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Convert mkv movies into mp4
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No easy wayyou have obviously missed the part about HandBrake
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! wow.
lindmar, please use handbrake!
The vast majority of the time you can just drag-drop your video into VisualHub and click on Start. Wait 2hours. And you're done.
There's a lot of people who seem to want to remux their MKVs directly into MP4s. In my experience, that very rarely works.
Hello guys,
maybe I missed something, but I would like to know, if there exists some simple procedure for the following "MKV case".
Thank you in advance.
I have MKV file, which contains one HD 1080p video track in H.264, few audio tracks (for instance 3), all of them are either Dolby Digital 5.1 or DTS 5.1.
The same MKV file contains also more than one subtitle track (for instance 5).
I want to convert such a MKV file to M4V for my Apple TV. I want to have maximum resolution and bitrate, which should be 720p - 5000 kbits, then keep only one audio track in 5.1 version (not only stereo) and also "burn" one of those subtitles to video file.
Guys, is there something, which I can use? (On Mac OS X 10.5 of course)
I know there is Handbrake. It does almost everything except "burning" subtitles. Also it crashes quite frequently.
Thank you for reply.
maybe I missed something, but I would like to know, if there exists some simple procedure for the following "MKV case".
Thank you in advance.
I have MKV file, which contains one HD 1080p video track in H.264, few audio tracks (for instance 3), all of them are either Dolby Digital 5.1 or DTS 5.1.
The same MKV file contains also more than one subtitle track (for instance 5).
I want to convert such a MKV file to M4V for my Apple TV. I want to have maximum resolution and bitrate, which should be 720p - 5000 kbits, then keep only one audio track in 5.1 version (not only stereo) and also "burn" one of those subtitles to video file.
Guys, is there something, which I can use? (On Mac OS X 10.5 of course
)I know there is Handbrake. It does almost everything except "burning" subtitles. Also it crashes quite frequently.
Thank you for reply.
Um... actually Handbrake does "burn" subtitles to the video. Click the Audio & Subtitles tab and you'll find the menu in the lower left of the window. I can't help you with the crashing bit, HB 0.9.3 never crashes on me.
Regards,
Michael
Yes, there is "option" subtitles, but I tried it many times and it has never worked. Even it would I don't know the logic of it. You cannot choose, what subtitles you want to burn. My movie has more than one subtitles, but HandBrake shows option "autoselect". What is autoselect. How it recognizes that I want English audio, but french subtitles, for instance?
I guess this option will work in next version, not in 0.9.3.
Anyway, thank you.
Why don't you just download the appropriate subtitles at some site such as opensubtitles.org, download a program called Muxo? Muxo will allow you to add subtitles that are compatible with AppleTV and iPod.
Handbrake cannot add subtitles from MKV source
You can use Handbrake in it latest version very well to convert MKV movies into AppleTV movies. I use submerge to add the subtitle in the second stage.
But be carefull with submerge, use the right setting so it will not re-encode the movie again but just add the subtitle. This adding will only take minutes then.
Conrad
You can use Handbrake in it latest version very well to convert MKV movies into AppleTV movies. I use submerge to add the subtitle in the second stage.
But be carefull with submerge, use the right setting so it will not re-encode the movie again but just add the subtitle. This adding will only take minutes then.
Conrad
Yes, I know about this application called Muxo. I guess I have the latest version. I am able to open video file with one audio track without any problems, adding subtitles is also hassle free, but immediatelly once I choose "Save" or "Save As", it crashes. My OS is 10.5.6 with all updates installed.
The second thing is that none of Mac applications supports ASS subtitles, extracted from some MKV movies. I prefer to extract subtitles from source file instead of downloading another subtitles. They are usually a bit different (time, speed and so on).
Why is Windows better in this?
Hmmm, yesterday I tried this program and it was very slow. Probably I did reencoding. I didn't know it did reencoding. I try to look at Preferences. Thank you for the hint.
Anyway, even Submerge doesn't support ASS subtitles.
Yes, I know about this application called Muxo. I guess I have the latest version. I am able to open video file with one audio track without any problems, adding subtitles is also hassle free, but immediatelly once I choose "Save" or "Save As", it crashes. My OS is 10.5.6 with all updates installed.
The second thing is that none of Mac applications supports ASS subtitles, extracted from some MKV movies. I prefer to extract subtitles from source file instead of downloading another subtitles. They are usually a bit different (time, speed and so on).
Why is Windows better in this?
Yes it would be nice if HandBrake could read the ASS subs direct from the MKV , show them in the drop box in the GUI, and if selected add them as soft subs to the MP4.
Surprisingly a fair bit of that code does already exist, but is not committed as yet. The biggest thing that is missing is a decent parser for the MKV info, hopefully ffmpeg will be able to provide access to some of this info.
But the biggest issue is that no-one really can be bothered implementing this as it is of no use, since the developers don't have files in mkv format in the first place (in general).
Cheers, Ed.
Autoselect is for enabling subtitles for foreign language segments, e.g. Audio is in English, and there are segments where French is spoken, then a subtitle track will only be enabled during those French segments. This option is usually best selected with the "forced" option as well.
If using the CLI you have the native language options, where you tell HB what your native language is, and it will automatically select the subtitles matching your native language when the audio language doesn't match your native language.
Note that the Mac GUI has a similar option, however it is used to select the audio language, i.e. dub.
As for why no subtitles show up when you input a MKV, HandBrake *only* supports reading subtitles from DVD inputs in 0.9.3.
Cheers, Ed.
Thank you for explanation. I am very confused from this...
This is a big shame there is no such quite simple tool, which would do everything...
No easy way
So Handbrake does a passthrough of the video without any quality loss? And also results in a file that streams? Sorry if I missed this in the thread but I was unaware that Handbrake could do this.
You did not miss anything. HB does not do video passthrough. HB will re-encode your source.
I think there is a fair bit of demand for it, I could certainly do with it as at the moment I am lost on how to mux subtitles into MP4 that are softcoded.
Don't take eddyg's comment out of context; the full quote was:
eddyg said:
He was simply stating that the vast majority of HB devs encode to mp4, therefore their desire to look into the issue is low.
Sigh.
This thread is a loss for me and really confusing.
Downloaded 720p MKV
The Best process to retain HD quality is to use Handbrake with the ATV Preset?
Yes/No
Does this retain 5.1 sound?
Can the same thing be done with a 1080p MKV
Is VisualHub Better?
This thread is a loss for me and really confusing.
Downloaded 720p MKV
The Best process to retain HD quality is to use Handbrake with the ATV Preset?
Yes/No
Does this retain 5.1 sound?
Can the same thing be done with a 1080p MKV
Is VisualHub Better?
In my opinion, Handbrake is the easiest way to re-encode a mkv file to be compatible with the apple TV. Using the apple TV preset will give you a great looking file that is playable, and also fully taggable with meta-x.
If the source MKV file has an ac3 audio stream the apple TV preset in Handbrake will re-encode the audio to dolby pro logic II, as well as include the ac3 track untouched, which the apple TV will pass through either from the tos link audio port, or the hdmi output to any device capable of decoding the ac3 audio. Handbrake can also work with dts audio streams to a certain extent, but they cannot currently be added unconverted to an apple TV compatible file.
Yes, you can use a 1080p MKV as an input, again just start off using the apple TV preset, and if needed adjust the video resolution to 1280 x *
VisualHub is no longer in development. If you want visualhub to retain the ac3 audio, you have to encode to a .mov container, which, for one is limited in the tags that can be written to it, such as MPAA rating tags.