Converting MKV to AVI
sean darcy
seandarcy2 at gmail.com
Sat May 8 16:31:14 UTC 2010
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-05-08 at 10:00 -0400, sean darcy wrote:
>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> [...]>
>>> <rant>
>>> Part of the problem is that all the above tools are clearly aimed at
>>> people who know what they're doing. Those of us uninterested in a career
>>> in multimedia technology are liable to be completely lost when
>>> struggling with any of the (incomplete and ambiguous) manuals, not to
>>> mention the baroque syntax of the command-line options. Why are there no
>>> "multimedia conversion for dummies" tools in Linux as there are in
>>> Windoze?
>>> </rant>
>>>
>>> Anyway, my question is this: does anyone have a useful recipe for this
>>> kind of thing?
>>>
>>> And for extra credit: how about converting FLV (Flash video)?
>>>
>>> poc
>>>
>> First, I agree with your rant. What the world needs is a media recipe wiki.
>>
>> But I'd try again with ffmpeg. It has the most active development and
>> user group. The helpful users make up for the lousy docs.
>
> Good to know :-)
>
>> 1. Do you have a very recent version of ffmpeg? I'd urge you to use svn,
>> but at least 0.5.1.
>
> It's the standard Fedora repo version:
> ffmpeg-0.5-5.20091026svn.fc12.x86_64 so possibly not.
>
rpmfusion has ffmpeg-0.6-0.3.20100429svn
>> 2. ffmpeg -i source.mkv -vcodec copy -acodec copy output.avi , should
>> work if source mkv is in mpeg-4 and mp3.
>
> It's H.264 and AC-3:
>
> Duration: 01:32:04.57, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
> Stream #0.0: Video: h264, yuv420p, 1280x720, PAR 1:1 DAR 16:9, 25 tbr, 1k tbn, 50 tbc
> Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, s16
>
Well AC-3 should work in your dvd, so try:
ffmpeg -i source.mkv -vcodec mpeg2video -acodec copy output.avi
sean
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