Mkv and dvd

[Schultz]

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.

Yea vlc has its own internal mkv splitter. try this splitter http://haali.cs.msu.ru/mkv/MatroskaSplitter.exe is directly link here is the page its off of http://haali.cs.msu.ru/mkv/ you might have luck in Nero with using that splitter if nero supports DirectShow for it you might also have to get a video codec if you don't have a directshow one since you using VLC also. A good filter for video formats in DirectShow is FFDShow which you can get a recent build at http://esby.free.fr/CelticDruid/mirror/ffdshow/ direct link to the one you would want http://esby.free.fr/CelticDruid/mirror/f...6-SSE2.exe

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.

Well i think the problem is you can't put h264 video into a AVI properly. And that is why you are having problems trying to convert it to MPG2 that way. Mkv and mp4 container formats support all the extra options that h264 supports which avi doesn't. AVI only works with h263.