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I wanted to change a bunch of older videos from avi mkv to mp4. Well I tried winFF and it had to be done file by file. Well I searched and found a search the led me to FF Multi Converter. I just added all the files. I tried and it was slow. Canceled then tried to find a better setting and I noticed under video and audio for codecs it had copy so I set that and one video was converting at 37 thousand FPS and I did like 50 files some a few hundred MB's in 2 minutes I shit you not. This works like virtual dub for simple conversion but with a lot of formats to choose from. I've been trying to find a video enhancer but most are made around transitions and like usual even on Windows Avidemux crashed almost instantly, so buggy. I do have to say look in your software manager to see if this program is in there, it is basically a GUI but a great one for FFMPEG so you can't go wrong with FFMPEG as a base for your conversion and with a well designed GUI it makes FFMPEG so much more powerful and easy to use. You can use x264 for a codec but if your just converting file types then why even bother with it.

I wanted to change a bunch of older videos from avi mkv to mp4. Well I tried winFF and it had to be done file by file. Well I searched and found a search the led me to FF Multi Converter. I just added all the files. I tried and it was slow. Canceled then tried to find a better setting and I noticed under video and audio for codecs it had copy so I set that and one video was converting at 37 thousand FPS and I did like 50 files some a few hundred MB's in 2 minutes I shit you not. This works like virtual dub for simple conversion but with a lot of formats to choose from. I've been trying to find a video enhancer but most are made around transitions and like usual even on Windows Avidemux crashed almost instantly, so buggy. I do have to say look in your software manager to see if this program is in there, it is basically a GUI but a great one for FFMPEG so you can't go wrong with FFMPEG as a base for your conversion and with a well designed GUI it makes FFMPEG so much more powerful and easy to use. You can use x264 for a codec but if your just converting file types then why even bother with it.

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&gt: ...and be self reliant in a shorter time than it took me.

Your linux posting is great and is appreciated. I'm not any kind of guru, but like you, my goal with linux was/is self reliance. This is where I sometime run into issues with people from my circle who want me to get them a system that "just works"... Unfortunately, non linux people who aren't gamers, seemingly fall into one of two categories. Either they are too afraid to remedy a minor issue on their own and refuse to try, or they are so terribly incurious that they really don't care to even learn anything beyond the few applications that they use daily. Linux has some great software that a lot of people are missing out on. These rubes think I'm a fcking brainiac because use the command line, when I'm really just cheapskate that has hated windows since the MSBLASTER worm was a thing.

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Your welcome, if you have any questions ask them here or on my sub linux4newbs. If I don't have an answer I'll look for one for you since I'm really good with a search engine or someone else here will give you the answer since most of the Linux users seem to be really nice people here and many are super talented when it comes to Linux. Thanks for the compliment. Also I found many files will not convert with h264 or 263 video codec because of resolutions that are not supported and msmpeg also had problem. The libxvid seems to not have those shortcoming and the last of the videos that were a problem converted but slightly slower rate. I did find a few of the videos were slightly larger file sizes but most were a little smaller and some large files were less than half the original size, I had one file the was 298mb that ended up 137 MB and was the same quality and also ran smoother when I checked it just in case. I suggest just playing around with the codecs and have the files saved into the same folder so you can just sort by name in your browser I use Thunar in XFCE and I just find the duplicate names with different extension and send to trash the one that is not an MP4. This way I easily find the ones that did not convert after removing the duplicates and cutting and pasting the MP4's into another folder I just choose a different video codec and select all the leftover files that still need to be converted. I think a lot of the problem is fucked up original resolution or a weird original codec was used that needs to be coddled to decode and then reencode in the new format.