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

[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.