Adam

Comment #4305 from Adam [Reply]

Can this profile be used for movies as well? I don’t convert many shows but movies is another story. Also, are there any limitations on the type of audio or video the mkv container holds? IE: will this profile handle both AC3 and DTS audio?

hamiltonguy

@Reply #4306 from hamiltonguy [Reply]

Yes you can convert movies as well using the command line.

todvrms.exe c:\movies\mymovie.mkv to c:\movies\mymovie.wtv – wtv

You cannot convert movies with a DTS stream (unless you first convert DTS to AC3). I believe Ben D from EngadgetHD was working on creating a profile to automate conversion of DTS to AC3. I don’t know if it is complete yet.

Michael Healy

Comment #4307 from Michael Healy [Reply]

Yah, this profile allows for a simple conversion using todvrms. I used it to convert a movie while writing the article. I haven’t done any extensive testing of the wtv conversion though so I’m not sure of the limitations. Considering converting my HD collection to WTV though and seeing how that goes.

Lithium630

Comment #4310 from Lithium630 [Reply]

Does this keep the video as h264 or convert to mpeg2? If it keeps it as h264 I’m guessing the WTV files won’t work on extenders like Linksys.

Michael Healy

@Reply #4338 from Michael Healy [Reply]

I’m not sure, I’d ask over on the dvrmstoolbox forums

baffo

Comment #4312 from baffo [Reply]

What other advantages does the WTV format have in Media Center? Extra FFWD and RWD options plus no codec packages isn’t quite incentive enough for me to spend the time and energy converting my 100+ MKV movies…

Michael Healy

@Reply #4339 from Michael Healy [Reply]

They should also have built-in hardware acceleration support and support on most extenders since it’s a native media center file type, without the need to transcode.

oguime

Comment #4313 from oguime [Reply]

Is it possible to include subtitles from .srt files?

Michael Healy

@Reply #4340 from Michael Healy [Reply]

I’m not sure if it’s possible atm but it certain is a feature that should be included since that would give the WTV format a huge benefit over MKV. I’d make a request for info over at the dvrmstoolbox forums.

hdjunkie

Comment #4334 from hdjunkie [Reply]

The conversion isn’t lossless, is it? I would only convert if I didn’t lose quality.

Michael Healy

@Reply #4341 from Michael Healy [Reply]

I don’t see why not, WTV is a container like MKV for the H.264/Mpeg2 formats.

Arlo

Comment #4348 from Arlo [Reply]

I’ve been following this stuff pretty closely..

@hdjunkie – it is a lossless conversion.. it’s not re-encoding it.

@Michael – I’ve got a bunch of blu-ray’s i’ve ripped into mkv format and converted the dts to ac-3… been waiting patiently for Andy to finally release this dvrms toolbox, but I’m still unsure whether the actual resulting WTV files are even playable on an extender. The reason being that blu-rays supposedly have too high of a bitrate for the xbox 360 or any other extender to decode smoothly.

Have you tried converting a blu-ray and playing it on an extender yet? If so, did it work well for more than a minute or so?

lithium630

Comment #4352 from lithium630 [Reply]

I haven’t been able to get my WTV’s to work yet. I ripped Transformers 2 to MKV with MakeMKV then tried to convert to WTV but it doesn’t play. I haven’t tried a different movie yet.

lithium630

@Reply #4354 from lithium630 [Reply]

To clarify it actually doesn’t convert. Dvrmstoolbox starts then it stops before getting to the conversion.

Michael Healy

@Reply #4366 from Michael Healy [Reply]

Does the log output give you any error when it doesn’t complete?

Jeremy

Comment #4360 from Jeremy [Reply]

I am using MakeMKV to make the mkv videos for blu-ray and i get this error
InputFile=C:\Video\The_Dark_Knight\title00.mkv
Processing actions, this may take some time!!
Current Affinity: 255 System Mask: 255
File is not a dvrms-file
Run Profile = ConvertToWTV
ProcessId = 4128
DvrmsToolbox Version: 1.2.1.9
Throttle DVRMStoMPEG
FWThrottle: C:\Video\The_Dark_Knight\title00.mkv
WaitTime: 0 PollTime
Duration = 00:00:00.0230013
Waiting for available worker: 10/29/2009 10:44 PM
Worker allocated: 10/29/2009 10:44 PM
Run todvrms.exe “C:\Video\The_Dark_Knight\title00.mkv” “C:\Video\The_Dark_Knight\test.wtv” -wtv
Run C:\Program Files (x86)\DVRMSToolbox\Applications\todvrms.exe “C:\Video\The_Dark_Knight\title00.mkv” “C:\Video\The_Dark_Knight\test.wtv” -wtv
Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.
arg[0] = C:\Video\The_Dark_Knight\title00.mkv
arg[1] = C:\Video\The_Dark_Knight\test.wtv
arg[2] = -wtv

Duration = 00:00:05.1352938
Total Duration = 00:00:05.1602951

DonaldHarris

Comment #4369 from DonaldHarris [Reply]

Just a head up for everyone bluray rips do not work on extenders after converted to wtv (tested w/ linksys DMA2200), but they do play just fine on my local pc, got a head of my self after the first movie worked on my pc and converted all my Bluray moves to wtv (210 Movies) just to find out they didnt work on the extender so im stuck trying to convert all of them back to mkv.

Andrew

Comment #4463 from Andrew [Reply]

Yeah the linksys extenders wont play it cos they cant play the 264 out of WTV but the XBOX will play them.

Sean

Comment #4572 from Sean [Reply]

Might want to add that you’ll need the Haali spliter installed or you’ll get an error about not having the right filters.

http://haali.cs.msu.ru/mkv/

Sean

Comment #4573 from Sean [Reply]

Also, you might want to link to Ben’s orriginal post on how to prepare a file that has DTS by doing DTS – AC3 first http://bjdraw.com/2009/04/05/how-to-automatically-convert-vob-to-mpg-and-dts-to-ac3/

Arlo

Comment #4595 from Arlo [Reply]

It looks like this only works with h264 titles, for example one of the movies i’ve been banging my head trying to get todvrms to convert has ac3 audio but vc1 video and i get that same memory corruption error as the other fellow above.

Anybody have any ideas how best to convert vc1 to h264?

KirkH

Comment #4915 from KirkH [Reply]

All of my attempts to convert to MKV files to WTV fail with the following error with the exception of Blade Runner.
“An invalid media type was specified.”

Not sure if it’s an audio problem but the funny thing is that my XBox 360 extender will play that Blade Runner MKV with no conversion.

Soundtweaker

Comment #5072 from Soundtweaker [Reply]

Im trying to convert MKV to WTV also with failed attempts with dvrms toolbox.

I guess you have the MKV splitter installed on your pc to playback mkv on the xbox.

Soundtweaker

Comment #5134 from Soundtweaker [Reply]

I made a profile and got AVI to WTV working now and I can now RW/FF over XBOX and its smooth.

Soundtweaker

Comment #5145 from Soundtweaker [Reply]

Nevermind the RW/FF doesnt work very well over XBOX. I get screen freezes when I fast forward and it gets out of sync with WTV.

Anonymous

Comment #6869 from Anonymous [Reply]

As with every other time I’ve done anything with DVRMS, this doesn’t work. At least for me. operation does not complete successfully, no indiciation of why that happens. using the latest version of DVRMS Toolbox on newly formatted system.

I think I’m going to give up on making wtv files until there’s a quality conversion resource.