Psygnius Wrote:I usually use MKVToolnix with the MKVExtractGUI add-on to extract the AVI, audio, and subtitles out of the container before I convert it to DVD.

TMPGEnc is a good tool to convert the AVI into MPG2 DVD format.

Then I use DVD-Lab Pro 2 to put it together onto DVD. It lets you have multiple audio, subs, and all that stuff. But it's an expensive program though.

Schultz Wrote:Not to be picky about things but you meant to say extract the video, audio, and subtitles.
As AVI is just a container format like Mkv's are. And can't Nero support any video format as long as you have a DirectShow filter for it to be able to demux the file? (Haven't used it in a long time but i thought it could)

Do you have a standalone mkv filter or you using a player that directly has support for it?

Homeless Joe Wrote:i use vlc to play .mkv files. honestly i'm pretty new to this stuff and have just recently been getting into it. i like to put fansubs i get onto dvds to watch on my tv, give to friends, or for storage if i'm running out of space. most of the time the fansubs i get are already in avi format, but just recently i got two i really want to put on dvd to watch on my tv that are in .mkv format. i've tried to use nero to burn them but it seems it doesn't support that file type, are you saying that a direct show filter might be able to fix that problem? if not i guess i'll have to look into mkvtoolnix.

Psygnius Wrote:Yeah, you're right. "Video" is more of an appropriate term. Most of the time, the video that I extract is in an AVI container, but there are times when I get h264.

However, whenever I extracted an h264 from an MKV, I've always had problems converting it to MPG2. But just tossing the whole MKV into TMPGEnc, and telling it to convert just the video works fine. I think the problem is the extraction part of the h264 format.

Homeless Joe Wrote:i use vlc to play .mkv files.

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Amethyst Wrote:Well, I just found out how to deal with mkv files so I could write them out to dvdr's... you can use TMPGEnc to encode the mkv files... you don't have to do anything else with them... but you do have to use the VCD option instead of DVD option on TMPGEnc since that doesn't recognize the file format... Ok... so that means you can get a ton of them on a dvdr by doing them in VCD format... and the video quality isn't bad either.

Which is what I'm doing with the Witchblades that you can only get in mkv format... and like you I've tried several things to convert it to avi... like AlltoAvi... which works, but the audio is always off so I've never done anymore with them.

gubi-gubi Wrote:Are you sure? I'm pretty sure if it can read them and write them to MPEG1 it could do the same for MPEG2. I think I have done it once or twice. The only problem is the subs would be hardcoded. I prefer to leave them selectable.