how to change video containers in under a minute (MKV to MP4) etc

[qwertywarrior]

i learned this awesome trick from a youtube video

 

lets say you have an MKV file and a stupid apple device that only likes streaming content to be mp4 or what ever

 

 

just open VLC

click media > convert/save > click add > add the video you want > convert/save

 

now click on the wrench icon its next to the red X icon

 

select MP4 or what ever

 

on video tab click the keep original video track

and on the audio tab click keep original audio track 

and now click save and start it will only take some seconds

 

if the video turned out to have no sound go back to the audio tab and untick and change the audio codec to something like ACC or mp3

 

 

this isnt only for mkv to mp4 there are MANY other containers to choose from

[qwertywarrior]

wouldn't this be dependant on how fast your pc was?

on how fast your hard disk/ ssd is 

i have a slow 1TB hard drive it took me like a minute

 

it pretty much just changed the container like unzipping then zipping the file again

[Jade]

Interesting. Would do it if Plex wasn't good enough to encode subtitles. Thanks for the tip.

[qwertywarrior]

Interesting. Would do it if Plex wasn't good enough to encode subtitles. Thanks for the tip.

you're welcome

[shujin]

I've already try this but it don't uncrypt the subtitle on the mp4 render. Or I just miss a step and fail everything

[Hoppa]

I've used MKVtoolnix (with MKVextractGUI addon) to select files within the MKV container to extract.

And the MKVmerge app to create a MKV.

[qwertywarrior]

I've used MKVtoolnix (with MKVextractGUI addon) to select files within the MKV container to extract.

And the MKVmerge app to create a MKV.

thats only good if you want MKV to be the out put file while VLC  can make anything the output file and also able to convert audio and video if u wanted