The mkv files I make with the program work great in VLC - so makemkv is a roaring success in that respect - but if I try to take the mkv file and do anything with it, the mkv streams can't be read.
The end result I'm shooting for is an x264 w/ AC3 playable on the PS3. The ideal route to get there seems to be DVD->makemkv->mkv2vob. I know there are other programs to do it but I've yet to find the right combo that doesn't give me audio sync problems. Makemkv gave a perfectly synced mkv, I know mkv2vob can transcode it to x264 without screwing the audio up on my system.
- MKV plays fine in VLC.
- When I open the mkv with mkv2vob, it errors out with "Could not parse mkv file!"
- When I look at the mkv with mkvextract, it does not see the audio or video stream.
- When I attempt to open the mkv with megui, I get a Direct Show Error: "Unable to render the file. You probably don't have the correct filters installed."
- All programs I mentioned work fine with conventional mkv files.
Now I have no idea what it means, but I did notice differences in the structure of a 'good' mkv and the makemkv when viewing it with mkvinfo; mainly lines related to "EBML".
I can paste the entire file contents if desired but here is the EBML head portion:
'good'
(MKVInfo) + EBML head at 0
(MKVInfo) |+ EBML version: 1 at 5
(MKVInfo) |+ EBML read version: 1 at 9
(MKVInfo) |+ EBML maximum ID length: 4 at 13
(MKVInfo) |+ (Unknown element: EBMLMaxSizeLength; ID: 0x42f3 size: 4) at 17
(MKVInfo) |+ Doc type: matroska at 21
(MKVInfo) |+ Doc type version: 1 at 32
(MKVInfo) |+ Doc type read version: 1 at 36
makemkv
(MKVInfo) + EBML head at 0
(MKVInfo) |+ Doc type: matroska at 5
(MKVInfo) |+ Doc type version: 2 at 16
(MKVInfo) |+ Doc type read version: 1 at 20
Dunno if that helps point the way at why the makemkv can't play nice with other stuff but if not, any ideas?
Makemkv doesn't play nice with others
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Re: Makemkv doesn't play nice with others
The problems you described seem to be caused by mkvextract failing on MKV file. I don't know the reason - we'll try to investigate.Trnsprtr wrote: Dunno if that helps point the way at why the makemkv can't play nice with other stuff but if not, any ideas?
As for your problem, there is a solution. mkv2vob is just a GUI for many tools that do the actual work. The tool that transcodes MKV to M2TS is called tsMuxEr. You can get the latest version from author's site at http://www.smlabs.net/tsmuxer_en.html or run it from mkv2vob directory - it's there. Running tsMuxER directly or from tsMuxER GUI should work and produce m2ts files that will play on PS3 perfectly.