Help-Avi(Xvid) to Mkv(h264)

[Party Monger]

Hey guys I need to convert Avi(xvid) to Mkv(H264) WITHOUT any loss of quality..
Please suggest some Simple tool for the same..
How much will the compression be without any loss in quality..
Say if i hav those 350 mb avi episode of a tv series of 40min, what size should i expect??
I'm not in a mood to sacrifice the quality..Jus some space saving..

 

[H2O]

I doubt you'll be able to compress size from avi to h.264 you could try megui but I dont think its gonna work. Your better of backing your movies up.

 

[scorpionsting]

well guess u should search for this software on bestvistadownloads.com..

 

[coolraghav]

wont nero do that ?

 

[Party Monger]

Listen guys Im Looking for some GOOD and SIMPLE Programme, i dont think programmes like nero which come in a all-in-one suite would do, a proper encorder is needed as this is my "whole collection" we are talking about...

 

[Checksum]

Try this mkvtoolnix -- Matroska tools for Linux/Unix and Windows

 

[Naga]

I don't think conversion from a compressed format (xvid or otherwise) is advised. You are bound to lose quality with any compression format.

 

[Party Monger]

^ Im open to a slight quality loss, something that might not be visible..
Thus i ask..

 

[Quad Master]

This is my answer to ur query and it works 100%.

MediaCoder

MediaCoder - more than a universal audio/video transcoder

Download the latest stable release.

Its very easy to use.

 

[Party Monger]

^thanx quad..
Yeah its easy..

But the thing is i have very limited knowdlege on encoding and converting videos etc..

These are the specs for the file..

Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
Format/Family : RIFF
File size : 351 MiB
PlayTime : 43mn 9s
Bit rate : 1128 Kbps
StreamSize : 5.21 MiB
Writing application : transcode-1.0.2

Video #0
Codec : XviD
Codec/Family : MPEG-4
Codec/Info : XviD project
Codec profile : Streaming Video Profile/Level 1
Codec settings/PacketBitStream : Yes
Codec settings/BVOP : Yes
Codec settings/QPel : No
Codec settings/GMC : 0
Codec settings/Matrix : Default
PlayTime : 43mn 9s
Bit rate : 990 Kbps
Width : 624 pixels
Height : 352 pixels
Display Aspect ratio : 16/9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Resolution : 8 bits
Chroma : 4:2:0
Interlacement : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.187
StreamSize : 306 MiB
Audio #1
Codec : MPEG-1 Audio layer 3
Codec profile : Joint stereo
PlayTime : 43mn 9s
Bit rate : 130 Kbps
Bit rate mode : VBR
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48 KHz
Resolution : 16 bits
StreamSize : 40.0 MiB
Writing library : Xing (new)

Its an average tv show file..
Can you point me to the best settings which will ensure same quality at a lower size..
I'm looking at something like 150-170mb files..I hope its possible..
H264 + any popular audio + mkv will do just fine..

Also encoding time wont be much of a factor as i leave laptop on all nite for downloading..

 

[DanDroiD]

Why are you encoding to .mkv ... not that it isn't a good format, but it is one you would want to compress from the original file. If you want to convert it, use avisynth and VirtualDub

It's a pain in the butt to do this and get a nice high rez conversion....I did this with a very high rez HD ...ahem version of 300. I used avisynth, but it takes a little explaining, and a little digging for the correct syntax to use it, but it is quite fast to encode this way and the results are nice.. Avisynth is used as a container for the mkv file and VirtualDub will convert it for you. If you are interested, I can put up a tut later, but I have to go to work atm... just pm me.