I would suggest everyone to use that now.Converting mkv to mp4 with ffmpeg Essentially just copy the existing video and audio stream as is into a new container, no funny business! Yes, now mkv2vob does everything I have here and more. mkv2vob worked fine for me for transcoding to mpeg-2 with no audio sync issues and it in fact has an option now to force transcode to mpeg-2 even if it is an mkv that can be muxed to vob but, if mkv2vob really gives some audio sync issues on some mpeg-2 sometimes then maybe I will try this. Just dont get confused that it is actually a mpeg-2 when its not.Īnyway I really need ff/rw and dont mind it taking a few hours or the larger file size. I guess it depends what codecs and stuff you have on your pc also but renaming the. There might even be other extensions that work on both pc and/or ps3 but I know renaming the vob to either of those 2 works on both. m2ts which also still work with that extension on ps3. I do this to test and make sure the file is working before transferring to the ps3. r 23.976 is the NTSC framerate format (use 25 for pal formatted sources). copyts seems to fix some audio sync issues with problem mkv files.ĭownside is the file is larger than the original by about 50% and you are transcoding it which means you may lose a little quality, but other than that it plays and looks fine on your pc or your ps3, and on the ps3 ff/rw work:)Įdit: updated to use the same bitrate as source instead of fixing it to 20k. sameq uses the same bitrate/quality as the source video.

Just use ffmpeg and use a command line similar to mine.įfmpeg.exe -i 'F:/video.mkv' -vcodec mpeg2video -sameq -acodec copy -f vob -copyts -y 'f:/video.mpg' (it seems when you change the lvl down to 4.1 it messes with playback). unfortunatley the resulting vob cannot be played on your pc by most media players, and when it is played on the ps3 the ff/rw is disabled making it a pain to watch a longer video. This works well and is very user friendly and fast. With the great addition of mkv2vob I have found it is a great program and takes hardly anytime remuxing mkv's to vobs so they can play on the ps3. Many of you know how hard it is to use all the multitudes of programs out there to convert mkv files to play on the ps3 and still keep quality as well as ac3 audio.

Ffmpeg convert mkv to mp4 perfectly