A reader of mine contacted me today about an error he was seeing with DVD Decrypter on his Windows 7 box. The error spoke about ‘Failed to set data for  ”DVDDecrypterPlayMovieDVDMovieOnArrival”‘. Reading his email reminded me that I had seen the error myself before.

The error is actually two errors which occur when you try to close DVD Decrypter on a Windows 7 machine.

The first error is “Failed to set data for ””. Here is an example image:

The second error is “Failed to set data for ‘DVDDecrypterPlayMovieDVDMovieOnArrival’”:

Solution

The quickest and most elegant solution to this issue is just to run DVD Decrypter as an Administrator. Simply right click on the DVD Decrypter icon and click “Run as Administrator”. That should fix it!

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It’s funny, I just recently built a new computer for my personal use, along with supporting my master’s thesis research, and I went about installing Windows 7 64-bit.

I went ahead installing my standard media workflow, which includes, BDtoAVCHD, AVStoDVD, MeGUI, Avisynth, and LAVFilters. I continued on, thinking that everything was just fine and dandy with my current install. Then, I attempted to convert a movie to a quick DVD5 (single layer), and I noticed that my audio was way out of sync, along with some strange decoding issues in the first few frames of the movie.

I’d already completed several successful conversions already, so I was a bit baffled about what could be going wrong. I had LAVFilters installed, and everything played fine in Media Player Classic Home Cinema. The one exception is that when I previewed the title in AVStoDVD, the audio desynchronization reared it’s ugly head. Again, I was dumb founded for a second.

It was then that I remembered an old post that I had written a year or so ago. I’d forgotten to organize my DirectShow chain again. Or more specifically, I used the wrong program. You see, in the year or so since I’d first had to organize my Windows 7 DirectShow filters, I’d completely forgotten about what a hassle it was. I also forgot the name of the handy dandy little program that lets you organize the filters in their proper order.

What I did first on this machine was use the CodecTweakTool. It was definitely a different interface than (I thought) I remembered, but I figured it had just been updated and it didn’t matter. But I was wrong. I should have used (and did end up using)  the Preferred Filter Tweaker for Windows 7 (and now 8!). Can you blame me for getting the two mixed up? Tweak this and codec that, it’s easy to get lost in there.

Success!

So, I went ahead and ran the correct software (the Preferred Filter Tweaker), thereby wrestling away DirectShow decoding control from Windows and giving it to LAVFilters, which decoded my movie just perfectly (with hardware acceleration nonetheless!).

Just a funny story that I thought readers could appreciate. Long story short, be sure about your DirectShow Filter setup on your Windows 7 box, as the default Microsoft filters are not the greatest and either don’t support all H.264 material properly, or have random bugs in them.

Oh, and I obviously haven’t forgotten about this little site. I’m trying to find time to redesign it (thereby making it faster) and write more content for it (there is a giant TODO list of tutorials that I need to write/update).

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What makes MakeMKV so special is that is unique. It is essentially a decrypter and remuxer packaged into one. It decrypts Blurays, HD DVDs (if you have ‘em), and DVDs. Best of all, it does most of this for FREE!

Well, to be more accurate, Bluray decryption is only free during beta testing, but DVD decryption will always be free. Still, Bluray decryption is limited to 30 days at the time of this writing (they are still cranking out versions). However, you can go ahead and buy a license here (it helps support this site if you use that link) if you would like.

Here is a quick rundown of the features it offers:

• Reads DVD and Blu-ray discs
• Reads Blu-ray discs protected with latest versions of AACS and BD+
• Preserves all video and audio tracks, including HD audio
• Preserves chapters information
• Preserves all meta-information (track language, audio type)
• Fast conversion – converts as fast as your drive can read data.
• No additional software is required for conversion or decryption.
• Available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux
• Functionality to open DVD discs is free and will always stay free.
• All features (including Blu-ray decryption and processing) are free during BETA.

And before you guys ask, no, I am not being paid to write this. I honestly like this software as it simplifies a lot of things. Plus a majority of its functionality is free.

I especially like it because it is cross-platform, meaning it can run on Windows, Linux and Mac machines. No other serious decryption software that I have found offers this functionality.

So, lets get started.

Getting Started

Well, it’s really not that hard to get started. First off download MakeMKV.

Second, insert your Bluray or whatever you are ripping into your disk drive.

Open up MakeMKV, and make sure your disk drive is selected (it should be already, especially if you only have one disk drive).

When you are ready to start, click the big Disk to Hard Drive button, right in the center of the screen. Your disk will be analyzed by MakeMKV for a few minutes (usually seconds actually). Here is my analysis pass in action:

Selecting Your Tracks

Now, the real power of MakeMKV is that you can select specific titles and tracks to be ripped. This gives you immense flexibility, and saves you a lot of time and space if you only want the English tracks and the main movie.

Once MakeMKV has finished analyzing your disk, it will display a window like the one below. As you can see, I have selected just my main movie and my preferred audio and subtitle tracks (English).

It really couldn’t be simpler.

Now, as you will see in my screenshot, I have two areas highlighted. The top area shows two icons. The icon on the left will start decrypting the disk to you hard drive. The second will start a streaming server, allowing you to stream you Bluray over your home network to a compatible media player (like the PS3 I believe). How cool is that!?

I may do another write up sometime on streaming, but there really isn’t much more to write up than what I already have.

Rip the Disk

Anyways, let’s finish ripping our disk. Select either the left icon in the top highlighted area, or the big button in the second highlighted area, and your disk will be begin to rip to an MKV.

Here is a snap of that process in action:

Again, it couldn’t be simpler. For those of you wondering, you will not lose a single drop of quality in the conversion process. Since MakeMKV is really only remuxing your disk on the fly, it’s like it is copying the original video into a MKV container.

Yes, the size will not be exactly small, but you can recompress at your leisure with programs like MeGUI, StaxRip, RipBot264 or HDConvertToX. Or keep the original quality, it’s your choice!

Well that about covers it for me! Post in the comments!

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Just letting you know that I haven’t disappeared. I’ve got a few other tutorials in the works for programs like MakeMKV and BDtoAVCHD.

In addition, Loilo has contacted me and asked me to write an updated review of their editing program. This is kind of wild, as this was the first post I ever made on Adubvideo!

I do wish that I could be posting more often than I am (my TODO list is getting ridiculous) but alas, academics comes first. Still, if you have any particular guides you would like me to write, or programs that you think I should look into, post in the comments.

One day I’ll get all caught up… One day…

Oh, I almost forgot, I just updated the BD Rebuilder tutorial. It was getting a little old (I wrote it back in 2009! Jeez, time flies) and I had a few readers comment on its “out of date-ness”.

Well, I think that pretty much sums up what’s new with me. Keep experimenting!

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After playing around with it for a few minutes, I discovered that it is actually very easy to do!

Here is how…

Preparation

To begin, make sure you have your Blu-ray ripped to your hard drive. I have several guides on this procedure already, so simply look around if you are lost on this step.

When you are ready, open RipBot.

Selecting Your Bluray

RipBot will automatically open a “open file” dialog box. Navigate to where your Bluray is stored, and select the main movie. You will then see a window like the one below. Feel free to edit the settings like you want, but make sure to at least extract the subtitles you desire.

As you can see, I selected to extract all subtitles as that way I can hardsub any subtitles I like.

When you are satisfied with your choices, click the OK button.  You will see RipBot’s demuxing progress in the bottom left-hand corner, like this:

Embedding Your Subtitles

Once your demuxing has finished, select the Properties button like I have highlighted below.

You will be presented with the processing properties for this video encode. Look at  the bottom of this new window and you will see the Permanent Subtitle section.

Under the drop-down menu, select Build in picture.

RipBot will present you with a file selection dialog window. It should display the subtitles that you demuxed earlier. Choose whichever subtitle file you want to hardsub (you can only choose one). When you have selected your subtitle, click Open.

RipBot will go about converting your subtitle to a more usable format automatically. Take note that this step requires that you have Java installed, so be sure that you do.

When it has finished with the conversion, you can either preview your video, or just view the generated Avisynth script by clicking on the Script option in the upper right-hand corner.

Note: In the above screenshot, the selection says Show Margins, but that is because I am already viewing the Avisynth script. It toggles back and forth as you switch between the margins and script modes.

Get Encoding

Okay, that’s it! You can start the encode process are you normally would, and then enjoy your freshly hardsubbed video!

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Considering that Bluray is the big thing these days, I decided to checkout their Bluray-to-DVD program. I think you get what it does just from the name.

My first reaction: It actually does quite well!

The interface is pretty straight forward to use, as it’s really only targeted for one specific process. Also, it’s output quality is great, with a greater degree of sharpness when compared against several other encoders that I tested.

So, let’s get started then, shall we?

Open Bluray to DVD and Load your Bluray

First off, download and install Bluray to DVD.

Run it, and select one of the three source loading options to open your Bluray. Since I had already ripped my Bluray to my hard drive I selected the Open Blu-ray backup folder option.

Once you have loaded your Blu-ray, you should see a window like the one below, with the main movie playlist and stream selections off to the right.

Selecting your Streams

Now comes the opportunity to select your desired audio and subtitle streams for your output DVD. To do this, simply select which streams you want from the dropdown menu like I do below.

You can select more than one audio stream. Just keep selecting your individual streams and you will see them add up as you go along.

Same thing for you subtitle streams. As you can see, I have chosen not to have any subtitles in my output, but it will be different from disk to disk and person to person.

When you are finished click the big Next Step button at the bottom of the window.

Edit your Encoder Settings

Now it is time to edit your encoding settings for your DVD output. I have highlighted the important ones below. Pretty much everything else you can leave at default.

As you can see, I set my output screen format to NTSC 16/9. This is what most of you will be choosing, unless you live in a PAL country (such as somewhere in Europe).

I also set my Video Quality to Best Quality because who doesn’t love high quality conversions?

Last, but not least you can choose to either burn the final result, or keep it on your hard drive for later. Since I was just doing a quick test, I opted to keep the output files on my harddrive.

You can see their location under the little field called Output Folder (which I half cutoff, sorry).

Feel free to mess with the DVD Menu settings if you need/want to, but they can be safely left at default if you don’t care.

Begin the Encoding Process

Once again, click the Next Step button and the encoding process will begin. Your encoding progress will be shown in a window like the one below.

When everything has finished, you can either burn your brand new DVD or watch it on your hard drive, it’s your choice!

Conclusion

So, all in all VSO’s Bluray-to-DVD application is a pretty straight forward program, with just enough options for those of you who like to convert between formats or edit audio/subtitle streams. I personally have been impressed with the quality when I honestly wasn’t expecting to be. Check it out, you just might like it.

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It’s about the use of the free software Burn and it’s uses in converting media files to DVD.

Getting Started

Setting Preferences

Now right off the bat, Burn’s defaults can be a little…paltry. So, let’s spice things up shall we! First off, in the dropdown menu just to the right of the project name, select “DVD-Video”.

Now, let’s edit Burn’s internal preferences. Open up Burn’s preferences by either pressing “Command + ,” or going up to Burn’s context menu and clicking “Preferences”.

Now, you should see Burn’s preferences window. Again, click on the “Video” tab. You will now see the window below.

When you have finished click over to the “DVD” sub-tab. You can leave most of these settings at default, but I went ahead and changed my audio codec to use AC3 (when is greatly more used than MP2). Feel free to change any of the other settings that you desire, such as looping the DVD (when the main movie finishes, it starts playback from the beginning) or forcing a specific Video/Audio bitrate (aka. quality).

In addition, you can preview what your output menu will be like using the dropdown menus and preview button at the bottom of the preferences window. I left mine at default, but feel free to experiment. When you are finished, simply close the preferences window.

Adding Media

Okay, now that we have everything properly configured, it’s time to start adding our media files. You can do this in one of two ways: drag and drop, or using the ‘+’ button found in the bottom left hand corner of our main window. Navigate to your file and add it to the compilation. In this case, I added an MKV file.

Burn recognizes that MKV files are not compatible with the DVD spec, and offers to convert the file for us. Go ahead and click “Convert”.

You will be prompted for a location to store the temporary files. I went ahead and told it to use my Desktop, but use whichever location you prefer. Once you are finished, click “Choose”.

You will be presented with a progress bar like the one below. Simply wait for it to complete. The amount of time necessary for conversion depends on the power of your computer, along with the length of you media file. I converted a media file that was about 45 minutes long in about 7 minutes. Your results may very.

Rinse and Repeat

Once you have added one media file, you can go back and add more media files if you so desire. I just wanted to convert one, so I’m going to go ahead and click the big “Burn” button in the bottom right hand corner.

You will be presented with a burning settings window like the one below. The defaults should be fine, but again, feel free to adjust to your tastes. When you are done click “Burn”, wait a few minutes, and enjoy your fresh new DVD disk!

A Quick Note

As some of you may have noticed in the comments below, it appears that Perian must be installed in order to convert MKV files to DVD.  It is also probably necessary for several other media formats as well. Perian is recommended in any event, as it allows you to play AVIs, MKVs and other video clips in any Quicktime-based media software.

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Okay, I’ll cut the phony sounding advert speak. But honestly, it is quite easy (and don’t forget cool) to have your family’s home videos on an AVCHD or Bluray disk.

For one, the quality is way better than DVD. For another, you can fit a lot more content on one AVCHD or Bluray disk than you can on a DVD and still have spectacular quality.

Plus, for those of you with newer HD cameras, you will be able to watch your videos in their original, hi-def resolution. Way better than downscaling to DVD, right?

The secret to all of this is that wonderful little program that some of you may have heard of called multiAVCHD. I know it’s a bit of an intimidating title, but don’t be scared! This is one powerful program.

For one, it can take up to 252 separate video clips (yeah, that many) and encode them with an accompanying menu that you can use in your Bluray player with your HD TV. Now, truth be told, it can output these clips to DVD format as well, but it doesn’t have a menu and you lose a lot of quality. You don’t want to do that right? I didn’t think so.

Getting Started

First off download and install multiAVCHD. Secondly, make sure that you have all of its required tools.

Thirdly, make sure that you have your video clips in an easy to access location. An example would be a folder on your desktop.

Open multiAVCHD.

Create A Compilation

Begin by adding your video clips to the compilation using the Add Video files button. The resulting files will appear in the source file list and corresponding titles will appear in the compilation title’s area. As you can see below, mine are red. Hoving your cursor over the titles will give a description of the color codes, but in this case this means that my input files are not AVCHD compliant and will need to be converted.

Output Settings

Before we go about editing our titles, we should set some of the basic settings for our generated AVCHD. Using the tabs at the top of the window, surf on over to the Author tab. Set your output video format (NTSC for me), and your desired output media/split size. You can see my settings below.

Menu Settings

After setting your output settings, edit the menu specifics. The defaults are usually just fine, but I went ahead and added some “extra” bits

First off, I enabled a simple XMB style top menu:

Second, I wanted a motion menu ( you know, “movin’ pitures” and all that). So I jumped over to the Menu tab and switched the menu type to “motion”. You can adjust the motion menu specifics under the Advanced sub-tab of the Menu menu.

Here are my menu settings:

Title Transcode Settings

Note: This portion of the guide is optional. You can just hit “Start” and select your output format if you would like to keep things simple. The following documentation is provided for those who want to delve deeper and tweak their titles’ specific output settings. I just wanted to let you know.

Okay, we are pretty much good on the project settings. Let’s work on each title. I’m only going to do one here, as it’s just for information purposes.

So, return to the Media tab and click on one of the titles. You will see a window like the one below.

To begin, let’s go ahead and edit the Transcode settings for this title.  Click the button that I have highlighted below.

You should now see the title’s transcode settings, like those below. You will notice that my source video is not the proper resolution for a compliant output. So, I tell multiAVCHD to “uncrop” the output to the proper resolution. What this means is that instead of resizing my input video, I want to pad the video with black boarders, thus leaving my source in its original size, but still ensuring a compliant output.

Next, I pick my encoding profile. Feel free to select whichever preset you desire, but as you can see below, I have selected a simple 2-pass preset.

After I am happing with my transcoding settings, I return to the title properties.

It’s time to edit some of the specifics of our media. In this example, I changed my title name to “A Cool Clip”. Then, I generated some chapters, like I explain below.

Now, I like chapters in my home media. By default there is only one chapter that spans the entire media. But multiAVCHD can auto-generate chapter points for us. So in the main title properties window, you may see the original chapters list like the one below.

Now, after I run the chapter auto-generation (by pressing the button under the chapters tab like I have shown you above), you should see a chapters list like this one:

Okay! I think we are done with this title! Now go back and edit your other titles until they reach your satisfaction. When you are finished, you title list should look like this one:

Finishing Up

Okay, now that we have designed our menus and edited our title settings to our liking, we can start the final encode. You can set the output directory/name settings at the bottom of the main multiAVCHD window, but I don’t think I need to walk you through that part.

So, without further ado, press the Start button!

Ah shucks! Had you going there! That’s right, there is one more thing to do. Select our output format. I leave this up to you.

As you can see below, the output formats are pretty self explanatory. If you want an AVCHD, push the AVCHD button. If you want a Blu-ray, push the Blu-ray button.

And with that, we are off! That’s it! Nothing else! We be done!

Well, your computer will be cranking away getting all the encoding done (which you can track via multiAVCHD’s log window), but now you just need to sit back and make some hot cocoa. Or 50, as encoding to Blu-ray can take a while. Good luck!

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So, let’s get started.

Rip yo discs!

Make sure that you have your disks ripped in File mode. This is necessary for multiAVCHD to read them correctly. You can rip your disks using either DVD Decrypter, AnyDVD or DVD FAB. All of these should output the disk in the format desired.

Add your Sources to the Compilation

You will need to add your DVD sources to the new disk compilation. I suggest doing this one at a time. You will see why later.

Use the AVCHD/BDMV/DVD folders button to navigate to your DVD directories one by one. After loading your first disk, move on to the next step.

Remove Unnecessary Titles

Using the Remove button and the title info, remove all titles that are not the main movie. The main movie 99.9999999% of the time will be the title set with the longest run time.

In this case, you can see that my third title is the main movie. So, if I remove titles 1, 2, and 4, then that will leave the main movie.

And here is the result of keeping only the main movie.

Repeat this and the previous step for all of your remaining disks.

Title Compilation

Here are the final title sets that we get after adding the remaining DVDs and removing the excess titles from our compilation.

In this state, the DVD titles are not ready to be encoded onto a Bluray. MultiAVCHD is actually smart enough to convert the titles automatically when we select our output format. I, however, like greater control over my transcode settings plus the ability to add/remove audio and subtitle tracks. To do this, click on the first title and we will be presented with the title settings window.

Editing your Title Settings

The title settings window generally looks  like the one below.

As you can see, I’ve edited my Title name to the name of the actual movie.

In addition, you can add and remove audio and/or subtitles using the corresponding tabs and Add/Remove buttons. In my case I left them at default, but you can do what you will (like removing the foreign audio tracks to save space).

When you are happy with your title settings, press the Transcode button to bring up the encoding settings window.

Note: Just a reminder that the Transcode process is optional. Blu-rays support MPEG2 by default, so actually converting your sources to H264 is not necessary unless you are storing a significant number of DVD’s on one Blu-ray. If you want to skip the transcode process, just jump down to the Menu and Output Format section.

Encoding Settings

In the transcode settings, set your desired quality profile and bitrate settings. Since we will be generating files for an AVCHD / Bluray, we want to make sure that our settings are Blu-ray/AVCHD compliant.

Next, select your encoding profile. I recommend using a 2-pass profile for a high quality encode. In this case I used a fast 1 pass profile, but I was just testing.

As for the resolution, I recommend that you leave that at default. You can upscale if you like, but honestly you actually lose quality bringing a low-resolution video like a DVD up to a high resolution video like a Blu-ray.

Lastly we need to choose a bitrate. I suggest that you click the Bitrate Suggestions button (yes, that is a button).

Bitrate Profile Selection

After clicking the Bitrate suggestions button, you will be presented with a window like the one below. Now, imagine I was converting 4 DVD’s that I wanted to store on a single layer Blu-ray (BD-25). In that case, I would select my bitrate profile for my first movie to be 1/4 of a BD-25. Get it?

Now select your bitrate profile based on your desired output disk. I leave that up to you.

When you’ve chosen your settings, click the Use button. You will return to the Transcode settings window. Make sure everything is as you desire, and then click Apply.

Repeat Ad Nauseam

After finishing the transcode settings for the first DVD, go about editing the compilation and transcode settings for the rest of the DVD titles. When all is said and done, your DVD titles in the compilation window should look similar to the one below.

Green means go!

Menu and Output Format

Now that our titles are compliant, set the menu settings and output format. Click on over to the Author tab to edit your settings. Mine are below for reference.

In short, I wanted a basic top level menu (XMB style) and my output TV system will be NTSC. For those of you who don’t know, NTSC is the standard in the United States. PAL is the standard in Europe.

Almost Done!

When you are ready to get started (or get finished?) set the output suffix (this sets a suffix on the output folder generated by multiAVCHD.) The helps you to identify your project  in the output folder if you are doing multiple conversions.

Then click the Start button.

Output Format

Final window, I promise! Now we need to select our output disk format. multiAVCHD offers a plethora, but I’ve narrowed my screenshot down the import ones. If you want an AVCHD disk, go with the AVCHD options. Use AVCHD (strict) if you are Blu-ray player is especially finicky, otherwise use AVCHD Disk.

Now, since I wanted a Blu-ray for my output, I’m sticking with the Blu-ray Disk option. Kind of a no brainer I know.

Finished!

Now, burn your disk! I’d recommend using IMGBurn, as it’s free and highly reliable.

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So I sent him an email explaining what “muxing” as a whole is and how demuxing factors into it.

I thought that the rest of my readers might be able to benefit from the knowledge that I expressed to him, so here goes!

Imagine A World…

Nah, just kidding. Imagine that you have ripped a DVD or Blu-ray to your hard disk. If you have no idea how to do this, I have published several guides on how to go about doing so.

So you have these files contained on your hard drive. For a DVD, it will look like an assortment of VOBs (among others, IFO, BUP, etc). For a Blu-ray disk, it will look like M2TS files (among MANY others, but M2TS are the only files that actually contain the video content). Many of you are familiar with files to the extent that you think there is just data in them. And to an extent you are right. But what if I told you that there are in fact several files, or more specifically tracks, contained in your precious media files.

If you think about it, it makes sense. How else would you be able to watch a movie and have both video and audio, and maybe an optional subtitle track?

This is what Muxing does. It takes these individual tracks and combines them into one VOB or M2TS file (depending on the output specification, DVD or Blu-ray). Chances are you won’t be doing much muxing unless you are getting into the nitty gritty details of DVD compilation and Blu-ray generation. Actually that is not quite true, as many programs such as BD Rebuilder or MultiAVCHD mux files for you. Okay, so chances are you won’t be doing much muxing by hand.

Muxing

To summarize, muxing is the act of combining two or more signals into one. In the digital media file world, this means combining a video track, one or more audio tracks, and possible subtitle tracks. There are other tracks as well, such as chapters, but they aren’t that important for the purpose of this post.

Demuxing

I’ll give you one guess. Did you guess that demuxing is the opposite of muxing? Then your wrong! Ha, just kidding. You were correct!

Demuxing is the act of taking a muxed file such as a VOB or M2TS file and splitting it back up into its component streams. Some of you may be thinking, “Why on earth would anyone want to do that?”

Well, I’ll tell you. Demuxing is useful in situations where you want to deal with a specific component of a media file, without affecting the file as a whole. Confused?

Let me try this: Imagine that you have ripped a DVD to your hard drive. But, you have a subtitle track that you have custom edited for a particular reason (like replacing the word “man” with “BATMAAAN!!). Awesome, no?

Okay, so you have this ripped disk and custom subtitle track. What you want to do is replace the DVD’s original subtitle track with your custom subtitle track. In order to do so, you must first demuxing the DVD’s main movie into it’s primary components.

These often look like the following for a DVD:

• .m2v file (video)
• .ac3 or dts file (audio)
• .idx/.sub file (subtitles)

Now that you have the original components, you can remux (REcombine the video files via MUXing) the video and audio tracks with your custom subtitle track. Doing it this way ensures that there is absolutely no quality loss, plus you get your awesome Batman subtitle track! How cool is that?!

Another Use

Not enough for you? Well imagine if you want to compress a media file. But you don’t want to lose any audio quality. So you demux the original media file, compress just the video file using your favorite program, and then mux the compressed video track with the original audio track. Now you have a smaller file size, while still retaining the original audio. Satisfied?

Conclusion

Well that about wraps it up. Again, muxing is the process of combining multiple streams/file into a single stream/file. Demuxing is the inverse of muxing. And remuxing? I think you get what remuxing is…

If not, let me know in the comments! ;)

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