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Convert .mkv to .mp4: how?
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Thinine
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Jul 21, 2006, 02:22 AM
 
I'm going crazy trying to find a way to convert a .mkv file with H264/AAC to an .mp4 file with the same content (so QT can play it natively). VLC's transcoding doesn't work, ffmpeg doesn't seem to be able to do what I want, and I don't know what to do with the video file I get out of mkvextract (QT won't open it).

Surely someone has done this before.
     
Apfhex
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Jul 21, 2006, 01:10 PM
 
I've TRIED to convert a mkv with H.264/AAC5.1, using mkvextract to separate the data, but ran into too many problems turning the files into anything after that. Why do people have to use such hard to deal with formats like mkv...
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