Matroska (.mkv) To Avi


EdZ

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I am trying to convert the Read Or Die OVA to Xvid for GPcinema. The files are .mkv (matroska) enocded, so I have to use virtualdubmod to open them, but thats the problem. the problem is that the files contail multiple audio and subtitle streams. I want to encode the file with english audio and no subtitles. I know which stream I want, but I do not know how to make it encode that stream with the end file. I can only get it to convert video with no audio.
I tried extracting the audio as a wav and splicing it to the AVI, but it would not accept it. I then used dBpoweramp to convert the WAV to MP3 and imported the audio as an extra stream. This time it converted the audio, but it played stutteringly on my PC, and on the GP32 it no longer stutters, but the quality is terrible (what can you expect from so many re-encodes?).
Is there a way to get the audio straight wfrom the .mkv file?
 
The only solution is to demux the english audio track and recompress it using mp3. Then you recompress video and mux with audio using avi.
This is the only method, I think.
 
Thts what I did, but the quality is almost unlistenable. I need another way.
 
EdZ posted on Feb 1 2004 at 12:30 AM said:
Thts what I did, but the quality is almost unlistenable. I need another way.
It is normal, transcoding from vorbis to mp3 leads to a sound disaster. You get mp3 artifact, vorbis artifacts and the vorbis modified signal is harder to encode so it sound even more bad. There is nothing else to do.
Miracles don't exist in transcoding. You cannot recreate what was lost or distorded.
 
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