MKV to AVI

[Recursion]

Hey, Anyone know of any (preferably) free software that will convert MKV to AVI?

I don't want to lose any quality so I think I need to remux it or something?

Thanks

[The Professor]

Everything's free if you pirate ;) Do you want to pirate?

[Recursion]

I'd rather not :P

[today]

I'd rather not :P
why not? :(

[N!ck]

Why? Transcoding = quality loss. Download them again.

If you must, however, try Gordian Knot. Probably the best way, but a little complex to use. Google for a tutorial http://sourceforge.net/projects/gordianknot/files/

[Recursion]

Why? Transcoding = quality loss. Download them again.

If you must, however, try Gordian Knot. Probably the best way, but a little complex to use. Google for a tutorial http://sourceforge.net/projects/gordianknot/files/

Ah, I didn't realise GK did MKV too, thanks, and I would, but there are a lot of videos!

[The Professor]

Try VirtualDubMod: http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualdubmod/files/VirtualDubMod%20bugfix_cvs/1.5.10.2%20build%202542/VirtualDubMod_1_5_10_2_b2542.zip/download

I remember using it a while ago, from what I remember it isn't pretty but gets the job done

[N!ck]

Ah, I didn't realise GK did MKV too.

I don't think it supports it directly actually sorry. There's probably a way to do it with it though.

Why can't you just re-download anyway?

Edit: Vdubmod can do it (it's what Gordian Knot uses as well) but it's MKV support isn't very good.

http://www.videohelp.com/download/mkvextractgui.zip Can extract the audio and video streams from MKVs so you can play with them from there if you like.

[Recursion]

Pure laziness.

[The Professor]

Why does mkv exist? Its so horrible and nothing plays it, all my south park episodes are in mkv so I can't play them on my ps3 :(

[Recursion]

Why does mkv exist? Its so horrible and nothing plays it, all my south park episodes are in mkv so I can't play them on my ps3 :(


High qaulity, small file size.

That's why I'm converting them, need to stream em over to my 360 and PS3.

[N!ck]

Why does mkv exist? Its so horrible and nothing plays it, all my south park episodes are in mkv so I can't play them on my ps3 :(

MKV is just a container like avi is ;). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matroska Not a codec or anything like that. You could put DivX or XviD inside a MKV if you wanted.

[Tomm]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_container_formats

Read that and you can clearly see why MKV is the best container.

[The Professor]

MKV is just a container like avi is ;). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matroska Not a codec or anything like that. You could put DivX or XviD inside a MKV if you wanted.

But avi plays on my ps3 and mkv doesn't :'( And my processor is too crap to convert anything effectively would take a large amount of hours to do all my south parks :( And why can't you take it out of the MKV once you've put it in? Then put it into a nice avi? Why has no gimp made that easy and quick yet :'( I hate technology

Edit@ Yeah tom I can see why technologically it might be the best but practically its pretty useless unless you just want to watch it on a PC in which case you may as well just stream it off somewhere.

[Tomm]

You can demux the mkv containers and extract the audio + video streams but due to MKV being far superior in what it can contain there is no guarantee that once its remuxed into an AVI container that it will even work. AVI is crap.

@ your edit: get something like

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002VAVR4A/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_2?pf_rd_p=103612307&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B001ILFDCK&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=096ZKTSMPHCWBG5CCTK4

or if your feeling a bit more fancy

http://www.popcornhour.com

Oh if you really want to play it on your ps3 use this:

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/mkv2vob

Remuxes the mkv for you automatically into a ps3 compatible format. Assuming the stuff inside the mkv can be played by the ps3..

or you can wait for the epic http://www.dlink.com/boxeebox

But avi plays on my ps3 and mkv doesn't :'( And my processor is too crap to convert anything effectively would take a large amount of hours to do all my south parks :( And why can't you take it out of the MKV once you've put it in? Then put it into a nice avi? Why has no gimp made that easy and quick yet :'( I hate technology

[The Professor]

Yeah there is that but having to buy an extra box just to watch a video for the sake of saving a few megabytes really isn't worth it. Especially when I have a PS3 which can play video files.

MKV files don't play on my ipod either, forgot about that :(

[Tomm]

You don't save any space by using a specific container...

Also I edited my post which included a link to:
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/mkv2vob
Which remuxes the mkv to a ps3 compatible container.


Yeah there is that but having to buy an extra box just to watch a video for the sake of saving a few megabytes really isn't worth it. Especially when I have a PS3 which can play video files.

MKV files don't play on my ipod either, forgot about that :(

[The Professor]

Ok I assumed remux was a typo but obv it isn't :P What does remux mean?

And I thought you said the point of using MKV was you get better quality for lower file size... my brain hurts :'(

[Tomm]

Extracting video and/or audio streams from a container and placing some/all of them in another same/different type container without transcoding.

(can also include subtitles/other data if the containers support it)


Ok I assumed remux was a typo but obv it isn't :P What does remux mean?

And I thought you said the point of using MKV was you get better quality for lower file size... my brain hurts :'(

[The Professor]

Oh how cool is that :D Is it quick compared to just converting it (is that transcoding?)?

I LEARN MR FAWLTY I LEARN!

[Tomm]

Converting = Transcoding, yep.

Lightning fast compared to transcoding. Just depends how fast you can copy that data from one place on your hard drive to another I guess :P


Oh how cool is that :D Is it quick compared to just converting it (is that transcoding?)?

I LEARN MR FAWLTY I LEARN!

[The Professor]

I might give that a go then :)