.mkv to .avi

bonkers

i have a new multimedia harddrive and it wont play .mkv's.. i need to batch convert a load of files.. 36gb in all.. any chance anyone knows of a super quick way of getting them to avi format?

dingdong1234567

Try renaming the file to .avi?

bonkers

no joy with that

coversion is taking 90mins per 800mb.. not so fast

stevenmu

Try mkv2vob, usually there's no actual conversion needed to go from mkv to avi, the video encoding is the same (mpeg4), just the container is different. Mkv2vob will let you select a source directory and a target directory and will fly through them. An 800MB file should only take a few minutes

bonkers

im getting cannot detect hte filetype on some of teh .mkvs others are working great

actually its the output file which it cannot detect the filetype of

subway

many mkvs are encoded in h264, are you sure the media drive supports this codec?
if it doenst, remuxing wont work and youll need to fully re-encode, which can take a lot of time and not give the best results

MediaTank

Agree with Subway. Also Handbrake will do what you want. But check that H.264 is supported first.