Hello all, I'm converting my mkv files to avi using VirtualDubMod. After the process is complete, per instructions from http://forum.videohelp.com/topic241422.html, I noticed that the picture has become narrow in width. I used to convert everything on my laptop and didn't have a problems but now I'm doing it on my PC and that's when I noticed the change. I tried doing everything in "Full processing mode" but that only made the file get heaps bigger - from 230MB to 2.61GB. Crazy, I know. Is there a setting in VirtualDubMod to prevent this change in the pictures width? Cheers
Usually if you set it to "direct stream copy" it should copy it as-is. Some other program you can try is MKVextract GUI.
When you say converting, is your goal to direct stream the video & audio (no re-encoding) into an avi, or are you re-encoding the streams to a different format and using an avi container? The mkv container could have any combination of video/audio streams inside. Can you specify which formats are being used? That way I could help you by identifying if they're compatible with an avi container in the first place. I personally wouldn't use VirtualDubMod as a mkv-->avi container swap application. Davexnet is on the right track, you should use MKVextract GUI to extract the streams in raw format and either YAMB or MeGUI to mux them into an avi (providing the streams are compatible for this format). If any of this is confusing at all, just ask whatever it is you'd like clarified. :-D
