[Matroska-users] How to burn video files Mastroka

[Rolf Ernst]

On 3/10/2010 3:50 PM, John Stebbins wrote:
> On 03/10/2010 01:35 PM, Rolf Ernst wrote:
>    
>> On 3/10/2010 12:50 PM, savage.46 at libero.it wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Io ho un file video Mastroka,vorrei masterizzarlo per poterlo vedere su un
>>> comune lettore dvd senza perdere qualità sia video che audio,come posso fare?
>>> I'm Italian,sorry for my English.
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> I'm guessing here what you are asking. Presuming it is legal in your
>> country you can use one of the many converters out there which will take
>> a DVD and transcode it into AVI format. The last step would be to
>> multiplex the output into the Matroska container. Not to toot my own
>> horn but you can download such a thing at 24hourloop.com (YAMF by me)
>> but there are countless others.
>>
>>      
> Google translation of savage's question:
>    
>> I [have a] Mastroka a video file, I would burn it to view it on a
>> Common DVD player without losing quality video and audio, how can I do?
>> I'm Italian, sorry for my English.
>>      
> Does the DVD player support divx?  If so then you can use a number of
> tools to convert the file to a divx compatible avi file.  Then you could
> burn that avi file to a DVD and play it.
>
> If the DVD player does not support divx, then you will need DVD
> authoring software that can transcode the video to an MPEG-2 Program
> stream that dvd players can play.  Google "dvd authoring".  You'll get
> plenty of hits.
>
>    
I should have googled: normal DVDs are encoded using MPEG2 in a VOB 
container. Container and codec are two separate things. For example, you 
can have an MPEG2 codec in a Matroska container or in an MPEG4 in an AVI 
container. A 'container' is the 'kind of file' that the video is wrapped 
in. The codec is the compression type that has been used.

So unless you have a DVD player that supports DivX you need to take this 
Matroska file and turn it into a VOB container with MPEG2 in it. There 
are some good solutions out there which require no technical knowledge 
at all. I have nothing to do with the manufacturer but I find 
ConvertXtoDVD very easy to use and would recommend it to someone that 
wants a one-click-click solution. If you want to go the free route there 
are many other tools out here but they require you to tinker a little.