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tony5429

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Mkv --> Dvd

I have a 4.9GB MKV file I would like to compress and put on a DVD. Can anyone help me? If it helps, I have K3B, VLC, and Avidemux...

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Ranguvar

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Re: Mkv --> Dvd

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skottish

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Re: Mkv --> Dvd

Does it have chapters? subtitles? a menu? Do you want a GUI program or is the command line fine? Do you have FFmpeg installed?

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Instead my usual method, you can try this: http://www.avidemux.org/admWiki/index.p … ing_to_DVD

Last edited by skottish (2008-08-14 03:57:10)

DonVla

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Re: Mkv --> Dvd

I have a 4.9GB MKV file I would like to compress and put on a DVD. Can anyone help me? If it helps, I have K3B, VLC, and Avidemux...

avidemux for conversion to mpeg and then devede or dvdstyler for dvdauthoring.

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daneel971

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Re: Mkv --> Dvd

Keep in mind that what you're planning to do (either keeping the mkv but making it smaller or transcoding it into a DVD-Video) involves reencoding, so quality loss, and it's not so simple (for instance, a mkv with vfr h264 encoded video can be troublesome...).
If you want to keep the mkv file and simply burning it to a dvdr (not dl), remember that matroska files can be splitted in independent parts, without losing anything.

tony5429

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Re: Mkv --> Dvd

Thanks for all your help! I how have a 4.2 GiB NTSC mpeg video file and have installed dvdauthor. However, I am having trouble figuring out how to use dvdauthor to create the DVD filesystem. Can anyone help me? I am looking for something like...

dvdauthor -o dvd foo.mpeg

I don't need support for titles, or menus, or anything fancy - just the video file...

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skottish

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Re: Mkv --> Dvd

Thanks for all your help! I how have a 4.2 GiB NTSC mpeg video file and have installed dvdauthor. However, I am having trouble figuring out how to use dvdauthor to create the DVD filesystem. Can anyone help me? I am looking for something like...

dvdauthor -o dvd foo.mpeg

I don't need support for titles, or menus, or anything fancy - just the video file...

If it's not a properly formatted video, that will produce garbage. If you have FFmpeg installed, do this first (assuming the aspect ratio is 16:9):

ffmpeg -i foo.mpg -vcodec copy -acodec copy -g 12 -target ntsc-dvd -aspect 16:9 foo.vob

then

dvdauthor -o dvd/ -t foo.vob

dvdauthor -o dvd/ -T

If the result looks something like the following you should be good:

INFO: Video pts = 0.509 .. 75.467
INFO: Audio[0] pts = 0.500 .. 75.476
STAT: VOBU 2 at 54MB, 1 PGCS
WARN: GOP may not be closed on cell 1 of source 1.vob of pgc 1
INFO: Generating VTS with the following video attributes:
INFO: MPEG version: mpeg2
INFO: TV standard: ntsc
INFO: Aspect ratio: 16:9
INFO: Resolution: 720x480
INFO: Audio ch 0 format: ac3/6ch, 48khz drc

Last edited by skottish (2008-08-27 15:16:01)