Video conversion

[MuffDiver99019]

How do I convert OGM and MKV files into AVI files withouting losing the subtitles?

How do I combine my subtitles and my video file into one video file(avi or rmvb, not ogm or mkv)

How do I convert between rmvb and AVI?

I hope there's a software that can do all of the above.

[Final Halcyon]

VirtualDubMod is a program that can do all this. What you need to get is VirtualDubMod and a filter that lets you add the .ssa or .srt subtitles in. Then you simply go to "Save as.." and choose DivX.

[Redempteur]

could you plz tell me the name of the filter that allow you to add srt files ?s ?? ( and possibly where to download it ??

EDIT :never mind i found it on the virtual dub website :D

[Sapphire]

WinAvi :) covert to dvd,too.

[MuffDiver99019]

I try to use VirtualDubMod to convert OGM to avi uising save as and there's no sound, I tried 10 times and got tired of trying, the hlp file is useless for non-script users like me

[MuffDiver99019]

bump, need answers

[The fallen]

Extract an avi for the OGM with save as option and don't forget to set DIRECT STREAM COPY in the video menu
With this option the video is just extract without any recompression

You need to extract the sound (from the ogm file) with vdubmod (streams menu ->Streamlist) choose the stream you want to extract and save as WAV.

The Streamlist menu also show the subtitles file if the ogm or Mkv contain soft sub..you can demux them for here.

Convert the wav to mp3 for example and then remux your avi+mp3 in vdubmod in direct stream copy mode.

[nick64]

Pretty much what 'The fallen' said

Direct steam copy the OGM as an AVI, but before saving it, go to the stream list and select the audio you want (ie. Jap audio) and the subtitle stream.

Now save the file as an avi file. To put audio into your avi file,. convert the WAV to ac3/mp3 and then go back to Virtualdub Mod and add the audio file onto the no sound avi file.

To add subtitles, use VobSub to mux the .srt file in with the new avi file.

i never tried using rvmb/mkv as i hardly use those files.

[timberwolf]

you know i consider ogm beter because its all most a dvd with extra sound chanels and non encoded (separate) subtitles. if you need something to play .OGM use vcl player this thing can play anything, you can find it at http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html
if you find this helpful give me some good rep points.

[MuffDiver99019]

sorry I have to bump this thread again, but I have encountered a problem: VirtualDubMod cannot read my mkv videos. it says some errors, I wonder if it is my codec's problem. However, after my reinstalled my computer, it cannot even read mkv's anymore.

[Redempteur]

either it's a ficked mkv vid

[MuffDiver99019]

so u mean taht enccoders can purposfully stop us from editing the mkv file again?

[Ragnax]

so u mean taht enccoders can purposfully stop us from editing the mkv file again?No. If you can play it, you can split it out of the Matroska container. As simple as using GraphEdit. They might be able to make it harder, by purposely damaging certain bytes in the headers or something, but they can never make it impossible. (Hey, where did I hear this before? ... Oh right! Take note of this, RIAA!)

The reason VirtualDubMod fails to open your MKV files is because VirtualDubMod's Matroska implementation is incomplete and outdated. It even states so in a popup window the first time the program is started. Functional alternatives for demuxing MKV files are listed in that same popup window.
Personally, I'd use MKVToolnix.

[Ether]

well, to convert files to other files, i use 3GP Converter. its very useful, it can almost convert any file to any other type of file. try it, i use it to convert AVI, mkv, etc...so it can work for my psp ^^

[mitsui]

there are so many same threads talking about virtualdubmod; really not sure where exactly to post, all of them are almost the same.

anyway, i need help! big time. i've spent hours figuring and googling out the problem i encountered with VirtualDubMod.

i downloaded an MKV file, had no problem playing on my players. my only problem is when i try to open it with VirtualDubMod to extract audio & subtitles, error occurs. it doesn't actually load the video. :( The error dialogue box says :

VirtualDub Error : Only handle [S_TEXT/] subs at the moment

i have the latest version of VirtualDubMod & VobSub. does anybody know how to resolve this? what do i need to do? or is there another way to extract video, subtitle & audio from an MKV file? :confused:

[nick64]

ook, MKV files are a different problem all together, especially with HS's encodes (im still stuck on one problem)

anyways, to deal with MKV, use MKVMerge, open up the MKV and it will show you the files it should have(video, audio and subs). Save them. (Hopefully video file is AVI)

Now use Virtualdub to encode the audio file into the video file (you may need to convert audio file to a suitable format like AC3).

Once that is done, the subs are the problem for me.. in HS's new releases i can't seem to convert them into .srt or .ssa files, they use a different file type UTF8.. which i can't seem to convert...

[Redempteur]

MKVMerge ? is it a freeware ? got a link ?

[Ragnax]

VirtualDub Error : Only handle [S_TEXT/] subs at the momentLike I said in my previous post; VirtualDubMod's MKV implementation is incomplete! Use another tool like MKVToolNix to demux the MKV into its stream components first.



Once that is done, the subs are the problem for me.. in HS's new releases i can't seem to convert them into .srt or .ssa files, they use a different file type UTF8.. which i can't seem to convert...UTF8 is a type of text encoding and is natively supported by Windows. UTF8 subs are most likely still srt files. Try using MKVToolNix' demuxer and force the stream type to srt with UTF8 encoding...

[nick64]

Like I said in my previous post; VirtualDubMod's MKV implementation is incomplete! Use another tool like MKVToolNix to demux the MKV into its stream components first.


UTF8 is a type of text encoding and is natively supported by Windows. UTF8 subs are most likely still srt files. Try using MKVToolNix' demuxer and force the stream type to srt with UTF8 encoding...

yep i tried it a while backand it doesn't work, its all encoded strangely and i can't seem to fix it.. oh well..

[Ragnax]

yep i tried it a while backand it doesn't work, its all encoded strangely and i can't seem to fix it.. oh well..
In that case, maybe the encoding in the stream's header doesnt match the actual encoding in the file. Maybe the MKV splitter ignores encoding and just 'tries the best matching one', but the demuxer glitches on it?

[mitsui]

Ragnax, you're right about VirtualDubMod's incapability of openning or working with OGM & MKV. From my experience upto now, i would say it does work with OGM. I have been able to open, convert, extract & manipulate OGM files, no trouble sofar. But for MKV, there is no doubt that it doesn't work 95% of the time. i say 95% because i was able to open some MKV files in the past.

anyway, giong back to my prob... i was able to solve it by using MKVExract GUI to extract them into separate files : Srt, AVI & Ogg/Vorbis. After that i was able to convert them into VCD with subtitles easily. thanks Nick64! :)

Nick64, for the UTF8 problem. they are still srt files, only encoded in UTF8. so, i just opened it in notepad then save it to another filename (save as, then in the encode section chosed ANSI). Afterwards i incorporate the subtitle with the video using VirtualDubMod. hope it solve your prob as well.

I have another problem, well.. this is about video format or codec prob (Open DML, does it sound familiar?). i encountered a video file, OGM to be exact. i was able to open it with VirtualDubMod, was successful in extracting and converting the subtitle and audio files, respectively. my problem is in conversion again; when i recompress with VirtualDubMod (using Xvid codec), it took for about 3 and a half hours to finish. The video is about 45 mins only; so, it shouldn't have been that long. And then when i play it in media classic, zoom and windows media players, the video became slow, it doesn't flow fluidly, the animation is not like the OGM file. although it has the same total playback time, it seems there is a problem with the frames of the video. no problem when playing the original OGM file, problem is when it is converted or recompressed. Lastly, when i try to convert them to VCD format; the estimated time to finish is 13 to 15 hours long. i was really shocked. :eek:

i then checked the extracted video with GSpot. and it showed that the video codec is OpenDML AVI. & from what i read, it is a different type of avi extension file format that allows the creation of AVI files larger than 2 GB. Open-DML files usually contain super- and standard indexes, but an additional legacy index is allowed . don't know what it meant, don't know if it is the reason for the long time conversion problem and video frame playback problem. but if there's a solution, hope you guys could help me.. does anyone know? what more can i do? :confused: i just like to convert the video to vcd.

[MuffDiver99019]

I tried many of the ogg dvd rips in boxtorrents, and I dounf a problem, the audio files are ogg audio files, the best I can do is to make them as avi audio, how can I convert them to waves?



You need to extract the sound (from the ogm file) with vdubmod (streams menu ->Streamlist) choose the stream you want to extract and save as WAV.

[MuffDiver99019]

help, anyone?

[Ragnax]

I tried many of the ogg dvd rips in boxtorrents, and I dounf a problem, the audio files are ogg audio files, the best I can do is to make them as avi audio, how can I convert them to waves?
So basically, you want to convert OGM files to AVI files, but since the audio streams are OGG encoded (which AVI doesn't support), it won't work. Right?

Well, you can use VirtualDubMod to demux the OGG stream to an OGG file; In the streams menu, just select the audio stream and hit the Demux button.
Then use your favorite audio editing program to transcode said OGG file into an MP3 file. Now back to your VirtualDubMod streams window, hit the Disable button to disable the old OGG audio stream, then hit the Add button to add in the newly baked MP3. (Disable any other audio streams as well, as VirtualDubMod can't do AVI files with multiple audio streams, afaik.) Close the streams menu. Make sure the video is set to 'Direct Stream Copy' and save the whole thing as an AVI file.

[MuffDiver99019]

how exactly do u OGG file into an MP3?
u can demux audio OGG, u can then convert it to avi, but what exactly do u change avi audio stream to mp3?

[nick64]

i can't remember if it works but i used two other programs, Alive MP3 Converter and ffmeggui (?)

The Alive was to convert the OGG/WMV3 whatever to MP3 then used ffmeggui to convert than MP3 to AC3 format.

Used Virtualdub mod to combine the video file with the AC3 file, made an AVI file after all that.

*note, you don't need to use the AC3 format if you don't want to.

[Redempteur]

well , then for editing mkvs... what is the best method then ... ( i just want to manipulate some streams .. )

[Ragnax]

i can't remember if it works but i used two other programs, Alive MP3 Converter and ffmeggui (?)

The Alive was to convert the OGG/WMV3 whatever to MP3 then used ffmeggui to convert than MP3 to AC3 format.

Used Virtualdub mod to combine the video file with the AC3 file, made an AVI file after all that.

*note, you don't need to use the AC3 format if you don't want to.
I hope you don't mind me for asking, but why use AC3 at all, if your source file is MP3? Converting MP3 yet again to AC3 only means more quality loss, while AC3 is a more CPU intensive filter and produces larger filesizes than MP3 as well. Imho it makes no sense, or am I missing something here? :confused:

[MuffDiver99019]

damn, in the end u still need more thatn just vistual dub and tempenc