[vidding] *pulls out hair*
Nov. 20th, 2013 12:59![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
If any vidders out there have any advice for the following situation, you would have my undying gratitude.
So I have a Blu-Ray MKV file of a movie with an English subtitles track, and mpeg streamclip being the wonderful application that it is, there's no way to disable the subtitles prior to clipping that I'm aware of--please correct me if I'm wrong. (I'm running Mac OS 10.8 with the new beta version of mpeg streamclip that can handle mkvs, although not well.) I downloaded mkvtools and tried to extract the video track only, which seemed like it would work…except that mkvtools only extracts/converts to h264 streams, which are completely useless for any human purpose as far as I can tell.
Is there a way to make mkvtools actually convert to a different file format? Is there something I can download to convert the h264 file to something (anything) that mpeg streamclip can handle? Is there a way to disable the subtitles on mpeg streamclip? (Note: they're not hard-coded in, as I can disable them when I play the file in VLC.) Is there a Santa Claus?
So I have a Blu-Ray MKV file of a movie with an English subtitles track, and mpeg streamclip being the wonderful application that it is, there's no way to disable the subtitles prior to clipping that I'm aware of--please correct me if I'm wrong. (I'm running Mac OS 10.8 with the new beta version of mpeg streamclip that can handle mkvs, although not well.) I downloaded mkvtools and tried to extract the video track only, which seemed like it would work…except that mkvtools only extracts/converts to h264 streams, which are completely useless for any human purpose as far as I can tell.
Is there a way to make mkvtools actually convert to a different file format? Is there something I can download to convert the h264 file to something (anything) that mpeg streamclip can handle? Is there a way to disable the subtitles on mpeg streamclip? (Note: they're not hard-coded in, as I can disable them when I play the file in VLC.) Is there a Santa Claus?
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Date: 2013-11-20 21:21 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-11-20 21:26 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-11-20 23:49 (UTC)If that doesn't work, my recommendation would be to acquire the source in a different format (DVD rip, etc.).
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Date: 2013-11-21 05:33 (UTC)The new beta version of mpeg streamclip handles mkvs, and demuxing actually worked! I was originally hoping to not convert the file, but whatever, the video track alone is 7.99GB, that's plenty of quality.It didn't work. GDI.Ironically, I had the source in a DVD rip, but then got bitten by the quality bug.
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Date: 2013-11-21 09:39 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-11-21 14:22 (UTC)