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						| JinkazuyaMember 
   | 24. March 2010 @ 23:29 |  Link to this message   | 
					
					
					
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							Well...I know how to work with the MKVextractGUI or MKVtoolNix and I already have the K-Lite Code Pack Full version installed. However, after the extraction, I used TMPEGEnc to import the H264 file, which was just extracted from the MKV, it worked but it took quite a bit of time(10 minutes or more) to import successfully. Assuming this is normal, but I doubt it. Here comes the problem.
 1) Since my CPU is i7 extreme 965, which was overclocked to about 3.8ghz and my graphic card was radeon 5870. I doubt that it would be fast if not real fast...But it shouldn't take more than 10 minutes or more to import the H264 file, which is about 1.1GB.
 
 2) After importing, for you guys who are familar with the GUI and layout, there is a button for editing/cutting. If you click on it, you should be able to select the portion of the movie and frame. Usually you will see the movie if you play it. However, the whole screen just turned black and the process took quite a long. After the conversion was done half way through, I just aborted it just to see what the result was but the outcome was the movie had no sound, and then it played just like snail(everything seemed to be in slow motion). Just wonder if H264 is indeed supported by TMPEGEnc authoring 4? Or there is something missing which I don't really know about?
 
 
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						| Senior Member 
   | 25. March 2010 @ 01:18 |  Link to this message   | 
					
					
					
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							Why extract?  Open the MKV file directly In Tmpgenc.
Make sure the directshow plugin is enabled in the settings.
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						| JinkazuyaMember 
   | 25. March 2010 @ 19:58 |  Link to this message   | 
					
					
					
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							Already have directshow plugin enabled in the reference setting, but it didn't work...Could yu really show me how to get it work?
 My MKV contains a bunch of subs and bunch of audios.
 
 General
 Complete name                    : Body Guard And Assassins.mkv
 Format                           : Matroska
 File size                        : 917 MiB
 Duration                         : 2h 18mn
 Overall bit rate                 : 926 Kbps
 Encoded date                     : UTC 2009-01-15 22:34:22
 Writing application              : mkvmerge v3.0.0 ('Hang up your Hang-Ups') built on Dec 12 2009 15:20:35
 Writing library                  : libebml v0.7.9 + libmatroska v0.8.1
 
 Video
 ID                               : 1
 Format                           : AVC
 Format/Info                      : Advanced Video Codec
 Format profile                   : High@L3.1
 Format settings, CABAC           : Yes
 Format settings, ReFrames        : 10 frames
 Muxing mode                      : Container profile=Unknown@3.1
 Codec ID                         : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
 Duration                         : 2h 18mn
 Nominal bit rate                 : 800 Kbps
 Width                            : 1 024 pixels
 Height                           : 432 pixels
 Display aspect ratio             : 2.35:1
 Frame rate                       : 24.000 fps
 Resolution                       : 8 bits
 Colorimetry                      : 4:2:0
 Scan type                        : Progressive
 Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 0.075
 Title                            : Body Guard And Assassins
 Writing library                  : x264 core 60 r951 445d87e
 Encoding settings                : cabac=1 / ref=10 / deblock=1:-2:-1 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=7 / brdo=1 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=0 / threads=3 / nr=0 / decimate=0 / mbaff=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / wpredb=1 / bime=1 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40(pre) / rc=2pass / bitrate=800 / ratetol=1.0 / rceq='blurCplx^(1-qComp)' / qcomp=1.00 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30 / aq=2:1.00
 Language                         : Chinese
 
 Audio #1
 ID                               : 2
 Format                           : AAC
 Format/Info                      : Advanced Audio Codec
 Format version                   : Version 4
 Format profile                   : LC
 Format settings, SBR             : No
 Codec ID                         : A_AAC
 Duration                         : 2h 18mn
 Channel(s)                       : 2 channels
 Channel positions                : L R
 Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz
 Title                            : Mandarin
 Language                         : Chinese
 
 Audio #2
 ID                               : 3
 Format                           : AAC
 Format/Info                      : Advanced Audio Codec
 Format version                   : Version 4
 Format profile                   : LC
 Format settings, SBR             : No
 Codec ID                         : A_AAC
 Duration                         : 2h 18mn
 Channel(s)                       : 2 channels
 Channel positions                : L R
 Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz
 Title                            : Cantonese
 
 Text #1
 ID                               : 4
 Format                           : ASS
 Codec ID                         : S_TEXT/ASS
 Codec ID/Info                    : Advanced Sub Station Alpha
 Title                            : Special English/Chinese Subs
 
 Text #2
 ID                               : 5
 Format                           : UTF-8
 Codec ID                         : S_TEXT/UTF8
 Codec ID/Info                    : UTF-8 Plain Text
 Title                            : Simplified Chinese
 Language                         : Chinese
 
 Text #3
 ID                               : 6
 Format                           : UTF-8
 Codec ID                         : S_TEXT/UTF8
 Codec ID/Info                    : UTF-8 Plain Text
 Title                            : Traditional Chinese
 
 Text #4
 ID                               : 7
 Format                           : UTF-8
 Codec ID                         : S_TEXT/UTF8
 Codec ID/Info                    : UTF-8 Plain Text
 Title                            : English
 Language                         : English
 
 Text #5
 ID                               : 8
 Format                           : UTF-8
 Codec ID                         : S_TEXT/UTF8
 Codec ID/Info                    : UTF-8 Plain Text
 Title                            : Simplified Chinese/English
 
 
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						| Senior Member 
   | 25. March 2010 @ 20:05 |  Link to this message   | 
					
					
					
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							Use MKVMerge.  Open it and deselect all the streams except the video.
Save as a new MKV and open it in TmpgEnc.
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						| JinkazuyaMember 
   | 26. March 2010 @ 19:39 |  Link to this message   | 
					
					
					
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							It still doesn't work and I think you might have to guide me through the set up of the TmpgEnc authoring 4.
 
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   | 26. March 2010 @ 21:25 |  Link to this message   | 
					
					
					
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						| JinkazuyaMember 
   | 27. March 2010 @ 13:32 |  Link to this message   | 
					
					
					
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							Well where it fails? As soon as I imported the MKV video, the plain mkv video, no sound and subtitles attached.
 
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   | 27. March 2010 @ 13:38 |  Link to this message   | 
					
					
					
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							I still don't understand - How is it failing ?  What do you see, what error messages
get produced?
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						| JinkazuyaMember 
   | 28. March 2010 @ 02:03 |  Link to this message   | 
					
					
					
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 This is the error I got.
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						| Senior Member 
   | 28. March 2010 @ 03:39 |  Link to this message   | 
					
					
					
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							Try simplifying the path and the file name to see if it makes any difference.
For example, c:\myfile.mkv
 
 Do you have this problem with any other source files, or just this one ?
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						| JinkazuyaMember 
   | 3. April 2010 @ 13:02 |  Link to this message   | 
					
					
					
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							I still have this problem with all mkv files and even I abbreviate the path or file name. Not sure why...It would be great if somebody could help.
 
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   | 3. April 2010 @ 14:42 |  Link to this message   | 
					
					
					
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						| JinkazuyaMember 
   | 3. April 2010 @ 23:45 |  Link to this message   | 
					
					
					
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							awwww...They are unrelated....And not sure if that would help import the mkv file. Don't u mean that I should convert the mkv into avi first before doing the importing?
 
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						| Senior Member 
   | 4. April 2010 @ 01:46 |  Link to this message   | 
					
					
					
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							Tmpgenc is perfectly capable of importing MKV directly; it uses the directshow
plugin and usually works pretty well.  Have you tried uninstalling/reinstalling the Haali
 splitter ?
 
 You may be able to remux the video and audio into an avi container.
 (except aac audio will not work as-is)
 I certainly wouldn't want to re-encode the video first and lose a generation of
 quality.
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						| JinkazuyaMember 
   | 4. April 2010 @ 10:34 |  Link to this message   | 
					
					
					
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							well...I use k-lite code pack for all sorts of my movies...Not sure if that would be the problem...As you said, I'd like to import MKV, which won't lose the quality and when converting into avi, quality will lose.
 
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						| Junior Member 
   | 6. April 2010 @ 00:00 |  Link to this message   | 
					
					
					
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							Originally posted by Jinkazuya:I upload mkv files to convertxtodvd and it works, and I use the Vista Codec Pack. Don't know if there is a difference with the codecs and authoring programs though.well...I use k-lite code pack for all sorts of my movies...Not sure if that would be the problem...As you said, I'd like to import MKV, which won't lose the quality and when converting into avi, quality will lose.
 
 
 
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						| Senior Member 
   | 6. April 2010 @ 00:19 |  Link to this message   | 
					
					
					
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							This thread is going around in circles.
I would advise you uninstall all codec packs,
 and anything else left behind (xvid, divx , haali, ffdshow, coreavc,
 what ever else you find in the add/remove programs)
 
 Then install a fresh version of ffdshow and haali splitter.
 When FFDshow is installed, open the video decoder config and select "codecs"
 on the left.  On the right, make sure H264/AVC is set to Libavcodec.
 Retry the MKV in Tmpgenc.
 
 If it still doesn't work, install avisynth and use directshowsource to import
 the media file.
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						| Junior Member 
   | 6. April 2010 @ 21:35 |  Link to this message   | 
					
					
					
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							I apologize if I went off topic at all, just mentioned how it could be a codec pack issue. I agree to uninstall all codec packs, and start over. I don't think you need to fool around with ffdshow. I believe that for example, ffdshow is in the vista codec pack (good for xp and windows 7 too). Good luck!
 
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