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Lincoln Burrows
1st August 2012, 16:30
What would be a good tool to (it doesn't matter the final results or if the quality is bad, I just need to do it) encode this kind of video:

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 2 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 1h 53mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 24.3 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 24.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.488
Stream size : 19.3 GiB (89%)
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Audio #1
ID : 2
Format : DTS
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Format profile : MA / Core
Codec ID : A_DTS
Duration : 1h 53mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 1 561 Kbps / 1 510 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossless / Lossy
Title : DTS-HD MA 5.1
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Audio #2
ID : 3
Format : DTS
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Format profile : MA / Core
Codec ID : A_DTS
Duration : 1h 53mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 800 Kbps / 755 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossless / Lossy
Title : Audio commentary
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No

Text #1
ID : 4
Format : PGS
Muxing mode : zlib
Codec ID : S_HDMV/PGS
Codec ID/Info : The same subtitle format used on BDs/HD-DVDs
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Text #2
ID : 5
Format : PGS
Muxing mode : zlib
Codec ID : S_HDMV/PGS
Codec ID/Info : The same subtitle format used on BDs/HD-DVDs
Title : Audio commentary
Language : French
Default : No
Forced : No

Menu
00:00:00.000 : en:Chapter 00
00:06:08.500 : en:Chapter 01
00:11:43.708 : en:Chapter 02
00:18:32.000 : en:Chapter 03
00:25:08.833 : en:Chapter 04
00:29:55.541 : en:Chapter 05
00:37:23.791 : en:Chapter 06
00:43:29.000 : en:Chapter 07
00:48:53.625 : en:Chapter 08
00:55:20.000 : en:Chapter 09
01:00:22.208 : en:Chapter 10
01:15:40.583 : en:Chapter 11
01:20:33.083 : en:Chapter 12
01:27:25.000 : en:Chapter 13
01:32:36.375 : en:Chapter 14
01:40:10.958 : en:Chapter 15
With +20 GB into a single AVI file, with XVID codec, and smaller than 1 GB? Preserving only one of the audio tracks and the original FPS?

This MKV file was created with help from MAKEMKV and MKVTOOLNIX from my original Blu-ray. Now I need to rip this into AVI, but using the Matroska (lossless) file.

I also need to find a tool that can do all this process in an easy way, which means something that even a n00b can use. The resulting file will only be used to perform some other tests, so the quality and perfect settings are not important.
SassBot
1st August 2012, 16:37
Use an encoding GUI. There are plenty to choose from here (https://forum.doom9.org/forumdisplay.php?f=78).
sirt
1st August 2012, 17:31
In this cas,e your video flux is an AVC one so if you want to "reencode to AVI" you will have to recompress it, which alternately means you will loose quality (with XviD). I don't understand why you want to do something like this whereas you can be sure it will be bad.
Lincoln Burrows
1st August 2012, 18:03
In this cas,e your video flux is an AVC one so if you want to "reencode to AVI" you will have to recompress it, which alternately means you will loose quality (with XviD). I don't understand why you want to do something like this whereas you can be sure it will be bad.I am trying to find out why a specific audio track is not synchronized with this movie. I have to edit this audio track and the video needs to be used for that end, but I find a lot easier to do that with a smaller video (smaller than 1 GB instead of 20-30 GB). And besides, Sony Vegas does not recognize Matroska files directly.
GEfS
2nd August 2012, 12:23
I am trying to find out why a specific audio track is not synchronized with this movie. I have to edit this audio track and the video needs to be used for that end, but I find a lot easier to do that with a smaller video (smaller than 1 GB instead of 20-30 GB). And besides, Sony Vegas does not recognize Matroska files directly.

99% sure your source is Remuxed Bluray.
And if audio out of sync, maybe your PC isn't powerful to play this. (audio faster than video).
Blue_MiSfit
3rd August 2012, 20:12
How did you create this MKV?
Lincoln Burrows
10th August 2012, 18:09
How did you create this MKV?Using MAKEMKV.

Anyway, I used a software called Any Video Converter Ultimate to do the task required here, and it worked. That's the kind of software I was looking for, the PQ was not important in this case. The generated file has 2 GB.

I searched for a program that could do what I asked while I waited for a response here.

99% sure your source is Remuxed Bluray.
And if audio out of sync, maybe your PC isn't powerful to play this. (audio faster than video).I have sent the video itself and the audio track to a friend and he managed to make the audio synchronized by stretching it in Sony Vegas. You see, I wasn't capable of doing this by my own, and in this case I was told the reason I wasn't making this thing synchronized was the fact the video itself was encoded by the distributor (Studio Canal) at exact 24 fps, not 23.976 like most Blu-rays.

The confirmation is here (see Geoff's response):
http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=198001&page=22

There's a difference between 23.976 and 24. I tried converting the audio to 24, but failed to make it work here. I don't know how he did it, but it's now synchronized.
Filker
10th August 2012, 20:53
Using MAKEMKV.

Anyway, I used a software called Any Video Converter Ultimate to do the task required here, and it worked. That's the kind of software I was looking for, the PQ was not important in this case. The generated file has 2 GB.

I searched for a program that could do what I asked while I waited for a response here.

I have sent the video itself and the audio track to a friend and he managed to make the audio synchronized by stretching it in Sony Vegas. You see, I wasn't capable of doing this by my own, and in this case I was told the reason I wasn't making this thing synchronized was the fact the video itself was encoded by the distributor (Studio Canal) at exact 24 fps, not 23.976 like most Blu-rays.

The confirmation is here (see Geoff's response):
http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=198001&page=22

There's a difference between 23.976 and 24. I tried converting the audio to 24, but failed to make it work here. I don't know how he did it, but it's now synchronized.

Have you tried changing the FPS with MKVMerge GUI /MKVToolnix ? Or select the audio track and use the "stretch by" feature? No reencode needed.

I think VLC can also do this on the fly.