[0:00] welcome to the learning zone today we're
[0:01] gonna be batch converting mkv files to
[0:03] mp4 files with the same exact quality
[0:06] and it will not take that long but make
[0:08] sure you have ffmpeg installed on your
[0:10] computer if you don't have it already
[0:12] installed on your computer i have a
[0:13] tutorial on how to do that you can click
[0:15] the link right above but first what
[0:17] we're going to do is navigate to your
[0:20] command prompt so you can do that by
[0:21] going into the windows search bar at the
[0:23] bottom typing in cmd and the command
[0:26] prompt will show up and you can click on
[0:28] that so now that we have our command
[0:31] prompt open what we are going to do is
[0:33] navigate to the directory that has all
[0:35] of our mkv files so i have a folder on
[0:38] my desktop called mkv and so we're going
[0:41] to go there by typing in cd desktop
[0:44] and what that cd does is tells it what
[0:47] directory to go to so cd desktop and it
[0:49] goes to the desktop and now we need to
[0:51] go to our mkv folder see the mkv and now
[0:54] we are in the mkv folder on our desktop
[0:56] if you need to go back you do cd dot dot
[0:58] and it'll go back a directory so cd mkb
[1:02] so now we are where all of our files are
[1:04] at and what we can do if we just want to
[1:06] convert one is do ffmpeg
[1:08] dash i
[1:10] and then the file name file dot mkv make
[1:13] sure to have the mkv in it
[1:15] dash c
[1:16] copy so basically this is just moving it
[1:19] from the mkv container to the mp4
[1:22] container it's not re-encoding or doing
[1:23] anything like that we're just moving
[1:25] containers and it will be basically the
[1:27] same file size basically the same file
[1:29] but in dot mp4
[1:31] and then file.mp4 you can name it
[1:33] whatever you want just make sure you
[1:34] have the dot mp4 and then that is just
[1:37] for one however we want to batch convert
[1:39] we want to do a whole series of them
[1:41] but what we want to do is a for loop so
[1:43] we're going to do four
[1:45] dash r and this will look recursively in
[1:48] all of the subfolders so if you have a
[1:49] bunch of folders within these folders um
[1:52] it will also convert all of those
[1:54] and then for the files
[1:57] in
[1:58] with the name
[1:59] dot mkv
[2:02] dot
[2:04] mkv
[2:05] and we're going to tell it what to do so
[2:07] for all the files that are mkv files do
[2:10] ffmpeg pretty much what we did before
[2:14] dash i
[2:15] and then this is going to be the file
[2:17] name percent f
[2:18] so the file
[2:20] dash c
[2:22] copy which is what we did before
[2:25] and then what we want to do
[2:26] is the new file dot mp4 so we can do
[2:30] percent f dot mp4
[2:33] just like that however we also want to
[2:35] clean it up a little bit by getting rid
[2:37] of the dot mkv at the end so
[2:39] if we just did it like this it'll be
[2:41] mkv.mp4 which is a little messy looking
[2:43] so we're going to do
[2:45] tilde n
[2:46] to get rid of that mkv at the end so
[2:49] it'll now just say mp4 now if you're
[2:52] doing this within a batch already you
[2:54] can do percent percent f and then for
[2:57] everything instead of percent f and
[2:58] it'll do the same exact thing
[3:01] but this should get you what you need so
[3:03] now we're going to hit enter and it'll
[3:05] go through and convert all of our mkv's
[3:08] to mp4s it will leave all the mkvs don't
[3:10] worry it's just copying them over you
[3:12] can delete them later if you'd like and
[3:13] just like that i think that was about
[3:14] seven or so files that we converted from
[3:16] mkv to mp4 they were all somewhere
[3:18] around 100 to 400 megabytes big
[3:21] so if you have larger files it'll
[3:22] probably take a little bit longer so
[3:24] thank you for james mac white on github
[3:26] for sort of this example i kind of went
[3:28] through that if you also need that for
[3:29] mac i will leave that in the description
[3:31] that's slightly different and if you
[3:33] have any issues for example if you have
[3:34] like a different audio type free mkv
[3:36] file that mp4 doesn't support you may
[3:37] have to convert it over but if you click
[3:39] the link in the description it kind of
[3:41] goes over all of those different
[3:42] solutions so make sure to check that out
[3:44] if you have any problems and if you have
[3:45] any other problems in general you can
[3:47] let me know in the comments and i'll try
[3:48] my best to help thank you so much for
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