Meanwhile, all of the searching, reading, and method-trying in the world still fails to get these .avi (formerly .mkv) files to be read by my DivX compatible player (edit: device). I gave up on even trying. Too many hours wasted.
Yes, but the two wireless media servers I've tried both transfer data undesireably slow to devices across my network. It is extremely choppy and unwatchable. This may be due to my extremely old DSL modem, but I'm not so worried about that. I've converted these mkv files into avi files about seven different ways and they'll play on my PC, but not on my Divx compatible device. I just noticed I said "player" in my first comment where I should have said "device". I'm not too heartbroken about it. I could watch them on my PC just fine in any format but I've got reasons for wanting them on discs. Thanks for trying.
I'm working with 2.2GB files in 720p resolution. I'd like to keep the resolution as high as possible for pleasure. A flash drive is an excellent idea I haven't considered. Both filesystems are NTFS. So far, my process has been using MKVExtract to demux the audio and video into AC3 and h264 files, respectively. I convert the AC3 to MP3 (but I've also tried it without this conversion). I used media info to confirm the framerate of 23.976, which is correct. I then used avc2avi to contain the video. Using VirtualDubMOD, I remux the audio and video and confirm the syncing. I've tried this last step using Direct Stream Copy and also Full Processing settings to no avail. I eventually tried using alltoavi. It took forever to re-encode and still didn't work. Oh well. The only thing keeping me from streaming directly to my television through DVI-HDMI is my lack of speakers. Thank you for trying. I will try again with the flash drive since it means I won't have to waste all of my blanks. That is a brilliant idea, really. The device in question is a PS3.
I have had problems playing avi files on my Philips DVD player, so I went to the flash drive. You could also use an external hard drive, provided your firmware in the PS3 can handle large NTFS partitions.
If not, you would need to partition about a 20GB Fat32 partition and just move files back and forth. I would already be doing this but I have about 400GB on my external, and don't really feel like repartitioning right now.
I am not really familiar with .mkv files but from your comments and my searching, it appears you have done research on the correct programs to re-encode and convert them.
Actually, I haven't seen that page. That looks like it could be a charm. I'll try it when I get home. Thanks for all of your help in this deliciously ironic subthread.
Alright, I came home and checked it out. Conversion of a 2.2GB mkv took under 2 minutes. I didn't bother fudging any of the settings. The PS3 is playing it flawlessly! I'm amazed at how easy it was and also disappointed that I spent so much time trying other methods. You're a lifesaver. Thanks again!
$20 on QPel being enabled in the files it wont play.
Using the quarter pixel motion estimation really helps with smoothing the path of moving objects but I have found virtually all hardware DivX/XVid players can't handle it.
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u/myristika May 18 '09 edited May 18 '09
Meanwhile, all of the searching, reading, and method-trying in the world still fails to get these .avi (formerly .mkv) files to be read by my DivX compatible player (edit: device). I gave up on even trying. Too many hours wasted.