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Convert .mov to .mkv
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Hi!
Few years ago I convert some movies to .mkv. But in these times my Mac fails with the .mkv HD videos via VLC and others and I use Quicktime to open them and make a 'save as... .mov'.
But recently I get a WD TV HD Media Player and this device can't play the audio from the mentioned videos, I see as only option re-convert to .mkv, and I don't know any app to do it (in PPC processors).
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The right way to do it is something like mkvmerge to remux the streams from the mov into an mkv container. This is fast and there is no quality loss. But it's not the easiest thing to use for people who aren't comfortable at the command line.
The easy way to do it is something like HandBrake to reencode the audio and video. This is much slower (10x-100x than remuxing) and reduces quality a bit (although you may not notice it), but it's very easy. Note HandBrake 0.9.4 is over a year old, has a number of bugs, and PPC support has been dropped from the current development code and all future releases.
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Hi,
HandBrake was the first to try in these moment but a problem closing the application and never try it again. Now seems to works fine and in my G5 Quad marks 5h time rip in constant quality 100% and h.264 as video codec, working on a RAID 0 2 disks configuration.
Thx for your anwers.
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You do not want 100% constant quality. The file will be several times the size of your source and unplayable with most software. The percentage scale is misleading and has been removed. You want the default, about 60% or RF 20.
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Originally Posted by mduell 
You do not want 100% constant quality. The file will be several times the size of your source and unplayable with most software. The percentage scale is misleading and has been removed. You want the default, about 60% or RF 20.
Absolutely true! The file now is 18 GB from the 4 GB original size 
Thx.
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