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hello_hello
22nd August 2011, 02:52
Changing the merit of Haali Media Splitter.
At least that's what I think I need to do, and what I've tried to do using RadLight Filter Manager (http://www.videohelp.com/tools/RadLight_Filter_Manager), but so far if it's the solution to my problem, I haven't been successful in fixing it.

Here's what I'm trying to achieve.....

A while ago, I could use AutoGK to encode MKV and MP4 files simply by changing their extension to AVI. After a reformat, this trick stopped working for MKVs while continuing to work for MP4s.

When I change the MP4 file extension to AVI and open it with AutoGK everything works as normal and the Haali icon appears near the clock (twice). Now when I try the same thing with MKVs it no longer appears and AutoGK gives me a "no frames found" error. So basically I'm trying to work out how to get Haali to run while AutoGK is opening an MKV which has had it's extension changed to AVIs as it used to.

If I play either type of "fake" AVI with MPC-HC and it's internal filters disabled, they both play fine and Haali runs, but for some reason not when opening the "fake" MKV AVIs with AutoGK.
I assume it's something to do with AutoGK opening the files it thinks are AVIs via AVISynth/DirectShow, but I can't work out how to fix it.

It's probably an odd question, I know, but I really miss being able to convert MKV files using AutoGK this way as it's much faster than my alternative method, which is to encode them via an AVISynth script wrapped into an AVI.

For the record, when I use AutoGK to open an MP4 which has had it's extension changed to AVI, the Haali splitter icon appears twice, down next to the clock. When opening one with MPC-HC it only appears once, so I assume the added AVISynth script when opening the files with AutoGK is the problem area, but I don't understand why it's only a problem for MKV files and not MP4s.

Thoughts anyone?
Thanks.

setarip_old
22nd August 2011, 04:36
Hi!

1) What version of which software are you currently using to initially create .MKVs?

2) What version of which software were you previously using to initially create .MKVs?

hello_hello
22nd August 2011, 09:17
I generally use MeGUI's MKV muxer, or if I'm muxing them manually I use MKVToolNix. I've tried it with and without header compression and it doesn't seem to be the cause, although it's been a while so maybe I should check it again. I've tried recently encoded MKVs and old ones, but none of them work, so I assume it's not the muxer. Currently I'm using version 4.4.0 of MKVToolNix/MKVMergeGUI. Previously I'd updated it as a newer version was released, so old MKVs could be muxed using several earlier versions.

I guess I could just remux the MKVs to MP4 and do it that way but it's a slowing down of the process I'd like to avoid.

The main reason I convert MKVs rather than the original m2ts file is I'm encoding to 720p MKV anyway, and from 720p to SD is much quicker than from 1080p, while the SD encode has the same quality either way.

When I open one of the "fake" MKV AVIs, AutoGK recognises the type of video, displays it's length and frame rate etc (as it does with "fake" MP4 AVIs), but the Haali splitter doesn't run when I try to encode them.

I'm only assuming the problem's Haali splitter related, maybe it's something else. Thinking about it as I now type, previously I installed the necessary bits by installing the Combined Community Codec Pack. This time around I installed them all individually. Maybe I need to go back to the CCCP to see what happens, and if it works, then try to work out why?