I have downloaded, from a buddy of mine, all of this seasons 24 season episodes in 720p HD format. They are all a little over 1gb each. However, each file is in a ..MKV format. How can I burn these to dvd's? Is this a type of ISO? Can I just use Nero and burn it and it will play in a dvd player?
Anyone heard of .MKV files?
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secretanchitman
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google "matroska" and you'll find your answer. It is a container for audio/video like .avi
The actual codec used for the videos you downloaded is almost certainly x264, but you need software to play .mkv and you'll find it via google. It is a superb open-source format.
The actual codec used for the videos you downloaded is almost certainly x264, but you need software to play .mkv and you'll find it via google. It is a superb open-source format.
if you want to make it playable on dvd player, you need to re-enocode that to something lower quality. why did you bother with .mkv to begin with, it is HD. go get the lower quality .avi and burn that straight to a dvd in nero
His buddy almost certainly is not allowed to be redistributing the material, at least not publicly.
Assuming you actually get Fox HD, recording the show to watch it later is something generally covered under fair use. I'm not sure how making a copy on someone's behalf that they should be allowed to have but that you're not really authorized to make would be treated legally. And if you don't get FoxHD (or you're getting shows that are not normally distributed in your country, like Japanese anime), it may be another story.
For instance, if you and your friend both had copies of an audio CD, and his got destroyed, and you made him a copy of yours? Technically you can't make copies of your CDs and give them away, but your friend paid for a copy of it already, and the total number of copies didn't increase. Piracy? Fair use? Both?
as far as copyright goes it all comes down to fair usage - eg, if you're shifting several hundred copies then you'd likely be liable, as opposed to just a couple - eg, the person hosting the file is the one to blame. Compare this with the wonderful law in the UK where technically itis illegal to rip CDs on a personal computer - not that anyone gives a damn.....
secretanchitman
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download combined community codec pack and install with media player classic. it'll play exactly what you want/need without any bloat.
Aikouka
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MKV is not always HD. MKV is just a container, but I rarely see it used for non-HD video anymore. I also see the MP4 container used for HD video pretty much exclusively now. I could go encode a standard DVD-sized XVID file and pack it in a MKV if you want
.I always thought the reason MKV was so good was because it offers dual audio and multiple subtitles on a file.
A software program "DVD2One" available at http://www.dvd2one.com/ will convert the MKV file AND record it to DVD in one step. Just select the MKV file and let the program do the rest. The results are impressive. I'm no expert, so I'm not sure what the final rendering will be, but the one MKV file I've converted/recorded (DVD+) played extremely well on my Sony DVD player. Hope this helps.
Does you DVD player support mpeg4 (divx)?
Just re-encode the mkv to an avi file using this:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=113811
With the Xvid SAP profile.
Also, might want to resize them to standard 480 resolution (640x360, 704x396 (or 704x400 to maintain mod16)).
Just re-encode the mkv to an avi file using this:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=113811
With the Xvid SAP profile.
Also, might want to resize them to standard 480 resolution (640x360, 704x396 (or 704x400 to maintain mod16)).
destrekor
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piracy and tv shows is a touchy subject. They are shown on networks that you can access, and technically if you watched it that means you had the chance to record it. So downloading a file of a show that you previously watched, and were not charged for, is that fair use or piracy? TV is the most debatable sector of fair use and piracy, it's impossible to keep up with.
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