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hey folks
plz drop me a hint here:
I need a command line tool for AppleTV for converting MKV files (which the appleTV doesnt like) to mp4 / divx files.
of course I could use a gui tool on my PC but I would like to do the conversion on the apple free-bsd os since all the torrentz are downloaded straight to my appletv hd.
any ideas?
Thanks a ton
Simon
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I was able to download the mencoder binary to my appletv.
can anyone tell me what is the command line syntax for converting MKV to MP4
without quality loss?
thanks again
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mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -of lavf -lavfopts format=mp4 -o out.mp4 input.mkv
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spiff
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pray there's no b frames ;P
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I wonder how long that would take on ATV
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2010-08-27, 18:14
(This post was last modified: 2010-08-27, 18:23 by sarbel.)
hey again
I've tried to run the command above using the ffmpeg and it gives me an error "unknown format"
mkv file properties are:
Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 1280x536 23.98fps [Video]
Audio: DTS 48000Hz 6ch [Audio]
any ideas?
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used a newer verison of ffmpeg
now experimenting with command line options
if any1 knows how to keep ac3 5.1 and dts with same video bitrate in the output mp4 file, plz drop me a note
thanks
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As long as you're not changing codecs, just remux the file with MP4Box. Simple.
EDIT: And if you are changing codecs, it's impossible to do that without losing quality.