[Jhcheslik]

I had a few questions though. You said to take a 10 min clip and try it out, how to i do that? I couldnt find anything to split this .mkv file up into clips to test it out? Also, to you have a profile or some settings you would wish to share on your encoding - linux of couse and probably not on topic.

Yeah, you are doing it all correctly. Excellent.

To split the .mkv into 10 minutes segment, you can just use the mkvtoolnix, then open the MKVmerge, load the .mkv file you have, then go to Global tab, you'll see the splitting part, click on the timecode and put in 00:10:00 for 10 minutes or whatever you desire.

Put in the correct output folder, and click Start Muxing!! Make sure you abort once it does the splitting.

For profile. I use what MeGUI came with, when you update it. OR you could use the one JPSiemer used.

Okay, I've read through the wiki guide in the online manual, and I have a couple questions...

1) I always rip my DVD's in ISO format. Do I need to re-rip to VOBs?
2) What's so great about the mkv container? Isn't it really the codec settings here that matter? Can't I use the .avi container if I like? I know the mkv container has more options available but since this HOW-TO is very specifically oriented toward making quality videos for use in XBMC *on* Xbox, what does it matter what the container is?
3) Has the OP/author (or anyone else) ever tried SUPER to achieve these same results?

Thanks!

1) Yeah. AFAIK. You can use DAEMON Tools Lite, mount the .iso, and re-rips the VOBs.
2) MKV. It can accept TONS format, .avi, .mp4, and more. You name it. It's very flexible, it can have multiple audio stream, multiple subtitle stream, etc. We use .mkv because it work best with x264 codec, especially when its in .mp4. I don't see any reason why you shouldn't go for .avi. I will do some research tho.
3) I haven't. Wouldn't care. It doesn't give that kind of flexible like I want like it would in MeGUI.