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Indeed, mine is now finished and its 593Mb, smaller than my 900kbps Handbrake, will now check the quality.

Any thoughts on the error message in tsmuxergui ? Am I trying to do something it can't do, i.e. open an mkv with subtitles and remux it to .ts ?

Excellent stuff, thanks ! Yes reencoding lossy files is not a good idea (reminds me of the good old days of the heated discussions on the mp3.com and vqf.com forums...it's just that having an audio file that weighs 50% of the video file is a bit "annoying", will probably just keep one language and ...

Nice workflow, thanks, in the meantime I had used mkvmerge to remux and it did the trick too.

Actually with handbrake 1/2/3 can be skipped as it reads the mkv, and you can uncheck the audio.

XVID4PSP looks like a nice tool (which x264 profile do you use ? Trying Q21 right now) and batch encoding ...

There is always an old long way:
1. use mkvextract to extract m2v video only
2. convert it to h264 (many options), optionally detelecine and crop
3. mux a new MKV with mkvmerge using your h264 track and all audio/chapters from original MKV.
Did it with handbrake too, but it would really be great ...

Any way around this ?

Been trying to backup my old DVDs to mkv in x264 format and it seems there is no software that does that at this time. I would like to preserve at least one language and one subtitle. Another thread mentioned ripbot but it's rather complex, giving me 4 subtitle files to pick ...