Clever, asking how to convert your illegally obtained videos here on the official forum.

i know VLC and VisualHub handle mkv files with no problem

how do you automatically assume they are illegal?

Indeed. I forgot that 95% of the video material found on a p2p network is legal.

Sorry.

would it be better if he rephrased the question? 95% of the djs on serato use illegal music, let's not be naive. a technical question is a technical question, no need to play cyber cop.

*yawn* I don't care what kind of files he uses. It is just stupid IF he belongs to this 5% that he will ask here in the public.

its funny, you clearly don't know the answer to his question...yet you must interject and display some sort of superiority complex.

after all these years of trolling, has serato offered you a job yet?

Throwing around words like "complex" ... at the same time you seem to have problems reading - or understanding.


Troll... is that your word of the year?
www.serato.com

Serato can't afford him.

Given that the original question mentions Vuse and Myro I think this is a reasonable assumption. But it's an assumption nonetheless.


Maybe that's true - I have no idea. But what I do know is that discussing illegally obtained material of any sort is not welcome on this forum.

defcutdon,

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt on this one despite my reservations.

However, please remember that this forum is provided to you by a company that has associations with many aspects of the music and professional audio industry. We will not tolerate any discussions that cross the line in terms of legalities.

yes, two posts in a day = word of the year.

its just a funny observation. these forums are quite known to be full of spite and hate, it's almost a running gag with many people I know..and after a long time of not posting here, I find it pretty hilarious to see the same names partaking in the same behavior.

thought i'd avoid it by checking out the video forum, but no...here we are having this conversation.

Indeed.



Actually, no. There are tons of good posts, informative posts, plus helpful people.



You reap what you sow.

And nik39 swings a right a left AlexRage stumbles but comes back with a body shot and left ding ding end of the first round!!!

nik39 does not even have english as a first language and properly uses "reap" and "sow" all in one post. Shit, that's impressive. Well done nik39!

avoiding an opinion on the AlexRage debate. I like the guy on the strength of ONE remix. need popcorn. i'll hang back.

this is the falling anthem la la la

Yup, I wouldn't doubt that some of AlexRage's edits are cool.

Yes, I said it.

1 eins, 2 zwei, 3 drei, 4 vier, 5 funf, 6 sechs,7 sieben, 8 acht, 9 neun, 10 zehn your out...... It's apparent that the question posed is by someone new. Just do a search and you will find your answer, MKV can be converted really easy. I was part of a pool that shot out MKV files every now and then most often they didnt have any titling on them and had yet to be released to any of the pools I think that's why the posted them in that format because everything else posted was in vob format. One was A Milli by Lil Wayne I had it before promo, screenplay and smash.

ignore all the bullshit posts. whos gives a shit what and where you got the mkv file from. your question was HOW TO CONVERT A MKV.

mediacoder (pc) can convert pretty much anything to anything.

depends on what os your using,
try prism for mac osx
or asv for pc...

I prefer using prism for batch encoding.

i use tmpgenc 4.0 xpress.... you can get it from the same place... i like it because you can encode, crop out the logo. or if you got serious balls you can put your own logo as well, all at once....... LOL nik39 is this legal? LOL
btw i highly recommend the exploer documentay on marijuana....

I just used virtual hub to convert an mkv last night.
Converted to mpeg2 and edited the video in vegas.

Worked great.

If you're going to talk about it on this forum, I do.

me too. i like these forums so i hate to see people discuss illegal activity here. plenty of places to do that so no need to bring it here.

iskysoft....HANDS DOWN THE BEST I HAVE USED SO FAR!!!

Just to chime in on this (dead) discussion... I store ALL, I repeat, ALL of my videos (legally obtained!) in MKV containers. It is an open and flexible format and I really wish Serato would implement support for it in VSL. I'm extremely picky about quality and aspect ratios, so I manually encode each and every video using x264 and the appropriate AVISynth filters. Think about it.. if VSL supported MKV containers, we could have one file with all the different audio tracks in that one container (dirty, clean, aca, inst) and then choose which track for Serato to play. I would use the shit out of that, and I know many others would too. Instead, right now I need four completely redundant video tracks to accommodate for this. Seems kind of ridiculous.

mp4 supports the same.

What is the advantage of the MKV container vs. mp4?

MP4 has restrictions on which codecs it allows in the container. MKV, for example, allows anything, such as LPCM uncompressed audio. I like to keep the uncompressed audio directly from the PO discs when possible. MP4 does not allow me to do this.

virtual hub encodes mkv files to mp4 really nice

Are you sure?

There might be ways of forcing it, but that would not be a 100% compliant MP4 file. The official spec for audio in MP4 containers allows for AAC, ALAC, MP3, M4A, MP2, MP1, CELP (speech), TwinVQ, and MIDI.

You're right! Thanks for pointing that out. I didn't know that before.

nik39 ... can you PM me on how to store different audio files to choose from on one mp4 vid? If this is what you mean ... If i have clean&dirty versions of vids i can have one mp4 vid file with both audio files to choose from?

don't knock my down guys for asking this. i didn't know you could do this!

Never mind. I spoke WAY too soon! - LoL

How do you even set up the video to do this?

putting multiple audio tracks in an mp4 is not hard. selecting different audio tracks in VSL is impossible.

I got a trick for that ;)

google for mp4box (that's just one way to do it, other apps will also be able to do it, maybe a-swift has some other suggestions), it can mux multiple audio streams into one mp4.

More of a workaround.

Yes, but mp4box is just a muxer, right? A-Swift was saying it's not possible to select different audio streams in VSL. If we can't get MKV support, at least selecting from multiple audio tracks in MP4's would be a great feature.

You are correct. But I was just answering the question how to store multiple audio streams in one mp4. You can do this with mp4box.

Maybe this should be a feature suggestion. I would definitely go back and redo my vids with clean dirty acap, or whatever.

ffmpeg can pack in multiple audio tracks to an mp4, so can mp4box. so can quicktime. there no shortage of ways to put in multiple audio tracks. the problem is you can't select any of them in vsl. that's all i was saying. since you can't select them, then they are indeed useless. the capability might as well not even exist.

a-swift ,,,,,,,,,,Can this be done from any other DJ software.

meaning can any of Dj softweare use dual audioi in a singel viideo.

No.