help a confused newbie
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 1:52 pm
Hello. I am giving MakeMKV a try on Windows and I am confused about what it does and what its intended purpose is. I see this on the main page -
"MKV files are easy to change. Want to remove unneeded audio track from the file? Thought about converting MPEG-2 video into H264 to make the file 5 times smaller? All of it can be easily done with free software.
MKV files are compact. For exactly the same content MKV files are about 10% smaller than DVD files and roughly 40% smaller than Blu-ray files."
When I open the program I see no options to do any of this. I took a 3.9GB DVD, unchecked some foreign audio I don't care about, and I got a 3.7GB .MKV file. All this appears to do is mux the audio video and subtitles into an MKV the same size with no transcoding or compression. What are these claims about converting to H264 and files 10% smaller than DVD?
Thoroughly confused...
"MKV files are easy to change. Want to remove unneeded audio track from the file? Thought about converting MPEG-2 video into H264 to make the file 5 times smaller? All of it can be easily done with free software.
MKV files are compact. For exactly the same content MKV files are about 10% smaller than DVD files and roughly 40% smaller than Blu-ray files."
When I open the program I see no options to do any of this. I took a 3.9GB DVD, unchecked some foreign audio I don't care about, and I got a 3.7GB .MKV file. All this appears to do is mux the audio video and subtitles into an MKV the same size with no transcoding or compression. What are these claims about converting to H264 and files 10% smaller than DVD?
Thoroughly confused...