mp42mkvac3 not working....

[redgtxdi]

Ok, so it may be working fine and may be just me, but to get my TV (BR player, actually) to play a video file, I found a while ago that MKV files worked great. (at least once that I remember using it)

Buuuuuut......everything in the interwebs is usually mp4. So I had discovered mp42mkvac3 a while back and noticed that it didn't work like it says. (drag/drop) However, I think there was a simple trick to get it to accept files for easy conversion........but I can't remember what it was.

(facepalm)

Anybody know/remember how to get it to work?

TIA

 

[redgtxdi]

Ok, figured it out myself.....sort of. I remember the solution was to demux/remux (or in some cases, just mux). I'm not totally familiar myself, but google helped & I figured out "mkvmerge" was the tool used to mux and then you were to run it through mp42mkvac3 after that. BUT.....this particular video doesn't do anything after the mkvmerge when I try to run it through mp42mkvac3.

However, I noticed my BD player will accept the video after only a run thru mkvmerge and plays it quite smoothly with one minor problem. There is a slight double-vision to the video. I *think* this might be my TV trying to resolve the 720 x 404 (25fps) setup of the original host. (If anybody thinks I could do anything to improve it, I'm all ears)

Nevertheless, this gives the wife the chance to see the episode of Downton Abbey she missed Sunday.

 

[jolancer]

First - am i the only one who thinks it strange redgtxdi's player uses MKV apposed to MP4? mp4 is the more widely used format for compatability reasons... is your BD player old? odd model?


Im not familar with mp42mkvac3, i used other apps like mkvmerge in the past but only for what i needed it to do never looking into it further.. I never tried so dunno that mkvmerge can demux other containers other than mkv

sounds like you went about it in the wrong way since you simply didn't know how it works, most people dont. (mp4) and (mkv) is just a container, like .zip or .rar for example. changing containers requires no editing, just have to /demux the .mp4 int multiple files, and /remux/multiplex those media files into .mkv. (basically copies the files out of mp4 and back into mkv, if it takes longer than 2 copy passes its doing something to the video you don't want it to)

may assumption by /mp42mkvac3 's name is that it does those two steps for you. to properly do it with /mkvmerge you just need to demux the .mp4 first with a different app, like /mp4box or something. If /mp43mkvac3 is a command line tool that maybe whats confusing you, a lot of video editing tools are... you can google there command line syntax or often also someone has developed a GUI interface frontend for them, if they are freeware the frontend is usually free aswell. just like any software tho use reputable sites. Im not into it anymore so dunno use to use videohelp.com and doom9.org

If your experiencing 'double-vision' my first suspicion is just the way you ran (.mp4) threw /mkvmerge might have screwed it up. It use to be 'double-vison' was the resault of the source file simply being improperly encoded from the start(Inverse Telecine, and deinterlacing) however the digital formats even sources these days i would imagine would make those issues obsolete, which is why i assume its what you did to the file. can test by simply playing the original MP4 file on yoru computer an see if it ghosts

 

[redgtxdi]

Ya, it is a little weird, but it's a Panny BDT-210. (Great BD player, but doesn't handle many formats & when I originally got it, many users narrowed .mkv down to the universal favorite file for that player)

As for the conversion, it just doesn't always work. For example, it converted "MonstersUniversity.mp4" as easy as pie. No mux, no.....errr....fuss. However, it didn't like another type of file I did & that's what led me to mkvmerge....(Yes, they have a gui version which is what I use). It muxes quite easily. Single-click, done.

Then mp42mkvac3 is just a drag & drop (didn't even need to open the program, simply drag/drop your mp4 onto the desktop icon......done!) but in this case, it starts, brings up a windows command line window, expresses it's using the Quicktime/blahblah converter but then closes the cmd line window. If I run Monsters University thru the same thing, the process starts, describes what it's doing & details the progress in percentage. (EAsy peezy)

Anywho, it's watchable & the next episode of the show is in .mkv already (shrug) & plays straight away. Who knows. (double-shrug)