Tutorial: mkv to avi or how to remove the background music from your voiceovers.

[secretlytodream]

Ok guys! So finally, here's the long promised tutorial! One of the most popular questions people ask me (ask.fm) is how I remove the background music from the voice overs I use in my videos. Now, I started doing it fairly recently, maybe in 2010? Mainly I vid Supernatural videos and at the time I had a copy of season 2 (not even in the same country

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[clemagnata]

Hi there! Thank you for this tutorial. I was looking for something like this for a while.
But i have some issues with virtualdub... or avc2avi. In fact, my file after using avc2avi seems to be broken. i can't read it, and virtualdub sends me an error message. However, i did what you said, and at the end of the ... muxing(?) i had the same message that you had: "avi file written..."
Any idea to help me? Thanks
Clem

[secretlytodream]

Before the muxing you have a *.h264 file, not every player can read it, certainly not if you don't have some needed codecs installed on your computer, which I assume you don't have. Please be more clear what program you have issues with because at this stage I can't see any problems with the process. After muxing the file in av2avi you should have the avi file without the audio track, not every player can read this file either, so if you don't have any problem with uploading the video file in virtual dub I can't see what's the problem here.

[clemagnata]

Sorry i wasn't clear. Yes, i can't upload the video in Virtualdub. That's the message i get:
http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/590756Impressecran.jpg
The file i wasn't able to read was the AVI file, just after the muxing.
That's why i was wondering if i had a problem with avc2avi (however i had no error message during the muxing)
Thanks for your answer and patience.

[ext_2591376]

hello there. Wanted to say thank you! Everything works perfectly, but it seems that I can convert only 16 minutes or so....Can you help me?

Shifted sound in output file

[panthera_cz]

Hi,
thanks for the excellent instruction manual for dummies like me :)
It works good, I've just one problem with shifted sound in output avi file, it doesn't take even one sec, but it can be seen. I don't like to move it in SV later, 'cause I used to have locked event grouping and I would like to use the whole avi with video track not even cleared channel.
I set sound bitrate in VD right the same as it was in original mkv. Any idea, how to set it better or what can cause this?
Thank you for your time ;)

P.S.: Really love your work, you're incredible vidder ;)

[stablebetter]

You may also refer to this guide to convert mkv to avi, mp4, wmv, mov, mpg etc on Mac or Windows at http://www.idealshare.net/video-converter/convert-mkv-to-avi.html

This guide can easily helps to：

Convert MKV to AVI to play MKV in Xbox, PS3, Windows Media Player, PowerPoint,
Convert MKV to MP4 or MOV (QuickTime) to play MKV on iDevice like iPhone, iPad, iPod, iTunes, etc;
Convert MKV to MP4 or MOV (QuickTime) to edit MKV in iMovie, QuickTime, and Final Cut Pro;
Convert MKV to MP4 to play MKV on mobile phone or video game consoles like Android, BlackBerry, Zune, PS3, PSP, Xbox 360, and Wii etc;
Convert MKV to AVI, MP4, FLV, WebM to upload MKV to YouTube, FaceBook and etc to share MKV files online;
Convert MKV to WMV or MOV to insert MKV into PowerPoint;
Convert almost all kinds of videos to MKV to burn videos to DVDs and Blu-ray discs, etc.