whats best video converter

[reilina]

any suggestion would do.

 

[Shinji]

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The first one was just posted 4 days ago...

This was bugging me. I had some mkv and ogm files that I wanted to use on my Zen Vision M. So after ALOT of work I finally have something that works for this.

First you need to install Mplayer.
[Linky]

Mencoder comes with it.

Install it. I would put it in the default directories.

Then go to Start>Run
And run cmd to opena command window.


This is what you'll want to put in and what it should do.

Where it says put the directory of the input in quotes. ex.
"C:\Welcome to the NHK.mkv"
The same applies to output. So if I was converting to avi.
"C:\Welcome to the NHK Converted.avi

MKV OGM Copy stream with mp2 audio
"C:\Program Files\mplayer\mencoder.exe" -mc 0 -noskip "" -o "" -oac lavc -ovc copy

Need To Select Audio Stream with mp2 audio (ASSUMES THE FILE IS TAGGED PROPERLY):
"C:\Program Files\mplayer\mencoder.exe" -mc 0 -noskip -alang eng -slang eng "" -o "" -oac lavc -ovc copy

MPEG4 with mp2 audio(WON'T WORK ON ZEN I'LL LEAVE IT HEAR ON THE EXTREMELY LOW CHANCE YOU ARE AN IPOD USER):
"C:\Program Files\mplayer\mencoder.exe" -mc 0 -noskip "" -o "" -oac lavc -ovc lavc

MKV OGM Copy stream with mp3 audio
"C:\Program Files\mplayer\mencoder.exe" -mc 0 -noskip "" -o "" -oac mp3lame -ovc copy

xvid with mp3 audio This is the best for the ZVM I think.
"C:\Program Files\mplayer\mencoder.exe" -mc 0 -noskip "" -o "" -oac mp3lame -ovc xvid -xvidencopts -fixed_quant=5




The first segment directs to mencoder. -mc 0 and -noskip keeps mencoder form skipping any frames. I actually get better sync results doing this.

-o designates the output.

-oac output audio codec mp3lame does mp3 and lavc does Mpeg2.

-ovc output video codec, copy simply copies the original, lavc defaults to MPEG4, but could be changed to wmv1 or several others. I like this one. Its fast. Unlike the "xvid" codec conversion, which is painfully slow.

-alang eng -slang eng These two find the english audio or subtitles(slang being subtitles). However when I ran it with both present I only got english audio. I didn't complain.

-xvidencopts options for vxid conversion. you need either fixed_quant or bitrate here.

-fixed quant is quality 5 is a nice number to set for good quality. IT can range form 1 to 31. 1 Being highest. This can also beexchanged from the argument bitrate=.

I dunno how helpful this is but someone else must have ran into this.

From http://www.epizenter.net/e107_plugins/foru....php?85215.post

Another idea was to use Gordian Knot or Auto Gordian Knot, and this was the original way I did it.

 

[FAST6191]

For the record MKV and to a lesser extent OGG are not really suited to conversion especially to AVI: they are usually used as a final container as they can *and frequently do) make use of variable frame rate and codecs/standards not suited to AVI (h264 and AVI do not mix very well for one).

This being said a copy of AVIsynth and virtual dub can accomplish what you ask.

You will want to pass the file through avisynth's directshowsource, or you could use a copy of virtualdubmod and the inbuilt AVIsynth support, using this provided you can play it back you should not have a problem (I suggest installing FFDShow's VFW component for use with virtualdub).

AVIsynth:
http://avisynth.org/
Virtual Dub
http://www.virtualdub.org/
Virtualdubmod
http://virtualdubmod.sourceforge.net/
You might want to poke around the virtual dub or doom9 forums for the later "beta"/unstable versions (be warned some of the newer versions are just the old version recompiled against newer libs and so are a veritable minefield of bugs). Freecodecs also has a newer version but it may be the very latest:
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/VirtualDubMod.htm

As an aside while some MKV are complex and using fairly exotic stuff a lot are plain MPEG4-ASP aka dixv/xvid and can simply have the streams demuxed and then muxed into the AVI container, the tools to demux can include vdubmod above but it is better (vdubmods MKV support is not so modern and so not terribly great) to use mkvextract which is part of the mkvtoolnix package:
http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/

There are various muxers available (vdub has one) and there are many more with various programs:
http://www.free-codecs.com/Software/Video_Editors.htm
http://www.free-codecs.com/Software/Video_Encoders.htm

If you plan on using seperate subtitles (i.e. not hard subbed) you will need a tweaked (and often unstable) alternate AVI splitter, divx's recent one being the most well known or to reencode hardsubbing en route with avisynth probably the best route to go here.

 

[reilina]

this info will almost take me a day to study, i really dont know anything about what u guys r saying, but thanks a lot ill start from here.