[MEncoder-users] how to convert mkv to avi?

[Grozdan]

2009/6/30  <rulet1 at meta.ua>:
>> rulet1 at meta.ua writes:
>>
>>> So I see before to convert I have to know what is inside mkv
>>> container,
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>> how todo that -- is Mediainfo a program for that?
>>
>> You can just use mplayer:
>>
>> ,----
>> | mplayer -vo null -ao null -frames 0 -identify your_mkv_file.mkv
>> `----
>>
>> and post the output.
>>
>> Charles
>>
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>
>  Maybe I don't understand something, everybody says that avi container
> doesn't support h.264 codec,
> but here is
> [url=http://pic.ipicture.ru/uploads/090630/hznhQuHBC4.jpg]screenshot[url]
> of using Xilisoft HD Converter converting pretty fast mkv to avi using
> h.264,
> and the end avi-file is the same quality as input mkv-file. How to do that
> with mencoder in Linux?

Whomever says AVI doesn't support H.264 video is an idiot... period.

as to your question...

mencoder file.mkv -ovc copy -oac copy -o output.avi

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