roise_r
9th February 2009, 22:59
i am getting really frustrated by this problem that i have with my HD mkv content and my new D-Link DSM750 Media Player. I 'll try to be as clear as possible. pls bear with me as i ran out of option as about now.
first thing i used was tversity. with it i can play fine x264 content on my media player without any transcoding , encoding etc. It plays fine natively, as it is. ... but i have no subtitles. I want subtitles badly, so i had to move to the original dlink software that supports .srt subs. this software does not support mkv though. so my adventure into video conversion began.
these are things i have tried:
1) mkv2vob - remuxes fine without re-encoding. -> when played on the media player, mpg video is choppy, volume level is three times lower than the original for some reason
2) i tried mkvtoolinx to merge the original h264 video stream with the original AC3 audio stream and embed the subtitles. play as it is in tversity. -> subtitles dont show whatsoever. video otherwise plays fine... as the original
3) tried to use AVS video converter or Prism video converter -> loss in quality noticeable, original audio format not preserved. no way to tell the software to preserve the original audio
4) tried the old VirtualDubMod, which has been beside me in the past and never let me down... well it finally did -> first when trying to open a mkv file it will give the parsing window and just keep parsing, and parsing until it spits an error message. (was to angry to even read it),
5) so then i just used mkv2vob to convert the mkv file into xvid avi using the transcode option and then extract just audio from original mkv file with mkvextractorGUI (part of mkvtoolinx) and try to mux them together with VDMod into a Xvid avi file with the original AC3 audio -> it was actually very promising until i noticed the progressive out-of-sync between the video and audio. *subtitles somehow got finally embedded into the video using this method. but no matter, since the content itself was out of sync.
ufff. what else did i try, cant think of anything right now
*** I just want to be able to play my HD content on my TV having subtitles turned on. is that so much to ask for :(
pls help me... i read a bunch of guides before posting. i am currently encoding the mkv file using XviD4PSP. it looks like a little simpler, newer version of virtualdubmod, thats why i am waiting the end of the encoding process with anticipation, but i dont know why i have this bad feeling again that for some reason it wont work again... :(
first thing i used was tversity. with it i can play fine x264 content on my media player without any transcoding , encoding etc. It plays fine natively, as it is. ... but i have no subtitles. I want subtitles badly, so i had to move to the original dlink software that supports .srt subs. this software does not support mkv though. so my adventure into video conversion began.
these are things i have tried:
1) mkv2vob - remuxes fine without re-encoding. -> when played on the media player, mpg video is choppy, volume level is three times lower than the original for some reason
2) i tried mkvtoolinx to merge the original h264 video stream with the original AC3 audio stream and embed the subtitles. play as it is in tversity. -> subtitles dont show whatsoever. video otherwise plays fine... as the original
3) tried to use AVS video converter or Prism video converter -> loss in quality noticeable, original audio format not preserved. no way to tell the software to preserve the original audio
4) tried the old VirtualDubMod, which has been beside me in the past and never let me down... well it finally did -> first when trying to open a mkv file it will give the parsing window and just keep parsing, and parsing until it spits an error message. (was to angry to even read it),
5) so then i just used mkv2vob to convert the mkv file into xvid avi using the transcode option and then extract just audio from original mkv file with mkvextractorGUI (part of mkvtoolinx) and try to mux them together with VDMod into a Xvid avi file with the original AC3 audio -> it was actually very promising until i noticed the progressive out-of-sync between the video and audio. *subtitles somehow got finally embedded into the video using this method. but no matter, since the content itself was out of sync.
ufff. what else did i try, cant think of anything right now
*** I just want to be able to play my HD content on my TV having subtitles turned on. is that so much to ask for :(
pls help me... i read a bunch of guides before posting. i am currently encoding the mkv file using XviD4PSP. it looks like a little simpler, newer version of virtualdubmod, thats why i am waiting the end of the encoding process with anticipation, but i dont know why i have this bad feeling again that for some reason it wont work again... :(