Anyone tried appending with MKV files??

[DaveQB]

i did tonight and i am not sure if this is a problem on my behalf or a bug i have found.

i have done this with no problems with AVI files

i have a short 10 sec video and then append it to the start of a movie.
the results with an mkv file is the audio plays back like

this (http://davidward.myvnc.com/snip.ogg)

anyone have any ideas??

thanx

[Suiryc]

Well the appending menu is available but appending isn't really meant to work right now (even if it should actually) and I hadn't time to really test splitting/appending with matroska.

[ChristianHJW]

We are surprised it did work at all, Cyrius told us it shouldnt :) ...

[DaveQB]

ahh ok

i might need to stick with AVI/OGM for the meantime
but i do like to help support the open source, free developments in the IT world ;)

thanx

[DaveQB]

should OGM allow for appending ??

thanx

[Suiryc]

Yeah it should work.
However don't expect miracles, the streams are appended one by one IIRC, so if one stream ends earlier than the video this stream will likely to be out-of-sync afterwards. This happens for both AVI and OGM.

[DaveQB]

yeah OGM worked a treat!!

for some reason this script didnt play in sync,
that is with wave sound and Xvid Video


video=avisource("intro.avi") + avisource("harrychamber.avi")
audio=wavsource("intro.wav") + wavsource("harry1.wav")
audiodub(video,audio2)

i had to create two sepreate files (OGM), intro and harry, both with their own audio and then append them

i actually got that weird sound track with OGM, i think i tried to add the entire audio to the two appended videos,

the former method i mentioned works like a treat

[Joe_Bloggs]

I find ogg vorbis works as good as PCM if you give it a chance.
I start with Gordian Knot to fireup DVD2AVI. I use this to select
start points for sections and spot obvious end points for sections.
It is best to select several tens of seconds past an obvious edit
end point for transcoding, then cut back to the obvious end edit
point after transcoding (I use divx5.x). The editing and appending
can all be acheived with VirtualDubMod of course.

The audio component of the edited sections is transcoded from the
original mpa audio format to ogg vorbis with BeSweet which comes
with the GordianKnot package.
Prior audio encoding will permit an accurate video transcoding
bitrate calculation with a margin for error as I cut my avi 10-20s
later than I meant to.
I prefer to save edited material to disk before trying to append it.
I know that I can only append two files at a time succesfully. So a
four part project would be to create part1+part2 then part3+part4 and
after testing audio sync individually then create part1+part2 + part3+part4.

This won't work if their are errors in audio and vidio streams that
lead to temporal divergence. I have tried this method about thirty
times in a row so i know it works for me. ;)