Friday, July 31, 2020

Movies… mkv to mp4 using ffmpeg command line

for some reason, everyonce in awhile I’m dealing with a device that cannot deal with mkv
extensions, so I convert em….

doneroot@cp1:~/bin# cat mkv2mp4
FFMPEG=/usr/bin/ffmpeg
FROM=mkv
TO=mp4

for FILE in *.$FROM
 do
    $FFMPEG -i "$FILE" -codec copy "${FILE%.*}.$TO"
 done
root@cp1:~/bin#

runs though it pretty quick.