help with mkv in h264

[dimiboy]

hi
i am not so good with encoding and all of that but i have a movie in mkv format and inside it has two adudio tracks and two subtitle tracks...
i tried to extract them with mkvextractgui and it gave me 3 types of files: AC3 (the audio) SRT (subtitles) and H264 (video)

srt are fine but what about the others?
well how do i encode such a movie to work with all the audio channels and subtitles on my A2?

[gunrock]

Originally Posted by dimiboy

hi
i am not so good with encoding and all of that but i have a movie in mkv format and inside it has two adudio tracks and two subtitle tracks...
i tried to extract them with mkvextractgui and it gave me 3 types of files: AC3 (the audio) SRT (subtitles) and H264 (video)

srt are fine but what about the others?
well how do i encode such a movie to work with all the audio channels and subtitles on my A2?

You need to re-encode that video to include the audio (no conversions needed as the A2 will handle it), the video (which must be converted to xvid/divx or similar). When you've done that, you copy your new file and the srt subtitles to the A2's movie folder and away you go.

That's the theory. The only issues I think that you may experience are with interleaving the audio and video again so that it stays in sync until the end. Sometimes these extraction utilities don't record the offset for the audio vs the video. This may also be true with your subtitles (i.e the words come up before or after the actors have spoken them).

Good luck!