MKV Conversion Problems

[zachisevil]

I am trying to convert one of the 720p .mkv files I have to .mp4 with the xbox 360 converter. I am using the H264 720p profile but I tried with a bunch of them just to see it it worked but I got the same problem with them all. When I click convert it says converting and then it stops as if it is done. On the output folder I just have a 0kb .mp4 file with the same filename as the source. Other videos convert fine though (except for .divx files cause it doesnt recognize them).
I am pretty sure I have the right codecs installed, I can play the video just fine.
I wonder if anybody out there can me with this problem? I would really like to play this movie in HD on my 360!!!
Please!!!!:) :)

[sparhawk]

it could be the audio, I have had some problems with ac3 not being seen as ac3 but mp2 which I was able to fix by seperating the tracks with mkvextract, ac3>ac3 in besweet then muxing the fixed audio back to the video in mkvmerge. Also .dts audio is not recognised at all maybe thats the problem. AVInaptic is a good program for finding info on mkv files, grab it from here
http://fsinapsi.altervista.org/

[zachisevil]

Ok I got this:

[ About file ]

Name: movie.mkv
Date: 25/10/2007 04:26:41
Size: 2,344,866,786 bytes (2236.239 MB)

[ Generic infos ]

Play duration: 01:47:04 (6424.429 s)
Container type: matroska
Creation time: 19/10/2007 07:48:47 UTC
Number of streams: 3
Type of stream nr. 1: video (V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC)
Type of stream nr. 2: audio (A_AAC (AAC Low complexity))
Type of stream nr. 3: subtitle (S_TEXT/ASS)
Audio streams: 1
Muxing Application: libebml v0.7.7 + libmatroska v0.8.1
Writing Application: mkvmerge v2.0.2 ('You're My Flame') built on Feb 21 2007 23:40:55

[ Relevant data ]

Resolution: 960 x 544
Width: multiple of 32
Height: multiple of 32

[ Video track ]

Codec ID: V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Resolution: 960 x 544
Frame aspect ratio: 30:17 = 1.764705 (~16:9)
Pixel aspect ratio: 4:3 = 1.333333
Display aspect ratio: 40:17 = 2.352941 (~2.35:1)
Framerate: 23.975986 fps

[ Audio track ]

Codec ID: A_AAC (AAC Low complexity)
Sample rate: 24000 Hz
Output sample rate: 48000 Hz

[ About H.264 encoding ]

User data: x264
User data: core 56 svn-680
User data: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec
User data: Copyleft 2005
User data: http://www.videolan.org/x264.html
User data: cabac=1
User data: ref=8
User data: deblock=1:1:1
User data: analyse=0x3:0x113
User data: me=umh
User data: subme=6
User data: brdo=1
User data: mixed_ref=1
User data: me_range=12
User data: chroma_me=1
User data: trellis=1
User data: 8x8dct=1
User data: cqm=0
User data: deadzone=21,11
User data: chroma_qp_offset=0
User data: threads=3
User data: nr=0
User data: decimate=1
User data: mbaff=0
User data: bframes=3
User data: b_pyramid=1
User data: b_adapt=1
User data: b_bias=0
User data: direct=3
User data: wpredb=1
User data: bime=1
User data: keyint=250
User data: keyint_min=25
User data: scenecut=40(pre)
User data: rc=2pass
User data: bitrate=2718
User data: ratetol=1.0
User data: rceq='blurCplx^(1-qComp)'
User data: qcomp=0.60
User data: qpmin=10
User data: qpmax=51
User data: qpstep=4
User data: cplxblur=20.0
User data: qblur=0.5
User data: ip_ratio=1.40
User data: pb_ratio=1.30
SPS id: 0
Profile: High@L5.1
Num ref frames: 11
PPS id: 0
Entropy coding type: CABAC
Weighted prediction: No
Weighted bipred idc: B slices - implicit weighted prediction

[ Profile compliancy ]

Profile to check: MTK PAL 6000
Resolution: 960 x 544 > 720 x 576
Framerate: 23.975986 <> 25
Warning: If you need a more complete report, then click on "DRF analysis"

This report was created by AVInaptic (27-10-2007) on 27 ott 2007, h 14:59:56

Idk what any of it means... do you think you can give me instructions on how to do it the way you did?
I extracted the .h264 track and the .aac track (video and audio I think?) with mkvExtract but when I try to used the .h264 file with Videora it says it is converting but it just sits there.
Please help, I really want to figure this out. :)

[sparhawk]

enable the console in the convert window and see what errors show up

[zachisevil]

ok this is what I got in the console when I tried to convert the origional mkv file

EXEC: C:\Program Files\Red Kawa\Video Converter\Tools\MediaInfo\mediainfobatch.bat "C:\Program Files\Red Kawa\Video Converter\Tools\MediaInfo\MediaInfo.exe" "C:\Program Files\Red Kawa\Video Converter\Tools\MediaInfo\parameters.txt" "E:\wmv_working\movie.mkv"

PlayTime=01:46:58.000

Width=960

Height=544

AspectRatio=2.353

FrameRate=23.976
MediaInfo Command line, MediaInfoLib - v0.7.4.5
MSG - OS - Version: Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2
MSG - Converter - Version: 2.25
MSG - Converter - Profile: H.264 720p 3072kbps Stereo/160kbps
MSG - MediaInfo - Length: 6418s
MSG - MediaInfo - Width: 960 pixels
MSG - MediaInfo - Height: 544 pixels
MSG - MediaInfo - Aspect Ratio: 2.353
MSG - MediaInfo - Framerate: 23.976 fps
MSG - Converter - Automatically Generating Framerate
EXEC: C:\Program Files\Red Kawa\Video Converter\Tools\FFmpeg\ffmpeg.exe -y -i "E:\wmv_working\movie.mkv" -f mp4 -title "movie" -timestamp "2007-10-27 07:07:19" -vcodec h264 -level 31 -r 24000/1001 -b 3072k -bt 3072k -bufsize 14000k -maxrate 14000k -g 300 -coder 1 -acodec aac -ac 2 -ab 160k "C:\Documents and Settings\deathbringer\My Documents\Converted Videos\Xbox360\H264\movie.mp4"


This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.
Can't resample. Aborting.
FFmpeg version SVN-r9133, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-swscaler --enable-pthreads --enable-liba52 --enable-avisynth --enable-libamr-nb --enable-libamr-wb --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libnut --enable-libogg --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-x264 --enable-xvid --cpu=i686 --enable-memalign-hack --extra-ldflags=-static --enable-dirac
libavutil version: 49.4.0
libavcodec version: 51.40.4
libavformat version: 51.12.1
built on May 27 2007 19:45:44, gcc: 4.2.0
[matroska @ 00ACBEA0]Ignoring seekhead entry for ID=0x1549a966
[matroska @ 00ACBEA0]Ignoring seekhead entry for ID=0x1654ae6b
[matroska @ 00ACBEA0]Ignoring seekhead entry for ID=0x114d9b74
[matroska @ 00ACBEA0]Unknown entry 0x73a4 in info header
[matroska @ 00ACBEA0]Unknown track header entry 0x55aa - ignoring
[matroska @ 00ACBEA0]Unknown track header entry 0x23314f - ignoring
[matroska @ 00ACBEA0]Unknown track header entry 0x55ee - ignoring
[matroska @ 00ACBEA0]Unknown track header entry 0xaa - ignoring
[matroska @ 00ACBEA0]Unknown track header entry 0x55aa - ignoring
[matroska @ 00ACBEA0]Unknown track header entry 0x23314f - ignoring
[matroska @ 00ACBEA0]Unknown track header entry 0x55ee - ignoring
[matroska @ 00ACBEA0]Unknown track header entry 0xaa - ignoring
[matroska @ 00ACBEA0]Unknown track header entry 0x55aa - ignoring
[matroska @ 00ACBEA0]Unknown track header entry 0x23314f - ignoring
[matroska @ 00ACBEA0]Unknown track header entry 0x55ee - ignoring
[matroska @ 00ACBEA0]Unknown track header entry 0xaa - ignoring
Input #0, matroska, from 'E:\wmv_working\movie.mkv':
Duration: 01:47:04.4, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
Stream #0.0: Video: h264, yuv420p, 960x544, 24.39 fps(r)
Stream #0.1: Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, 5:1
Resampling with input channels greater than 2 unsupported.Abort at ffmpeg.c:1574
again I do not know what this means, but I do see the word ignoring a lot in this.

[sparhawk]

I could be wrong but it looks like ffmpeg doesnt like the audio file, extract the streams with mkvextract, load the ac3 file in besweet and convert it to 2 channel ac3, remux the besweeted ac3 file with the extracted h264 file using mkvmerge (remember to input the correct framerate by clicking on the video stream and putting it in one of the tabs) then run the converter again and see if that helps.

[zachisevil]

yeah but I think the whole problem is it is not an ac3 file, it is aac. And I cannot find anything to convert it.

[sparhawk]

besweet should be able to convert aac to ac3, also google aac to ac3 gives this as the first hit

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=666230

[zachisevil]

yeah i dont know anything about that. It wont work with me, and I dont think besweet can convert the files.