Saturday, June 01, 2013

Converting to Mp4 ( for PS3 use for example)

http://askubuntu.com/questions/50433/how-to-convert-mkv-file-into-mp4-file-losslessly

I decided to use avidemux. It seems to work pretty well. On this Core2Duo T7700 @2.4Ghz ( laptop) speed was decent. Specially since this IS NOT TRANSCODING then speeds are very fast. The only transcoding I had to do was the Audio into AAC, since the MP4 container only supports AAC with H264 and presumable X264.

Note: This is a repackaging program, but it will do transcoding as well. Transcoding recompresses a video ( or audio or both) from one format to another. Demuxing ( remuxing) copies video/audio/both from one container to another, without recompressing ( so its fast and lossless). In this case I was converting from mkv and avi's ( the containers) to mp4 (container).