Converting video files from one to another

[DaveS]

Hi do we have any collective video nerds about?
I have an mkv file that I want to burn to dvd. I'm sure I should be able to do this for free, but I damned if I can find all the software to do it....
I keep finding all the software that relieves me of £30 or is "free to download" or whatever else.
So my plan was to convert to avi and then burn to dvd.

[angelo]

Hi

Go to www.zamzar.com - free conversion online and they then email the file to you.

Or try this http://www.mediaconverter.org/index.php

Again a free product that you download and convert away

Hope this helps
Angelo

[DaveS]

Ahh thanks this is an 8GB + HD file though... so no uploading it!
And the downloadable tool doesn't seem to do mkv.

Thanks for the reply though.

[Lutin]

How about mkvtoolnix -

http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/

Windows and Linux versions available.

[DaveS]

Thanks will have a play. Have downloaded something which is doing something for free.

[fatowl]

Looks like you're sorted now, but for others in similar situation, try www.afterdawn.com - a lot of info about this kind of thing.

[winxp-master]

Dave,

I would look into getting a program to convert your HD film to AVI then use standard software (like Nero) to convert to DVD. A normal DVD can not display HD so trying to convert an MKV file straight to DVD is a waste of time as you would lose the HD content.

Let me know if you sort it out as I have lots of programs at home (im at work atm) that do various converting etc.

[winxp-master]

Check this link out, VirtualDub is really good i have used it before. Should get the mkv to avi no problem.

http://forum.videohelp.com/topic241422.html

[Lumiya]

Virtualdub has never been able to do MKV

Now the outdated and not supported virtualdubmod was capable of doing part of the MKV decoding but only in conjunction with a few other programs...(that forum post is 4 years old)

Dave if you have any success with MKV conversions please let me know as I've not found any one step option that works yet

[StumpyFingers]

Have you tried HERE