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I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to say. I have a mkv that works - working audio, working video. Why then would any conversion fail and just drop the audio?!

Thanks for those links. Any idea how to resolve all of the issues I've documented? I'm pulling my hair out. From the quirky things like wrong bitrate recording and wrong scaling (620:240 when I picked 320:240) etc. not to mention sound evaporating?

I did another test with success and therein lies more confusion. Basically all I did was eliminate scale=1,height=240 and I changed audio to 44.1khz, 128bit, 2 channel. The results came out 320x170 (I wanted 320x240), and audio resulted 92kbs (I selected 128!!!), 44khz, 2 channel. This file is what ...

I've decided to break this task down to make my life and your life easier lol and to more readily pinpoint problems. So for now I'm going to focus on MP4 which works in both command line and GUI modes. [Specs From Apples iPod Classic Site] "MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 fr...

Thank you that may explain ipod rejecting the files I did create avi->mp4. However why am I losing sound (playing back files in windows) converting mkv->mp4 - but I have full audio when I convert avi->mp4? This is something I am in dire need of help with I can't figure it out for the life of me :( A...

Can anyone figure this out? I'm stuck :( Also take note that 2 avi's that I converted easily, won't copy to her ipod they give me this error: Somefile.mp4 was not copied to the iPod "Her Pod" because it cannot be played on this iPod. However in desperation I tried some converter thing from...

Hi I'm brand new to VLC and I love this program but I am having a problem converting mkv to mp4. I lose all sound. I will try to do my best to put all information I know here to get help. Let me say that when I do this from AVI->mp4 it works fine. BUT mkv->mp4 = no audio :( [hopefully this is a clue...