stereo.

[Clumpco]

Still using this fine piece of software, many thanks to 3r1c!
A couple of GUI feature requests that would make using it so much simpler...
Please could there be an option for the Browse Destination button to have default actions? For example 3 choices a) Browse from dekstop (as it is now); b) Browse from previous destination (as the Input browse button does) and c) Browse to input folder.

Please could the input file box accept drag and drop?
Maybe also the queue window could accept drag and drop too, in this case the default destination folder could be a choice of a user-defined default or the source folder.

Finally including a "watch folder" could be useful - this could allow finished torrents to be automatically remuxed.

Thanks again!

[veggav]

Hi,

I would like to know why the files get always bigger them the original one ?

I`m using video transcoding (automatic) and transcoding codec mpeg-2, and I have a lot of movie with like 8.4GB 1080p that fits on a dvd DL and them with mkv2vob it is not possible.
Why is that ?

[metoo999]

FYI: Someone made a certain NYC monster movie in 720p Blu-ray standalone compliant. They included a file called mkv2bluray that converts the file so that it can be burned and played on a PS3 or other Blu-ray player. I wish more movies were done this way.

[DJ_Phatic]

I am converting 1080i TS files and whenever i try to run it through MKV2VOB, i get an error saying "error repairing AC3" what does this mean? how do i fix it?

I am getting the same issue with a couple of mkv's.

If i open the mkv in question into Mediainfo it states it is AC3 2.0 channel audio, but when I play the actual file back within KMPlayer/Zoomplayer AC3Filter shows input from all channels.

After mkv2vob had finished with the mkv, if I open this into Mediainfo again it also states 2 channels AC3 but upon playback AC3Filter is showing input from all channels.

How do I fix the AC3 audio manually? I have found h264info to be faster changing 5.1 profile material to 4.1 than mkv2vob but I cannot but it all back together because of the AC3 problem.

[3r1c]

There is a bug in tsmuxer that causes it not to accept certain ac3 streams.
I reported it months ago but the author seems uninterested in fixing it.

I have done my best to try to work around it with the "repairing ac3" step, but there is not much more i can do.

[DJ_Phatic]

Ah well, even when I copied the repaired ac3 file from mkv2vob it still did not accept the stream. The main reason I wanted to try was to see if h264info had worked when I changed its profile because it was alot quicker than the transcoding which took place in mkv2vob.

Is there anyway to know prior to putting it into mkv2vob that it will require a full transcode?

[3r1c]

No other way will work if mkv2vob wants to transcode the file.
Transcoding is a last resort measure, if there was another way mkv2vob would be using it already.

Im trying to fix this ac3 problem now.
The problem is the ac3 files are at least partially corrupted.
Either they are 6ch with a header that says they are 2ch, or they are 2ch with a header that says 6ch.
I dont really know how to tell the difference.

Please explain what you mean by "shows input" do you mean it says 6ch on the screen, or there is actually audio coming out of all speakers?

[DJ_Phatic]

No other way will work if mkv2vob wants to transcode the file.
Transcoding is a last resort measure, if there was another way mkv2vob would be using it already.

What I meant was, is there any details from the encoding which would suggest transcoding is necessary or any h264 settings which should be used to avoid having to transcode. If there is a way to find out whether transcoding is necessary or not I can stay away from certain encoded settings.

Please explain what you mean by "shows input" do you mean it says 6ch on the screen, or there is actually audio coming out of all speakers?

What I mean is, opening the file in Mediainfo shows that the audio is a 2-channel AC3 but when the file is actually playing, within Zoomplayer for example, and I open the AC3filter dialog it shows there is sound on all channels on input and output.

[3r1c]

When encoding make sure to use level 4.1.
See here http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=972503

I see the mediainfo 2ch and player says 6ch.
The problem is i do not know yet which one is right.
There seems to be only 2 "usable" channels, any attempt i have made to extract all channels has failed, or gave me 6ch with 4 of them being complete silence.
My thinking so far is that these are 2ch files, where the broadcaster added fake channels for their decoding equipment which only supports 6ch.

I do not have surround sound in my pc only on ps3/tv and because i cant get the stream playable on ps3 i dont know what the problem is.

What im asking you is if you can check that sound is actually coming out of all your speakers when playing the original mkv file.

[DJ_Phatic]

Hi

I have a query to do with MKV2VOB (which I think is great and nearly solves all my problems!)

However I have been trying to watch some content which has english subtitles for non-english dialogue.

I have been unable to hardcode the subtitles for this content without hardcoding throughout the content. Would it be possible to allow a user to select which subtitle track to use rather than the language? When playing original MKV using VLC I can select the right subtitle track and I know which number it is, but when I use MKV2VOB I either have no subtitles, or I have them throughout. Examples of content which I have been trying to watch are Rendition (arabic parts) and 30 Days of Night (vampire speak?!) both of which have english subtitles for the non-english parts.

Thanks for any advice on how to sort this out!

Gus

Gus did you ever find out a way to do this?

[DJ_Phatic]

What im asking you is if you can check that sound is actually coming out of all your speakers when playing the original mkv file.

Unfortunately I only have a stereo setup on my PC at present. I can try and rip each channel from the AC3 file and see what happens.

[3r1c]

Gus did you ever find out a way to do this?

Just check "always encode subtitles" in the configuration tab and select English as preferred subtitle language.

[DJ_Phatic]

Just check "always encode subtitles" in the configuration tab and select English as preferred subtitle language.

But would this not encode ALL the english subtitle throughout the full-length of the movie instead of just the parts which require subtitle because it is in a foreign or weird language.

[3r1c]

It will encode whatever subtitles are in the subtitle track marked "english" in your mkv.
It will be the same as what you see when playing the mkv with english subtitles on.

[3r1c]

Unfortunately I only have a stereo setup on my PC at present. I can try and rip each channel from the AC3 file and see what happens.

Ive tried that, but mencoder/besweet all recognise it as only 2ch and only extract two channels.

[DJ_Phatic]

I will have to test it out with some files.

I have just tried to extract the channels from the file which is coming up as 2-channel AC3 in MediaInfo, I can only select the left and right channel, so it must be only be 2-channel even though AC3filter is detecting it as Stream format: AC3 3/2.1 (5.1) 48000Hz

A similar file which is detected as 6-channel AC3 in MediaInfo I am able to extract all channels but both rear channels are completely silent/blank, again AC3filter is detected it as Stream format: AC3 3/2.1 (5.1) 48000Hz.

So looks like it is some sort of fake AC3 5.1, though I am unable to try them on a true 5.1 system at present to see if sound would come out of the other speakers.

[3r1c]

Managed to get one of these ac3 files playing on my decoder, its says its 2ch.

[codyunderblood]

FYI: Someone made a certain NYC monster movie in 720p Blu-ray standalone compliant. They included a file called mkv2bluray that converts the file so that it can be burned and played on a PS3 or other Blu-ray player. I wish more movies were done this way.

it worked perfectly, but i dont think theres a way to get this to work by itself, with other files, is there?

[3r1c]

Not really, converting to m2ts adds 6% to the filesize, and then the movie wouldnt fit on a single disc.
also the dimensions must be exactly 1280x720 or 1920x1080, so cropped files wont work unless you reencode with black bars.

[azyd]

it worked perfectly, but i dont think theres a way to get this to work by itself, with other files, is there?

yes there is its called tsmuxer and its off topic.


back on topic..... has any one found a way to edit the video made by mkv2vob, im trying to trim the credits on a couple of movies that i dont have the mkv anymore.

[stesmi]

Worst case : Extract streams, edit streams seperately, make MKV, run MKV2VOB, voilá. Or Extract streams, make MKV, edit MKV, run MKV2VOB, voilá.

[azyd]

Worst case : Extract streams, edit streams seperately, make MKV, run MKV2VOB, voilá. Or Extract streams, make MKV, edit MKV, run MKV2VOB, voilá.

tried that with mkvmerge(doesnt recognize audio) and tsmuxer(wont let me demux gives some kind of error about the streams not being sincked)

[3r1c]

tsremux will extract the streams from the mkv2vob output files

[azyd]

tsremux will extract the streams from the mkv2vob output files

thank you you just made me feel like a retard cuse i knew that...... but for some reason i couldnt put 2 and 2 together and my brain kept telling me to use tsmuxer and not tsREmuxer.

[ancarloro]

:( , no one can tell me why some movies make the " memcoder error" ?

[stesmi]

Because there's a bug somewhere.

[gusf1]

Gus did you ever find out a way to do this?

Yes actually... it was a while ago now and I've wiped my machine so don't have it all installed yet to check... I think I remember how though.

I believe subtitles must be in SRT format. If you are lucky they may be already but otherwise you can do this by demuxing (tsMuxeR) and then Subtitle workshop to convert to SRT (I think mine were *.ass or *.ssa).

Then use mkvmerge to add the SRT and remove all other subtitles

Finally check "Always encode subtitles" and "Load subtitles from SRT" in MKV2VOB specifying the language. I _may_ have changed the description of the language somewhere to match the language I wanted (usually it's something like "English for non-English parts" - clearly that won't match the preferred subtitle language drop-down in MKV2VOB, unsure if the first subtitle track is chosen if there is no match?) Sorry I can't remember... best to try with a sample first if you can.

Hope that helps... there may be quicker ways of doing this but the above worked for me.

Thanks
gus

[splange]

Hi
Just found this great software just a couple of questions.
Should the ps3 recognise vobs or do i need to rename them to mpg which i have done and they work fine.
If vobs are recognised can they be called anything ie beemovie.vob or do they have to be in a certain name format ie vts.0.01.vob e.t.c.
I am currently streaming the movies from an HP media server which the ps3 finds but do the vobs need to have a seperate folder for each movie or can i just add movies to the video folder on the server?.
And lastly i got an error when trying to convert a mkv movie which had a DTS sountrack , something like cannot convert DTS to WAV.
Sorry for all the newbie questions but what i have tried so far looks amazing on a 50 inch pioneer.

[stesmi]

Just call them .mpg, stick them in the same dir or different dirs, doesn't make a difference.

[DWells55]

First off, bug report. If something happens and the program or system crashes while working with a file, the temp files are left in that user's temp directory. Then, if the user attempts to convert the same video, they will receive a "could not parse mkv error" until the temp files have been manually cleared out.

Anyways, I converted a 1080p MKV to VOB just fine, a single 8GB or so VOB. I tried streaming it renamed to .mpg to my PS3, but the PS3 only sees it as 3780MBs and cuts off around 52 minutes in. Any idea why?

[stesmi]

I haven't tried any 1080p MKVs myself but I have done >4GiB MKVs that are converted to vob and streamed and they worked fine. What firmware are you on?

If you want you can try the splitting options and cut it to smaller size.

[lazarusbf]

Hello
i've used this program and it's fine except for (french) subtitles files, it used to work fine too but lately all special characters (é ù è à etc) bug in the final output.
can anyone help please ? (my subs SRT files have been saved as ANSI and UTF8, which is best ?) and in mkv2vob settings, i've checked all boxes except 'always encode subs' as anyway it does the work)

:stupid:

[djhazardous]

Just a heads, I was searching the web and found a guide on how to do the "Monster in NYC" method.

Not sure if I'm allowed to post the link but I will remove it if it's inappropriate:

http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/convert_mkv_to_avchd_for_ps3_and_blu-ray.cfm

Unfortunately my attempts at getting a conversion to fit on a DVD5 have failed. It's strange because that groups release is 4.11GB complete with 5.1 sound and all the credits so this leaves me to wonder how they've done it considering all other releases have the same specs and are 4.37GB.

Wish they'd share it with us so we could convert all the previous releases.

EDIT:

Just realised, could it be because it is such a short movie (85 mins) and it only has AC3 640 kbps? Only idea I can think of.

Anyway, sorry for being off-topic. Won't go on about it anymore.

[xamphear]

Would it possible for a future version of MKV2VOB to insert chapter marks at certain per-minute intervals? Skipping around in files using only the 120x FFWD can be time consuming and annoying. Skipping ahead by chapters would be great.

[nosnoop]

After transcoding to Xvid/no splitting, mkv2vob was stuck at "Muxing" status. No errors, just no activity (waited for an hour just to be sure). It was AC3 to start with, so no audio file to mux. In the temp directory, I was left with a "mux.tmp" file, a "dos.txt" and a vcf file. Can I just rename the mux.tmp file to mpg? Anything I can do manually to "finish" the job instead of starting all over again?

As for output mpeg vs xvid vs x264, I understand that for the same file size, x264 would look the best. But ignoring the file size / encoding time advantage, is the Image Quality of x264 > xvid > mpeg as implemented by mkv2vob? Or will they look more or less the same?

And thanks for a great program.

[stesmi]

Muxing means "creating output file out of video and audio" (simplified) so if it's AC3 it will simply mux the AC3 track. If it didn't mux in the AC3 track then you wouldn't have sound :)

As implemented by mkv2vob the quality is h264 > xvid > mpeg.

[anothadave]

a CANCEL button would also be a nice addition. theres no way to tell if the mkv needs to be transcoded until its started, it can take several hours for a transcode an the only way to shut it down seems to be to go into task manager and manually end everything from there.

[dreamk]

I was just going to ask same thing, i mean "cancel" button.

Anyway great program and big thank you from me to the author.

[anothadave]

just spent 5 hours transcoding and mkv and its just stopped with "unable to mux (crashed)" :( is it worth trying an earlier mkv2vob? im using 2.2.3.

[3r1c]

First off, bug report. If something happens and the program or system crashes while working with a file, the temp files are left in that user's temp directory. Then, if the user attempts to convert the same video, they will receive a "could not parse mkv error" until the temp files have been manually cleared out.

This shouldnt happen, mkv2vob deletes any old/existing temp files before it gets to the step that would result in a mkv parse error.

The only problem would be if the files are still "in use" by the old process they would not be deletable, that is a windows limitation.

The general reason for a parse error is that mkv2vob could not execute mkvinfo.exe in the tools folder, some virus software prevent one program from running another and controlling its output.

Anyways, I converted a 1080p MKV to VOB just fine, a single 8GB or so VOB. I tried streaming it renamed to .mpg to my PS3, but the PS3 only sees it as 3780MBs and cuts off around 52 minutes in. Any idea why?

Are you using latest ps3 firmware?
Did the file need to be transcoded?, if yes what codec did you choose?

[3r1c]

V2.2.4 2/June/2008
Fixed bug where subtitle SRT filename that contained a comma would result in no subtitles in resulting conversion.
Disabled return code checking (this caused mencoder error for some people), instead its only treated as a warning of possible failure.
Improved "Repairing AC3" step, should keep all channels from the original ac3, this is a work-around to a tsmuxer bug, tsmuxer author please fix it!

[djhazardous]

You've also added Memory Stick splitting options & more output extensions, nice one! Especially on the former. Thanks a lot for this update.

I have a new question regarding the file extension output: I'm now aware that using .M2TS makes the output file larger but does it have any improved visual difference over .MPG or .VOB?

[RedSwirl]

Anybody solved that "BeSplit Crashed" thing yet?

[3r1c]

You've also added Memory Stick splitting options & more output extensions, nice one! Especially on the former. Thanks a lot for this update.

I have a new question regarding the file extension output: I'm now aware that using .M2TS makes the output file larger but does it have any improved visual difference over .MPG or .VOB?

Oh yeah forgot about that.

File extension only means extension, it doesnt change the contents of the file or its size.
Its no different then renaming the extension of a file with explorer.

[rahzel]

is there anyway to merge videos put through mkv2vob? i originally split a movie into 3 parts, but now i'm wanting to merge them back.

[Audioboxer]

Hey 3r1c, do you think you could ever add integration to the windows shell - In other words, the ability to right click a video file and click say "Process in MKV2VOB" ?

Maybe like how Winrar works when you right click a file...

You could mux/transcode on the spot with the settings you have setup, or have MKV2VOB load with the file in question loaded, but the muxing/transcoding doesn't take place till you click start.

[james12]

Hi im getting bespitcrashed error all the time, Is there a fix to this? Everytime it starts converting aac to ac3 it goest through step 2 then after that is says be splitcrashed? Any idea why this is happening? I am using windows vista 64bit.


Ok it didnt get be spit error any more but encoding was completed with errors, I open up movie and i get sound but no picture.. oh well... This is using the latest mkvtovob.

[metoo999]

Great work on the update. Just re-tried Battlestar 2x06, which on 2.2.3 had previously repaired the AC3 and resulted in black screen on PS3. 2.2.4 still repaired the AC3, but works now.

[Sephiroth0000]

3r1c,

Great updates on the program and it seems now to be running problem free. I have never really made a request with regards to this program (except for an error log) but anyway to the point....I have noticed that oblivously some files do not need TRANSCODING at all providing they have the AC3 audio and the H264 video but oblivously any other video (VC1, MPEG4-AVC) will require transcoding.... Now this can be very time consuming if you are doing 1080P backups (yes MKV2VOB does 1080P beautifully).... is there anyway at all to make it so VC1 or MPEG 4-AVC would not need transcoding just like H264 or am I dreaming away here lol?.... I mean I have done 1080P backups that need no transcoding in like 1 hour through MKV2VOB and im only running a dual core.

Anyone else out there that would like this feature or is it just me?

[stesmi]

You're mixing up the terminology a little I think.

MPEG-4 AVC is the MPEG name of the standard. Also known as MPEG-4 Part 10.
H.264 is the ITU-T name of the same standard. Was known as H.26L during development.

So MPEG-4 Part 10 == MPEG-4 AVC (Advanced Video Codec) == H.264 == H.26L.

x264 however is a PROGRAM that creates h264/AVC streams. There are lots of other programs that can make those streams. Added that so there's no mixup.

The reason for this is that h264/AVC has been standardized by both MPEG and ITU-T.

Also the PS3 won't work with all h264 files as the PS3 doesn't support higher than High@4.1 whereas the standard (and many encoders) can do up to High@5.1.

[Sephiroth0000]

You're mixing up the terminology a little I think.

MPEG-4 AVC is the MPEG name of the standard. Also known as MPEG-4 Part 10.
H.264 is the ITU-T name of the same standard. Was known as H.26L during development.

So MPEG-4 Part 10 == MPEG-4 AVC (Advanced Video Codec) == H.264 == H.26L.

x264 however is a PROGRAM that creates h264/AVC streams. There are lots of other programs that can make those streams. Added that so there's no mixup.

The reason for this is that h264/AVC has been standardized by both MPEG and ITU-T.

Also the PS3 won't work with all h264 files as the PS3 doesn't support higher than High@4.1 whereas the standard (and many encoders) can do up to High@5.1.


I would be lying if I said that did not kinda go over my head lol. Basically I am backing up all the HD DVDs I have and putting them to the PS3 I have (60Gb modded to 200Gb) and just wanted to know if it were possible that mkvs that had VC1, AVC or whatever instead of 264 could not need to be transcoded aswell.....thats all lol. But thankyou for your input though mate I only got lost near the end lol.

[stesmi]

If you only got lost on the last line you're set :) As long as you know that h264 and AVC are the same. Just like H20 and Water are the same thing. Different name, same stuff. VC-1 is a different codec.

I read that someone said it IS possible to play VC-1 in a VOB container on the PS3 but that was ONE person only and I haven't gotten it verified nor have I tried it myself.

Basically when you encode you don't choose between AVC or h264 since it's the same thing 100% regardless of what it's called.

[stesmi]

Also, what I meant with "won't work with all files" - it's exactly what it says, when someone encodes something he chooses options and some of those options aren't supported by the PS3. The reason for that is simple - The h264/AVC decoder in the PS3 is built to play BluRay and can do everything BluRay does and probably not anything outside of that. BluRay options are fewer than the full h264/AVC specification though so when someone makes h264/AVC they might choose (on purpose or by accident) an option that the PS3 won't like and then the video needs transcoding.

[Sephiroth0000]

If you only got lost on the last line you're set :) As long as you know that h264 and AVC are the same. Just like H20 and Water are the same thing. Different name, same stuff. VC-1 is a different codec.

I read that someone said it IS possible to play VC-1 in a VOB container on the PS3 but that was ONE person only and I haven't gotten it verified nor have I tried it myself.

Basically when you encode you don't choose between AVC or h264 since it's the same thing 100% regardless of what it's called.


So could it ever be possible or forseeable for VC1 not needing transcoding in MKV2VOB?

Basically all im doing is ripping the HD DVD, running it through EAC3TO, making a video only mkv (the codec used in the MKV is reflective the codec used in the actual film) and AC3 5.1 audio file and then muxing them together into MKVMerge and then running the file through MKV2VOB

EDIT: Thanks Stemsi for answering all these questions mate...I know im probably doing your brain in now lol.

[stesmi]

If testing shows that the PS3 does indeed play VC-1 without transcoding then I'm sure that'll be added to mkv2vob but don't hold your breath.

Regarding the questions : no problems with asking or re-asking, I answer what I know and it's very very common that people don't know that AVC and h264 are the same and many even think that x264 is a codec on it's own, or to quote someone : "h264, AVC and x264 are very similar but not identical". x264 is a PROGRAM, h264 and AVC are different names of the same standard and therefor identical. And I'm sorry if I come across as "pushy" or something with my answers, that's not at all my intention :).

[Sephiroth0000]

If testing shows that the PS3 does indeed play VC-1 without transcoding then I'm sure that'll be added to mkv2vob but don't hold your breath.

Regarding the questions : no problems with asking or re-asking, I answer what I know and it's very very common that people don't know that AVC and h264 are the same and many even think that x264 is a codec on it's own, or to quote someone : "h264, AVC and x264 are very similar but not identical". x264 is a PROGRAM, h264 and AVC are different names of the same standard and therefor identical. And I'm sorry if I come across as "pushy" or something with my answers, that's not at all my intention :).


Nope you don't come across as pushy brother. I had questions and they were answered so cheers man :)

[naj]

Isn't VC-1 just a different implementation (encoding wise) of H264? I mean, from the specifications, any H264 decoder must be able to decode VC-1 aswell, so, aren't they the same, but encoded with different tools?

Anyway, I know PS3 is able to decode 1080p VC-1 nativelly, at least with the latest firmware. I've tested it myself. The file had .wmv extension. Just don't know why it didn't recognised the audio part on PS3, it was playable in my PC and recognised as DD 2 channel.

[naj]

Actually, nevermind some of what I have written before, here is a comparison between H264 and VC-1:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_H.264_and_VC-1

[3r1c]

VC1 and H264 are completely different.
I have never seen VC1 in a mkv file, so its not supported my mkv2vob.

[DJ_Phatic]

Does mkv2vob do something to the colorspace? I have noticed when playing back on the PC that the original mkv's are fine i.e. black is black, not grey. Whereas output from mkv2vob of the same video the blacks are grey, this is both transcoded and non-transcoded.

[3r1c]

No it does not change the colors.
The fact that it looks different on non-transcoded definately proves its your playback software that is the problem.
The mkv2vob output is meant to be played on the ps3 only, i do not test with software players.

[_leech_]

Any update on the MPEG2 transcoding issue I mentioned a few pages back?

http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1138763&postcount=2144
http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1139424&postcount=2148

[stesmi]

Isn't VC-1 just a different implementation (encoding wise) of H264? I mean, from the specifications, any H264 decoder must be able to decode VC-1 aswell, so, aren't they the same, but encoded with different tools?

Anyway, I know PS3 is able to decode 1080p VC-1 nativelly, at least with the latest firmware. I've tested it myself. The file had .wmv extension. Just don't know why it didn't recognised the audio part on PS3, it was playable in my PC and recognised as DD 2 channel.

H.264 / AVC is the same, VC-1 is a Microsoft codec, hence the WMV format. They're definately not the same.

And of course the PS3 can decode VC-1 natively. VC-1, AVC/H.264 and MPEG-2 are the video standards that a BluRay may use (same as HD-DVD).

[x400]

loving this still


but ive got this 1 mkv file regardless of what container i put it in... it just wont play on my ps3... it'll be a blank screen when i tell it to play.. the thumbnail pic will show the file playing but it wont :/

at first i had thought it was because i burnt the file onto a udf2.5/2.6 disc so i tried copying it straight to the ps3 through a webserver but it wont play

i tried streaming the video file and it wont play either...????

it'll play on my computer but thats it....

the original file is a mkv x264 with dts audio and subtitles are needed... mkv2vob transcoded the file (had the subs hardcoded onto it) switched the dts file.. everything was done properly :/

[mmace]

any chance you could release the source for this so someone could alter it to add borders to force the resolutions to 720 or 1080 making the video file Blu-ray legal?

it's still the only thing missing in my book, if a file has to be converted then it may as well be converted to 1920x1080 or 1280x720!

[params7]

I have a question. The MKV's I convert already have inbuilt Subs in them. However, outputted from mkv2vob on my ps3, I can not view the subs.


What should I do to be able to have subs as an option in movies?


thanks.

[metoo999]

How much quality is lost when you transcode a 1080p file? Does it just lower the profile to 4.1?

Too bad about VC-1 WMVs. I just tried a 1080p 5.1 sound file and it played beautifully, but no sound. Apparently the PS3 doesn't support WMV Pro or 5.1 sound on those files. Oh well. It would be nice not to have to transcode/remux everything.

[stesmi]

I have a question. The MKV's I convert already have inbuilt Subs in them. However, outputted from mkv2vob on my ps3, I can not view the subs.

What should I do to be able to have subs as an option in movies?

thanks.

To have the OPTION to enable subs in movies I don't think there's a way but if you want them encoded onto the video you can use the "Always Encode Subtitles" option and it'll encode it from the mkv.

How much quality is lost when you transcode a 1080p file? Does it just lower the profile to 4.1?

Basically yes, that's what it does and not much quality (maybe not even noticable) should be lost. It just changes the flags in the frames. The difference between Profile 4.1 and Profile 5.1 (High@4.1 vs High@5.1) is the bitrate allowed in a frame and average in a bitstream. Most streams fall within that category regardless of being encoded with 4.1 or 5.1 selected.

It's not ONLY 4.1 vs 5.1 that's the issue though as there are a few other options that are allowed in H.264 and not allowed in the BluRay supported H.264, for example B-Frames can only be 3 or less where as H.264 has way higher limits, etc.

Too bad about VC-1 WMVs. I just tried a 1080p 5.1 sound file and it played beautifully, but no sound. Apparently the PS3 doesn't support WMV Pro or 5.1 sound on those files. Oh well. It would be nice not to have to transcode/remux everything.

Yup, I agree, but the support for H.264 at all is just by pure luck - it's undocumented and just happens to work. We're happy by what we get and hope more comes.

[Sephiroth0000]

any chance you could release the source for this so someone could alter it to add borders to force the resolutions to 720 or 1080 making the video file Blu-ray legal?

it's still the only thing missing in my book, if a file has to be converted then it may as well be converted to 1920x1080 or 1280x720!

If you are ripping the source yourself then it should already be 1920x1080 (all I ever use). If you wish for 1280x720 im very sure that MKVmerge has an option to allow you to change it (do not quote me on that though as I only do 1080P)

[plantunes]

I just would like to suggest that it would be great in a newer version of MKV2VOB to have the possibility to minimize the program into the tray...just as we can do with several other programs, such as e-mule or utorrent...

[azyd]

Yup, I agree, but the support for H.264 at all is just by pure luck - it's undocumented and just happens to work. We're happy by what we get and hope more comes

Types of files that can be played

The following types of files can be played under (Video).

Memory Stick Video Format
- MPEG-4 SP (AAC LC)
- H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Main Profile (AAC LC)
MP4 file format
- H.264/MPEG-4 AVC High Profile (AAC LC)
MPEG-1 (MPEG Audio Layer 2)
MPEG-2 PS (MPEG2 Audio Layer 2, AAC LC, AC3(Dolby Digital), LPCM)
MPEG-2 TS (MPEG2 Audio Layer 2)
AVI
- Motion JPEG (Linear PCM)
- Motion JPEG (μ-Law)
AVCHD （.m2ts / .mts）
DivX
WMV
- VC-1（WMA Standard V2）


as you can see H.264 is not by luck.

dont know if i can add a direct link or not but here is the source of the info.

http://manuals.playstation.net/document/en/ps3/current/video/filetypes.html

[stesmi]

Types of files that can be played

The following types of files can be played under (Video).

MP4 file format
- H.264/MPEG-4 AVC High Profile (AAC LC)

as you can see H.264 is not by luck.

Apples and oranges though, nowhere in there does it say H.264 in a VOB or MPG container, which is what we're doing, so maybe poor wording on my behalf but since we're discussing mkv2vob I meant "in a vob container".

The "problem" is that if you want to use anything but AAC sound you have to use the undocumented "H.264 in a VOB container" which is what we're using.

What you quoted has it in an MP4 file format, as in MP4 container/MPEG-4 Part 1, .mp4, which is the official container format for H.264/AVC video and AAC/MPEG-4 AAC/MPEG-4 Part 3 is the sound format of choice there, AC3 is not supported.

And before anyone comments, yes m2ts container is also supported for AVCHD, but AVCHD is just a subset of the full AVC standard and what mkv2vob can convert can do lots more than AVCHD supports.

[naj]

Just out of curiosity, what can't AVCHD do?

[stesmi]

http://www.avchd-info.org/format/index.html

Less resolutions, lower bitrates, etc. Max 24mbit/s streams for instance.

[mmace]

If you are ripping the source yourself then it should already be 1920x1080 (all I ever use). If you wish for 1280x720 im very sure that MKVmerge has an option to allow you to change it (do not quote me on that though as I only do 1080P)if I was ripping the source myself I wouldn't need MKV2VOB as I'd have a ts or m2ts file that would work on the PS3 without converting to mkv

[Sephiroth0000]

if I was ripping the source myself I wouldn't need MKV2VOB as I'd have a ts or m2ts file that would work on the PS3 without converting to mkv

Thats if you are doing BR....I was referring to HD DVD.

[God Radio]

My question is I ripped an HD DVD and created an mkv but the problem is it has both an dts audio and an ac3 5.1 audio tracks.

How do I tell mkvtovob to select the dts file and ignore my ac3 5.1 file?

I want to stay away from re-ripping as i am used to just dragging and dropping and for some reason I am unable to get just why nero selects both audio tracks from the disc and mkvmerge selects both audio tracks?

Please can we just have a function where we can select what audio track we want to keep( when using mkvtovob) as I know that the dts audio track is good but the second track on my disc is kind of iffy as far as audio quality even if its in ac3 5.1

So I want to use the primary dts audio track from my hd dvd disc so that mkvtovob will make a ps3 compliant file.

Every time I ripp I either forget how to set the audio track thingy and either get no sound or I get several audio tracks so please can you consider this feature in mkvtovob so that we can select the dts audio and tell it to ignore any other audio track?

Thank you.

[Atak_Snajpera]

My question is I ripped an HD DVD and created an mkv but the problem is it has both an dts audio and an ac3 5.1 audio tracks.
Wouldn't be easier to encode directly to Blu-Ray structure???

[deerhunter555]

First of all, I really like your program 3r1c. It works great for me.

I'd like to join the discussion about vc-1, I do not mind recoding, so why not add an option to mkv2vob to recode also WMV files to VOB/MPG.

I tested it myself with your mencoder parameters for x.264 and used mencoder to convert WMA 5.1 to AC3. Just muxed the H264+AC3, works fine.

Secondly, would you mind to change the "delete source directory after conversion" to "delete source file after conversion", so I can use this feature without deleting the whole directory but just the "correctly" converted source files?

Thnkx for all your effort in helping us enjoy HD content on our PS3

[vercetti]

i can't convert two files using your program.. The error is related to the extraction or conversion of the dts audio to 2.1....

the files info are in here. http://thoranime.5gbfree.com/dbz.htm

thank you for your great work :)

[BippyM]

Hi

I'd like to say I love this program and I have successfully remuxed a couple of films, but the last 2-3 I have tried have failed!

One fails and says muxing failed, not sure why!

Others say they are successful but I only end up with 1gb (original is 8gb).

Any ideas?

[1ellis2345]

Hi,

Great program! But i'm having the same problem as BippyM.

I've converted quite a few films using this great program and all have worked fine. But the last couple are failing at the very end of the process. Even a film i know works fine with mkv2vob (i converted it put it on disc, then lost it lol) now fails!

Can anyone help?

[atzplzw]

I always get a Muxing Failed error with all the mkv's I tried.
How can I find out what the problem is?

I could provide filenames via private message if necessary!

[God Radio]

Wouldn't be easier to encode directly to Blu-Ray structure???

I tried my file in mkv2vob and it gives me an unsupported audio message?

Then I tried the TSmuxer app. and I had the option windows of video and audio dts and audio ac3 5.1.

My problem was solved by selecting the remove option for the DTs audio track.

Then I kept the video and ac3 audio from my original HD DVD folder.

I selected mux to mt2ts (BDAV? whats that?) and five minutes later I had a playable movie file for my PS3 and my HD DVD discs can stay inside the cases.

So problem solved but I hope that mkvtovob will sooner or later have these options also as TSmuxer solved my problem.

My fav. programs so far are mkvtovob and tsmuxer.

Anywho its getting harder and harder to justify my use of Nero 7 as it takes sixty bucks for purchase and once purchased its 24 hours per movie file.(and I am not spending more money to "upgrade"?......bah! to Nero 8).

Versus either mkvtovob or tsmuxer and a few minutes for a playable movie file for the PS3.

Yep.......geez am I stupid but I am very slowly learning the buzz words of MKVtoVOB, TSmuxer, DVDShrink, etc.

Well thanks for reading this.

[tin01]

Hello , first i have to thank you for this handy piece of software. now to my question(s)

- How do i cut the re-encoded file ? What software do i have to use ?
- What is the difference btw all the encoding options ( quality and size ) ?

Thank you

tin

[stesmi]

Cut: You can do that in MKV2VOB.
Differences: H.264 : best quality, smallest size. XviD: Medium/medium. MPEG-2: Lowest Quality, largest size.

[God Radio]

Hello , first i have to thank you for this handy piece of software. now to my question(s)

- How do i cut the re-encoded file ? What software do i have to use ?
- What is the difference btw all the encoding options ( quality and size ) ?

Thank you

tin


Its best to select automatic as the transcoding option as mkvtovob just changes the AUDIO from DTS to AC3 5.1 and the video is not modified.

The container extension that always works for me is mt2ts

Memory stick 4GB

Transcode selection automatic.

I get a working and wonderfull ps3 ready video/audio movie file every, single time.

If you get the rare file that does need transcoding:
I pick either xvid or X264


Example:
An movie file with one video track and one audio track DTS with size at 4.36 GB.

You get one file at 4GB and a second file about 400MB to 600MB.

I load the first file onto my 4Gb mem stick and copy to PS3 hard drive then I make space on my mem stick for the second part of the movie file and I also copy to PS3 hard drive.

Press play and enjoy.


Hope this helps?

[tin01]

Thank you for all the answers. I want to cut the transcoded vob to get it on 1 DVDR ( beginning + end credits )... What app do i use ?

H.264 : best quality, smallest size - interesting. will give a try.

Tin

[God Radio]

Thank you for all the answers. I want to cut the transcoded vob to get it on 1 DVDR ( beginning + end credits )... What app do i use ?

H.264 : best quality, smallest size - interesting. will give a try.

Tin



Freeware: TSmuxer.

Example:
MT2ts movie file 7GB

Feed the 7GB file into TSmuxer and either select cut tab and select start and end times or select the split tab and select split every:

3500 and in the size window select MB

This gives you two files at 3500 MB.

Second example

A movie file is 4.6 GB and you have a dvd r (dvd 5) 4.3 GB and a CD disc (700 MB)

Select in the TSmuxer split tab split every 4200 and in the second window select MB.

This gives you a 4200 MB MT2ts movie file for dvd-r and a second part at more or less 200 MB or so MT2ts movie file perfect for a CD disc.


Third example:

You want to fit a 4.5 GB MT2ts movie on a 4.3 GB dvd-5 disc.

Load the 4.5 GB movie and select start point (say seventy seconds from start) to cut the start credits and then select and end time that cuts six minutes or so from the movie and you get a MT2ts movie from TSmuxer that fits on a single dvd-r.

Hope this helps?

[azyd]

Freeware: TSmuxer.

Example:
MT2ts movie file 7GB

Feed the 7GB file into TSmuxer and either select cut tab and select start and end times or select the split tab and select split every:

3500 and in the size window select MB

This gives you two files at 3500 MB.

Second example

A movie file is 4.6 GB and you have a dvd r (dvd 5) 4.3 GB and a CD disc (700 MB)

Select in the TSmuxer split tab split every 4200 and in the second window select MB.

This gives you a 4200 MB MT2ts movie file for dvd-r and a second part at more or less 200 MB or so MT2ts movie file perfect for a CD disc.


Third example:

You want to fit a 4.5 GB MT2ts movie on a 4.3 GB dvd-5 disc.

Load the 4.5 GB movie and select start point (say seventy seconds from start) to cut the start credits and then select and end time that cuts six minutes or so from the movie and you get a MT2ts movie from TSmuxer that fits on a single dvd-r.

Hope this helps?

for some one whos actually done this in tsmuxer i can tell you that it wont work, it just wont. im not going to explain why take to mutch typing.

but i will tell you how to cut the file....

this is all done with a file that been through mkv2vob

1. use tsremuxer to extact the audio and video.
2. use mkvmerge to re-create an mkv from the 2 streams make sure you set the fps and the aspect ratio for your video
3. take the mkv that just got muxed and drop it in to tsmuxer and cut where ever you want

[anothadave]

would be nice to be able carry on after an "insufficent disk space" error. mkv2vob spent 45mins extracting the mkv and converting the dts audio then decided there wasnt enough disk space. so ive deleted some stuff but now its got to go through the whole 45mins again. im sure the extracted mkv could of been kept in the temp directory and carried on the process after i made some room. or possibly give an estimate of required space before it starts doing something.
great program, must be one of the best apps for the ps3 around :) done around 40 mkvs now, had trouble with about 4 but the latest update sorted out 3 of them.

[God Radio]

for some one whos actually done this in tsmuxer i can tell you that it wont work, it just wont. im not going to explain why take to mutch typing.

but i will tell you how to cut the file....

this is all done with a file that been through mkv2vob

1. use tsremuxer to extact the audio and video.
2. use mkvmerge to re-create an mkv from the 2 streams make sure you set the fps and the aspect ratio for your video
3. take the mkv that just got muxed and drop it in to tsmuxer and cut where ever you want


Too many steps since you allready have an MT2ts file thats PS3 compatible at 720p and even if its a simple .ts folder if its at 720p and has at least one ac3 track then its just select MT2ts output and select either the time to be cut at or split at selected file size.

Thats strange since I recoded with Nero 7 in Nerovision 4 make an AVCHD( since the PS3 only likes 720p when its on the hard drive) and I got a 7.5 GB MT2ts file with AC3 5.1 audio. (and dumb me forgot to de-select the dts audio track.......geez color me real dumb.)

I loaded it into the latest version of TSmuxer and it split the file into two parts(close to just under the 4 GB limit per file) and both of these parts got loaded on my PS3 hard drive and they both do FF,REW, pause and play and I get Dolby Digital out via optical.

And on listening tests all of my speakers are working: l, r, c, sr, sl, subwoofer.


I made it into a 720p version but I forgot to remove the DTS track.

And only by removing the DTS audio track (yes I forgot to remove it in Nerovision) and keeping the video track and ac3 audio does it work.

I used the TSmuxer to split the file since it drives me nuts to keep changing discs in and out of the PS3 drive or the HD DVD drive on the lower shelf.


It worked for my discs of 300, transformers, T2, Beowulf, Cars, Swordfish, Rush Hour 3 (hey folks the HD DVD was four bucks still sealed in its case so bazing it got purchased),

What can I say since it works for me and hey the wife is Happy that the Heroes season one(HD DVD) is on the PS3 hard drive as the originals are safe and secure in the cases.

[JayDK]

I seem to have found a problem with the sound conversion in MKV2VOB.

I converted Hitman the other day with a DTS Core 1.5mbps soundtrack. The option "boost DTS volume" was checked.

The resulting file worked fine on the PS3 - but sometimes the voices got distorted, scambled and the sound lost detail. As I had a WMV copy on my xbox which had perfect sound I did not understand this.

I tried converting the DTS core soundtrack to ac3 myself with eac3to (why doesn't mkv2vob use this - it is so fast and does it in 1 go!). The ac3 file played perfect but was a little lower in volume. So turned it up a bit on the amp.

Now i knew there was a problem in mkv2vob. I tried unkchecking the "Boost DTS volume" and that resulted in the same fine quality as with eac3to - but also i little lower.

What wonders me is - that the first "bad distorted ac3 file" and the other ac3 file - are identical size! So it must have some "gain parameter" in the file which makes it sound distorted.

@3r1c - Are you aware of this problem - and is there a way to revert a ac3 file that has been distorted by this "boost dts volume option"? :confused:

Had the same problem with Semi-Pro - also with DTS core 1.5mbps soundtrack

[odedia]

Just wanted to add to the discussion - I tried converting "The Italian Job" and the voice gradually gets out of sync. MKV2VOB only did remuxing, no transcoding. Boost DTS/AC3 was checked.

Thanks again for the excellent program.

[1ellis2345]

Hi,

I'm still having the same problem "muxing failed" at 100%

Its getting a little anoying now cause i know the program worked fine and its now taking 12 hours just to end with "muxing failed"

Can anyone please help or suggest another way of doing my films?

Thanks.

[Sephiroth0000]

Anyone,

I have a 21Gb 1080P HD file that I am copying over via wired LAN to the PS3 and it keeps on failing at 40%. I have played the file via PC and it works beautifully.....any suggestions? I am streaming it over via Windows Media Player 11 (with MP4 registry add on so it can see the MP4 file)

[azyd]

Anyone,

I have a 21Gb 1080P HD file that I am copying over via wired LAN to the PS3 and it keeps on failing at 40%. I have played the file via PC and it works beautifully.....any suggestions? I am streaming it over via Windows Media Player 11 (with MP4 registry add on so it can see the MP4 file)


use tversity. thats what i use to copy all my extra large 1080p files, and its free www.tversity.com

[picchio_75]

hi to all :)
I'have a problem with jhon Rambo 720p the mkv 1280*528 25 fps avc 4.1 5ref and sound ac3 448 kbps 48 khz is goog (perfect syncronize). After conversion sound is not syncronize. The asyncronize increase during the film. (start film is syncronize but after 1 hour is not syncronize)
Anyone can help me ?
Thankyou

[anothadave]

Hi,

I'm still having the same problem "muxing failed" at 100%

Its getting a little anoying now cause i know the program worked fine and its now taking 12 hours just to end with "muxing failed"

Can anyone please help or suggest another way of doing my films?

Thanks.

yeh i got this too. spent 8hrs doing Cloverfield 1080p and finished with muxing failed :(

[Selur]

@3r1c: got a question is:
I have created a program which will remux mkv with x264 video and AC3 audio to a vob file which is playable on the sony ps3.
No transcoding/recompression is done, the streams are simply split and mux into the vob.
Previously there was no way to get AC3 audio on the ps3, only AAC stereo. still true? If not could you update the start post accordingly? (seeing the options "Transcoding Codec" with Xvid/x264/MPEG2 I suspect it does not only just remux anymore)

[thebulldan]

@3r1c: First of all thanks for such as perfectly bundled piece of goodness. Though I have some working knowledge of the components to achieve what you have - making this a one-click solution for my needs is beautiful!!!

Second - I think that the AAC 5.1 to AC3 - BeSweet Crashed issue is fixed in the newest release - but just making sure.

[strang]

Question: How would I remux my .mpg files into .mkv again? Or into a .mp4 container that Xbox 360 would play?

[Sephiroth0000]

use tversity. thats what i use to copy all my extra large 1080p files, and its free www.tversity.com

Cannot get Tversity to work at all im afraid. I have checked my router, turned off WMP11 sharing, made sure it passes via the firewall, restarted it and everything else in between and *%$£ all works.....argh!

[anothadave]

just wondered what settings mencoder uses in mkv2vob for x264? ive got an mkv which is slighty too big for a dvd9, when mkv2vob reencodes it still comes out too big so i was goin to manually reencode the video using meencoder. i can guess the bitrate by checking the source file and then reducing it by about 10% its just the other stuff like the reference frames etc. from what i gather the ps3 prefers 3 reference frames?

actually a handy feature would be to select the transcode bitrate in mkv2vob ourselves. set it the same as the source as standard but just have a box or something where we can specify the bitrate incase we need to reduce the filesize to fit onto a dvd5 or dvd9

[azyd]

Cannot get Tversity to work at all im afraid. I have checked my router, turned off WMP11 sharing, made sure it passes via the firewall, restarted it and everything else in between and *%$£ all works.....argh!

do what i do..... should have been more extact, i just connect my pc to my ps3 directly. i have a 100 foot network cable and i also have a gigabit network card on my pc so the transfer is pretty fast.

[dorati]

Is there a change / setting, that the PS3 plays the HD-Content with 24p? I only get 24p when using a Orginal Blu-ray Disk.

[djhazardous]

Aren't out of sync issues to do with the audio codecs on your computer? I didn't think it was anything to do with the program...

[gsx95]

Is there any way to use this program for files that have Dolby Digital Plus audio? It doesn't seem to be supported, is there a way to convert the audio to an acceptable format? Thanks.

[Sephiroth0000]

do what i do..... should have been more extact, i just connect my pc to my ps3 directly. i have a 100 foot network cable and i also have a gigabit network card on my pc so the transfer is pretty fast.


I did end up reworking it out after I calmed down. It put a 21Gb MP4 1080P on the PS3 in like 15/20 minutes....I was proper impressed. Thanks for advising it man.

[x400]

so i have an mkv which did not need transcoding according to mkv2vob and after it went into remuxing the file wont play on my ps3 its just black

when i loaded the original mkv into virtualdub(mod maybe) it informed me that the file has B Frames.. would this be the problem?

[PhoeniXYZ]

First I want to thank you for this great piece of software!
But I got two questions: Isn't it possible for the PS3 to playback DTS as a bitstream if you mux x264 and 5.1 DTS into the file?
And is it planned to be able to mux/decode (perhaps to AC3 2.0) mp3 into a vob/mpg for playback on the PS3?

[sonyguy711]

Hi, first of all, great program 3r1c! I can finally be able to view my mkv files on my ps3.

The only issue is that the original mkv videos are in 2:35.1 ratio and after making it to mp4 (VOB didn't work for me), the video is stretched out of proportion with no black bars on top and bottom. I noticed the problem to be in the video encoding setting. I use the recommended setting of "automatic".

I've tried changing it to "always" and the video ratio came out right, but my ps3 will not recognize it. I would greatly appreciate it if someone could provide some light to this issue.

[juuser]

I have also gotten Unsupported Audio Codec errors. I've solved those by converting mp3 track to ac3. Why isn't mkv2vob handling mp3 tracks? Also, how should subtitles work? I've enabled every possible setting regarding subtitles in mkv2vob, but PS3 still doesn't show me any, nor can I select subtitles by pressing select when movie is playing. Of course .srt files are in the same folder with same name as mkv itself.

If wmv transcoding is going to be enabled, then why not enable xvid/divx also? For the moment if I have some non-playing xvid/divx, I've muxed it into mkv and then used mkv2vob to make it playable. I'm searching for better solution and this is mainly due to these subtitles problems. For xvid/divx movies, which play fine ps3, i'm adding subtitles with AVIAddXSub, which works like a charm and no encoding is needed :)

Anyway, thank you for this great program!

[DWells55]

Getting crashes still when converting DTS to AC3.

[Horo]

i can't get it to transcode a video with subs, i dled Sword of the Stranger i used mkvextract and took out the all 3 files then use subtitle workshop and saved sub as srt and i use mkvmerge and put them all together then went to mkv2vob and checked Always encode subtitles, Load subtitles from srt, and Large subtitle, but when it finish transcoding i got no subs... did i do something wrong?

[azyd]

i can't get it to transcode a video with subs, i dled Sword of the Stranger i used mkvextract and took out the all 3 files then use subtitle workshop and saved sub as srt and i use mkvmerge and put them all together then went to mkv2vob and checked Always encode subtitles, Load subtitles from srt, and Large subtitle, but when it finish transcoding i got no subs... did i do something wrong?

best thing to do for sword of a stranger is let it encode it with out the subs, then extract the subs and convert them to *.srt then you can use tsmuxer to make a BD5. now you have the movie and the subs and its in a Blu-Ray:sly:

[Horo]

azyd im not really sure how to use tsmuxer but from just looking i just added the subs and i tried to mux file int m2ts and i got buffer overflowing error i can't seem to get it to mux

[Ionio-Zante]

Hi...
A friend of Mine gave me a film that has been converted with mkv2vob (x264, mpg).
And it has been splitted in to parts also with the mkv2vob file splitting option...
Is there any way that i can join the 2 files make one large file??

THX in Advanse.

[clotz2000]

Hi...
A friend of Mine gave me a film that has been converted with mkv2vob (x264, mpg).
And it has been splitted in to parts also with the mkv2vob file splitting option...
Is there any way that i can join the 2 files make one large file??

THX in Advanse.

I have an idea, tell your friend to turn off the splitting function. Now that we have that taken care of, there is software that will join VOB files.

Here's a link:
http://www.download.com/Join-VOB-Files-Tool/3000-13631_4-10718007.html

Hope that helps...

[Ionio-Zante]

There is software that will join VOB files.

Here's a link:
http://www.download.com/Join-VOB-Files-Tool/3000-13631_4-10718007.html

Hope that helps...

Thx... It works perfect... I renamed my "Mpg" files to "Vob".I load to the program and it join them into one large file very quick. Then i renamed again the output "VOB" to original created "MPG"

[Horo]

i got this dbz movie with dts 2.0 stereo sound in it and mkv2vob gets an error trying to convert it i also tried using besweet with the azidts plugin and i also get an error using that too "DShowErr: FAILED(hr=0x800736b3) in CreateFilter(CLSID_IVAudioDecoder, &pIVIAudio)" ... i have windvd installed anyone give me some help tryin to convert this to ac3 i been trying for 2 days

[hdmovie]

Dear 3r1c ,
are there any possibility on future relase , we can put parental control level .
thank's
sas

[lez]

how do i go about splitting a converted file for fat32(should have done it first,but getting low on space)

[naj]

Horo, have you tried BeHappy?

[forumreader]

It came up earlier in this thread, but I don't think it was ever answered. Has anyone gotten mkv profile 4.1 encodes through ripbot264 to work with mkv2vob without requiring a transcode in mkv2vob? Is there something in the 4.1 profile configuration that needs to be checked or unchecked?

[clotz2000]

how do i go about splitting a converted file for fat32(should have done it first,but getting low on space)

Just use the splitting with MKV2VOB and choose regular DVD, 4GB should work fine for FAT32 partitions.

[Glorioso]

3r1c, is it possible to make a divx compatible file with MKV2VOB so we can use AviAddxsubs to incorporate Divx subtitles? That will be a neat addition!!!!

[Yaka]

i know this is a windows only app but is there a way to get it to run in linux via WINE 1.0? i am using the latest version of ubuntu when running mkv2vob i get a "Error getting mkv info!" error when i try to convert the file.

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=12825&iTestingId=27959

[rendez2k]

I've just tested my first to MKVs (using the standard MPEG2 encoding option) and both suffered from very tiny amounts of digital break-up for a few seconds at a time about every 10 mins or so. Any idea what causes this?

[lez]

Just use the splitting with MKV2VOB and choose regular DVD, 4GB should work fine for FAT32 partitions.
i have already converted the files so they dont show up on the list,if you see what i mean

[anothadave]

I've just tested my first to MKVs (using the standard MPEG2 encoding option) and both suffered from very tiny amounts of digital break-up for a few seconds at a time about every 10 mins or so. Any idea what causes this?

youll be better off leaving it to the default "x264" setting. mpeg2 is the lowest quality setting.

[Horo]

Horo, have you tried BeHappy?

nope i ended using dt2wav2ac3

[rendez2k]

youll be better off leaving it to the default "x264" setting. mpeg2 is the lowest quality setting.

Didn't I read the x264 setting was unstable? Also, doesn't it take a lot longer?

[clotz2000]

i have already converted the files so they dont show up on the list,if you see what i mean

Gotcha, You can use this software it will split large VOB files into smaller VOB files...

http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/showsoftware_vob_splitter_386.html

[jeps]

I would really like to try this software, but I am unable to get past the message "Error getting mkv info".
I get this message for all the files I have tried.
I have tried the program on both my normal PC (Vista64) and a standard XP, same result.

Has anyone got a suggestion for what to try?

[_leech_]

Still having quality issues when it comes to MPEG2 transcoding. Just took a 7.94GB MKV and I ended up with a 6.48GB VOB.

[anothadave]

mpeg2 encoding is the lowest quality. wont look anything as good as the original. stick to the x264 setting. yes it takes ages but the quality will be near enough the same as the source.

[metoo999]

Just curious about this 1080p video file with AC3 audio - will it transcode in mkv2vob or simply remux? I know mkv2vob usually has to transcode 1080p files...

x264 (High@L4.1) / mkv

I know PS3 does L4.1, I'm just not sure about the high/low/main profile stuff...

Update: worked fine! Thank god, it was a big file.

[spida_singh]

It should be ok, ive ran a few files which are 1080p ac3 that did not need transcoding, let mkv2vob decide if it needs to or not, sometimes they do.

You can view the profile level using tsmuxer by opening the mkv

[johnmerrick]

hi,

my add file function isn't working??

i select the file then click add file but nothing happens!!

the add directory function is also only picking up the first file!

only started happening today!?

any ideas?

thanks

[h_zee13]

Hi, first of all, great program 3r1c! I can finally be able to view my mkv files on my ps3.

The only issue is that the original mkv videos are in 2:35.1 ratio and after making it to mp4 (VOB didn't work for me), the video is stretched out of proportion with no black bars on top and bottom. I noticed the problem to be in the video encoding setting. I use the recommended setting of "automatic".

I've tried changing it to "always" and the video ratio came out right, but my ps3 will not recognize it. I would greatly appreciate it if someone could provide some light to this issue.

I'm actually having the same problem...Is there anyone here who can help us out???

[Yaka]

i know i have asked this before is anyone having any success trying to run this app thru wine? i am now getting a run time 75 error

[CometMan]

this program is perfect!!!! simple fast and very complete, i had a headache each time i tried to put subs in the video and send it to ps3, and whit this it couldn`t be easier and whit great quality.

just one question!!!

why can`t we keep DTS sound of the original .mkv? the ac3 is great but can anyone tell why the program always strip the dts

will it have a future option of dts keeping?

best regards i surely will donate some to this program, its well worth :thanks:

[Thunder2001]

Is not possible to make DTS Sound in an m2ts / vob file. The only way to have DTS is to make a AVCHD. This is a mini Bluray Disc on normaly DVD or DVD DL that must have a video file inside with 1280*720 or 1920*1080 size.

[badkclark]

Hi,

I've got an mkv file with a VC-1 Video Stream and AC3 Audio.

I'm getting an error when trying to run in mkv2vob, but not a description of what the error is.

is mkv2vob able to transcode the VC-1 streams to H.264?

Here's the Media info for the file:

First video stream
16.1 Mbps, 1920*1080 (16/9), at 23.976 fps, VC-1 (Microsoft)
Fist audio stream
640Kbps, 48.0 KHz, 6 channels, AC-3


Any help would be great. Using latest mkv2vob.

[PlazzTT]

Thanks a lot for this tool!

It's one of the best around, so simple to use! Great work :)

[naj]

is mkv2vob able to transcode the VC-1 streams to H.264?Nope.

[Sheky31]

Ok, I have a lot of anime with vorbis ogg as audio.

So I have two problems

1. Getting mkv2vob to convert ogg

2. Getting subtitles on the file for the PS3.

I tried GotSent and it actually picked up on the ogg file and converted it to AAC beautifully. The problem is that, it doesn't seem to pick up the sub and hard subbing it on that program takes hours for a 20 min show.

What's the most quick and painless way to get mkv with ogg audio to convert and have the PS3 to pick up the subtitles during play back? Will this function ever be included with this program? There's a god awful lot of anime subs out there that could use this.

[metoo999]

Is not possible to make DTS Sound in an m2ts / vob file. The only way to have DTS is to make a AVCHD. This is a mini Bluray Disc on normaly DVD or DVD DL that must have a video file inside with 1280*720 or 1920*1080 size.

Is this only a format limitation or is it something that can be added in a PS3 firmware update?

[ckamc]

Ok, I have a lot of anime with vorbis ogg as audio.

So I have two problems

1. Getting mkv2vob to convert ogg

2. Getting subtitles on the file for the PS3.

I tried GotSent and it actually picked up on the ogg file and converted it to AAC beautifully. The problem is that, it doesn't seem to pick up the sub and hard subbing it on that program takes hours for a 20 min show.

What's the most quick and painless way to get mkv with ogg audio to convert and have the PS3 to pick up the subtitles during play back? Will this function ever be included with this program? There's a god awful lot of anime subs out there that could use this.

I use DBpoweramp to convert the audio that I extract using mkvextract, convert it to m4a nero

extract the subtitles in the same program and use subtitle workshop, open subtitle file with app, then go to save as and save it as a SRT format

use mkv merge to get eveything back together and mkv2vob will transcode it correctly.

pretty easy IMO

[ckamc]

Will there be any support for DTS now that ES and 96/24 format are now supported by 2.41?

also I get a note of a warning message in some of my conversions... where can I read these warning messages?

[x400]

so i have an mkv which did not need transcoding according to mkv2vob and after it went into remuxing the file wont play on my ps3 its just black

when i loaded the original mkv into virtualdub(mod maybe) it informed me that the file has B Frames.. would this be the problem?



^^ anyone?

[metoo999]

Will there be any support for DTS now that ES and 96/24 format are now supported by 2.41?

also I get a note of a warning message in some of my conversions... where can I read these warning messages?

I'm guessing this is only for disc-based DTS, not plain video files.

[vg132]

Thanks for a great tool!
I just have one bug and one question.
Bug 1: If you have a drive mounted to a directory in windows and not a drive letter the disk space left on the drive will be calculated from the space left on the drive letter drive and not from the correct drive. Example (if it's not clear), on c:\ I have 6 GB of free space and I have then mounted a 500gb drive with 200gb of free space to c:\500gb and pointed the temp dir to c:\500gb\temp, the program will only check the free space on c:\ and tell me I have insufficient disk space. Same problem when you point your destination to a mounted drive.

Question 1: Can I run this program from the command line? What parameters are there?

/Viktor

[Bunny_Wabbet]

hello
First let me say that this is a great software.
secondly I was wondering if you could add an option to define a default directory to add MKVs.

thanks again for a great tool

[PlazzTT]

Can this software convert an MKV with DTS audio into an MP4 with AAC audio (for Xbox 360 playback)?

I haven't been able to find a tool that does this yet. I've tried mkv2vob, GOTsent, and MKVBoxer. Should one of these tools be able to do it? I'm having to use foobar2000 to convert the extracted DTS to AAC, but I'd like an automated way to do it.

[bmnot]

So I'm converting a few files and am trying to figure out just what mkv2vob is determining in whether to re-encode the file. Both are 720p mkv (ac3 audio, h264 video).

Requires re-encode
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=8 / deblock=1:-3:-3 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / fpel_cmp=sad / subme=6 / me-prepass=0 / brdo=1 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=0 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=2 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=0 / threads=4 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / wpredb=1 / bime=1 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40(pre) / rc=2pass / bitrate=3340 / ratetol=1.0 / rceq='blurCplx^(1-qComp)' / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30 / aq=1:0.7:15.0

Does not require re-encode
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=9 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=6 / me-prepass=0 / brdo=1 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=2 / deadzone=4,6 / chroma_qp_offset=0 / threads=6 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / bframes=5 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / wpredb=1 / bime=1 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40(pre) / rc=2pass / bitrate=3536 / ratetol=1.0 / rceq='blurCplx^(1-qComp)' / qcomp=1.00 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30 / aq=1:0.5:13.0

So exactly what encoding settings/thresholds is mkv2vob looking at in deciding whether to require a transcode or not? :thanks:

[ancarloro]

Can this software convert an MKV with DTS audio into an MP4 with AAC audio (for Xbox 360 playback)?

I haven't been able to find a tool that does this yet. I've tried mkv2vob, GOTsent, and MKVBoxer. Should one of these tools be able to do it? I'm having to use foobar2000 to convert the extracted DTS to AAC, but I'd like an automated way to do it.

i think is not dificult to put an option in that great program to do that xbox360 ppl deserve that to :) . Thank fot great job

[clotz2000]

So I'm converting a few files and am trying to figure out just what mkv2vob is determining in whether to re-encode the file. Both are 720p mkv (ac3 audio, h264 video).

Requires re-encode
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=8 / deblock=1:-3:-3 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / fpel_cmp=sad / subme=6 / me-prepass=0 / brdo=1 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=0 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=2 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=0 / threads=4 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / wpredb=1 / bime=1 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40(pre) / rc=2pass / bitrate=3340 / ratetol=1.0 / rceq='blurCplx^(1-qComp)' / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30 / aq=1:0.7:15.0

Does not require re-encode
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=9 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=6 / me-prepass=0 / brdo=1 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=2 / deadzone=4,6 / chroma_qp_offset=0 / threads=6 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / bframes=5 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / wpredb=1 / bime=1 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40(pre) / rc=2pass / bitrate=3536 / ratetol=1.0 / rceq='blurCplx^(1-qComp)' / qcomp=1.00 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30 / aq=1:0.5:13.0

So exactly what encoding settings/thresholds is mkv2vob looking at in deciding whether to require a transcode or not? :thanks:

From past posts, I think it has to do with the reference blocks being 8. I'm not positive on that but I do remember seeing that posted way back in the thread, although there may also be more to it then that. Anyways, just my thoughts, haven't seen 3r1c on here for ages, I think he's done developing this for now.

[eitach]

Hello!

I trying to convert file and i getting "Unsupported Audio Codec: MPEG/L3" cuz there is 2 audio language. one of them in MPEG/L3

[Johan.]

"Could not parse mkv file"

I've been looking through this forum and I can only find questions about it no one seems to have the answer. I have some files that gives this error message. I post the info about one file below here, so can anyone tell if there is a way to get around this problem?

Video #0
Codec : AVC
Codec/Family : AVC
Codec/Info : Intel H.264
Codec profile : High@L5.1
Codec settings, CABAC : Yes
PlayTime : 55mn 38s
Bit rate : 2253 Kbps
Width : 1280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display Aspect ratio : 16/9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Resolution : 12 bits
Chroma : 4:2:0
Interlacement : Progressive

Audio #0
Codec : AC3
Bit rate mode : CBR
Bit rate : 384 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Rear: L R, Subwoofer
Sampling rate : 48 KHz


Edit: Looked at a file that is working and in that file were some extra lines with info:
Writing library : x264 - core 54 svn-600M
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=8 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=hex / subme=6 / brdo=1 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=0 / slices=2 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / wpredb=1 / bime=1 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / rc=2pass / bitrate=2467 / ratetol=1.0 / rceq='blurCplx^(1-qComp)' / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30
Language : English

Could that have something to do with it? And if it has something to do with it are there any programs that can check the file and add this information?

Edit2: I found a solution for it, I just open the files in mkvtoolnix and muxing them again. After that they work fine in mkv2vob.

[Sephiroth0000]

"Could not parse mkv file"

I've been looking through this forum and I can only find questions about it no one seems to have the answer. I have some files that gives this error message. I post the info about one file below here, so can anyone tell if there is a way to get around this problem?

Video #0
Codec : AVC
Codec/Family : AVC
Codec/Info : Intel H.264
Codec profile : High@L5.1
Codec settings, CABAC : Yes
PlayTime : 55mn 38s
Bit rate : 2253 Kbps
Width : 1280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display Aspect ratio : 16/9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Resolution : 12 bits
Chroma : 4:2:0
Interlacement : Progressive

Audio #0
Codec : AC3
Bit rate mode : CBR
Bit rate : 384 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Rear: L R, Subwoofer
Sampling rate : 48 KHz


Edit: Looked at a file that is working and in that file were some extra lines with info:
Writing library : x264 - core 54 svn-600M
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=8 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=hex / subme=6 / brdo=1 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=0 / slices=2 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / wpredb=1 / bime=1 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / rc=2pass / bitrate=2467 / ratetol=1.0 / rceq='blurCplx^(1-qComp)' / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30
Language : English

Could that have something to do with it? And if it has something to do with it are there any programs that can check the file and add this information?

Edit2: I found a solution for it, I just open the files in mkvtoolnix and muxing them again. After that they work fine in mkv2vob.


You're codec profile may be a problem. Im no master on the subject so do not 100% quote me on this but I have heard of problems with profiles overgoing 4.1. My suggestion to you is to google it and see what you get. Also TSMuxer I believe can lower a profile for you....

[smekast]

Hello everybody!

I have a problem with mkv2vob. Ive used this program on a couple of files all have been 720p.bluray.h264.mkv around 4.5 gb large. Then when im using Mkv2vob and have transcoding automatic, format vob, output x264 and so on. no subtitles or something. when mkv2vob is done the output file is around 2gb large. Ive tried it on two different computers but both have the same OS (same version of xp). Can that be the problem?

I can also say that choosing between mpeg2 xvid and h264 dont make any size difference on the output file...

I really need your help!

Greets from Sweden.

:confused:

[metoo999]

Not sure if this is a known problem. I have a 1080p file with DTS that I got remuxed and converted to AC3. I set the output files to my external USB drive. Everytime it began, I got a blue crash screen (my system reboots, so I couldn't read the error). I was able to do it by setting the output location to my internal HDD. It's weird because I have set files to save onto my external USB drive before, but maybe not when it had to convert anything (maybe because they were simple 720p AC3 remuxes).

Is the author still working on this program?

[georgem67]

Which is the best quality Output file extension ( vob, m2ts...etc ) when selecting the x264 transcoding codec?

Thanks

[jansb000]

With MKV file using a DTS audiotrack, how can I leave the audio in DTS format (without conversion to AC3)?

[metoo999]

Which is the best quality Output file extension ( vob, m2ts...etc ) when selecting the x264 transcoding codec?

Thanks

They are all the same quality. Those are just containers. Some extensions are more compatible with others on certain streaming programs. I just make them all VOBs because I copy them straight to the PS3 HDD. Some streaming programs like the MPG extension apparently.

Make sure you choose X264 (slow) for the best quality.

[metoo999]

With MKV file using a DTS audiotrack, how can I leave the audio in DTS format (without conversion to AC3)?

Right now the PS3 doesn't support DTS in HDD video files. The only way (IIRC) right now is to use TSMuxer to author a AVCHD disc image out of the MKV, then burn it to a DVD-R or DVD-R DL. It's difficult because a lot movies are encoded at full DVD-R size already, so authoring a disc image makes them too large for a disc.

I'm guessing it would have to be enabled in a firmware update and this feature would not be high on Sony's list because of the implications. They'd rather you buy/rent their own movies on the PSN.

I think the only reason AVCHD was even supported was because certain video cameras use that format. Even then they most likely wouldn't ever support DTS.

Sorry for the long answer. :)

[rolanocalhau]

Hello 3r1c!
What a great app you made. Congratulations.
I'm already using it for some time and been very usefull.
I have the last version v2.2.4 and the last file I tried to convert gave me the following error:
"The function SetMode was called on a stream[?] that hasn't been previously initialized with SetSource."
I found it very strange because I didn't know your program would use VirtualDub.
After I close this dialogue box the status shows complete but the file is missing - and nothing was done in spite it took more than 1 hour.
The file I'm trying to convert is 4,37 GB, 720p. Details:
Muxer mkvmerge v2.2.0
Duration 1:41:02,524
Audio DTS
Sampling rate 48000
And I'm loading subtitles from srt.
I have splited the file in half and the result is the same.
Can you or anybody help?
Thanks a lot.

[eitach]

WHERE ARE YOU 3r1c ?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? we didn't saw you age!!! please keep update mkv2vob! the best program ever!

[doragasu]

How does mkv2vob know when to transcode a file? I know PS3 doesn't support AVC 5.1 profile, but I have read tsmuxer can lower it to 4.1. So why does it for example need to transcode this stream? (I'm using m2ts for the output):

Track ID: 1
Stream type: H.264
Stream ID: V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Stream info: Profile: High@5.1 Resolution: 1920:816p Frame rate: 25
Stream lang: eng
Track ID: 2
Stream type: AC3
Stream ID: A_AC3
Stream info: Bitrate: 448Kbps Sample Rate: 48KHz Channels: 6
Stream lang: spa
Track ID: 3
Stream type: AC3
Stream ID: A_AC3
Stream info: Bitrate: 384Kbps Sample Rate: 48KHz Channels: 6
Stream lang: eng
Track ID: 4
Stream type: SRT
Stream ID: S_TEXT/UTF8
Stream info: SRT text subtitles
Stream lang: spa
Track ID: 5
Stream type: SRT
Stream ID: S_TEXT/UTF8
Stream info: SRT text subtitles
Stream lang: eng
Track ID: 6
Stream type: SRT
Stream ID: S_TEXT/UTF8
Stream info: SRT text subtitles
Stream lang: spa

This other movie was converted without transcoding:
Track ID: 1
Stream type: H.264
Stream ID: V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Stream info: Profile: High@4.1 Resolution: 1920:800p Frame rate: 23.976
Stream lang: spa
Track ID: 2
Stream type: AC3
Stream ID: A_AC3
Stream info: Bitrate: 640Kbps Sample Rate: 48KHz Channels: 6
Stream lang: spa
Track ID: 3
Stream type: DTS
Stream ID: A_DTS
Stream info: Bitrate: 1536Kbps Sample Rate: 48KHz Channels: 6
Stream lang: eng
Track ID: 4
Can't detect stream type
Track ID: 5
Can't detect stream type

Can it be only because of the profile? I have read something about PS3 not supporting b_pyramid. Is this checked by mkv2vob? How can I know if that option is used in a movie? Are there other parameters not supported by PS3 that mkv2vob checks?

The reason I want to get rid of mkv2vob is because I'm a Linux user, and mkv2vob is a windows only tool (I've not tried if it works with wine, but I'd like to avoid wine if possible).

Also, if anybody knows a good mkv2vob replacement for Linux, it would be greatly appreciated.

[pk1209]

Hi everyone... i'm using this quality app to convert 1080p mkv's to mpeg2 (which you probably guessed given i'm posting in this thread) and then streaming from PC to PS3

Anyhoo, overall the results are amazing, but ever so often the playback skips when i'm watching a file. At first i had no idea what was the cause, but i've since noticed on the PS3 that when the Mbps reaches 20+ or so, that when the skipping occurs.

The majority of a movie stays below that and are perfectly watchable, but what I'm not sure about is whether or not it's normal for this to happen. Is it a problem with the way the file has been converted? Is it normal for this to happen and it's a bandwidth issue (using 85mbps homeplug)?

Any clues you could give would be greatly appreciated!

ta

pk

[3r1c]

"Could not parse mkv file" means the program tried to run mkvinfo.exe in the tools folder to get details about the mkv.
Getting this error means one of two things, either the file is not a mkv, or your computer is preventing mkv2vob from running the mkvinfo.exe.
Some silly virus scanners or security software prevent one program from running another, the solution is to uninstall these crap.
Your registry may also be damaged by a (previous?) virus/trojan/spyware infection.

[ancarloro]

its possible see the files converted with mkv2vob in a table Bluray palyer ?

[Quatre]

I haven't been reading this thread in awhile becasue i got a Popcorn Hour and use that to watch 1080p x264 movies with full DTS sound. Funny thing is the pch actually has trouble with some mkv files whether because of higher then L4.1 encoding (even then unofficially it can support higher) and with files with DTS sound. It can do dts sound but with 1080p mkv with dts its just very taxing on the device.

The solution is remuxing to .ts using tsxMuxer. one prog, one step and only takes 10-15 min so its a good solutiona you get the dts sound. But its just funny that myself and others got the pch device to not have to use progs like mkv2vob and yet we still have to remux the mkv much of the time anyway even for the pch. I've just gotten used to remuxing all 1080p mkv with dts to .ts. I think tsmuxer can do srt subs but if its not you have to use mkvextract to extrac the subs from the mkv and then convert them to .srt and then name it same as your ts file to have your subs back with your mkv file remuxed to .ts

anyway i'm mostly writing this just to say that i still actually use mkv2vob for 720p hdtv eps as they never need transcoding and its a very fast remux to .m2ts and hdtv eps always are under 4gb so they fit on a fat32 2.5" usb hdd connected to ps3. So I still prefer this method for hdtv eps.

the .m2ts eps will work on both ps3 obviously and also the pch but i still find the controls better believe it or not on the ps3. for some mkv files and it seems even some remuxed with mkv2vob to .m2ts the popcorn hour can't use the ff and rewind buttons and you have to seek same with .mkv files. so the ps3 just ends up being better with more control beiieve it or not the popcorn hour in those cases a device made to play hd video files.

for movies 1080p mkv with dts remuxe to .ts and playe don the pch is great so no more transfering from pc to the ps3 sata 2.5" internal hdd via tversity

But recently the olympic opening ceremony got deleted off our dvr before my wife could watch so i got a 720p x264 of it and ran mkv2vob on it which didn't need to transcode which despite it being 4hrs was pretty fast.

I think when mkv2vob doesnt have to transcode, it is faster then tsMuxer. But I saw someone mention they used tsMuxer on the same opening ceremony 720p mkv to stream to ps3.

I didn't think tsMuxer could make a ps3 compatible file in one step. i know mkv2vob uses tsMuxer but i thought there was more to it then that so I wonder what the guy meant or if anyone can answer that. CAn one just use tsMuxer to do what mkv2vob does>?

Also, while i think the 720p .mkv will work on the popcorn hour fine so i can view that or even remux it to .ts for more stability and better controls (again i think the pch still has some problems with ff and rewind controls on the pch and you ahve to use seek buttons instead so that is another reason worth remuxing to .ts even for the ps3)

I guess the ps3 can't play those mkv remuxed to .ts using tsMuxer though right? so i dont know what that peson was talking about unless they did the other steps that mkv2vob does on their own manually.

I forgot how to split up a .m2ts file into 4gb or less segments so I just tversity to copy it to the 320gb 2.5" sata hdd i put in my ps3 but I kind of need most of that space for my hd home videos which is why i dont use ps3 for full movies anymore as no dts also. i just use it for 720p hdtv eps via 2.5" usb ext. hdd but olympic opening ceremony is 4hrs long and over 4gb so i just used tversity to copy it to the ps3 to view it.

I think i remember its easier/better to split the mkv up first before running mkv2vob on it or crap i guess mkv2vob now has a split feature, ugh i shoulda used that, ah well maybe ill try that on the other version.

i guess my main question is can one just tsMuxer on an mkv to play it on ps3? or are there other steps. if so does that mean that all the mkv i remuxed to .ts using tsMuxer for the pch will play on the ps3? i think i tried one and it didnt.

also between ps3 and pch what do you think the best player and file format is to watch something like that on and what prog.

i'm thinking i'm going to try mkv2vob again, use the file split feature and that way I can put it on fat32 usb ext. hdd and it will be a .m2ts file that will play on both ps3 and the pch.

also i dont know if new version of tversity fixes this but i guess its a ps3 problem anyway but while ps3 can read .m2ts file off usb ext. hdd, it can't seem to see them via tversity (to stream or copy to ps3) I always have to change the extension to .mpg (and .vob works i think)

for ppl that use tversity (to stream or copy to ps3) what file extension are you using? does newer versions of tversity see .m2ts files?

[NiGHTsC]

Just tried v2.2.4 2 to convert MKV (h264+ac3) to VOBSUB, output:vob; codec:x264
the problem is...vob has no audio?

Thank you in advance.

It will encode whatever subtitles are in the subtitle track marked "english" in your mkv.
It will be the same as what you see when playing the mkv with english subtitles on.Do you need to merge the subtitles into MKV and named them to English in order to encode it to PS3 video files with hardsubbed?
Cause I just tried without merge it and it didn't work.
it loads perfectly when I watching it.

[Fredro]

hi 3r1c, nice app, but I just got some problems.

Before when the app was in version 1.5.* it often made the vob around double the size, the quality was perfect.

But now with this new version I tried to get it back as it was before, so it would make the final output file around double the size since that is the quality I want. Since now it makes all of the outputs around the same size as the original mkv file, and the quality is not that good, it's staying around ~10Mbits (the video).

Before it was always really high, like around 30Mbits, and I just want that small detail back.

With the old version I renamed the extension to mpeg so I could stream it with WMP11. But now I don't need to do that anymore since of the extension chooser.

Thanks

[burnsdg]

Before it was always really high, like around 30Mbits, and I just want that small detail back.
Detail that wasn't there in the source won't be there just because you make the bit rate higher. If you want mkv2vob to output a high bitrate file like that, set it to transcode to MPEG-2.

[metoo999]

i guess my main question is can one just tsMuxer on an mkv to play it on ps3? or are there other steps. if so does that mean that all the mkv i remuxed to .ts using tsMuxer for the pch will play on the ps3? i think i tried one and it didnt.


Sometimes TS files will not work so well with MKV2VOB. I never seemed to have good luck with them. TSMuxer is good for remuxing TS files into .M2TS files, which the PS3 can play fine (with AC3 sound of course). The PS3 cannot read TS files, IIRC.

I don't bother trying MKVs with TSMuxer because it's too much to think about. I just stick it into MKV2VOB and let that handle it. I hate transcoding, so if it starts that, I usually abort and watch it from my laptop attached to the TV. The ideal situation is to watch it from my PS3 with my handy-dandy Bluetooth remote, of course. :)

Edit: Odd, I just tried a 1080p/AC3 L 4.1 MKV sample file and MKV2VOB wanted to transcode it. But when I remuxed the MKV as a .M2TS file, it played fine on the PS3. Will have to investigate this with more 1080p files.

[B4tm4n]

Sometimes TS files will not work so well with MKV2VOB. I never seemed to have good luck with them. TSMuxer is good for remuxing TS files into .M2TS files, which the PS3 can play fine (with AC3 sound of course). The PS3 cannot read TS files, IIRC.

I don't bother trying MKVs with TSMuxer because it's too much to think about. I just stick it into MKV2VOB and let that handle it. I hate transcoding, so if it starts that, I usually abort and watch it from my laptop attached to the TV. The ideal situation is to watch it from my PS3 with my handy-dandy Bluetooth remote, of course. :)

Edit: Odd, I just tried a 1080p/AC3 L 4.1 MKV sample file and MKV2VOB wanted to transcode it. But when I remuxed the MKV as a .M2TS file, it played fine on the PS3. Will have to investigate this with more 1080p files.

The PS3 does play ts files and with the latest firmware, you don't even have to change the L5.1 to L4.1, this is using tsMuxer. (Its a one click solution).

[NiGHTsC]

Anyone knows what audio codec I need to play the converted VOB on PC?
I've installed AC3filter 1.51a and still no love.

[djhazardous]

Sometimes TS files will not work so well with MKV2VOB. I never seemed to have good luck with them. TSMuxer is good for remuxing TS files into .M2TS files, which the PS3 can play fine (with AC3 sound of course). The PS3 cannot read TS files, IIRC.

When I asked 3r1c a question a while ago I remember him saying the file extention is irrelevant and that what the file contained was the exact same data. It's not impossible however that one extension has better compatibility with an MKV than another. I don't know, I've always used .MPG and all mine have worked and I've only ever had to transcode once!


Anyone knows what audio codec I need to play the converted VOB on PC?
I've installed AC3filter 1.51a and still no love.
Try downloading and installing the Combined Commuinity Codec Pack here:

http://www.cccp-project.net/

[metoo999]

The PS3 does play ts files and with the latest firmware, you don't even have to change the L5.1 to L4.1, this is using tsMuxer. (Its a one click solution).

I didn't know that. I must have gotten some borked TS files or did something wrong to them.

[metoo999]

When I asked 3r1c a question a while ago I remember him saying the file extention is irrelevant and that what the file contained was the exact same data. It's not impossible however that one extension has better compatibility with an MKV than another. I don't know, I've always used .MPG and all mine have worked and I've only ever had to transcode once!



Try downloading and installing the Combined Commuinity Codec Pack here:

http://www.cccp-project.net/

I have AC3Filter and CCCP installed. Sometimes after converting, I will not get audio on the files on Windows, but they play fine on my PS3.

[NiGHTsC]

Try downloading and installing the Combined Commuinity Codec Pack here:

http://www.cccp-project.net/

I have AC3Filter and CCCP installed. Sometimes after converting, I will not get audio on the files on Windows, but they play fine on my PS3.That's how it killed me.
the Audio codec is definitely AC3 (from MediaInfo) and I'm playing it with MPC v6.4.9.0 and it just can't find the audio.
video is from 3r's sample.
I'm just trying to have a stand-alone codec, tired of these packs.

[naj]

Why don't you just install AC3Filter?

[NiGHTsC]

Why don't you just install AC3Filter?hm....I did?Anyone knows what audio codec I need to play the converted VOB on PC?
I've installed AC3filter 1.51a and still no love.

[Quatre]

The PS3 does play ts files and with the latest firmware, you don't even have to change the L5.1 to L4.1, this is using tsMuxer. (Its a one click solution).

didn't know that either. I have a popcorn hour player which I like many got for x264 .mkv playback with no need to convert. But it while the pch can play L 5.1 files its not officially supported and a lot of 1080p mkv with DTS have problems. The fix is to use tsMuxeR to remux to .ts and then the pch can handle any 1080p .ts with full DTS sound.

even ff and reweind controls are finicky or dont work fully with mkv on the pch. Its still a great player and I do use it for 1080p movies with dts but for tv eps mkv2vob and ps3 is still king.

I dont know why but I just like the controls on the ps3 better and the picture is good and convenience from a 2.5" ext. usb hdd.

720p hdtv eps never need to be transcoded and the ability to have mkv2vob add the file from the rar without having to unrar first is convenient and quick. No hdtv eps are ever larger then 4gb except in the case of something super long like the olympics opening ceremony and then you just have mkv2vob do the fat32 4gb split option which gives you 2 parts (less to ffwd through if you trying to get to a certain part though the ps3 ability to skip to any time in the file without ffing through it all is great)

so yeah even with the popcorn hour as one of the most popular (and economical) HD media players, I still make use of the ps3 for hdtv eps thanks to mkv2vob.

continues to be a great prog.

in fact if ps3 plays .ts files then short of no DTS sound on the ps3 then I maybe didn't even need a pch. But for movies you dont want split up parts usually and it was a pain to transfer to the ps3 internal hdd via tversity and besides i need all that space for avchd home videos.

I know 3rlc was mostly using mkv2vob for hdtv eps also and for that it does remain king.

[3r1c]

The PS3 does play ts files and with the latest firmware, you don't even have to change the L5.1 to L4.1, this is using tsMuxer. (Its a one click solution).

This is misleading info.
Short answer: this will not allow you to do anything that mkv2vob does not already do.

Long answer:
The latest ps3 update ignores the level flag, so changing the flag is no longer necessary, but if the video is encoded with L5.1 it still will not work.
Many people who encode movies are mistakenly setting L5.1 flag on a video which is not actually encoded with L5.1, the new update allows these files to be played.
Videos which are not playable still need to be transcoded as always.
The PS3 does not possess the video hardware needed to decode L5.1

[metoo999]

in fact if ps3 plays .ts files then short of no DTS sound on the ps3 then I maybe didn't even need a pch. But for movies you dont want split up parts usually and it was a pain to transfer to the ps3 internal hdd via tversity and besides i need all that space for avchd home videos.

I know 3rlc was mostly using mkv2vob for hdtv eps also and for that it does remain king.

The PS3 is great for TV eps and also 720p/AC3 movies. I don't mind splitting them as it takes just a few seconds to switch files. I usually split and save them to my tiny external USB HDD and play them from there without even copying to the PS3 HDD. 720p/DTS movies I just play from my laptop hooked to the HDTV.

[B4tm4n]

The PS3 is great for TV eps and also 720p/AC3 movies. I don't mind splitting them as it takes just a few seconds to switch files. I usually split and save them to my tiny external USB HDD and play them from there without even copying to the PS3 HDD. 720p/DTS movies I just play from my laptop hooked to the HDTV.

I stream all my media so I don't need to split any of the files.

[metoo999]

I stream all my media so I don't need to split any of the files.

That's great, but with streaming you have to keep on your PC and PS3 throughout. I prefer to have it all on my PS3.

[metoo999]

I want to convert some 4:3 TV shows from a DVD. What is the best possible bitrate quality I can use, meaning as close to the original DVD-9 as possible? I was thinking about encoding into a high bitrate PS3 compatible MKV using OS X Handbrake, then running them through MKV2VOB. Which exact settings will make it PS3 compatible. Handbrake has a PS3 setting, but it only goes to 2500 kbps.

[NiGHTsC]

any AUDIO codec news?
AC3filter? Failed.

That's great, but with streaming you have to keep on your PC and PS3 throughout. I prefer to have it all on my PS3.
well, you could always copy them to PS3, 4GB file took me 1h.

[metoo999]

I had some partial success with the DVD to PS3. I opened the DVD in Handbrake, picked the PS3 preset, chose MKV as the container, chose AVC+AC3, then changed the bitrate to 5000 kbps. Then I remuxed the episodes through MKV2VOB (no transcoding).

They came out great, but there is a line of distortion on the right side of the video when I play it on the PS3. It almost looks like a mirror image of what happening right next to it. It's not present when I play the file on my computer. Sucks cause otherwise the video looks and plays perfect.

I also tried remuxing the MKV to a M2TS through TSMuxer, but it did the same thing.

I was going to do just the PS3 preset, but the bitrate is only 2500 kbps on that one and the program wouldn't let me use AC3 passthrough without changing the extension to M4V (which made it unplayable on the PS3).

[3r1c]

They came out great, but there is a line of distortion on the right side of the video when I play it on the PS3. It almost looks like a mirror image of what happening right next to it.

The PS3 does this when your video frame size is not a multiple of 16.

If you are trying to watch a dvd, just extract the mpeg2 stream from the dvd to a mpg file and ps3 will play it with no conversion needed.

[metoo999]

The PS3 does this when your video frame size is not a multiple of 16.

If you are trying to watch a dvd, just extract the mpeg2 stream from the dvd to a mpg file and ps3 will play it with no conversion needed.

Thanks. I used DVDShrink to re-author each episode as a separate VOB set (so they wouldn't get attached to each other), then I used VOB2MPG to save them as MPGs. I wish I had known about VOB2MPG before.

[eitach]

Hi 3r1c, there are any plans to new version soon? maybe you will add options to "Subtitle Options" like, size, font, bold... ?
add MPEG/2L support to convert to ac3? AVCHD option?

[NiGHTsC]

Hi 3r1c, there are any plans to new version soon? maybe you will add options to "Subtitle Options" like, size, font, bold... ?+1
Wondering why mkv2vob will change the font after converting.

[tintin1001]

Is there anyway to create files with PCM instead of DTS->AC3 ?
And would these be playable? Eventhough it would only be worthwhile for HDMI

[Sagaroth]

Hi there
The program is great !
3r1c please make Cyrillic subtitles usable in next version
Thanks and keep up the good work !

[veggav]

Hi, longe time din't check the mkv2vob progress.
Does the ps3 still have problems with fault 720p like 1280x568 ?
The green bar issue ?

Does the mkv2vob transcode when you add a srt subtitle ?
Does it take a long time for that ?

[metoo999]

Hi, longe time din't check the mkv2vob progress.
Does the ps3 still have problems with fault 720p like 1280x568 ?
The green bar issue ?

Does the mkv2vob transcode when you add a srt subtitle ?
Does it take a long time for that ?

You mean when you try to make a AVCHD disc out of a MKV when it's not exactly 720p or 1080p? Yeah, it still does that.

I believe it does transcode when adding subtitles because the PS3 can't read separate subtitle files. Not sure how long it takes, but it's fairly long on my C2D 2.0 GHz.

[Oleg Rode]

Hi there
The program is great !
3r1c please make Cyrillic subtitles usable in next version
Thanks and keep up the good work !
Yes, also ask for this!:)

[johnmerrick]

does anyone know why DTS mkv's become much smaller than their original size?

not complaining by the way because i like the fact i can get 1080p's onto a DVD9!

thanks

[naj]

Usually DTS is 1536kbps long, and AC3 is 640kbps, thus a lot smaller...

[NiGHTsC]

@3r1c
Any chance to support SSA/ASS subtitle type in the future?
font changing is the point!

Thank you.

[Sirlx]

Hi :)

First, excuse my bad english, i'm french. :)

I would like to congratulate Eric for his wonderful work on this program, i use it everyday.

I have a question: is mkv2vob Vista-64 bits compatible ? And if not, is there any chance to get soon an update for that ?

Thx a lot :)

[vg132]

Any chanse for this great tool to go open source?

/Viktor

[Sulimo]

This probably was answered in the 100 pages or so of this thread but...

I'm using version 2.24. Anyway running a certain mkv that is H.264/AAC audio I notice that it seems to convert the audio to Dolby Digital no matter what setting I try. Is there a way for it just to pass through and keep the original AAC audio?

[metoo999]

Any chanse for this great tool to go open source?

/Viktor

Yeah, I would love an OS X version. This and TSMuxer are probably the only PC programs I use regularly. I hate having to boot my Macbook into Windows. :(

[metoo999]

This probably was answered in the 100 pages or so of this thread but...

I'm using version 2.24. Anyway running a certain mkv that is H.264/AAC audio I notice that it seems to convert the audio to Dolby Digital no matter what setting I try. Is there a way for it just to pass through and keep the original AAC audio?

I don't think you can change that function. You might have to use MKVToolnix to demux and another program to remux the audio/video into a container the PS3 can read.

[azyd]

This probably was answered in the 100 pages or so of this thread but...

I'm using version 2.24. Anyway running a certain mkv that is H.264/AAC audio I notice that it seems to convert the audio to Dolby Digital no matter what setting I try. Is there a way for it just to pass through and keep the original AAC audio?

use yamb.... it will allow you to remux your h264 and acc streams to a compatible mp4 file thats playable on the ps3

[Poof]

5. Playback the vob file through tversity, burn to dvd-r, flash drive, etc...

I converted an x264 mkv to both mpg and VOB, then tried to load them into encore, and it could tell the mpg wasnt a real mpeg2 stream (meaning it wanted to transcode it), and it treated the VOB like an ac3 stream (no video).

So, this program doesnt work or what?

[Poof]

Confirmed. Tested with DVDflick and both VOB's and MPG's are read as corrupt or incorrect streams.

Also, upon loading the program, comodo firewall reported trojan activity coming from "loader.exe". What sort of bullshit are you trying to pull? Cant believe doom9 hasnt banned you yet.

[azyd]

Confirmed. Tested with DVDflick and both VOB's and MPG's are read as corrupt or incorrect streams.

Also, upon loading the program, comodo firewall reported trojan activity coming from "loader.exe". What sort of bullshit are you trying to pull? Cant believe doom9 hasnt banned you yet.

first of all the files that get produced are ment for the ps3 not for your pc.
second i have had this prog scince day one i never had any problems.... so watch who you accuse of what....

[metoo999]

My scanner hasn't picked up anything in the MKV2VOB installation, and I've been using the program with few problems for almost half a year.

[rolanocalhau]

Hello 3r1c!
What a great app you made. Congratulations.
I'm already using it for some time and been very usefull.
I have the last version v2.2.4 and the last file I tried to convert gave me the following error:
"The function SetMode was called on a stream[?] that hasn't been previously initialized with SetSource."
I found it very strange because I didn't know your program would use VirtualDub.
After I close this dialogue box the status shows complete but the file is missing - and nothing was done in spite it took more than 1 hour.
The file I'm trying to convert is 4,37 GB, 720p. Details:
Muxer mkvmerge v2.2.0
Duration 1:41:02,524
Audio DTS
Sampling rate 48000
And I'm loading subtitles from srt.
I have splited the file in half and the result is the same.
Can you or anybody help?
Thanks a lot.

Can anyone help on this?

Another problem I found is related to mencoder.exe: in the beginning of the transcoding i get the traditional windows message "mencoder.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close".
Why?

[azyd]

i have some files that have been encoded high@level 4.1(1080p) and no matter what i do i cant get my ps3 to read the video.... it will give me the audio.
is there anything that can be done to fix this.....?

[GuyManDude]

I have an mkv file that uses "MPEG-1 Audio layer 2" for the audio codec and can't be converted by mkv2vob. Is there a way to convert this file so that I can play it on my PS3?

[azyd]

I have an mkv file that uses "MPEG-1 Audio layer 2" for the audio codec and can't be converted by mkv2vob. Is there a way to convert this file so that I can play it on my PS3?

you are going to have to manually encode the audio to ac3 and then remux it to an mkv or pop it in to tsmux.er

[incognitos]

I take conversion without transcoding and when I click Add File I have a status "ERROR REPAIRING AC3". This is error?? or program only repairing AC3 and after conversion vob will be ok??

[lazarusbf]

hello everyone,
i've been using this fab application for a while now, but only for tv series episodes and all went fine.
today that was the 1st time i went for muxing a 4.4Go mkv file so that i could play it on the pS3 but after about 6 hours work, the progress bar was still barely at half the job.
Is this normal ?
for sure my pc's ageing (simple athlon 2.8, 1Go RAM), but does it take about 15 or 18hours to mux such a file ?

[skylinekiller]

Do you guys think this program is being scrapped? There are a lot of discrepancies and haven't been any updates. I would actually pay money for it if it worked better. Nothing else accurately converts MKV files. I hope the creator makes updates.

[eitach]

Do you guys think this program is being scrapped? There are a lot of discrepancies and haven't been any updates. I would actually pay money for it if it worked better. Nothing else accurately converts MKV files. I hope the creator makes updates.

Yeha me too!!!, or the u will release the open code for someone else if u don't have time for this...

[rsaini]

How can I extract the streams that are in my VOB files? Tried tsmuxer and mkvextract but no luck...

[clotz2000]

How can I extract the streams that are in my VOB files? Tried tsmuxer and mkvextract but no luck...

http://www.doom9.org/Soft21/Vobtools/Vobedit06.zip

VOB editing utility, can split, demux, remux and join VOB files.

Hope that helps...

[rsaini]

http://www.doom9.org/Soft21/Vobtools/Vobedit06.zip

VOB editing utility, can split, demux, remux and join VOB files.

Hope that helps...

will try...thanks

[-=Pjay=-]

Hi and thx Eric for the great app.
However, I had two mkv's which needed "repair AC3" and the 5.1 stream was converted into 2.0. (I have the latest version)

My question is if there is some way to embed subtitles into the VOB or TS so that the PS3 can read it from the stream (on/off functionality)? The reencoding is very time-consuming.
Or is PS3 only able to use embedded streaming of subs in DVD or BD mode?

Would also be great to have some sub editing options in the app, souch as font size and type, offset and so on.
Oh, and would it be possible to include some more info about the progress other than the very fat bar? ;)
I open the txt file in the TEMP-folder regularly to read the progress (% completed, FPS, time remaining). Would be nice to have this info in the app window.

[chadsmith]

first of all thx 3r1c for this great app.
I would like to know if there is anyway to change the bitrate mkv2vob uses so i can fit 10GB into DVD9 cause i dont want to spli it (it ruins the movie:P)
thx for the help...

[Shayx]

hey 3R1C!
i have a question for you...

can we expect a QUAD support in the future releases of MKV2VOB?

[NiGHTsC]

Please let us to add subtitle without mux it into MKV, simpler and faster.
If it's possible, please add the support to other subtitle type, eg, SSA and ASS, and not only SRT.

Thanx 3r1c, you have made an awesome program!

[NiGHTsC]

hey 3R1C!
i have a question for you...

can we expect a QUAD support in the future releases of MKV2VOB?
Yah, multi-thread support would be great too, I have X2 4200+ and I just realized it's using only 50% of CPU Ultilization.

oh 3r1c, about the subtitle support, maybe you could do the same as AVIAddXSubs?
it has a build-in subtitle options.
http://www.calcitapp.com/AVIAddXSubs.php
http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/125/57375881eb9yn5.jpg

Thanx again.

[avih]

Is there any reason that this thread is crowded with quite a few users with 10 messages each on average? Is this thread linked from another forum? I'm just interested..

[metoo999]

Is there any reason that this thread is crowded with quite a few users with 10 messages each on average? Is this thread linked from another forum? I'm just interested..

I'm guessing because we post a lot.

[prophetizer]

i've been having problems with this app lately, just not working right. if i use tsmuxer it does fine, so i dunno. is there some known bugs right now? where can i see that list?

[MicoMaco]

I already made a separate thread on this issue I have but no one answered. Since it is about mkv2vob I finally decided to come here and ask the same question again. mkv2vob allows transcoding mkv files to avi with XviD codec. Now the question. Why is a target bitrate in such created avi files encoded with Xvid codec limited to about 3050 kbps in mkv2vob. We all know XviD can go as high as 10000 kbps. I discovered the same issue in Super. Both of these software use mencoder.exe. Does this limitation come from mencoder? How can I go above 3050 kbps?

Thx for your time and answers!

MM

EDIT: Don't bother, I figured it out already, it definitely has to do with mencoder and in mkv2vob I assume the app uses default values for XviD encoding. All I have to do to manually set the bitrate is run mencoder from cmd line and set the bitrate there.

[Cyberz]

very good app!

But I have some request, or suggestions if u want.
Destination Folder should always be the same folder where the mkv file is, if u don't choose another.
If u choose add directory and u already extracted the file it should not try extract the rar files again. (it never works anyway)
And maybe a stop button?

[chadsmith]

I already made a separate thread on this issue I have but no one answered. Since it is about mkv2vob I finally decided to come here and ask the same question again. mkv2vob allows transcoding mkv files to avi with XviD codec. Now the question. Why is a target bitrate in such created avi files encoded with Xvid codec limited to about 3050 kbps in mkv2vob. We all know XviD can go as high as 10000 kbps. I discovered the same issue in Super. Both of these software use mencoder.exe. Does this limitation come from mencoder? How can I go above 3050 kbps?

Thx for your time and answers!

MM

EDIT: Don't bother, I figured it out already, it definitely has to do with mencoder and in mkv2vob I assume the app uses default values for XviD encoding. All I have to do to manually set the bitrate is run mencoder from cmd line and set the bitrate there.

can you please help me?how can i change the bitrate mkv2vob uses when converting to x264?i want to lower it so i can fit a movie to dvd9,is there any way?

[NiGHTsC]

can you please help me?how can i change the bitrate mkv2vob uses when converting to x264?i want to lower it so i can fit a movie to dvd9,is there any way?
Yah, I would like to know what command you used to change the default bitrate...
I found that my AVI didn't drop alot, 9k to 7.6k, 1.6~k I think, hope I won't need to reconvert it.

by the way, just found out that it's MEncoder which doesn't support Multi-Thread, hope it's a future feature?

[skylinekiller]

If you want to add subs to mp4 use YAMB. it's free.

[skylinekiller]

I think it's clear that this program is dead. I havent seen any responses from the developer in some time now.

[metoo999]

That appears so. Is the source really necessary for someone to cobble another version together? It seems like mostly what this program does is take other programs like TSMuxer and Besweet and tell them to produce files with an output that the PS3 accepts.

[eitach]

3r1c is here. I checked in his profile :"Last Activity: 25th September 2008 16:36"
so 3r1c, please, give us some updates! we need your program! please!

[burro08]

im sure 3r1c has a life lol im sure hell be back at some point

[lazarusbf]

hello
i've been using this application for a while now, and i always needed to transcode my mkv files into mpegs + subtitles encoding so that they would play on my PS3.
now i also have some new video files who are still mkv AND (french) subs integrated but still i need to demux them into mpegs for my PS3.
The question is: what options should i uncheck because i've just gave it a try but it looks like it's going to take ages again to convert while i've already had the job done in the past within a few minutes, i'm sure it's a question of settings in the configuration section. Can anybody be of help ? thanks

[NiGHTsC]

You need to tanscode again if the MKV codec isn't supported by PS3.
what codec is that MKV? and resolution?

[sftung]

Hi, MKV2VOB is great program...

but I got some problem on subtitle, some character set incorrectly rendered:

http://202.123.84.50/mkv2vob1.jpg

the character only show left side, 1/3 of right side is loss. it happen on some specified character onlt

I am using V2.2.4 and the subtitle encode is Chinese BIG5.

[phirestalker]

I was wondering if I could get the source code for mkv2vob, I use linux and I would like to make a version for linux. Great app by the way :)

I am sorry if someone already asked this, but the search function on this site doesn't bring up the page of the post with the relevent keywords, only the first page and there are too many pages to go through

[nosnoop]

I am sorry if someone already asked this, but the search function on this site doesn't bring up the page of the post with the relevent keywords, only the first page and there are too many pages to go through

Use Advanced Search and change "Show Results As" to "Posts".

And within this big thread, you can also do "Search This Thread" in your right upper corner.

[pommywbb]

Here's my first post - i've been using MKV2VOB for a good while now but I have a massive problem and so i've joined to get an answer - hopefullly!

Ok I have 300+ Blurays/HD-DVD's in MKV format - I have been making them into VOB's for my PS3 and it works great...

BUT - I recently upgraded to a Onkyo 606 amp and some Def Tech speakers and have noticed every single one I have converted - the sound is reversed!!!

Example - Let's say a car drives past on the screen from left to right... the sound annoyingly goes the opposite right to left!

If I put a original Bluray on, it's fine.

If I play a game, it's fine and the same with music and DVD's.

So... did you know your software does this?

And is there a fix?

I really hope so.

[azyd]

Here's my first post - i've been using MKV2VOB for a good while now but I have a massive problem and so i've joined to get an answer - hopefullly!

Ok I have 300+ Blurays/HD-DVD's in MKV format - I have been making them into VOB's for my PS3 and it works great...

BUT - I recently upgraded to a Onkyo 606 amp and some Def Tech speakers and have noticed every single one I have converted - the sound is reversed!!!

Example - Let's say a car drives past on the screen from left to right... the sound annoyingly goes the opposite right to left!

If I put a original Bluray on, it's fine.

If I play a game, it's fine and the same with music and DVD's.

So... did you know your software does this?

And is there a fix?

I really hope so.

hate to sound stupid but it might me a problem with the decoder u had in your pc at the time you turned them in to vob...... for the stupid part..... just swap the speaker cables unless you want to reencode all the audio....

[Socomscuba]

I've been using the mkv2vob for quite awhile now and it's been very helpful.

Lately though, I'm having a slight problem and it's bugging me.

When I attempt to select a .rar file from within mkv2vob it proceeds to unrar the file, but when done it gives me an error saying "unable to extract rar file".

I go to the directory where the rar file and the file is unpacked there, just fine. No problems.

It seems like I may have accidentally changed a setting in Winrar that makes it do something that mkv2vob doesn't like. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling both applications and the application settings seem to be "saved" on the PC somehow. I have Vista 64bit edition.

Any suggestions, I'm sure it's a small problem.

[frogman]

hate to sound stupid but it might me a problem with the decoder u had in your pc at the time you turned them in to vob...... for the stupid part..... just swap the speaker cables unless you want to reencode all the audio....

Can you post a couple of samples...I would like to test this out on my system. :thanks:

[pommywbb]

hate to sound stupid but it might me a problem with the decoder u had in your pc at the time you turned them in to vob...... for the stupid part..... just swap the speaker cables unless you want to reencode all the audio....

Thanks for the input - but it's not that.

I've tried on 3 different PC's.

And swapping the speaker cables...they are wired into the walls!

Hmmm... i'm sooo frustrated with it as there is no settings to try etc. and it's literally every single file it converts from amimation to action movies....

[azyd]

Thanks for the input - but it's not that.

I've tried on 3 different PC's.

And swapping the speaker cables...they are wired into the walls!

Hmmm... i'm sooo frustrated with it as there is no settings to try etc. and it's literally every single file it converts from amimation to action movies....

dont know waht to tell you i have encoded and remuxed tons of stuff and i have had no problems......you should try to do what i do. demux the dts track and convet it manually with dts to ac3 prog i found..... was going to upload it here but its 10kb to big:angry:. then if you need to reencode, remux to m kv with the ac3 and import to mkv2vob and if you dont then just import to tsmuxser GUI and create your m2ts file.......

[pommywbb]

Maybe it's my source? - I highly doubt it as they are verrrry strict on quality - but maybe you could try MKV2VOB on one of the files?

Micro High Definition Films

http://hd-bb.org

If you need an invite, let me know.

Cheers!

[prophetizer]

i've searched this thread and haven't found the answer, but how come some of the remuxed videos seem to stop after a minute or so, like it was at the end?

[thomasphoenix]

This is happening with me every single time , if i use a source with AAC 6 channel audio ( i found there is a difference in channel mapping aac channels go into the wrong channels if u use a dts channel position),Mkv2vob does a good job with dts only, or passthrough on ac3...
The author also did mention earlier that he intended this software only for ac3 passthru or dts.

hope this helps, solutio i found is use convertxtodvd and extract the ac3 (proper channel mapping ) from the created dvd files.

[pommywbb]

This is happening with me every single time , if i use a source with AAC 6 channel audio ( i found there is a difference in channel mapping aac channels go into the wrong channels if u use a dts channel position),Mkv2vob does a good job with dts only, or passthrough on ac3...
The author also did mention earlier that he intended this software only for ac3 passthru or dts.

hope this helps, solutio i found is use convertxtodvd and extract the ac3 (proper channel mapping ) from the created dvd files.

I'll give that a shot - thanks for your time, much appreciated!

[clotz2000]

I guess I just don't understand why anyone would want any HD movies with AAC sound... I guess for TV Episodes or Anime it would be ok.

[-=Pjay=-]

If this fine app ever get updated, I have one more request.

My display (front projector) does not support 24 fps, hence I prefere to convert the movies into 25 fps to have them run silky smooth on my display. For now I'm using mkv2vob to reencode (burning in subs) the mkv into a vob. Then i demux the resulting vob with TsMuxer into a h264 video file and a ac3 audio file. the video file is converted into 25 fps directly in tsMuxer. I then use BeSweet to convert the audio file from 23.976 to 25 fps. Then back to tsMuxer again to mux the h264 video file and the new ac3 audio file into a "final version" m2ts movie file.

Would be nice to have an option in mkv2vob that will do this automatically in the process. Would be faster and I would not have to do the job manually! ;)

[prophetizer]

i have noticed that when u remux an MKV for streaming on the PS3, and those odd times that it only plays for a few seconds and stops, for some reason the PS3 info will say that the file is only like 11MB instead of it being the 1GB file that it is on the PC

[eitach]

Someone know how can i change the font of the subtitles?

[wiggo123]

Very nice app. Just want to know the best way to burn it to a dvd-r. Ive got an 8 gig file which has been split in two. So can someone tell me the best way to burn it so it can be played back on my ps3?

Ive tried using nero, but on the ps3 it just comes up with a DATA DISC and shows no file no matter what I try to do.

TIA Wiggo

[bmnot]

you have to press "triangle" on your controller and press show all if i remember right,it will then show you what is in the dvd

[bmnot]

is there any way of changing biteate mkv2vob uses when transcoding to x264??

[lazarusbf]

You need to tanscode again if the MKV codec isn't supported by PS3.
what codec is that MKV? and resolution?

Sorry, i was away for a while and didn't come to check answers.
I had to transcode again yes.

Now i'm on another issue and i can't figure out something:

I have this blu-ray rip, details below

It's french, but whatever, you'll understand what needs to

Format : Matroska
Taille du fichier : 7.95 Gio
Durée : 2h 20mn
Débit : 8125 Kbps
Date d´encodage : UTC 2008-08-14 16:09:23
Application utilisée : mkvmerge v2.0.2 (´You´re My Flame´) built on Feb 21 2007 23:40:55
Bibliothèque utilisée : libebml v0.7.7 + libmatroska v0.8.1
Video #0
Codec : AVC
Codec/Famille : AVC
Codec/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Profile du codec : High@L5.1
Paramètres du codec, CABAC : Yes
Durée : 2h 19mn
Débit : 7154 Kbps
Débit nominal : 7478 Kbps
Largeur : 1920 pixels
Hauteur : 804 pixels
Format à l´écran : 2.35
Images par seconde : 23.976 Im/s
Chrominance : 4:2:0
Entrlacement : Progressif
Bibliothèque utilisée : x264 - core 60 r928M 4816918
Paramètres d´encodage : cabac=1 / ref=3 / deblock=1:-2:-1 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=6 / psy_rd=1.000000 / brdo=1 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=0 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=1 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=0 / threads=6 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / bframes=2 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / wpredb=1 / bime=1 / keyint=14 / keyint_min=2 / scenecut=40(pre) / rc=2pass / bitrate=7478 / ratetol=1.0 / rceq=´blurCplx^(1-qComp)´ / qcomp=1.00 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / vbv_maxrate=25000 / vbv_bufsize=14475 / ip_ratio=1.10 / pb_ratio=1.10 / aq=2:1.00
Langue : Français
Audio #0
Codec : AC3
Type de débit : CBR
Débit : 640 Kbps
Canaux : 6 canaux
Position des cannaux : Front: L C R, Rear: L R, Subwoofer
Echantillonnage : 48 KHz
Langue : Français

> My problem is the following: as a 8Go big MKV file, i've split it into 2 equal parts with MKVmerge as my only way to play them are to use the PS3 and DVDrW.
Then i use MKV2vob to convert them so that the PS3 reads them. Part 1 was fine, mkv2vob took about 2 minutes to convert as it didn't need transcoding. Tried it on my PS3 and went fine.
Then started the job for part2 with mkv2vob and then it starts transcoding ! It's now gonna take about 12 hours as my pc's old.
Why the hell does it need a transcode for a part of it while the first one didn't need to ?? All options are unchecked. I've tried the 'never' transcode option but then the PS3 tells me there's nothing on my DVDRW.

:stupid:

[azyd]

Sorry, i was away for a while and didn't come to check answers.
I had to transcode again yes.

Now i'm on another issue and i can't figure out something:

I have this blu-ray rip, details below

It's french, but whatever, you'll understand what needs to

Format : Matroska
Taille du fichier : 7.95 Gio
Durée : 2h 20mn
Débit : 8125 Kbps
Date d´encodage : UTC 2008-08-14 16:09:23
Application utilisée : mkvmerge v2.0.2 (´You´re My Flame´) built on Feb 21 2007 23:40:55
Bibliothèque utilisée : libebml v0.7.7 + libmatroska v0.8.1
Video #0
Codec : AVC
Codec/Famille : AVC
Codec/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Profile du codec : High@L5.1
Paramètres du codec, CABAC : Yes
Durée : 2h 19mn
Débit : 7154 Kbps
Débit nominal : 7478 Kbps
Largeur : 1920 pixels
Hauteur : 804 pixels
Format à l´écran : 2.35
Images par seconde : 23.976 Im/s
Chrominance : 4:2:0
Entrlacement : Progressif
Bibliothèque utilisée : x264 - core 60 r928M 4816918
Paramètres d´encodage : cabac=1 / ref=3 / deblock=1:-2:-1 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=6 / psy_rd=1.000000 / brdo=1 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=0 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=1 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=0 / threads=6 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / bframes=2 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / wpredb=1 / bime=1 / keyint=14 / keyint_min=2 / scenecut=40(pre) / rc=2pass / bitrate=7478 / ratetol=1.0 / rceq=´blurCplx^(1-qComp)´ / qcomp=1.00 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / vbv_maxrate=25000 / vbv_bufsize=14475 / ip_ratio=1.10 / pb_ratio=1.10 / aq=2:1.00
Langue : Français
Audio #0
Codec : AC3
Type de débit : CBR
Débit : 640 Kbps
Canaux : 6 canaux
Position des cannaux : Front: L C R, Rear: L R, Subwoofer
Echantillonnage : 48 KHz
Langue : Français

> My problem is the following: as a 8Go big MKV file, i've split it into 2 equal parts with MKVmerge as my only way to play them are to use the PS3 and DVDrW.
Then i use MKV2vob to convert them so that the PS3 reads them. Part 1 was fine, mkv2vob took about 2 minutes to convert as it didn't need transcoding. Tried it on my PS3 and went fine.
Then started the job for part2 with mkv2vob and then it starts transcoding ! It's now gonna take about 12 hours as my pc's old.
Why the hell does it need a transcode for a part of it while the first one didn't need to ?? All options are unchecked. I've tried the 'never' transcode option but then the PS3 tells me there's nothing on my DVDRW.

:stupid:

its because the info isnt there anymore..... you can try to demux the audio and video and remux to a new mkv then try to run it in mkv2vob with the option to never transcode

[wiggo123]

you have to press "triangle" on your controller and press show all if i remember right,it will then show you what is in the dvd

Yeah I tried all that. Still no joy. Thanks anyway

[NiGHTsC]

@lazarusbf
You should just try to send the 8GB file to PS3 instead have it burned if you can't solve it.

Someone know how can i change the font of the subtitles?You can't and I hope it's a future feature.

[lazarusbf]

its because the info isnt there anymore..... you can try to demux the audio and video and remux to a new mkv then try to run it in mkv2vob with the option to never transcode

The 'info' what do you mean ? because i split it into 2 parts then every time the 2nd half will have to go through transcoding ?
Otherwise then yes i'll try as you say.
Thanks for your reply.

[lazarusbf]

@lazarusbf
You souldn't just try to send the 8GB file to PS3 instead have it burned if you can't solve it.


Is it because i'm french speaking, but i can't see what you mean in this sentence. (i understand all words, i mean, i don't get the sense of it). :stupid:

[mmace]

Is it because i'm french speaking, but i can't see what you mean in this sentence. (i understand all words, i mean, i don't get the sense of it). :stupid:I didn't get it either!

have you tried letting MKV2VOB split the file for you rather than doing it before?

The information about the video is at the start, when you split it the 2nd part has no information so MKV2VOB doesn't know if it's x264 L5.1 or 4.1 etc so it won't transcode, although you can force it to transcode in the settings

hope that makes sense

[NiGHTsC]

Is it because i'm french speaking, but i can't see what you mean in this sentence. (i understand all words, i mean, i don't get the sense of it). :stupid:I didn't get it either!

have you tried letting MKV2VOB split the file for you rather than doing it before?

The information about the video is at the start, when you split it the 2nd part has no information so MKV2VOB doesn't know if it's x264 L5.1 or 4.1 etc so it won't transcode, although you can force it to transcode in the settings

hope that makes sensehah, typo.

@lazarusbf
You should just try to send the 8GB file to PS3 instead have it burned if you can't solve the re-transcode problem.

[449514]

Hi,

I would appreciate it if someone could help me with a little problem I have with MKV2VOB.

I use it to convert video files so that they play on my PS3.

My problem is I don't know how to get english subtitles to show in films that have sections where the audio is in a foreign language (for example the 2 Kill Bill films - 80% of the movie is in English audio but then there are large sections with Chinese/Japanese audio. Normally english subtitles would come up on the screen for these bits.

The best I can come up with is to force MKV2VOB to encode english subs but it does it for the whole movie which is really annoying! If I don't force it to do this it just plays the foreign audio and doesnt display any english subtitles.

I have searched for a solution to this but havent found anything yet. Does anyone have any ideas?

[eitach]

Hi,

I would appreciate it if someone could help me with a little problem I have with MKV2VOB.

I use it to convert video files so that they play on my PS3.

My problem is I don't know how to get english subtitles to show in films that have sections where the audio is in a foreign language (for example the 2 Kill Bill films - 80% of the movie is in English audio but then there are large sections with Chinese/Japanese audio. Normally english subtitles would come up on the screen for these bits.

The best I can come up with is to force MKV2VOB to encode english subs but it does it for the whole movie which is really annoying! If I don't force it to do this it just plays the foreign audio and doesnt display any english subtitles.

I have searched for a solution to this but havent found anything yet. Does anyone have any ideas?

I think that the only way is edit the subtitle and remove the sentence that they already in English and leave only the translate sentence

[449514]

I think that the only way is edit the subtitle and remove the sentence that they already in English and leave only the translate sentence

Does this require a certain program to do this?

[NiGHTsC]

What kind of subtitle is it? IDX+SUB? SRT?
if it's srt, edit it with Notepad.
if not, God bless you.

[eitach]

Does this require a certain program to do this?

fundamentally, no. but i recommand u to edit the subtitle file with "Subtitle workshop".

[449514]

it's srt.

Thanks for the replies.

[asarian]

Hi,

I would appreciate it if someone could help me with a little problem I have with MKV2VOB.

I use it to convert video files so that they play on my PS3.

My problem is I don't know how to get english subtitles to show in films that have sections where the audio is in a foreign language (for example the 2 Kill Bill films - 80% of the movie is in English audio but then there are large sections with Chinese/Japanese audio. Normally english subtitles would come up on the screen for these bits.

The best I can come up with is to force MKV2VOB to encode english subs but it does it for the whole movie which is really annoying! If I don't force it to do this it just plays the foreign audio and doesnt display any english subtitles.

I have searched for a solution to this but havent found anything yet. Does anyone have any ideas?

There's plenty of .srt files out there (google is your friend) that have 'Japanese only' for the two Kill Bill movies. I know, cuz I used them myself. :)

[asarian]

Thanks for the input - but it's not that.

I've tried on 3 different PC's.

And swapping the speaker cables...they are wired into the walls!

Are the connectors that go into your amp wired into the wall too?? :) Just switch those!

[params7]

I have a problem. Whenever I encode while enabling subtitles, the output file never shows up in the output directory specified even after it says "Complete"

WTF? Where does it go? I even looked into the temp folder and its not there. And this happens everytime. When when I encode without subtitles hardcoding enabled, it shows up in the output directory specified.

[wereHamster]

I have some H264 clips (in a mkv container) that won't play on the PS3 (when I remux the bitstream into mp4 without any reencoding). The bitstream indicates that it's Main@4.1, and as far as I have read, the PS3 should be able to play that. In fact, some other clips that have the exact same level and profile play just fine. Now the strange thing is that mkv2vob somehow finds out that the PS3 won't be able to play the clip and tries to reencode it. My question is this: What are the exact requirements on H264 bitstreams? There clearly are more restrictions than max-level 4.1. What else does mkv2vob check to find out whether the bitstream needs to be reencoded?

[3r1c]

The identifier like "Main@4.1" is just metadata set in the stream by the encoder.
It can be completely false, but its more common for 4.1 files to be mislabled as 5.1, not the other way around.
mkv2vob does not use the metadata, it computes the real level from the stream info.

[azyd]

nice to see you back here 3r1c.... hope you stay for a while....

[yigal33]

good to see you!!! we need you!!

[eitach]

Hey 3r1c!!! we very glad to see u here!!! :) we need some updates like AVCHD, subtitle options.....

[twobells]

I have used MKV2Vob for converting 1080p .mkv titles to play on my PS3 since inception and love it.
My current version is 2.2.4

However I recently have an issue which I can't seem to resolve:

1: Some .mkv films have subtitles, but do NOT have an associated .srt/.sub/.idx or other subtitle they are hard coded.

2: I assumed that being hard coded MKV2VOB would have np in converting, however when I checked the finished job no subs.....
3: So with that in mind I forced subs on in the options [encode subtitles] still no luck, what am I doing wrong?

Many thanks in advance

tb

ps: I still have 'load subs from srt' ticked, assuming that its not a problem or causing a conflict.

[aHorseofCourse]

I have some H264 clips (in a mkv container) that won't play on the PS3 (when I remux the bitstream into mp4 without any reencoding). The bitstream indicates that it's Main@4.1, and as far as I have read, the PS3 should be able to play that. In fact, some other clips that have the exact same level and profile play just fine. Now the strange thing is that mkv2vob somehow finds out that the PS3 won't be able to play the clip and tries to reencode it. My question is this: What are the exact requirements on H264 bitstreams? There clearly are more restrictions than max-level 4.1. What else does mkv2vob check to find out whether the bitstream needs to be reencoded?

3r1c can correct me here if I'm wrong, but from what I understand the video stream must meet Level 4.1 standards, regardless of whether it's labelled 4.1, 5.1, etc. The key thing to look for is the number of reference frames. Basically, reference frames must be 1-4 @ 1080p and 1-9 @ 720p. Any higher than that (eg, 12 reference frames @ 720p) and the PS3 won't play it, hence the need for a transcode.
You can check the number of reference frames (and other stream info) with AVInaptic (http://download.videohelp.com/download/avinaptic-20071118-full-fixed.zip).
Mkv2vob may look at other stream info as well but checking the number of reference frames is usually a pretty sure indicator of whether or not a file will need to be transcoded.

[anakin16]

Can anyone tell me how to avoid oversizeing when encoding subtitles? When i used mpeg2 output size doubled!!!:devil: With x264 output size is 10-20 MB bigger. How can i avoid this?

P.S. The file in issue is Star_Wars_the_Clone_Wars_s01e05_720p.mkv with 1280x720 res.

Thanks:thanks:

[azyd]

Can anyone tell me how to avoid oversizeing when encoding subtitles? When i used mpeg2 output size doubled!!!:devil: With x264 output size is 10-20 MB bigger. How can i avoid this?

P.S. The file in issue is Star_Wars_the_Clone_Wars_s01e05_720p.mkv with 1280x720 res.

Thanks:thanks:

you cant.....

[Sulimo]

I'm wondering what specs the MKVs need to be for this to work.

I mean I created a bunch of MKVs using Handbreak and the PS3 template, but when I try and run them through mkv2vob I get an 'muxing failed' error.

[Nick.903]

Hi, MKV2VOB is great program...

but I got some problem on subtitle, some character set incorrectly rendered:

http://202.123.84.50/mkv2vob1.jpg

the character only show left side, 1/3 of right side is loss. it happen on some specified character onlt

I am using V2.2.4 and the subtitle encode is Chinese BIG5.

Hi 3r1c,

I got the same problem as sftung. Many Chinese characters appeared incompletely.

I know Chinese users are just minority in this community, but I wish you can still help us to look into this issue. Ideally the font type can be selectable by users.

Although there are some minor issues, mkv2vob is still the best converter which I have ever use so far. Thanks a lot for your great contribution to us.

Nick.903

[canuckerfan]

why doesn't mkv2vob allow me to leave DTS audio alone when converting to vob. doesn't the ps3 support DTS? or am I missing something?

[setarip_old]

@glmike

Hi!however i do not have the original .mkv files anymore.Then use the original source material that you first created the .MKV files from...

[georgem67]

I've tried a couple of m-hd files recently and unfortunately the aspect ratio is being stretched by mkv2vob compared to the original source files.
I have attached the info on these files here.
The 1st one has a resolution of 720 x 352 and the 2nd is 912 x 496
is this the problem?
I've tried them both in TSmuxer but the audio is not recognised only the video!
The audio is AAC in both files. Please help.

[azyd]

I've tried a couple of m-hd files recently and unfortunately the aspect ratio is being stretched by mkv2vob compared to the original source files.
I have attached the info on these files here.
The 1st one has a resolution of 720 x 352 and the 2nd is 912 x 496
is this the problem?
I've tried them both in TSmuxer but the audio is not recognised only the video!
The audio is AAC in both files. Please help.


Work flow to fix it, is as follows:

1) Demux the mkv file with tsMuxer (can use tsMuxerGui), do NOT use mkvmerge here.
2) Add the PAR tag back into the raw .264 stream with mp4box.
Example: mp4box -add video.264:fps=23.976(look at foot note)par=40:33 -new video.mp4 Note: Mp4box will assume an fps of 25 unless otherwise specified. That PAR is correct for anamorphic NTSC.
3) Remux with mkvmerge with the following command line added: "--engage keep_bitstream_ar_info".

Other PAR values:

Frame Size Aspect Ratio SAR SDB Profile
720x576 16:9 16:11 SDB ANAMORPHIC PAL
720x480 16:9 40:33 SDB ANAMORPHIC NTSC

got this from SDBits.org.... worked for me....

PS. dont worry about the frame size only wether its NTSC or PAL

Foot note.....

replace (look at foot note) with a :
if i had put the : there it would gimme this :par

[georgem67]

According to TSmuxer, there is only video within the MKV files, no audio at all.....

[azyd]

According to TSmuxer, there is only video within the MKV files, no audio at all.....

you dont need to worry about the audio..... cuse when you re-mkv the file you add the audio, and mkv2vob will re-encode to ac3. all this does is fix the aspect ratio....

[lazarusbf]

hello
there's a stupid question from me but i've never had to do the following and i don't want to do the job twice:
i've got this 8.5Go mkv video, 2 audio languages, i just want to keep one of it, then cut into 2 parts (only way for me to be able to transfer to PS3 with dvdrws) and convert with mkv2vob into mpeg or vob files: what do i do first and last ? is the cutting the final stage or the mkv2vob thing ?
sorry, i know it's rather dumb but my pc's very slow and answering my question would spare me a couple of hours. Thanks

[azyd]

hello
there's a stupid question from me but i've never had to do the following and i don't want to do the job twice:
i've got this 8.5Go mkv video, 2 audio languages, i just want to keep one of it, then cut into 2 parts (only way for me to be able to transfer to PS3 with dvdrws) and convert with mkv2vob into mpeg or vob files: what do i do first and last ? is the cutting the final stage or the mkv2vob thing ?
sorry, i know it's rather dumb but my pc's very slow and answering my question would spare me a couple of hours. Thanks

well you can get rid of the audio you dont want and split at the same time use mkvmerge GUI and you can select the audio you want to keep and also if you go to the globlal tab you can cut the file by size or by time, all at the same time. then you put them through mkv2vob.

[Nick.903]

Can you advise what's going wrong about Chinese subtitle issue? Thanks

[wormraper]

I'm having a strange issue (at least strange for me). I can run lots of of .mkv files through mkv2vob just fine. However I have some that whenever I run it through mkv2vob (no matter if it transcodes or just remuxes to another extension from .mkv) the output video is horizontally "squished". this only happens on some .mkv's. Some do, some don't. I also run the problematic files through mkvextract as well and the raw .h264 file also comes out horizontally squished. Basically I can remux it using mkvmerge and it looks fine but if I try to demux the video out into anything else the horizontal squish comes into effect.

[azyd]

I'm having a strange issue (at least strange for me). I can run lots of of .mkv files through mkv2vob just fine. However I have some that whenever I run it through mkv2vob (no matter if it transcodes or just remuxes to another extension from .mkv) the output video is horizontally "squished". this only happens on some .mkv's. Some do, some don't. I also run the problematic files through mkvextract as well and the raw .h264 file also comes out horizontally squished. Basically I can remux it using mkvmerge and it looks fine but if I try to demux the video out into anything else the horizontal squish comes into effect.

take a look at my earlier post 2502 should fix any aspect ratio issues.

[azyd]

Can you advise what's going wrong about Chinese subtitle issue? Thanks

i have no clue, but my best guess is that they are to big and they are bumping in to each other and getting cut of.....

if that the case, you can all ways manually put a space after or before the affected character.

but this is just an educated guess.

[wormraper]

take a look at my earlier post 2502 should fix any aspect ratio issues.

thanks azyd. Ok I seem to have another problem. on 95% of the files that I actually need to transcode (aka add subtitles) the audio and video go way out of sync. I thought that with the newest version of mkv2vob that out of sync audio was a think of the past???

[Nick.903]

i have no clue, but my best guess is that they are to big and they are bumping in to each other and getting cut of.....

if that the case, you can all ways manually put a space after or before the affected character.

but this is just an educated guess.


Hi azyd,

Thanks for your reply. Seems in this moment there is no prefect solution. Hopefully in future release, mkv2vob will allow a selection of font type. That will probably solve the problem.

Thanks again, and keep you good work.

Nick.903

[georgem67]

Having split a 7.94 gb mkv into 2 parts using mkmerge....how do I join the files together again to the original size?

video file joiner & simple file joiner do not work correctly on all files.
please help.

[azyd]

Having split a 7.94 gb mkv into 2 parts using mkmerge....how do I join the files together again to the original size?

video file joiner & simple file joiner do not work correctly on all files.
please help.

the same prog you used to cut will join them..... just add the first file the use the append button and add the second file and save it .

[georgem67]

the same prog you used to cut will join them..... just add the first file the use the append button and add the second file and save it .

Cheers. Thanks very much..
I'll give it a try.

[yigal33]

i get in the tarnscording messege menconder.exe

why?

tahnks!!

[azyd]

i get in the tarnscording messege menconder.exe

why?

tahnks!!

you shouldnt nee the memcoder on a 720p movie should just remux after encoding the audio.

[SilentTweak]

I've encoded a few files but the video stream has a higher bit rate than the original, now the file won't fit on a Dual-Layer DVD so I can play it on my PS3. I didn't even transcode the file, so does anyone know why this is happening?

[azyd]

I've encoded a few files but the video stream has a higher bit rate than the original, now the file won't fit on a Dual-Layer DVD so I can play it on my PS3. I didn't even transcode the file, so does anyone know why this is happening?

if i remember correctly after remuxing with mkv2vob and re-encoding the audio to 640ac3 the file will be about 5% larger than the original. cant remember why but i think it had to do with the ability to ff and frw. originaly this wasnt possible and we had to be happy with 1.5x. sucked if you had to stop a movie half way through.

[georgem67]

i HAVE MANY OLD VOBS FROM BEFORE WE HAD FF/RW . IS THERE ANYWAY TO PUT THESE VOBS THROUGH SOMETHING TO ADD FF/RW SUPPORT JUST LIKE THE NEW VERSIONS OF MKV2VOB CAN.

[azyd]

i HAVE MANY OLD VOBS FROM BEFORE WE HAD FF/RW . IS THERE ANYWAY TO PUT THESE VOBS THROUGH SOMETHING TO ADD FF/RW SUPPORT JUST LIKE THE NEW VERSIONS OF MKV2VOB CAN.

yes.

use tsremux and demux the audio and video.

browse for the file you want. you should see the audio and video in the box blow make sure you check off the boxes next to audio and video then right click on audio or video and select demux to elementary stream.
i name the video h264.h264 i just like it that way.
and the audio ac3.ac3

open up tsmuxer GUI and add the h264.h264 and ac3.ac3.

make sure that in the general track options you have the boxes of add picture timing info and continually insert SPS/PPS boxes checked off

when your done select m2ts muxing, you should see the file name change to *.m2ts then click on start muxing and you have your self a ff and frw file.

remember to rename to *.mpg when your all done.

[RYU810]

this app work for mkv file 15 GB?

[Nick.903]

Whenever I select Xvid as the transcoding codec, the error appear at the very last step (after 4-6 hour running the problem) for mkv files containing DTS audio track. File with AC3 track are working fine.

This is the error message "the function setmode was called on a stream[?] that hasn't been previously initialized with SetSource."

May I know what is the problem?

[pjohnson73]

I have two questions. First, is DTS much better than AC3? Also, does PS3 play DTS and if it does, will mkv2vob keep the DTS or always encode it to AC3?

[azyd]

this app work for mkv file 15 GB?

yes. file size should not be a problem.

[azyd]

Whenever I select Xvid as the transcoding codec, the error appear at the very last step (after 4-6 hour running the problem) for mkv files containing DTS audio track. File with AC3 track are working fine.

This is the error message "the function setmode was called on a stream[?] that hasn't been previously initialized with SetSource."

May I know what is the problem?

i dont do transcoding to xvid. so i cant help you. but you should try and see if you get the same errors transcoding to mpeg2 or h264.

[azyd]

I have two questions. First, is DTS much better than AC3? Also, does PS3 play DTS and if it does, will mkv2vob keep the DTS or always encode it to AC3?

ps3 will play dts.

ps3 will not play dts from the xmb.

ps3 will play dts from the blu-ray and dvd player.

[pxr5]

Is there a way that a file converted with mkv2vob be turned back into an mkv - I know that if it was dts originally, it is now ac3, but hopefully there is a way so it can be converted back and then on to a BR compliant disk with something like ripbot264. Thanks

[Oleg Rode]

ps3 will play dts.

ps3 will not play dts from the xmb.

ps3 will play dts from the blu-ray and dvd player.

A little comment - PS3 will play DTS, subtitles etc. from XMB, but you need to create AVCHD structure on any external device (i.e. USB HDD). Yep, it looks like this is the only way to play BD/HD-DVD movies from externall mass storage device.

[pjohnson73]

So if I burn to DL discs, it should play with DTS? I don't see an option with mkv2vob to keep it as DTS.

[azyd]

Is there a way that a file converted with mkv2vob be turned back into an mkv - I know that if it was dts originally, it is now ac3, but hopefully there is a way so it can be converted back and then on to a BR compliant disk with something like ripbot264. Thanks

yes demux the audio and video with tsremux. then you can use mkvmerge to create a valid mkv file.

you can use tsmuxergui to create a AVCHD also called a BD5 or BD9 . but the resolution had to be exactly 1920X1080 or 1280x720 other wise you get a green line at the botton of the screen taking up the diference in the hight.

audio shouldnt be a problem, AVCHD takes ac3 or dts.

[azyd]

So if I burn to DL discs, it should play with DTS? I don't see an option with mkv2vob to keep it as DTS.

no. you have to create a AVCHD or BD5 or BD9 to play dts on the ps3.

[pjohnson73]

Ok, I have an AVCHD folder created on my external HDD with a BDMV and CERTIFICATE subfolder but the only question is how do I keep the DTS with the movie. mkv2vob always converts it to AC3 correct?

[azyd]

Ok, I have an AVCHD folder created on my external HDD with a BDMV and CERTIFICATE subfolder but the only question is how do I keep the DTS with the movie. mkv2vob always converts it to AC3 correct?

you dont use mkv2vob to make an avchd ready file.
use tsmuxerGUI it will allow dts track.
select create blu-ray disk. and you should be set....

[Nick.903]

i dont do transcoding to xvid. so i cant help you. but you should try and see if you get the same errors transcoding to mpeg2 or h264.

The error only appear when using Xvid transcode, but not mpeg2 and h264. Unfortunately, the H264 transcode doesn't work well with Chinese subtitles. For mpeg2, the video quality is too low.

I'm getting a bit frustrated now.

[pjohnson73]

Is it better to use tsmuxer when I want to keep the DTS with the mkv? And also, once I create the file, can I burn it to DL discs? Transcoding from DTS to AC3 takes a long time with mkv2vob.

[azyd]

Is it better to use tsmuxer when I want to keep the DTS with the mkv? And also, once I create the file, can I burn it to DL discs? Transcoding from DTS to AC3 takes a long time with mkv2vob.

yes use tsmuxergui. just burn the BDMV and CERTIFICATE folders to a what ever you want just make sure its in udf 2.50 othere wise it will not work.

i keep saying this.... the video had to be exactly 720p or 1080p other wise your are going to get the green line of death at the bottom,

[azyd]

The error only appear when using Xvid transcode, but not mpeg2 and h264. Unfortunately, the H264 transcode doesn't work well with Chinese subtitles. For mpeg2, the video quality is too low.

I'm getting a bit frustrated now.

well at least whe know its not a problem with the program.... might be a codec error. you should try to get rid of all the codecs you have, reinstall only the ones you need the play the original file and to encode the file. (H264,DTS,XVID and AC3)
there might be some conficting codecs. if you still get the same problem.... then im out of ideas.

[pjohnson73]

Ok I will try tsmuxergui with my 1080p mkv's. Hopefully, it will split files ok. I want to split files and burn as AVCHD with DTS.

[Kali-]

support for x264_checker included in gotsent (detection of playable h264 files on the PS3/360) will be a nice feature
mkv2vob checker's is not working very well :/

[azyd]

support for x264_checker included in gotsent (detection of playable h264 files on the PS3/360) will be a nice feature
mkv2vob checker's is not working very well :/

never been a problem for me i only download stuff that i can play on the ps3.... would be worthless for me to do other wise cuse my comp isnt fast enough to decode 1080p and dts at the same time...

you should save time and effort and do the same.

[Kali-]

more then 80% of H.264 L4.1 i have seen is not playable on PS3/X360
a better detection of playable video will help neebie, surely not me...

[azyd]

more then 80% of H.264 L4.1 i have seen is not playable on PS3/X360
a better detection of playable video will help neebie, surely not me...

playback detection, i beleave(i might be wrong. pls correct if i am) is done by tsmuxer. you can manually update that your self.

i dont know where you get your files from but my stuff is the oposite only about 10% of the stuff i downloaded is not playable by my ps3. dont have a 360.

[georgem67]

Yes, most of the 1080p stuff I get works aswell but....now I have a problem with Sin City (1080p.iKa). Usually I turn off automatic encoding and the files are muxed perfectly with Mkv2vob...however this mkv is a black screen and wants to re-encode...I've got the other settings as x264 and Vob, but will the resulting encode be of inferior quality or should it be the same. Is there anything I can do to get the best results?
Thanks

[Kali-]

playback detection, i beleave(i might be wrong. pls correct if i am) is done by tsmuxer. you can manually update that your self.whit 1.8.8b i have the same problem

i dont know where you get your files fromitaly

[GreeKNastY]

any reasons why the 7 gig mkv files i convert are a teeny wee bit out of sync?..any options for this?...also to hear the audio well i have to turn my tv all tehw ay up to 50..haha its not a big deal but is tehre anything to do about that..i chose the boost audio settings but still nothin

thanks and great program..

[azyd]

whit 1.8.8b i have the same problem

italy

italy is a coutry....

[azyd]

any reasons why the 7 gig mkv files i convert are a teeny wee bit out of sync?..any options for this?...also to hear the audio well i have to turn my tv all tehw ay up to 50..haha its not a big deal but is tehre anything to do about that..i chose the boost audio settings but still nothin

thanks and great program..

well you can try to demux the dts from the mkv... then pop it in DTS to AC3. all you need to do is right click on the DTS2AC3.bat and select edit, and change the bitrate (-b) to 640 and save it.

now run it and you can remux the video and the audio with tsmuxergui and you are all set.

[georgem67]

The above mentioned mkv ( Sin City 1080p iKA ) rip is not possible with tsmuxer either. Tried to make M2TS file = fail and also an AVCHD, which did succeed in showing up as such in the PS3 drive but again just a black screen.
The file is 1920 x 1024 resolution and I've cut it into 3 parts, each of which is around 39mins = 3.7gb.
Mkv2vob has been re-encoding the 1st part for over 8 hours now and is only about 3/4 done! What's going on with this file? Why is this encode different to most of my others. Can anyone help?
I've attached the mkv info text about the file.

[azyd]

The above mentioned mkv ( Sin City 1080p iKA ) rip is not possible with tsmuxer either. Tried to make M2TS file = fail and also an AVCHD, which did succeed in showing up as such in the PS3 drive but again just a black screen.
The file is 1920 x 1024 resolution and I've cut it into 3 parts, each of which is around 39mins = 3.7gb.
Mkv2vob has been re-encoding the 1st part for over 8 hours now and is only about 3/4 done! What's going on with this file? Why is this encode different to most of my others. Can anyone help?
I've attached the mkv info text about the file.


well first of all who is that IKA..... try downloading Sin City 2005 BluRay 1080p DTS x264 dxva-EuReKA anything by Eureka or that says dxva(DirectX Video Acceleration) is going to work 100%. try to stick to proper groups.

[GreeKNastY]

well you can try to demux the dts from the mkv... then pop it in DTS to AC3. all you need to do is right click on the DTS2AC3.bat and select edit, and change the bitrate (-b) to 640 and save it.

now run it and you can remux the video and the audio with tsmuxergui and you are all set.
sorry for the newb question..but how do i do that?..is there a program to demux the dts form mkv or what?

thanks for the repply

also is that for the out of sync or low audio?

[Shropp]

After I convert an MKV to VOB
How would I transfer the vob back to mkv or m2ts ??

I wanna do this so i can create AVCHD, because some of them need to be converted to 720p\1080p (add bars).
If there's any
program that can add bars to the converted vob??
that would obviously be preferable

thanks

[georgem67]

well first of all who is that IKA..... try downloading Sin City 2005 BluRay 1080p DTS x264 dxva-EuReKA anything by Eureka or that says dxva(DirectX Video Acceleration) is going to work 100%. try to stick to proper groups.

Thanks, I'd not heard of dxva-Eureka, just ones like ESIR, Sinners etc... but there doesn't seem to be any other release other than this.
Surely there must be a program to run the mkv through again or demux and rebuild....How do the proper groups do them & what do they use to build a good mkv?
Here is some different technical info on the Mkv which may help anyone who knows about these things.
Thanks again.

[razvan_seed]

Hi guys.Is there a way to add black bars to the video if its 1920/800 or 816 or any other? I want to do an avchd with AC3 and DTS but my video is 1920/800 and i get a green bar at the bottom of the screen.I know about the megui solution but i was wondering if is there any other way to do it whitout reencoding the video and staying about 20 hours to do that.Is there any way to make the mkv2vob to do that?plssss 3r1c do something about it.

[Guest]

All this talk about downloading MKV movies has to stop. I have started striking posters for it. You have been warned.

[azyd]

Thanks, I'd not heard of dxva-Eureka, just ones like ESIR, Sinners etc... but there doesn't seem to be any other release other than this.
Surely there must be a program to run the mkv through again or demux and rebuild....How do the proper groups do them & what do they use to build a good mkv?
Here is some different technical info on the Mkv which may help anyone who knows about these things.
Thanks again.

if you get an mkv thats no ps3 compatile theres no other choice, you have to re-ecode.

[azyd]

Hi guys.Is there a way to add black bars to the video if its 1920/800 or 816 or any other? I want to do an avchd with AC3 and DTS but my video is 1920/800 and i get a green bar at the bottom of the screen.I know about the megui solution but i was wondering if is there any other way to do it whitout reencoding the video and staying about 20 hours to do that.Is there any way to make the mkv2vob to do that?plssss 3r1c do something about it.


nothing you can do but re-encode the video

[azyd]

After I convert an MKV to VOB
How would I transfer the vob back to mkv or m2ts ??

I wanna do this so i can create AVCHD, because some of them need to be converted to 720p\1080p (add bars).
If there's any
program that can add bars to the converted vob??
that would obviously be preferable

thanks

check out this post.
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1216929#post1216929

once you have the h264 and ac3 or dts you can do what ever you want with them.

[GreeKNastY]

hm i installed the program on a diff laptop and they work great now..audio is better and out of sync is no more..only thing now is there are bars..like widescreen..before there wasnt...but thats alright

thanks

[Shropp]

check out this post.
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1216929#post1216929

once you have the h264 and ac3 or dts you can do what ever you want with them.

thanks man:thanks:

[georgem67]

if you get an mkv thats no ps3 compatile theres no other choice, you have to re-ecode.

Is there a quicker program to re-encode as mkv2vob & Gotsent are taking far too long and the resulting files are showing a smaller video bitrate and they are noticably smaller in size.
thanks

[azyd]

Is there a quicker program to re-encode as mkv2vob & Gotsent are taking far too long and the resulting files are showing a smaller video bitrate and they are noticably smaller in size.
thanks

nothing thats going to give you good quality is going to fast. stick with this. yull be ok

[gn!uz]

Thanks a lot for this nifty program.. I was a Mediacenter user but switched to PS3 recently, so glad I did.. It's a fantastic machine. Your program makes streaming a piece of cake.

Some things on my short wishlist:
- possibilty to set subtitle font size (right now I think, default subs are a little too small and the 'use large subtitles' is too big)
- I've noticed the option Boost AC3/DTS volume seem to distort the output most of the time.. Probably because input volume is too high already. I'd like to see some kind of normalizer function so output has same volume, so it will increase/decrease volume whenever neccesary.

Once again, thanks a lot!!!

[micro23]

I have always used boost audio with no distortion. The last 2 movies I did had distorted audio a little. I unchecked boost audio and it was MUCH better and more full. On another note I posted this on the main forums but I guess I will post here... can anyone help?

...........


I have done over 100 movies with mkv2vob and it's one of the best programs I have ever used. In minutes I'm watching my 1080p mkv's on my ps3 in amazing quality and surround sound glory.

Unfortunately I have 1 SINGLE video that when I convert, has out of sync audio by about 5 seconds. The source video is perfect and I have tried every single option in mkv2vob in all formats about 10 total conversions and it still is out of sync. The original plays perfect in VLC.


Anyone experience anything like this or know how to help? Thanks!

[Guest]

I have done over 100 movies with mkv2vob Where did you get all those MKV movies?

[micro23]

Most of my mkv movies I have I was downloading for a long time. Lately I picked up a blu-ray player (finally they came down in price) and Have been ripping my own backups to mkv myself. But since it takes so darn long too encode them I usually just download my backups from usenet. I also like to keep my movies in perfect condition so some of the classics I haven't even opened and just download the backup.

Usenet is the most efficient way to grab quality backups. They usually have all the releases pre-encoded with dts or ac3 in both 720 and 1080p. The quality difference between the actual blu-ray and the 1080p rips are almost completely unnoticeable. If I ask 10 people not one can tell the difference.

Torrents are another way but with the size of the files it means a ton of uploading back. I'm also not trying to share releases, and dont encourage torrenting because most of the people are just pirating the movies and If I torrent I'm helping spread them.


I'm not encouraging downloading movies you do not own. This is strictly for BACKUPS. There are tons of reasons to have digital copies of movies. I can stream it to any tv in my house without ever putting in the disc. That reason alone is amazing.


Which is why I'm not too bummed because I have the original I just cant understand what the heck is going wrong on this encode.

[Guest]

But since it takes so darn long too encode them I usually just download my backups from usenet. You're breaking our forum rules. You are not allowed to discuss illegitimately obtained material, per forum rule 6. You are so blatantly breaking our rules that I'm forced to strike you for rule 6. Don't continue discussion of this matter here, use PM if you need clarification. You simply cannot discuss downloaded copyrighted movies, whether you own the DVDs or not.

[Kirlander]

Hey all,

I have read what I could within this thread and not seen an answer to my question.

My problem is that I take a MKV file and convert it over to a AVI. This works fine, however some of my videos stall after 2-60 seconds of play back. I have tried copying the file from my computer and run right from my PS3 however the same stall out happens. Some videos I have remuxed work without any issues, and then some done.

Assistance with this problem would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

[azyd]

Hey all,

I have read what I could within this thread and not seen an answer to my question.

My problem is that I take a MKV file and convert it over to a AVI. This works fine, however some of my videos stall after 2-60 seconds of play back. I have tried copying the file from my computer and run right from my PS3 however the same stall out happens. Some videos I have remuxed work without any issues, and then some done.

Assistance with this problem would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

you need to be more specific, you start off by saying that you encode the files to avi and you end up saying that files you remux work fine....

are you remuxing to avi or are you encodeing to avi?
does the same problem apear when you encode to other codecs?

[sympton]

Couldnt find match with search so here it goes:

I remuxed .mkv with another audio and used audio delay to sync audio, however, mkv2vob lost sync information when i muxed mkvto mpg? Any workaround on this ?

-T

[Kirlander]

you need to be more specific, you start off by saying that you encode the files to avi and you end up saying that files you remux work fine....

are you remuxing to avi or are you encodeing to avi?
does the same problem apear when you encode to other codecs?

sorry for the confusion, I'm new to all this Codec and remuxing stuff.

I'll outline my steps if that helps:

I get the MKV open it into mkv2vob, make the output extension avi, and the transcoding codec x264. I then attempt to play the newly created on my PS3. As I mentioned some work some don't. I'm not doing any other then these steps, might I need a to follow a more complex workflow?

[azyd]

sorry for the confusion, I'm new to all this Codec and remuxing stuff.

I'll outline my steps if that helps:

I get the MKV open it into mkv2vob, make the output extension avi, and the transcoding codec x264. I then attempt to play the newly created on my PS3. As I mentioned some work some don't. I'm not doing any other then these steps, might I need a to follow a more complex workflow?

first thing you need to do is make sure that the file you are encoding actually needs to be encoded, mkv2vob has a tendency to give false negatives and encode files it doesnt need to.

try selecting to only remux and see what results you get.

if it works, good. try keeping it in mpg extension when encoding and remuxing. you dont have to, but i kind of like it, and i think the ps3 does too...

99% of 720p videos dont need to be re-encoded.
60% of 1080p files dont need to be re-encoded.

[McHaggis69]

Great programme - ideal for streaming to PS3...

Only downsides are still some problems with DTS ending up as stuttering and juddering audio on some conversions...

There hasn't been an update for a while - does the author still work on this cool utility?

[Sulimo]

So I'm having a bit of trouble. All the mkv files I remux with this well the resultant files lose audio sync after a certain point in the video.

[bmnot]

Hi board. I tried to solve this issue of the video being ahead of the sound on my own. I've download mkvExtrack, hexedit, mkvtoolnix, tsMuxer, Matroska splitter, eac3to, etc. Nothing worked and I've come to the conclusion that the issue lies in mkv2vob changing the frame rate. Now from everything i see there's no option to adjust this in mkv2vob. Is there a way to address this issue?

Here's a sample clip if anybody want to try. It's about 68mb, but the actual file is 4gb:

http://rapidshare.com/files/173980339/Akira.1988.HDTV.720p.h264.DTS-5.1.AC3_-__B-G__Sample.mkv

[deank]

You may want to try my application... it shouldn't give you any troubles.

Here is the thread -> http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=142422

***

It didn't work... There is some major problem with the *video* stream inside the mkv container of your sample file. It is reported to be *24.1591 fps*, which conforms with NO standard. The problem is not with the audio streams at all. I tried 10 different approaches - still out of sync. Some players manage to play the file correctly, but I believe the original h.264 stream is encoded with wrong parameters for starters.

[bmnot]

You may want to try my application... it shouldn't give you any troubles.

Here is the thread -> http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=142422

***

It didn't work... There is some major problem with the *video* stream inside the mkv container of your sample file. It is reported to be *24.1591 fps*, which conforms with NO standard. The problem is not with the audio streams at all. I tried 10 different approaches - still out of sync. Some players manage to play the file correctly, but I believe the original h.264 stream is encoded with wrong parameters for starters.

It's by far the weirdest file. Any reason why it plays without any problems if left along?

[bmnot]

When you've used this tool to get an x264 mkv into a vob, how do you get it to play then on media player classic w/ sound. For .mkvs i have ac3filter, ffdshow, and haali and they play fine...but the same file made into a vob w/ mkv2vob has no sound on mpc...

[goofyballer]

Hey guys, sorry for the noob question but I'm pretty clueless about video stuff - I have a 1080p mkv file with DTS audio that I want to convert to be playable on PS3. mkv2vob has been pretty reliable for me but for some reason my computer blue-screens when I try to convert this file with it. If I wanted to get my hands a little dirtier and try to manually convert the video and audio streams separately before re-muxing them and hopefully not crash my PC in the process, how can I do that?

Edit: I seem to have figured out how to isolate the DTS and convert it to AC3 (is that the preferred format?), so now I have that and the .264 track which I suppose I need to transcode into the MPEG-2 format like mkv2vob does, and then remux into the mpg container that mkv2vob uses. Which programs do I use to do that?

[aHorseofCourse]

Edit: I seem to have figured out how to isolate the DTS and convert it to AC3 (is that the preferred format?), so now I have that and the .264 track which I suppose I need to transcode into the MPEG-2 format like mkv2vob does, and then remux into the mpg container that mkv2vob uses. Which programs do I use to do that?

Tsmuxer will do the job for you. Add the .264 track and the .ac3 track and then mux to m2ts. It's a great tool for PS3 owners.

[3r1c]

V2.3.0 23/Dec/2008
Direct AAC to AC3 conversion (400% faster)
Direct DTS to AC3 conversion (300% faster)
H.264 level detection for files missing the x264 header. (eg. sample files)

[thomasphoenix]

Cheers brother! thanks ! :) , if I may ask ! which version of tsmuxer is being used here?

[3r1c]

its 1.8.8(b).

[dracossan]

hello,

Could you check your latest version. when i update it from mkv2vob executable ( auto-update ) , my antivirus F-PROT deleted this update ....

Could you check if this version is clean ?

Thanks for this great tools.

[3r1c]

Which file did it delete?
main program file: http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/280f83706091703491eddfb0861bcdd7

[dracossan]

hello,

full install package is clean from my antivirus fprot ( up to date ). virus is found on memcoder and mkv2vob when i try to update from "auto-update" web site.

Found file, C:\Documents and Settings\administrator\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\I7SHE0HG\mencoder[1], infected with W32/Heuristic-CO3!Eldorado

thanks

[3r1c]

Thats stange because the files on the auto update are exactly the same.
You should probably report it to fprot as a bug and have them check it.

The links to the to files are
http://www.3r1c.eu/mkv2vob/update/mkv2vob.exe
http://www.3r1c.eu/mkv2vob/update/tools/mencoder.exe

EDIT: When you say the full package is clean did you just scan the installer or did you install it?

[dracossan]

i install it.

[terrense]

thanks for the new update, the software updated itself automatically.


however, i got this problem after update:

DTS->AC3 conversion OverFlow

when using 2.2.4 it's absolutely ok. why is the problem?

[Guest]

@terrense

Where did you get the Harry Potter MKV file?

[kri kri]

I get that error too

[td911]

Me too.

Running WinXP 64-bit.

Seems to happen with a DTS>AC3 conversion.

[3r1c]

V2.3.1 23/Dec/2008
Fixed Overflow in DTS/AAC conversion.

[terrense]

that was a really quick response and fix :) the problem has been fixed! updated automatically, now works like a charm. thanks 3r1c!! keep up the great work.

have a request for you to consider: auto shut down the computer after the queue's complete. wouldn't it be an environmental-friendly suggestion?

[Guest]

@terrense

Struck for rule 6. Read and follow our forum rules, and do not ignore moderator inquiries.

[terrense]

@terrense

Struck for rule 6. Read and follow our forum rules, and do not ignore moderator inquiries.

sorry mate, i didn't see your inquiry actually. the mkv is a trailor converted from apple mac a long time ago... for a party reason i need to put it into ps3 to share with a bunch of friends.

and the picture that violated rules has been deleted. hope i did the right thing?

you're a really hard working man btw :)

merry X'mas!!

[thord]

he lives! thanks for the great util and maintaining it for this long

[azyd]

3r1c

nice to see you back. thanks for the christmas present.... i love it even more now.

[ejlu2003]

Thanks 3r1c for the update, and happy holidays to all.

Here is a quick question: is there a way to feed mencoder.exe some configurations like mencoder.conf shown in http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html#CONFIGURATION%20FILES? If that can be done, I may be able to play with it to see if Chinese subtitles could be displayed correctly.

[huber]

hi.

there is a lot of talk latly about using the gpu as a helping tool to decode atuf like video - cant this program use the power of the gpu through CUDA or somthing similar?

[s3e3]

Thanks again 3r1c for keeping this app up to date especially for the ppl who've supported you with donations.

Keep up the good work.

[popcho]

Thank you very much for this app 3r1c. I've been using it with great success on all my MKVs. I upgraded to the newest version recently and the first movie I tried to convert gave me an error. According to the app there is no transcoding needed, it starts by converting DTS to AC3, it seems to complete that step and then I get ''Muxing Failed" Any idea what the problem would be. I'm kind of newbie to all this, it's just weird that I have never have had a problem with the last 16 movies I've done. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks again for the great app.:thanks:

[Guest]

@popcho

Where do you get these MKV movies?

[popcho]

I ripped half of my collection to put on the ps3 because it's much more convinient and cooler to play them directly from the PS3s hard drive.

[homerjay1977]

3r1c
GREAT app Ive used this on mainly all my 1080p that need transcoding and it works super. I really enjoy watching 1080p on my LG 50" PG3000 through the PS3 and HDMI. For some reason my old AMP from Sony crackles the sound when the bitrate is 640kbs. The AMP is from 2002 so I guess its a problem for the AMP with higher bitrates. It works great when playing a DVD or original BR disc but bad sound when playing an AC3, MP4 or M2TS file... To fix this I simply must resample the AC3 track with EAC3TO to a lower bitrate. Before I used 384 but it works fine up to 576. I dont notice any poorer sound but still, it works and since my wife would kill me if I suggest buying a new AMP i have to stick with this solution for now. However, is there a chance in the MKV2VOB program to include an bitrate for the AC3 sound?

Thanks for a great app.

Regards,

Homerjay1977

[georgem67]

Has anyone else had a problem with the latest version using xp sp3?...
halfway through demuxing and the computer shut down....but not with the previous version.

[Quatre]

its 1.8.8(b).

its not on first post of the main smartLabs tsMuxeR thread though.

[nosnoop]

newest version of tsMuxeR is 1.8.4(b) not 1.8.8(b)
you had me checking for a new version though when you said this, heh.

Well, check again.
The newest version is indeed 1.8.8. You will find the link at the tsMuxeR thread - not the first post though, as it was not updated.

[Quatre]

Well, check again.
The newest version is indeed 1.8.8. You will find the link at the tsMuxeR thread - not the first post though, as it was not updated.

oh thanks. yeah i was just checking the first post. i think maybe they can't update it or something on that thread which sucks. thanks for pointing it out.

[gn!uz]

Thanks for the continued support of MKV2VOB.

I'm having issues with the latest version as well. As someone already mentioned the subtitle implementation doesn't seem to work ok.

I've tried 2 different 1080p mkv files with a DTS track. Extracted the embedded dutch subtitles, put them in the same folder as the source file and selected selected the following options:
- always encode subtitles
- load subtitles from .srt
- preferred audio language: english
- preferred subtitle language: dutch
- video transcoding: automatic
- output file extension: mpg
- transcoding codec: x264

The result is an mpg file with english(!!!) subtitles embedded. This is very strange since the 'attached' .srt file is 100% dutch!

Is this problem already known? Mkv2vob seems to hardcode the embedded english subtitle regardless of the .srt file.

Thanks!

[3r1c]

I will look into it, but i did not change anything to do with subtitles.
It sounds like a problem with the new mencoder.

[Guest]

I've tried 2 different 1080p mkv files with a DTS track. Extracted the embedded dutch subtitles
Where did you get those MKV files?

[Guest]

@weezer777

Why did you make an MKV file with a subtitle track that you don't want?

[Guest]

I dont do it, it eventually comes within when you download it! Struck for rule 6.

Guys, this whole thread is massive rule 6 strike bait. Be very careful what you post here and be prepared to answer questions about your sources.

You may not discuss MKV movies that you have downloaded.

[SciFer]

yes use tsmuxergui. just burn the BDMV and CERTIFICATE folders to a what ever you want just make sure its in udf 2.50 othere wise it will not work.

i keep saying this.... the video had to be exactly 720p or 1080p other wise your are going to get the green line of death at the bottom,


Hi, noob question.
1. What tool can I use to verify ACVHD disc (mini blu-ray) compliancy (including proper resolution) of a mkv or m2ts file?
2. What tool/procedure must I use to convert a non-compliant file to proper resolution (and avoid the green bar effect) for AVCHD disc authoring?

thanks in advance

[rioener]

Hi to all and a happy new year!
Thanks for this great app!
With the latest version i have some issues.
First, the output file has lost it's sync with the subs, and it show me the subs in different timeline from the movie, and
second, the ps3 can play the output file, but in the menu writes "unsuported data"(again, i say that if i click on it plays as normal)
I m using this app without problems and i have convert over 100 mkv's already, and i haven't see this ever, since the last version.
If you can do something about it i would be greatfull.
Thanks!!!

I hope you can undestand what i say...(bad english...)

[mn12ak]

I have a problem with the sound on a few of the MKV files I converted. The video will be smooth, but I will randomly lose the audio. It kind of sputters and jitters like I'm repeatedly turning mute on and off. It only does it with certain movies, and with some it only happens during certain scenes. For example, in "What Happens in Vegas" the sound sputters ONLY in the scenes where they are in the office with the therapist. In "Be Kind, Rewind" it did this throughout the entire movie and basically made it unwatchable.

I've determined it happens somewhere in the MKV2VOB conversion process. I tried redoing the conversion with nothing else running, changing settings, re-ripping them from disc, changing directories, etc. and I still get the sound jitters in the exact same times. Since the update, redid the ones I had problems with and found that it corrected the issues in 3-4 of the 5-6 movies I had this problem with. Anyone else have this issue? I'd like to figure this out to prevent future issues. Thanks!

[3r1c]

I have a problem with the sound on a few of the MKV files I converted. The video will be smooth, but I will randomly lose the audio. It kind of sputters and jitters like I'm repeatedly turning mute on and off. It only does it with certain movies, and with some it only happens during certain scenes. For example, in "What Happens in Vegas" the sound sputters ONLY in the scenes where they are in the office with the therapist. In "Be Kind, Rewind" it did this throughout the entire movie and basically made it unwatchable.

I've determined it happens somewhere in the MKV2VOB conversion process. I tried redoing the conversion with nothing else running, changing settings, re-ripping them from disc, changing directories, etc. and I still get the sound jitters in the exact same times. Since the update, redid the ones I had problems with and found that it corrected the issues in 3-4 of the 5-6 movies I had this problem with. Anyone else have this issue? I'd like to figure this out to prevent future issues. Thanks!

Are you talking about where the DTS was converted to AC3, or where the AC3 was already in the mkv?

Some AC3's dont play right on my surround system, maybe its the same for you.

[Guest]

I have a problem with the sound on a few of the MKV files I converted. Where did you get the MKV movies and why don't you convert from your original disks?

[3r1c]

where did you get the mkv movies and why don't you convert from your original disks?

i tried redoing the conversion with nothing else running, changing settings, re-ripping them from disc

. .

[Guest]

I'm curious to know why the process from disk to VOB requires an intermediate MKV step. Can you explain it to me?

[ejlu2003]

First of all, happy new year to all.

As I stated in http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1228167#post1228167, I have a subtitle problem with mkv2vob -- the borders of some Chinese characters are chopped off when "Large Subtitles" is ticked. So, I tried to play with mencoder.conf to see if it is possible to change subtitle configurations without having to change mkv2vob.

And, here are some preliminary results. Because I have to wait till the end of conversion to see whether or not configuration changes are taken into effects, you're welcomed to share your testing results here.

1. From my various experiments, it seemed to me that mencoder.exe, included in mkv2vob, does NOT read configuration file (mencoder.conf) at all.
2. I found that mencoder.exe, included in mkv2vob, is not the same as the one posted in http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php. Although there are other win32 mencoder.exe projects, I tested this one so far. I downloaded "MPlayer/MEncoder svn rev 28126", de-compressed the file, and put mencoder.exe into mkv2vob/tools. Of course, I backed up the mencoder.exe included in mkv2vob.
3. So far, I also created a mplayer directory under mkv2vob/tools. In the newly created directory, I copied "c:\windows\fonts\simhei.ttf" into it and rename simhei.ttf to subfont.ttf. Also, I created a mencoder.conf which contains one single line:

subfont=c:\Windows\Fonts\simhei.ttf

4. I have now successfully converted one mkv file to use simhei font. (no more chopped off subtitles) But, I'm not sure which one make this happned: mencoder.exe, mencoder.conf, or subfont.ttf. I have to test more. But again, it required many hours to find out. If someone could shed some light on this, it would be much appreciated.

[gn!uz]

I've just discovered that my specific subtitle problem has nothing do to with the updated version of mkv2vob. As strange as it may be, my 2 different mkv's both had the same problem. Another mkv doesnt have this problem. And the subtitle problem happens with older versions of mkv2vob as well.

These problematic mkv's have more than 8 subtitle tracks embedded so perhaps this is what the problem causes. As I tried to add another subtitle track, the .srt file is ignored but the first (embedded) subtitle track is used instead for transcode.

Happy new year!

[Guest]

These problematic mkv's have more than 8 subtitle tracks embedded so perhaps this is what the problem causes.
Why did you embed these problematic tracks when you made the MKVs?

[3r1c]

First of all, happy new year to all.

As I stated in http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1228167#post1228167, I have a subtitle problem with mkv2vob -- the borders of some Chinese characters are chopped off when "Large Subtitles" is ticked. So, I tried to play with mencoder.conf to see if it is possible to change subtitle configurations without having to change mkv2vob.

And, here are some preliminary results. Because I have to wait till the end of conversion to see whether or not configuration changes are taken into effects, you're welcomed to share your testing results here.

1. From my various experiments, it seemed to me that mencoder.exe, included in mkv2vob, does NOT read configuration file (mencoder.conf) at all.
2. I found that mencoder.exe, included in mkv2vob, is not the same as the one posted in http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php. Although there are other win32 mencoder.exe projects, I tested this one so far. I downloaded "MPlayer/MEncoder svn rev 28126", de-compressed the file, and put mencoder.exe into mkv2vob/tools. Of course, I backed up the mencoder.exe included in mkv2vob.
3. So far, I also created a mplayer directory under mkv2vob/tools. In the newly created directory, I copied "c:\windows\fonts\simhei.ttf" into it and rename simhei.ttf to subfont.ttf. Also, I created a mencoder.conf which contains one single line:

subfont=c:\Windows\Fonts\simhei.ttf

4. I have now successfully converted one mkv file to use simhei font. (no more chopped off subtitles) But, I'm not sure which one make this happned: mencoder.exe, mencoder.conf, or subfont.ttf. I have to test more. But again, it required many hours to find out. If someone could shed some light on this, it would be much appreciated.

Thats the same place I downloaded the mencoder i incuded with mkv2vob.

The reason it looks different is I compressed it with UPX.

[3r1c]

ATTN Everyone.
I have setup an official forum for mkv2vob at www.mkv2vob.com
You may ask any questions related to mkv2vob in there.
Full announcement: http://www.mkv2vob.com/showthread.php?tid=3

[gn!uz]

Why did you embed these problematic tracks when you made the MKVs?

As I said I'm all new to ripping/transcoding. So far I've only ripped blurays as a whole, so I wasn't aware of the problems that I had.

I feel very offended in the way you are assuming things that aren't the case at all. I understand that you have a hard time to keep things legit in this thread. But I don't understand you are sending me a warning based on assumptions..

[busta.rhymes]

Is there a way to undo the process...

I mean to make a vob back to a mkv?
Can I do this with this tool again?

What i mean ist noch MKV 2 Vob but more like Vob back 2 mkv.

[Dasato]

Hello,

I've converted lot of mkv with this program an I always get an excellent result, but since last update, 2.3.0 and 2.3.1, I've lot of problems with files that includes DTS sound.

I've tried two files, one all I get is perfect sound but a black screen, and the second one has a perfect video but audio was corrupted.

If you need I can get the mediainfo data for these files.

Regards and lot of thanks for bring us this program.

[busta.rhymes]

Hey people any idea how i can make mkv out of those vobs again?

[Guest]

Hey people any idea how i can make mkv out of those vobs again?
It's off topic for this thread!

[3r1c]

V2.3.2 2/Jan/2009
Fixed wrong subtitles when using SRT file.
Improved Automatic Level 4.1 detection

[gn!uz]

Thank you very much again!

[anakin16]

Hi, i'm trying to convert mkv file with mkv2vob, the app always encode the audio to ac3 which comes out with a gradual delay... I don't know what to do anymore. I've tryied to demux the file and do separate audio encoding to 6ch ac3 and the results were the same. When i play the original mkv everything is fine, it plays in perfect sync?? But when i extract the dts track it appears to be 2 sec. longer then the video file??? I've never before had this problem and the funny thing is another release of this movie has the same issue?? Please help i'm lost...

Sorry, now i know all the rules...

[Milvus]

Hi, i'm trying to convert Alien.vs.Predator.Unrated.2004.720p.BluRay.DTS.x264-SEPTiC

You may want to read rule 6 (http://forum.doom9.org/forum-rules.htm) ! :readrule:

[gever570]

Hey everyone,
I've been trying to get external subs to work while watching a movie on my PS3 but with no success.Does anyone know how to add external subs to a movie using the mkv2vob s/w?

[Settepotet]

Thanks for srt fix. This bug really puzzled me :)

[twobells]

A niggling issue has arisen since 2.3.1. TSMuxer ctd with a 'stopped working' msg and on completion I get a VirtualDub error msg: 'cannot detect file type *****.mp4'.

My settings are:

Pref Audio: ENG Video Transcoding: Auto Pref Sub: ENG

File Split: None Output File Ext: .MP4 Transcoding Codec: Xvid

OS: Ultimate 64

Best Wishes

TB

[OperatorSx]

im sure this has been asked before but i can't seem to find it:

does anyone know if its possible to SPLIT a converted mkv after its been converted? I know mkv2vob does 4gb splitting but let's say i forgot to enable that option or i want to copy my 10gig file over to a fat32 drive after its been converted - is there an easy way or do i have to retranscode it? thanks!

[sympton]

Couldnt find match with search so here it goes:

I remuxed .mkv with another audio and used audio delay to sync audio, however, mkv2vob lost sync information when i muxed mkvto mpg? Any workaround on this ?

-T

Is it possible to include audio timing from mkv ?

[skylinekiller]

Can someone clarify the settings for cnverting to PS3. I used to use this a lot before, but now that its updated, Id like to start using it again. Everytime I convert an MKV I use 264 and .mp4 settings. When it's done it plays fine on my computer, but when I burn on disc to trasfer, no file is shown on the ps3, not even if I try to view the information of the disc. Someon can you please help me master the settings?

[thetoof]

Sorry if this was treated before... but I don't feel like reading hundreds of posts just to be sure :p
I installed the lastest version and I get an "error getting mkv info!"
Any hints?

[mryerse]

Thanks, nice program. Would be nice if I could cancel a job if I don't want to wait for it instead of killing the process. Also would be nice if I could set an option to not transcode. Seems that remuxing MKV's is not very mature these days. Appreciate your work on this though. This is a sought after capability.

[NinjaZeroEight]

Can someone clarify the settings for cnverting to PS3. I used to use this a lot before, but now that its updated, Id like to start using it again. Everytime I convert an MKV I use 264 and .mp4 settings. When it's done it plays fine on my computer, but when I burn on disc to trasfer, no file is shown on the ps3, not even if I try to view the information of the disc. Someon can you please help me master the settings?

Try using the .vob output file extension.

And to the creator of this great program, how about putting in a cancel button?

[anakin16]

Is it possible to keep DTS when converting to vob?

[winoni71]

Is it possible to keep DTS when converting to vob?
No, and even if you could, you couldn't play it in the Ps3.

[anakin16]

No, and even if you could, you couldn't play it in the Ps3.

Thanks for your reply.:thanks:

[RedSwirl]

Can someone clarify the settings for cnverting to PS3. I used to use this a lot before, but now that its updated, Id like to start using it again. Everytime I convert an MKV I use 264 and .mp4 settings. When it's done it plays fine on my computer, but when I burn on disc to trasfer, no file is shown on the ps3, not even if I try to view the information of the disc. Someon can you please help me master the settings?

Same problem here, but I'm also trying to get the converted files onto my iPod and iPhone, but they won't even show up on iTunes in the first place. I can't use another converter because this is the only one I've been able to use without losing the subtitles.

[3r1c]

V2.4.0 20/Jan/2009
Added AVCHD: Disc output mode (note: AVCHD is same as Blu-Ray so you can burn to BD-R too).
Added AVCHD: USB output mode (AVCHD on a usb drive).
Added AVCHD: USB output mode automatic splitting and playback for FAT32 without movie interruption.
Added AVCHD: DTS + Subtitles support without transcoding.
Added AVCHD: Automatically import chapter information from MKV.
Added AVCHD: Patch TSmuxeR AVCHD output to remove green bar without re-encoding.
Added AVCHD: Patch TSmuxeR AVCHD output to make subtitles play automatically.
Added AVCHD: Patch TSmuxeR AVCHD output to fix wrong m2ts file size indicator (causes freezing on splits).
Added x264 High Quality transcoding mode (almost lossless, file size is about 3x original),
Added option to convert incompatible audio to PCM instead of AC3 (requires HDMI audio decoder).
Added support for ASS subtitles.
Added Stop/Pause button.
Added detection of bad manual installation (cause of mkv parse error, please use the installer).
Added option to disable automatic update.
Added use standard Win32 API to run tools, should help with running in emulator on MAC/Linux.
Added support for DTS-ES audio.
Added support for VORBIS audio.
Added support for multi-core XviD encoding.
Improved x264 transcoding speed on multi-core processors.
Improved x264 transcoding speed by optimizing settings.
Fixed VirtualDubMod error when transcoding codec is set to XviD but no transcoding was required.
Fixed wrong audio codec muxed in XviD when the source mkv did not have an AC3 track.
Fixed progress bar not working in XviD muxing stage when no splitting required.
Fixed some letters missing in some subtitle languages.
Fixed Arabic subtitles not displayed correctly.
Fixed Unexpected Operation error on some files with AAC audio.
Fixed too big/small MPEG2 transcoded files.
Fixed file splitting was undersized by 2.34% (note: a little undersizing is normal).
Fixed "Installation ended prematurely" error with installer on some systems.
Fixed transcoded audio unplayable or with dropouts/clicks on some decoders.
Fixed various other minor bugs.
Removed file extension option, it is now set automatically (rename it manually if you want).
NOTE: PS3 Firmware 2.53 or higher is required, earlier version you will get no audio.

[Quatre]

whoa, new version.

not sure i'm liking the new updates.

can't choose the file type output anymore? i was used to .m2ts now fileoutput makes it a .mpg automatically

what is the benefit of the avchd (usb) output? and is it worth it for 720p mkv tv eps or no? can you have sub foldes in the avchd dir? need to separate by tv show for example.

seems the updates are mostly for movies. can do dts sound now via file? still ahve the fat32 4gb limit for ext. usb hdd's though so still have to put a larger 2.5" sata in the ps3 and then trasnfer movies to it via tversity or soemthing.

i do like ps3 better for 720p mkv tv eps but i still dont think ill use it for movies. i store my avchd vid cam clips on it and playback.

tv eps from usb ext. hdd. is the avchd output mode worht it for those? what are the benefits?
video thumbnail? anything else? chapters? but dont need those for tv eps.

hmmm and what about the new audio pcm mode? none of my tv eps never need the audio converted. ac3 is fine for them though i prefer dts for movie. the pcm mode says it makes a larger file?

[3r1c]

There is no benefit of using AVCHD or PCM for tv eps, unless you want to have it on a disc for some reason.
All tv eps will have AC3 audio, there is no broadcast DTS so it wont need conversion.

[Quatre]

There is no benefit of using AVCHD or PCM for tv eps, unless you want to have it on a disc for some reason.
All tv eps will have AC3 audio, there is no broadcast DTS so it wont need conversion.

ok thanks, so most of these updates are for movies. you think the ps3 is as good as the popcorn hour for x264 movies? 1080p with dts?

actually some tv ep blurays have dts so the avchd mode could be good for those but yeah so otherwise you recommend just outputting to file for 720p mkv tv eps

i dont do discs. also why only .mpg for file output? i thought .m2ts was best extension for ps3?

also wont doing avchd mode make for video thumbnails? though i guess that isnt' enough reason to do it for tv eps as you said there is no benefit of using avchd or pcm fot tv eps unless you want to put it on disc.


if the prog is gearing more towards movies and burning disc, i wonder if i should go back to the previous version and turn off auto updates?

[anakin16]

Thanks for the great updates, it's great to finaly have a stop button. I just tryied the new version and had a little problem, i hope that this can be fixed in some way. I used AVCHD-Disc mode to convert a mkv movie, everything went smooth, i burn't it on dvd and wanted to play it in my ps3. Ps3 has played it with no problems but the movie isn't in the middle of the screen?? It's in the top of the screen. I know that previous versions of similar software had green bars if video isn't 1280x720 (like mine) but i thought that this new mkv2vob can fix this. Can this be avoided somehow?

Added AVCHD: Patch TSmuxeR AVCHD output to remove green bar without re-encoding.

[Quatre]

something seems wrong with the new version. in running a tv ep through as normal, it seems stuck in the same place of progress on muxing (set to auto transcode if neccesary and reported as usual with tv eps that it didn't need to transcode) this progess is usually quite quick but seem frozen and not progressing.

how do i go back to the previous version of mkv2vob that worked perfect?

seems there is no way to go back to the previous version and nowhere to dl it. i guess from now on ill disable auto update till i know the kinks are worked out of new version.

[chromey]

Hi there - am i correct in saying that if i convert an MKV with DTS audio to AVCHD format will the size increase ?
Most movie MKV's are sized to nicely fit on a Dual Layer DVD and a quick test i did seemed to increase the size.

Any suggestions would be appreciated

Chromey

[Quatre]

3rlc: I think the new version is freezing up when it has to split files (like into 4gb parts for fat32).

speaking of which i know ppl have mentioned it before but it might be nice to have the option to split the file into 2 equal parts in some cases. like a i have a 2 part tv mkv just barely over 4gb so to have one small .mpg file would be kind of dumb. But I guess there is no way to know where to split it to separate the 2 parts/eps as its probably not exactly in the middle of the file. Also with the file output mode will it still play seamlessly between the split file parts or no?

[Anacletus]

With the new version, every time it finishes the muxing it complete with an error:

"muxing error"

For the record all the files that i tried to convert didn't need any transcoding.

[GenesisPT]

Just tried the new version with the AVCHD output disc in the ps3. The ps3 said it couldn't play it.

[anakin16]

Can anyone please tell me what's a good way to put wmv hd in mkv container. Thanks.

[3r1c]

V2.4.2 22/Jan/2009
Added support for MPEG/L3 (MP3) audio.
Added "Use 448kbps AC3" option, for decoders that require it, 640kbps is the default.
Added "Use Old File Format" option (uses M2TS container like the old versions).
Restored "Output File Extension" option.
Fixed MKV file deleted + parse error if source is in a subfolder of the destination.
Fixed loader.exe deleted by some anti-virus scanners (false detection, there was no virus).
Fixed AVCHD mode transcoded all 720p files even if its not needed.
Fixed freeze/crash/error when output directory is a FAT32 file system.
Fixed check boxes in config tab looked strange on some windows themes.
Fixed progress bar not working in second stage of PCM transcoding.
Note: If you get green bar in AVCHD, press "Top Menu" on your remote.

[Quatre]

V2.4.2 22/Jan/2009
Added support for MPEG/L3 (MP3) audio.
Added "Use 448kbps AC3" option, for decoders that require it, 640kbps is the default.
Added "Use Old File Format" option (uses M2TS container like the old versions).
Restored "Output File Extension" option.
Fixed MKV file deleted + parse error if source is in a subfolder of the destination.
Fixed loader.exe deleted by some anti-virus scanners (false detection, there was no virus).
Fixed AVCHD mode transcoded all 720p files even if its not needed.
Fixed freeze/crash/error when output directory is a FAT32 file system.
Fixed check boxes in config tab looked strange on some windows themes.
Fixed progress bar not working in second stage of PCM transcoding.
Note: If you get green bar in AVCHD, press "Top Menu" on your remote.

is that redundant to have a "use old file format" option box to check which just makes it a .m2ts and also the "output file extension" which has .m2ts as one of the options just like the old version.

when choosing something other then automatic it says it warns it may make it unplayable on the ps3. what file extension does automatic use? .mpg i guess cus you said that progs like tversity were most compatable with that. I just prefer .m2ts over the others as i know its hd and ps3 related and since i'm putting it on fat32 hdd so dont need the greater compatability with tvesrity and other streaming progs that .mpg brings. So i can leave it as automatic and check the use old file format box to get .m2ts or i can not check the "use old file format box" and just pick .m2ts from the file extension drop down list.

which will work better?

also for
"Fixed freeze/crash/error when output directory is a FAT32 file system."

I guess that is the problem I was having when trying to have it split a file larger then 4gb for fat32. the way you stated the error though was that it would happen with any file even one not needing to be split if the output directory was fat32, ack. thats all i use as i only use mkv2vob for 720p tv eps. good thing that got fixed though i think I did one ep that didnt' need to be split and it worked fine so i think the problem was more when splitting for fat32 but still that is enough reason to make me not want to autoupdate cus till that got fixed if the problem was for every file output to a fat32 hdd, i'd have been screwed till the new version. i guess ill just uncheck auto update if its working fine and until i know the new is working ok. but i fear if i hadn't noticed and said anything it might not have gotten noticed by anyone else for some time.

I was using it on "House of Sadamm" 720p but it put eps 1-2 in one file and 3-4. both larger then 4gb so it needs to split them.i guess it would be hard to split it perfectly at the end of ep 1 but its an example where even just splitting the file in the middle with 2 more or less equal parts would be more ideal then have a 3.99gb file and then one that is like 200mb and very short.

anyway i think main question for ppl want to use the .m2ts extension is again do we.
1. leave "output file extension" as Automatic (which regularly makes it .mpg?) and check the box to "Use old file format" which would make it .m2ts?
or
2. just choose .m2ts from the drop down list and dont check the box for "use old file format" as doing both would do the same thing right? and possibly therefore cause a problem

I guess ill go with leave it as Automatic since it warns against picking otherwise claiming the file may not work on the ps3 though .m2ts always did before but ill leave it auto and just check the "use old file format" box to get my .m2ts
i know its proba formality as i could just change the .mpg to .m2ts and it would work but just wondering.

edit: hm when you hold mouse over "use old file format" it says that .m2ts creates slightly larger file but plays better on pcs. id ont need pc playback really other then maybe to test which never worked before anyway using wmp. it says .m2ts works on older ps3 fw's as if it doesnt on new but it does still work on newest fw. anyway i didn't realize that .m2ts makes a larger file and if .mpg offers the most compatability ill just stick with that via automatic.

[3r1c]

You are confusing extension with container.
Setting a "file extension" just renames the file after conversion, it doesnt make it a real m2ts/mp4/avi etc..
Setting "use old file format" creates a real M2TS container, otherwise a TS container is used.

In the old versions it always created a M2TS container and renamed it to whatever extension you selected.
The new version uses TS because its less overhead, if you want to restore the way the old version worked you enable the "use old file format" option.

[Quatre]

You are confusing extension with container.
Setting a "file extension" just renames the file after conversion, it doesnt make it a real m2ts/mp4/avi etc..
Setting "use old file format" creates a real M2TS container, otherwise a TS container is used.

In the old versions it always created a M2TS container and renamed it to whatever extension you selected.
The new version uses TS because its less overhead, if you want to restore the way the old version worked you enable the "use old file format" option.

thanks for the clarification 3r.

so with the old version it was good i was using .m2ts because thats what it actually was.

so what is the benefit of new version using .ts? what is less overhead? quicker remux? smaller file? so if i have it on output to a file and keep output file extension on auto and dont check the use old file format box it will make a .ts file with a .mpg extension?

and this is the most recommended way? I guess the new way which makes a .ts is ideal. fastest and smallest file with full quality? so why not just have it make a file with a .ts extension? why .mpg? cus of the compatability that extension has with windows and streaming progs like wmp and tversity i guess?

so i could rename it to .ts or just use the drop down box to rename it .m2ts (even though its still a .ts) but to me .m2ts is closer to the .ts it really is then .mpg

ah, i see now looking at files made with old version highlighting the file mediainfo shows it as a BDAV (which i guess is a .m2ts) and new version shows mpeg-4ts. the .mpg still doesnt play in wmp to test so i dont see the point in using the .mpg extension for me since i put it to fat32 hdd. what is the proper extension for a mpeg-4ts? .ts i guess?

you sure the mpeg-4ts is better then the bdav (m2ts)? what exactly is the benefit? i mostly only care about quality and file size in that order, i want unchanged quality and file size and fast remux.

actually for an mpeg-4ts I guess .mp4 help me know what it is and .mpg is half true, .m2ts would work but thats not what it is. i see from the mkv's i remux to .ts in tsMuxeR are mpeg-4ts so again the proper extension is .ts. why is that not even an option in file output extension?

what is the benefit of mkv2vob then just using tsMuxeR besides some of the file split and other options? or will an mkv remuxed to .ts using tsMuxeR not always ensure it plays on ps3?

is the mpeg-4ts (.ts) mkv2vob any larger file sizse then the bdav (.m2ts) it used to make cus i know usually .ts tv eps are much much larger then .mkv

I end up still being unclear whether to use the new format or the old and with the new what extension would be best. i know it doesn't matter but i want an extension that makes sense is correct and lets me know what the file really is. i guess i could manually rename to .ts

and i'm still not clear for sure if there is any benefit of using the avchd-usb mode. i know all files have to be in a folder called avchd in the root and then it creates a bdmv folder in that? can you still have subdirs for say diff tv shows or do all files from all diff shows have to be all in the same dir in which case that is not ideal. is there any other benefit. do you get the video thumbnail?

its weird how .mpg is a choice for output extension even though thats the new default and if you change the output extension it warns it might not play on the ps3. if .m2ts extension always worked why wouldn't it now and doesn't .mp4 also

[ancarloro]

Why when i choose : AVCHD: USB output mode , with subtitles , some movie need to transcode ?

[anakin16]

I have a problem with converting to AVCHD, the movie has odd resolution so it must be reencoded, reencoding starts and everything is fine, when it's finished there is no muxing ( maybe it's not needed, i don't know) there is no error message but the AVCHD folder is only 40MB big or let's say there's only 2-3 min of movie present in stream folder???? Please help, this is the first time i had this error, i used mkv2vob many time before with this settings and everything was fine. Thanks.

Edit: The problem is definitely in muxing, i starts to mux it reaches 3% or so then it's suddenly complete and i got AVCHD that's 39MB big????
I've tryied to reinstall mkv2vob, installed newest mkvtoolnix and nothing, what else can i do? Please help.

[winoni71]

Quick suggestion:
it would be a very good idea if when i choose "Output Type: AVCHD - Disc", there was an option to limit the file size to "Dvd-5", "Dvd-9" or Blu-Ray (25GB).

[seelix]

Nice little tool.
But what iam missing is a high bitrate output of transcoded MPEG2 files.
Max. here is about 9 Mbps, but it should be around 20 Mbps.
Looking forward to this .
;-)
But thx anyway,really nice work.

[3r1c]

V2.4.3 05/Feb/2009
Added support for SSA subtitles.
Added ability to browse network folders.
Added Drag and Drop support (both files and directories).
Added XviD transcodes are now XBOX 360 compatible with full 5.1 AC3 playback.
Added support for video with variable frame rate (it will be transcoded to CFR).
Added AVCHD 720p with height above 584 can now be converted without transcoding.
Added support for audio which is not 48Khz in AVCHD mode (eg. MP3).
Added "Use 448kbps AC3" will now downconvert 640kbps AC3.
Added detect if temp/dest folder is writable to avoid strange errors if its not.
Added detect and abort if temp folder is on a FAT32 formatted drive.
Added abort if "transcode: never" is selected and video would be unplayable.
Added display reason video is being transcoded. *
Added assume subtitles in mkv without a language flag is your preferred lanaguage.
Fixed runtime error in AVCHD mode if subtitles contain bad time codes.
Fixed error converting some DTS-ES tracks to AC3/PCM.
Fixed unable to choose a temp/dest directory in the root of an empty drive.
Fixed subtitles incorrectly displayed on DBCS windows (eg. traditional chinese).
Fixed error transcoding or very large output on non-english windows.
Fixed muxing failed on MAC when used in vmware.
Fixed audio lanaguage preference not working with vorbis/mp3.
Fixed parse error with some H.264 mkv's which were not encoded with x264.
Fixed PCM conversions which are larger then 4GB not working.
Fixed tsmuxer crash/partial output in AVCHD when subtitles contains long line.
Fixed no subtitles visible in AVCHD when first subtitle starts at 00:00:00
Fixed "Skip Already Converted" not detecting AVCHD conversions.
Fixed mencoder crash at end of some files.
Fixed detect if tsmuxer crashes for any reason during AVCHD muxing.

* Transcoding reason display:
REF = Too many reference frames (Not Level 4.1)
VFR = Variable Frame Rate
SUB = Subtitles
RES = Bad AVCHD resolution
CFG = You set transcode to Always

[anothadave]

thanks, nice update. i like the fact it now gives the transcoding reasons. your efforts are much appreciated.

[Quatre]

nice update. this is knitpicking a bit, but, I still dont get why one of the output file extensions is .mpg when that is also the default if you leave it set to automatic. when you hold the mouse over that extension it explains that chaging the file extension doesn't change the codec or file format (which is now .ts where as before it made an avchd (bdav according to media info) which the correct extension for that is .m2ts and what I used) so if the default when set to automatic makes it a .mpg why also have .mpg as a choice in the drop down list. Why not have .ts as a choice since thats what it is?

when you hold the mouse over an .mkv file, if you have Media Info installed it shows you info about teh file. with the old mkv2vob that made an avchd file which media info showed as a bdav file type, it didn't show as much info as mkv but at least it showed the resolution.

with the new mkv2vob making a .ts Media info doesn't even show the resolution, just very basic info. kinda sucks and I know this from using tsMuxeR on mkv files for better compatability with my popcornhour networked media tank (it can play mkv but sometimes has trouble with 1080p mkv files with high ref frames etc and dts sound while .ts works 100%)

maybe new version of Media Info shows more info on .ts files?

edit: ah, new version of Media Info does show the resolution when holding mouse over for these mpeg-ts files that mkv2vob makes (their main site on sourceforge is down but videohelp.com had it)

[JonRead]

Not sure why, but when I create MPG files out of MKVs my Explorer always crashes when I single click on the files. It doesn't happen on any other MPGs, just the ones created in MKV2Vob. The error I get is "application : explorer.exe" and a fault with file "qedit.dll".

[ancarloro]

what config i need to choose in Imageburm to burn a AVCHD folder to a DVD ?

[RedSwirl]

This program has worked well for me when it comes to regular videos, but what about full-length movies and large file sizes?

Right now I'm trying to convert a movie that's in 1080p and is 6GB.

The sound is also encoded in DTS and I'd like to keep it that way in the conversion since my PS3's hooked up to a surround sound setup.

I tried one smaller movie already and for some reason the picture was really distorted at parts.

[Guest]

Right now I'm trying to convert a movie that's in 1080p and is 6GB. Where did you get that movie?

[guru1968]

Hi 3r1c,

did you remove MPEG2 support?
- 'cause I got the error "Unsupported Video Codec: MPEG2" when I try to convert a mkv which was made by 'MakeMkv' out of an ordinary DVD...

Or is the "DVD MPEG2" so much different from the "Blu-Ray MPEG2" that your program refuses to work with it?

--by any means, please add support for the output of MakeMkv, would make life so much easier: just two clicks to convert a DVD to something playable on the PS3:
1. MakeMkv
2. mkv2vob

..if those two flavours of MPEG2 are really incompatible, then you could always force re-encoding (I anyways want to do 264 out of them...), but at least you could recognize the DVD-MPEG2!


'nother question: any plans to add multiple audio-streams?
PS3 supports those, but mkv2vob only leaves one audio stream in the transcoded file...

cheers

[RedSwirl]

Where did you get that movie?

There's a site called ****** that's been putting up Blu-Ray rips of anime movies. They just put up a 1080p DTS rip of Akira. It's 11Gigs.

[Guest]

Struck for rule 6. Read and follow our forum rules.

[3r1c]

V2.4.4 16/Feb/2009
Added DTS can now be played from file without transcoding (Disc/Streaming). *
Added support for MKV with XviD/DivX video.
Fixed Drag and Drop not recognize ts and rar files.
Fixed AC3 skipping/stutter on some decoders.
Fixed Drag and Dropping a folder with "delete folder" checked may delete wrong folder.
Fixed "Error Transcoding Video" on MKV missing bitrate flag.
Fixed "Insufficient Disk Space" error when splitting to small fat32 drives.

* Do not change any settings in the ps3 that effects audio playback.
The PS3 must pass the DTS to your audio receiver untouched.
The options when you press triangle must be Audio: Left + Right and Volume: Normal.

[spida_singh]

Is the dts sent as lpcm, i thought dts did not allow streaming?

[3r1c]

It adds a fake LPCM header so the ps3 will play it, but its playing the untouched DTS stream which the ps3 passes to the audio system.
You will see the DTS logo light up on your audio system.

[RedSwirl]

I'm being told that the current version of MK2VOB has an issue with converting mkvs with DTS sound.

...nevermind, didn't read the last couple posts. I'll try it tonight.

[3r1c]

I'm being told that the current version of MK2VOB has an issue with converting mkvs with DTS sound.

Thanks for the detailed explanation.
I will read your mind and fix the issue immediately.

[RedSwirl]

The one big problem I have always had with mk2vob though is that whenever I convert something with subtitles (that aren't hard-encoded onto the video), the subtitles always come out in a default font different from how the originally displayed.

It's still perfectly readable most of the time, but the process reverses anything the original subtitler may have done to make the words more readable against certain backgrounds in the video.

Is there any way to make sure the subtitles stay in their original format?

[3r1c]

The one big problem I have always had with mk2vob though is that whenever I convert something with subtitles (that aren't hard-encoded onto the video), the subtitles always come out in a default font different from how the originally displayed.

It's still perfectly readable most of the time, but the process reverses anything the original subtitler may have done to make the words more readable against certain backgrounds in the video.

Is there any way to make sure the subtitles stay in their original format?

SRT Subtitles (which are by far the most popular so I assume you are using these) are stored as text without formatting, except for basic bold, italic.
A player is free to show the subtitles in whatever font it wants.
The way mkv2vob does it might look different from another player, but there is no "right" or "wrong" way of doing it.

If you mean SSA/ASS subtitles, those arent supported by the muxing apps and need to be converted to SRT which again has no formatting.

[befcasr]

I have just tried converting an mkv with 5.1 DTS audio, however when played on PS3 it says that the audio is only 2 channel. This is using 2.4.4. Additionally, i have set the file to be split into 4gb files for FAT32, 2 of the files play but the other 2 do not. The PS3 reports one as being unsupported, and another as not having enough memory!

[RedSwirl]

Thanks for the detailed explanation.
I will read your mind and fix the issue immediately.

All I was told was this from a guy at the Playstation forums:

"The problem was caused buy the MKV container. if the ripper had left it as a M2TS file, it would have just played. MKVTOVOB/M2TS has what was a well Known bug when handling DTS audio only MKV. Due to the library its using, it can fail. what you need to do is convert the DTS stream to another audio codec first. instead convert the DTS to AAC 5.1 or DD5.1 then use a remuxer to combine it with the H264 video stream as MP4/M2TS. "

[3r1c]

I think he has no idea what he is talking about.
mkv2vob has worked with dts files (converting to ac3) for more then a year.

[RedSwirl]

I have just tried converting an mkv with 5.1 DTS audio, however when played on PS3 it says that the audio is only 2 channel. This is using 2.4.4. Additionally, i have set the file to be split into 4gb files for FAT32, 2 of the files play but the other 2 do not. The PS3 reports one as being unsupported, and another as not having enough memory!

I do remember once converting an mkv file that had DD5.1 sound and it remained 5.1 when I played it on my PS3. There was a significant sound lag meaning that something else had gone wrong, but it was still coming out on five channels.

[RedSwirl]

Also, if you want to take a file (maybe already converted) and just split it without going through the whole conversion thing, what would you do?

I'm still not sure whether I want my movies in two different halves. Even if the files are too big for FAT32 I've still got TVersity to stream them, so I'd like to have both options without going through the conversion process twice.

[RedSwirl]

Okay, I tried converting a movie tonight and video-wise it went smoothly. My main problem seems to be sound.

This didn't use to happen with smaller mkvs (with pretty much identical properties otherwise), but now whenever I'm done converting I get a video with no sound at all when I play it on my computer. When I stream it on the PS3 through DLNA, I just get static for sound. This isn't just happening on the movies that originally had DTS (which on the PS3 came out as 2Ch PCM), but on all of the movies I've tried.

Since the latest updates I haven't done anything with the sound settings in mk2vob. They are all default except I have the preferred language changed to Japanese.

"Use PCM instead of AC3" is unchecked. "Use 448kbps AC3" is also unchecked. "Don't use DTS in PCM" is unchecked as well. I can get this to work if I just get around this sound issue.

[3r1c]

Try check "Use old file format"

[RedSwirl]

I'll set that on tonight and continue when I wake up tomorrow.

Also I just found out that the subtitles are in "ASS" format. The original audio for the movies I have is either Japanese DTS 5.1 or Japanese AC3 5.1 (I think), both in 640kbps.

[Guest]

Also I just found out that the subtitles are in "ASS" format. The original audio for the movies I have is either Japanese DTS 5.1 or Japanese AC3 5.1 (I think), both in 640kbps. This means you didn't make the encode yourself. I hope your 30 days time off will motivate you to obey our forum rules.

[pmluke]

Hi thanks for this great program, I just have one problem. I can convert a movie with DTS audio to AVCHD ( usb) The ps3 wll show that the movie is playing DTS audio but my reciever will only play it in 2 channel. AC3 5.1 works fine. Any suggestions
Thanks

[3r1c]

V2.4.5 18/Feb/2009
Added DTS can now be transcoded to AC3 in AVCHD mode (if you want to reduce filesize).
Fixed "unsupported" or "out of memory" error on ps3 with some split files.
Fixed old ac3 encoder which causes stuttering still used when downsampling/fixing ac3.
Fixed DVD-5 split sometimes a few bytes too large.

[Quatre]

V2.4.4 16/Feb/2009
Added DTS can now be played from file without transcoding (Disc/Streaming). *

* Do not change any settings in the ps3 that effects audio playback.
The PS3 must pass the DTS to your audio receiver untouched.
The options when you press triangle must be Audio: Left + Right and Volume: Normal.

(Disc/Streaming)?
so does this mean it can now play dts audio from a file say on an ext. usb hdd now or not? if so that is pretty huge and there is getting to be less and less of a reason to use my popcorn hour for movies though I still prefer it.

I do still however prefer 720p tv eps from a 2.5" ext. usb hdd formatted to fat32 on the ps3. Maybe If I didn't have to store my avchd vid cam clips on the ps3, I would transfer movies onto there (I dont like streaming from pc) or if the ps3 could hold larger then 320gb hdd. but i think that is still the largest 2.5" sata drives they make.

[3r1c]

Yes you can play DTS from files on a usb hdd.

[Quatre]

Yes you can play DTS from files on a usb hdd.

sweet thanks. thats pretty huge. the prog has come a long way and your updates have been stellar.

[synce]

Awesome program, but is it possible to listen to the commentary track? (I don't see it anywhere in the audio language category.) Thanks

[incognitos]

Hello!
1. Why AVCHD without transcoding are only for AVCHD with height above 584? (Technical problem?). It's a huge problem because 90% of 720p mkv's are 544, sometimes 528 or 536. Is it a chance that mkv under 584 will be convert without transcoding in the near future?
2. "For USB mode The output wiil be FAT32 Compliant, but You still require a drive with enough free for the whole movie" - I have 8GB USB drive... if I convert to AVCHD USB for example 6 GB movie (I cant choose file splitting), then outputfile will be in 2 parts 4gb and 2GB? and I can play it on my PS3?? But i must have this two parts on my 8GB usb drive?? Is that correct?? :)

PS: Sorry for my English :)

[guru1968]

Hi

I love that new feature which make DTS play on the PS3

- BUT: I also love to have multiple audio streams since this does work on the PS3

here my question: could you please leave/convert all the original audio tracks in the final movie? (or maybe an optional switch for that)

alternatively: how do you "make" these fake PCM-like DTS tracks? (so I could feed those into tsmuxer and everything would be fine as well) (okay, I always could 'steal' them from your temp directory while mkv2vob is busy with muxing, but I don't like that idea...)

[setarip_old]

@3r1c

Hi!

In this thread back in June 2008, you said:I have never seen VC1 in a mkv file, so its not supported my mkv2vob.At that time, you were correct.

However, since the advent of (presently freeware) "MakeMKV", there are many of us who are using this tool (rather than spending our hard earned money on "AnyDVD HD") for ripping BluRay discs to MKV files, as a first step to backing up our BluRay discs.

As I'm sure you're aware, many of these BluRay discs, and hence the .MKVs created from them, include VC-1 videostreams.

Based on this, I'd ask that you now reconsider and, if possible, add VC-1 capability to your impressive program.

[chromey]

Hi there

May have asked this before but can anyone explain the reason an MKV file increases in size when running through MKV2VOB
The new DTS patching option is fanastic but however files i convert get pushed over the limit for DVDR DL media.
I believe its todo with the changing of containers but will this always be the case ??

Thanks
Chromey

[webvan]

Having a strange problem with the latest version 2.4.5, mkv2vob is creating .mpg files, not .vob files ?! Anyone had that problem before ?

I am seeing a "Output file extension" setting but there is a warning not to use it and appears to be a straight renaming.

[sergeyliti]

Hi! Is there any possible way to make MKV2VOB to mux ALL audio strams, because I always get only one ( I need several languages in the movie )
P.S. if no, why TsMuxer can do this and mkv2vob ( that uses the same tsmuxer ) can't???

[Glorioso]

3r1c, let me congratulate you, again, for this excellent app. I've been away from this forum and when i return the, already, magnificent mkv2vob is even better with the AVCHD output. I have two notes, one request and one problem:

Problem, i cant read the AVCHD output on my Power DVD, anyone with that problem?

Request, can you make a option for output size? It's problematic to burn the results of a DVD5 MKV on a DVD5 AVCHD (BD5) and the same applies to DVD9.

Keep up the excellent work.

[zomtec]

greate job to get dts working @ the ps3...

but i'm a little confused - vlc player doesn't play the dts line anymore?
the codecsdetails-tab tells me that there are two video lines after patching?! (the real video line: h264 AND mpgv - the dts line???) is the new output file useless for other players then the ps3?!

greetz

p.s. playing the mentioned file with the ps3 works great with dts

[Bigmango]

The DTS patching does not work for me.

This is what I did:

1. converted an mkv with an 1.5M DTS track, mkv2vob is patching the DTS track and then muxing it with the video into an mpg file.

2. On playback the PS3 shows the track as linear PCM (also, I think it was 2.0 channels, but the original was 5.1), on the TV I get only some white noise for sound and if I switch the sound output to my Sony receiver the receiver displays "ERROR" and I get no sound.


edit: mkv2vob works fine if the DTS is converted to AC3, but DTS patching does not work.

edit 2: this is using the latest mkv2vob and the latest PS3 firmware

[e3henri]

1. Why AVCHD without transcoding are only for AVCHD with height above 584? (Technical problem?). It's a huge problem because 90% of 720p mkv's are 544, sometimes 528 or 536. Is it a chance that mkv under 584 will be convert without transcoding in the near future?

I have the exact same question and I can not find any answer in the forum.
Is there some magic limitation in tsmuxer at 584?

To be honest I dont understand how it is possible to make AVCHD from any format not equal to 720 or 1080 in the first place. How is this solved for files with height 585-719?
I guess black bars needs to be inserted, but that would be impossible without re-encode, or?
Or is it some kind of trick similair to the DTS throughput? :)
Or a stretch?

[turbojet]

Everything with a height < 584 lines plays as 576/480p on PS3.

The height hack tricks only the PS3 and it can be probably be broken with a future firmware upgrade, let's hope not. But for every other BD player files must be 720p or 1080p. Your safest bet is to encode at 720p and 1080p to ensure proper playback.

[kri kri]

Hi there

May have asked this before but can anyone explain the reason an MKV file increases in size when running through MKV2VOB
The new DTS patching option is fanastic but however files i convert get pushed over the limit for DVDR DL media.
I believe its todo with the changing of containers but will this always be the case ??

Thanks
Chromey

Same Issue for me

[provolino]

Hi all :)

I'm using mkv2vob to convert several mkv and be able to watch them on my PS3 but some of them give audio sync issue even if sync in original mkv is perfect.

Any way to fix that? :(

I tried enabling "Always convert DTS to AC3" but the problem persists :(

[georgem67]

:D Very funny

[provolino]

Hi all :)

I'm using mkv2vob to convert several mkv and be able to watch them on my PS3 but some of them give audio sync issue even if sync in original mkv is perfect.

Any way to fix that? :(

I tried enabling "Always convert DTS to AC3" but the problem persists :(

No help about that? :(

[incognitos]

I have "Muxed Failed Error" (in a middle of process) when i try to convert to AVCH-USB with subtitles.

SiZE..........: 6.54 GB
ViDEO.CODEC...: x264
FRAMERATE.....: 23.976
BiTRATE.......: 8443kbps
RESOLUTiON....: 1280x692
AUDiO.........: English DTS 5.1 1.5 mbit

[provolino]

I'm sad no-one answered to my sync questions :(

Another way to fix the issue: is there a software to edit the mpg file after mkv2vob conversion and delay the audio track to have correct sync?

[jp80]

Hi,

I'm having the black/green bar with all the movies I tried to convert from mkv to AVCHD USB and which had not exactly a height resolution of 1080p, like 816.
The black/green bar stays even if I try to toggle the top menu through the OSD menu with the ps3 controller. My ps3 has the latest firmware, and my mkv2vob is v2.4.5.
Any ideas to help me solve my problem please ?

[provolino]

Jp80 I posted a question at the beginning of April and still no answer... it seems the author is not monitoring this thread :(

[plantunes]

Can anyone confirm me if mkv2vob can be installed in a Windows 7 laptop? If so....how??? I get a invalid 32bit software error....
Thanks

[Yaka]

running fine on win7 64bit, and 32 bit via vmware



is anyone else is getting a problem with adding subs when converting .mkvs? 1.5gb files end up being over 11gb files once its done

[plantunes]

My WIN7 is 32bit.
How can I do that? What is vmware???
Thanks...

[Yaka]

vmware allows you run runn diff os's within an os, on my tux box i run vmware and xp/win7 as and when i need to. its pointless for you tho as you are already running win7 32bit

[plantunes]

But I can't install mkv2vob on my win7 32 bits!
Windows always states that MKV2VOB is not a Win32 bits valid aplication!!!!
I do need mkv2vob urgently!!!!
Can anybody help me with this???

[pel0quin]

But I can't install mkv2vob on my win7 32 bits!
Windows always states that MKV2VOB is not a Win32 bits valid aplication!!!!
I do need mkv2vob urgently!!!!
Can anybody help me with this???

Have u tried installing it in compatability mode ie Win XP

[jdryyz]

I have a couple of questions:

1) Should I be posting this to the actual "mkv2vob" forums now? I noticed mkv2vob has its own domain.

2) Someone already asked about converting mkv2vob-converted mpg files back to .mkv. I wish to do the same since I no longer have a PS3 but have a collection of mpg files I have converted. .mkv files *are* compatible with my Oppo BDP-83 Blu-Ray player. It handles stand-alone media files very well and the .mkv format is best suited for my needs. Why not just refer to my source DVDs and reconvert them? Because I gave away most of them. It would be a shame to have the mpgs go to waste.

[Guest]

Why not just refer to my source DVDs and reconvert them? Because I gave away most of them. It would be a shame to have the mpgs go to waste. We can't help you with material you no longer legitimately own.

[jdryyz]

Okay, that is fair. But, can it be done?

We can't help you with material you no longer legitimately own.

[Guest]

Okay, that is fair. But, can it be done? Struck for rule 16 violation.

[Peakr]

Is this tool still being developed? It seems anything muxed with mkvtoolnix 4.1 or greater breaks mkv2vob's ability to patch the DTS audio in an MKV for streaming to PS3. It therefore try's to re-convert it to AC3.

[wormraper]

I'm having an interesting problem. I use MKV2VOB a lot for converting 1080p and 720p files all the time to avchd or vob to play on my ps3. However I also have some standard def mkv's that I'd like to play on my ps3 but need to convert to avchd first.

However on the standard def stuff when I convert to AVCHD or to file the audio is drastically out of sync with the video. However this is never the case with 1080p or 720p files, even when re-encoded to add subs. I've noticed that it does this with MultiAVCHD and MKV2VOB as well so It's not just a program glitch I'm guessing. Anyone care to shed any light on the situation??

[Guest]

What are the specs on the MKV files and how did you make them?

[wormraper]

What are the specs on the MKV files and how did you make them?

converted using Megui from my DVD's

23.976 fps
using x264
.srt or .ass subs (I switched to .ass after I like the styling better)
aac audio encoded using Neroaac

I basically encode all my anime down using x264 to my hard drive and used to play it on my monitor. now that I have a ps3 I'd like to pop them on the ps3 using avchd on a 128gig usb stick or just stream the .vob/mpg etc.. files using my media server (damn ps3 not supporting softsubs and mkv)

avchd was the perfect mix because I could use the subs without re-encoding from some of my blu ray rips I made.

the only time this audio lag happens is with resolutions other than HD resolutions.

happens after it has to transcode. I had hard subbed a couple of my first encodes before I decided on softsubs so I converted those files without transcoding to file and the audio is fine even from aac to ac3. It only happens when I transcode the video to be avchd compliant or to encode to add the subtitle track. However only on the SD stuff, anything with an HD resolution can be transcoded just fine without any glitch.

[Guest]

I downloaded a fansub .mkv of an anime show That's a rule 6 violation no matter what your purpose is.

@all

No help for this issue.

[msp1518]

Greetings, all. Gents, it's been a while since I did this so clearly I have screwed something up. I had a number of sporting events in HD as mkv's and used mkv2vob to convert them to a file structure I could use to burn to DVD-R or duel layer DVD+r's with ImgBurn. In this case, I have a wedding video I was given as an mkv and want to make a playable disk for my wife.

Well, I have now created two duel layer coasters, as they have sound, but just a black screen for the picture. Whoops. What the heck am I doing wrong?

I am following these instructions, which are for Blu-Ray, but I had thought were interchangeable...
http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=9512

Maybe not? It's been so long since I did this I lost the instructions and used the above because they did seem right.

The actual mkv2vob conversion on the attempted video was made long ago. Back when I knew what I was doing. I just never got around to making the disk.

Also, I just tried something new (an mkv I had on the drive, it's less than 4 gig in size) and had the same result. Black video. But audio is fine.

I pop the disk into my PS3, it plays, but with a black screen.

Any ideas?

Here is the look of the file structure after mkv2vob does its thing (I blanked out the actual file name since it's the name of the bride).
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h323/msp1518/movie_structure.jpg

[sneaker_ger]

You could try remuxing with tsmuxer, which offers similar features to mkv2vob (but no video or audio reencoding).

If you can't bring either of those softwares to output working discs, I recommend doing a proper encode using the manual in this thread (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=154533) (examples are currently down, sadly).

[msp1518]

UPDATE: I successfully created a single layer burn. But then I did another (different title) and it had the same no video issue.

So I am completely confused.

[msp1518]

More craziness. I really only have success using DVDfab. But not always. I'm going to look around at programs like PS3Muxer, etc. and start experimenting.

[DeWTurk]

thanks great app

[pk1209]

hi all - been using mkv2vob successfully for a long time, but after not using the app for a few months (ran out of HDD space on media server, so was storing up mkv's) I'm running into repeated problems patching the DTS. The first file I tried worked fine, patched DTS and playing on PS3 fine. However, I've tried about 6-7 more DTS files and 1 of 2 things keeps happening. Either it tries to transcode the DTS to ACS (option definitely not ticked) or it says "Patching DTS" for about a second, then switches to "muxing" so the DTS obviously isn't patched.

I've updated MKV tool nix and used MKV merge do re-mux with no encoding on the audio or video, with subs and chapters removed from the file, but the results are the same.

Can't think why this is happening, and since I have a shiny new Home Cinema system, I really need by DTS tracks!

Any help much appreciated!!