[Hayds510]

I have an MKV file that I wish to burn to a DVD, I haven't really had alot of success with it.. I tried to use DVD Flick, and it took some 24 hours to "encode" the video and the audio and everything, and yet my disk is still blank..so I have no idea what it did. It didn't sound like it was hard at work lazering the data into the disc either, so.. I can only assume..it was all for nothing.

The main reason for this is my movie file requires subtitles, and when accessed on my TV from a USB it fails to show them. Yet i can see/read them from that same movie file when viewed on various players on my laptop (DivX etc)

Anyway, How does one successfully place an MKV on a DVD? I tried converting it to something easier to use, an AVI, but that just butchered the nice video quality. Some free programs, advice, all appreciated. Thanks

 

[Hayds510]

hi Oogles, that makes sense.. I was trying to put it onto a DVD-R, how many layers.. I'm not sure.. It doesn't say dual anywhere on the disc so maybe that serves as a double standard to indicate it's single layered? but I guess it's now apparent that theres a bigger picture out there than simply that. Must be because i'm trying to cram a blue-ray movie onto a DVD, and as such... I should probably go about changing it into something else. My soul purpose is to watch it on TV, and the reason for putting it on DVD is because from my USB it wouldn't display the subtitles, i figured watching it from a disc would correct that as it's proven to fix certain things in the past.

Thanks for your help!

and dai thanks for the program suggestion, I'll give it a shot and with this new info i'll see if i can get it working.

 

[Hayds510]

It fits, i've established. it came to 1.7 GB on my DVD-R using 'FreeMKVvideo2DVD' however I just did it in easy mode and assumed it would fill in the blanks.. but the aspect ratio on the burnt movie was pretty square and small, and it didn't show the subs, so I'll see if i can do it again with those changed up..and hopefully it should still fit! I noticed a minor loss in quality but it's better than the AVI by a long shot. Given subtitles were a big part of this operation, i'll have to try again to see if i can make it work, So it's not quite over yet.