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converting MKV to MP4 (Windows)

Sat, 12 Sep 2015 20:24:17 GMT

I'm writing this down mostly so I don't forget it, but figured it might be helpful for other people as well. CAVEAT: I've been using this method for a whopping 2 hours now. I cannot do any sort of troubleshooting for it, and I have no idea if it's the easiest/best method out there. It's just the first one I tried that worked pretty well and pretty quickly, so I said "good enough!" and am sticking with it, at least for now.

I did try VLC first, which worked, but took a really long time, and stripped the audio. Which would be a bonus if I was only looking for a viddable mp4, but I wanted a watchable version first. Still, if you just want to do some conversions with familiar software, VLC will totally work.

I got impatient, and went hunting, and stumbled over a video on Youtube where someone went through all the steps they used, including links to where they found their software. He didn't have audio, so wrote the steps up in a text doc as he went along, which worked for me, but YMMV. (I've embedded the video below.)

This process needs three pieces of software (all links go to videohelp.com):

Download, extract if needed, and install all three. (As I write this, My MP4Box GUI comes zipped; the other two don't. This is different from the embedded video, so clearly things shift around from time to time.)

Once you've got them all installed, here are the steps:

Open MKVcleaver

At the top right, there's a button that says "Locate MKVToolNix". Click that, and browse to your installed MKVToolNix folder (don't drill down to a specific component; you want the entire folder here).

That's all you need to do with MKVToolNix - it just runs in the background of MKVcleaver. You won't need to set this up again unless you move the folder.

At the top left, there's a button that says "Open MKV files to process". Click that, and browse to the first MKV file you want to convert.

If you want to batch convert a bunch of files, keep adding files till you have everything you want.

The files you include will show up in the left-hand pane. The right-hand pane will give you options on what you want to extract. I wanted video and audio, so I chose Video Track 1 and Audio Track 1.

If you've selected a batch of files to work with, whatever you pick in the right-hand pane will apply to everything. The program will skip any file that doesn't include everything you've asked it to extract.

Set your output directory below the left-hand pane. If you leave this blank, it will automatically save your files to the same directory/ies they came from.

Click "Extract Tracks !"

Wait for it to finish (but it doesn't take that long).

This gives you demuxed (split) audio (ac3) and video (h.264) files. You need to mux (combine) them to get a working mp4. Even if you only extracted the video, you'll need to run it through a muxer to use the file.

Open My MP4Box GUI. It should open on the "Mux" tab, which is the one you want.

Click "Add" to add a track. You can only add one track at a time.

To mux files individually:

Add whatever tracks were extracted from the original MKV (for me, that meant one video and one audio file per original MKV)

Click the "Mux" button at the bottom.

Wait for the process to finish, then click "Clear" to clear the list of files, and "Add" to add your next file(s).

To mux multiple files at once:

Add whatever tracks were extracted from the first original MKV (for me, that meant one video and one audio file per original MKV)

Click the "Add to Queue" button at the bottom.

A second box will pop open, showing the export path for the muxed file you want.

In the main box, your file name(s) will vanish, letting you move straight to adding the file(s) for the next one you want.

When you have everything you want queued up, click "Start" in the Queue popup box.

The file(s) will automatically export to the same directory/ies the demuxed file(s) came from.

You should now have working mp4 files that match the original mkv quality. \o/

The batching works well in both programs, and speeds things up considerably.

( 12-minute Youtube tutorial )

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Vividcon Premiere: I Lived, MCU

Sun, 09 Aug 2015 15:23:23 GMT

If it's August, it must be Vividcon. And that means a new vid from Flummery. \o/ As always, feedback/comments/crit of any sort are most welcome.

Title: I Lived
Song Artist: OneRepublic
Vidder: Flummery
Website: http://www.flummery.org
Fandom: MCU (Steve/Peggy)
Length: 03:38
Summary: Life goes on.

( Streaming version )

Also on AO3 and Tumblr! Reblogging is love <3

Normal Downloads (all mp4)

(right-click and save-as)

1280 x 720, 161 MB

640 x 480, 66.5 MB

Super-huge HD download

1920 x 1080, 720 MB (Please note, this is a huge version, please don't download unless you are really sure you want something this big. We recommend the 1280 version unless you need this level of quality.)

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VividCon Premiere: Every Day Is Exactly the Same

Sun, 10 Aug 2014 18:49:18 GMT

It's Vividcon 2014! Time for a New Vid!

We are having some problems streaming from our own website this year, but all files are available there in download form, and the streaming version here is linked from YouTube.

Title: Every Day is Exactly the Same
Song Artist: Nine Inch Nails
Vidder: Seah
Website: http://www.flummery.org
Fandom: Walking Dead
Content Notes: violence, gore, child harm
Summary: Same shit, different day

( Streaming Version )

Also Available at AO3!

Normal Downloads (all mp4)

(right-click and save-as)

1280 x 720, 161 MB

720 x 480, 66.5 MB

Super-huge HD download

1920 x 1080, 1070 MB (Please note, this is a huge version, please don't download unless you are really sure you want something this big. We recommend the 1280 version unless you need this level of quality)

We will update later with the lyrics!

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New vid! Some Nights (Person of Interest), VVC premiere

Sun, 18 Aug 2013 03:36:09 GMT

If we're posting, it must be Vividcon! \o/ (we should post more here...)

This was our Premieres vid this year. As always, feedback of any sort, including crit, is warmly welcomed.

Title: Some Nights
Song Artist: .fun
Vidders: Flummery
Website: http://flummery.org
Fandom: Person of Interest
Length: 04:22
Summary: Team Machine

( Streaming )

Normal downloads (all mp4)

(right-click and save-as)

1280 x 720, 158 MB

720 x 480, 100 MB

640 x 360, 37 MB

400 x 224, 13 MB

Super-huge HD download (mp4)

(right-click and save-as)

1920 x 1080, 945 MB (nb: None of this is a typo, this version is HUGE, don't dl unless you are sure you want it.)

( Lyrics )

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Vidding with iTunes Episodes

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:57:08 GMT

Thing 2 has posted a brief overview of using iTunes source to vid over at her journal.

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where to find Flummery vids

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 17:45:29 GMT

We have kinda finally joined the 21st century, and have gotten a Youtube channel, tumblr, and twitter; "flummery" was taken pretty much everywhere, so we went with "pureflummery" across the board.

Youtube

Tumblr

Twitter

All our vids will stay available on our website, with handy built-in streaming, but we figured it was time to branch out a bit again as well.

We'll be slowly adding our vids to youtube and putting them on tumblr from there; right now all that's up there are this year's Vividcon premieres.

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Clip notes for "Sexy and I Know It"

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:02:59 GMT

We promised a list of what clips came from what sources, so here it is! We've got episode titles for tv shows where we remembered them. In some cases we got footage off Youtube and don't know what the original ep was; in at least one we forgot to mark anything down when we grabbed the clip and there's not enough there for us to identify it beyond a guess. Sorry!

( clip fandoms )

Phew.

Here's the final list of 46 fandoms, in alphabetical order; some of these had only one clip, some had multiple, for no particular rhyme or reason other than what worked at the time.

Avengers
Big Eden
Blazing Saddles
Boston Legal
Boy Meets World
Buffy tVS
Burn Notice
Captain America
Criminal Minds
Crusoe
Doctor Who
Due South
Farscape
Firefly
A Fish Called Wanda
Haven
Heroes
Highlander
Hornblower
Hot Fuzz
Iron Man (1 & 2)
I Spy
In Living Color
Invisible Man
Leverage
Life
Life on Mars
Lost Girl
MASH
News Radio
Night Court
Now and Again
Odyssey 5
Persuaders
The Pretender
Quantum Leap
Red Dwarf
Sherlock (BBC)
Star Trek: TOS
Stargate SG-1
Supernatural
This Is Spinal Tap
Thor
Veronica Mars
White Collar
WKRP in Cincinnati

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New vid! Ramalama (bang bang), Once Upon a Time

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:04:18 GMT

We managed not one, but two vids this year, for the first time in ages. \o/ This was our Premieres vid.

As always, feedback of any sort, including crit, is warmly welcomed.

Title: Ramalama (bang bang)
Song Artist: Róisín Murphy
Vidders: Flummery
Website: http://flummery.org
Fandom: Once Upon a Time
Length: 03:39
Summary: "Every one had teeth and claws."

Normal downloads

(right-click and save-as)

mp4, 161 MB, 1280 x 720

mp4, 80 MB, 720 x 480

mp4, 30 MB, 640 x 360

mp4, 10 MB, 400 x 224

Super-huge download

mp4, 752 MB, 1920 x 1080 (nb: None of this is a typo, this version is HUGE, don't dl unless you are sure you want it.)

( Streaming )

( Lyrics )

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New vid! Sexy and I Know It, Multi

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:01:25 GMT

This premiered at Vividcon this past weekend, at Club Vivid on Friday Night. It was the first Club Vivid vid we've ever made, and we had a blast with it. <3

As always, feedback of any sort, including crit, is warmly welcomed.

Title: Sexy and I Know It
Song Artist: LMFAO
Vidders: Flummery
Website: http://flummery.org
Fandom: Multi
Length: 03:19
Summary: Girl, look at those bodies.

Downloads

(right-click and save-as)

mp4, 75 MB, 636 x 368

mp4, 28 MB, 400 x 240

mp4, 10 MB, 400 x 240

( Streaming )

( Lyrics )

We didn't realize until after we were done that we had managed to get in footage from every decade from the 1960s through the 2010s. \o/

At some point we'll post clip notes listing what sources were used for what, but we didn't have time to finish that before the con, and are currently too fried to tackle it. Soon, though!

ETA: The clip notes are up!

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New Vid! Hold On (Whoniverse), Vividcon Premiere

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 13:49:58 GMT

We made it to Vividcon this year! We are so glad to be back! And we even managed to premiere a vid. \o/

Feedback of any sort, including crit, is warmly welcomed.

Title: Hold On
Artist: KT Tunstall
Vidders: Seah and Margie (flummery)
Website: flummery.org
Fandom: Whoniverse: Classic Who, New Who, Sarah Jane Adventures
Summary: Our Sarah Jane

Notes: With heartfelt thanks to Elisabeth Sladen, 1946-2011, for all she did.

Right click to download, divx (33 MB, 640x352)

( streaming below the cut )

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the making of Handlebars

Wed, 05 May 2010 00:38:21 GMT

Over in Margie's personal journal, marycrawford asked for a "making of" for Handlebars for Three Weeks for Dreamwidth. Which is sort of nifty, as we don't have a vid that we can post for the fest, but hey, vid commentary! So Margie is writing most of this, but Seah is making assists. *g*

( click for commentary! )

We will happily answer any questions or clarify things, too. :) We're always happy to talk about our vids!

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zines for sale

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:38:02 GMT

It's time to pare the zine collection down some more, so other people can enjoy these. This is an extensive list, but it still seemed easier to stick it all in one post than to split it out and spam the hell out of people.

Prices do not include postage; add $3 for the first zine and $1 per additional zine for shipping within the US. I'll ship anywhere, but will need to figure postage for anywhere else. Zines are in good (minor wear) to excellent (like new) condition, unless otherwise indicated. All of these are coming from a non-smoking home with a cat.

I'll accept Paypal (credit cards okay) or a money order. Please don't send any money until you've confirmed your order with me, to make sure the zines you want are still available.

Comment here or send email directly to nocturnish at gmail dot com if you want any of these. If you want more info about something I'll do my best, but it's been a long time since I've read some of these, so I may not remember plot details, etc.

( Airwolf )

( Blake's 7 )

( Due South )

( Highlander )

( Kung Fu: The Legend Continues )

( Ladyhawke )

( Man from UNCLE )

( Professionals )

( Quantum Leap )

( Robin of Sherwood )

( The Sentinel )

( Starsky & Hutch )

( Star Trek: TOS )

( Star Wars (original trilogy) )

( X-Files )

( Multi-Media )

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new vid! The Pirate Song (Crusoe), Escapade premiere

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:34:56 GMT

We finally managed to send a vid in to Escapade again this year, for the first time in far too long. \o/ We only wish we could have been there to see it air. *misses everyone at Escapade*

As ever, feedback of any sort, including crit, is more than welcome.

Title: The Pirate Song
Song Artist: Grey Eye Glances
Vidders: Seah & Margie (flummery)
Website: http://flummery.org
Fandom: Crusoe
Summary: Stranded, but never alone.

right-click to download (divx, 35MB, 640x352)

( streaming version and lyrics beneath the cut )

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