Just follow these steps and you're good to go. If you have 10 MKV files in the folder, you only double click once and it will create 10 copies of MP4 files for you. All MKV files in the folder will be recreated as MP4 files. To convert any movie.MKV file, simply copy or move it to the CONVERT folder. So now we have a folder called CONVERT that has 4 files in it. Call it MKV.batįor %%f in (*.mkv) do 'ffmpeg.exe' -i '%%~nf.mkv' -vcodec copy -acodec copy '%%~nf.mp4' Open windows notepad, copy the below line and save it.

Copy them to a brand new folder called CONVERT. There are 3 files there, ffmpeg.exe, ffplay.exe and ffprobe.exe. There are 2 folders inside the ZIP file, DOC is full of help files and info but the one we want is called BIN. That's probably more information than you wanted about containers and codecs. Each container has a list of pre-defined supported codecs. (one device supports both mkv and mp4 but another device supports only mp4) Your device needs to support both container and codec to successfully play the file. Two devices may support the same codecs (H.264 / AAC for example), but different containers. This extracts the streams from the existing container and copies them into a new container.ĭevices will support containers and codecs. This works because inside each container file (the mkv / mp4), there are video and audio streams encoded via supported codecs. Where a.mkv is the filename of the mkv with the mkv extension and b.mp4 is the filename you want for the mp4 file, with the mp4 extension. Optional: Rename your video file to something simpler, like a.mkvĪfter copying ffmpeg.exe, open command line in Windows and in the prompt type: Copy this file to the directory of your video file.

It involves downloading latest ffmpeg binaries.Īfter you extract them to a directory, in the bin directory you'll find ffmpeg.exe.

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