Anamorphic problems with MKV splitting.

[#2]

Hi all.

I am haveing issues with muxing and spliting a anamorphic rmvb + ogg .mkv

Cmd line:

"mkvmerge" -o "D:\DVD\Rips\das boot\Das Boot.mkv" -d 0 -A -S "D:\DVD\Rips\das boot\Das Boot.rmvb" -a 10172 -D -S "D:\DVD\Rips\das boot\DVD_VIDEO Track 2 Deutsch DELAY 0ms.ogg" --split "872M"


What happens is the first split headers show 428x480 the second 672x480. Now mpc plays this back with out a/r problems but the difference shows up when dVsub loads the subtitles. The Font is very stretched in the first split.

The actuall rmvb shows 672x368.

This ones really got me stumped. And manaually editing the mkv headers looks way too hard.

Any clues

[ChristianHJW]

Originally posted by #2 And manaually editing the mkv headers looks way too hard. ... install either the shell extension or TCMP with CDL, and setting the DAR in each of the splitted parts will be as easy as a mouse-click....

[#2]

Thanks Christian. However I think itcould be the Pixel Width and Height elments that I need to set rather than the DAR tag. Even when I specify display H & W elments in mkvmerge

"mkvmerge" -o "D:\DVD\Rips\das boot\Das Boot.mkv" --default-track 0 --display-dimensions "0:672x368" -d 0 -A -S "D:\DVD\Rips\das boot\Das Boot.rmvb" --language 10172:ger --default-track 10172 -a 10172 -D -S "D:\DVD\Rips\das boot\DVD_VIDEO Track 2 Deutsch DELAY 0ms.ogg"

I Still get 428x480 in the properties dialoge in MPC.
Any idea why mkvmerge would be changing these to two different values on muxing?

[ChristianHJW]

The proper form to set the width and height is

w/h

while you seem to have typed

0: w x h

I assume mkvmerge makes

0.wxh

out of that, or some other strange things. In any case, mmg/mkvmerge currently doesnt allow to set the numbers directly, it will calculate the display width based and the encoding height, or vice versa, like

dw = w/h x eh

dw : display width
w, h : values you set in mmg
eh : height the movie was encoded in

Both the TCMP CDL and the shell extension will allow to set the values directly.

[#2]

Thanks again.

I found a way arround this buy creating one mkv and then spliting it afterwards. Then I don't get different aspect ratios for the two files.

Now for a real simple one. How do I edit with the shell ext. In the explorer context menu I only get track info.. any ideas (win2k sp4)

[Atamido]

To change the display size with the ShellExt, right click on the file and go to Properties. Click on the Matroska Info tab and then click on the Change button.

[#2]

Hmm.. I thought there was something wrong.. I don't have an info tab on the properties window. Seems like a Windows issue not letting me install shell extentions. Any ideas?

[Atamido]

If you have installed the Matroska Shell Extension, then it will be listed in your start menu. From there you can access the configuration to make sure it is set to show the info tab.

[#2]

It is configured to show info, tags and attachments but dosen't show any in properties.

[Atamido]

Select Re-Register from the start menu.

[#2]

Thanks for your help Pamel but the re reg dosn't work. Do you know if there is some way Win 2k can stop you from adding any new property pages?

[#2]

I've just uunistalled rebooted and reinstalled, changed the dbghelp.dlls through out my system and still no property pages the context menus work but no way to edit any thing :[ Can any one help me with this?

[ChristianHJW]

Install TCMP (http://corecoded.com) instead, even if you use another player, and use the matroska CDL instaed, it can do the same as the shell extension. Just right click on the file in the playlist, and goto 'file Properties' 'matroska info' . Make sure the active movie window is closed when trying to edit the w/h, otherwise it will complain that the file is in use and cant be accessed. In best case, open TCMP and drag and drop the file into the playlist without playing it ......