How To Convert MKV Into AVI Without Losing Subtitles and Quality

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Step 1

If you want to convert MKV to avi file with its subtitle, you must install MKV codec pack before you launch MKV to AVI with Subtitle (its download URL is http://www.008soft.com/mkvtoavis.exe). Select the Video compressor with "ffdshow video encoder". The another name "ffdshow Video Codec" may not work.

Step 2

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Most audio compressors may not work well. Even they make the program crash. MKV to AVI with Subtitle sets Microsoft ADPCM as the default audio compressor.

Step 4

If you want to view the converted avi file on the DVD/DIVX player or portable devices, you may try MPEG Layer-3 as Audio compressor. But the MP3 encoder bundled in Windows was made in 1997, 56kbps, and not stable. If your computer has installed Fraunhofer Radium MP3 codec, the conversion mkv to avi will work perfectly. But Fraunhofer does not retail the compressor.

Step 5

Some video compressors have not the settings dialog box. After you select "ffdshow video encoder", clicking the Settings button does not work. You may select the Windows menu Start->Programs->Combined Community Codec Pack->Filters->FFDShow VFW Codec Configuration->FFDShow VFW Codec Configuration. Or select "ffdshow Video Codec", click the settings button, configure its settings, and then select "ffdshow video encoder" again.

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The default encoder is MPEG-4, XVID, you may change FOURCC to DIVX, or DX50.

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After we tested XVID or DIVX in ffdshow, the 2 codecs support subtitle conversion well. You may try other encoders, they may not support subtitle conversion. There are errors after clicking the Convert button if the encoder does not support the subtitle conversion.

Step 10

If you want to change the size of output file, Please set Bitrate (kbps) in the ffdshow video encoder configuration dialogbox. The Encoding bitrate is bigger, the picture is clearer, but the output file is bigger.

Step 11

After open a video file, at the right bottom of Windows desktop, you will find 2 icons: Haali Media Splitter and DirectVobSub.

Step 12

Right-click the Haali Media Splitter icon, you may change an audio stream or subtitle:

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Right-click the DirectVobSub icon, you may change an audio stream or subtitle, or configure audio/video decoder, or DirectVobSub filter settings.

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Step 16

If your MKV file has subtitle, and you want to convert mkv to avi without subtitles, you can disable the function auto-loading in vsfilter. Select Start->Programs->Combined Community Codec Pack -> VSFilter Configuration-> General -> Loading -> Do not load. The default is Load when needed. Then launch MKV To AVI With Subtitle to convert the video files. If you want to playback the video file with subtitle, restore the default "Load when needed".

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At last, click the Convert button to start conversion. When converting mkv to avi, please do not change audio stream or subtitle.

Tips

MKV stands for Matroska video, Matroska is the extensible open standard Audio/Video container, format MKV (Matroska Video) is an entirely free video format. More exactly it is about a container (from where the name Matroska, in reference to the Russian headstocks) making it possible to contain video (DivX, Xvid, RV9, etc), sound (MP3, MP2, AC3, Ogg, AAC, SDR, PCM), as well as subtitles (SRT, ASS, SSA, USF, etc) in the same file.

Things You'll Need

There are some basic softwares you need to install before your converting process: Software "MKV to AVI with Subtitle"; MKV codec pack which includes Haali Media Splitter and FFDSHOW; DirectX 9.0 or higher
your computer should be configured at least to meet the requirements: 800Mhz CPU; 128 MB of RAM; 2G free space of hard disk (If the MKV file you want to convert is small in size, your hard disk need not to up to 2G)

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