MKV to MP4 quickly?

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Hi all,

Not sure this is in the right forum section, but I have about 6 MKVs ranging from 10 to 25GB in size that I would like to put on my iPad for a long coach journey tomorrow. Whats the quickest way to do this?

I'd like the file size to be as small as possibly but still around DVD quality.

Would handbrake achieve this in time? If so what are the best settings to use?

It has an iPad setting, but that says large file size, now I don't know how large that means, but I don't have much room on the iPad so would like them small but watchable.

Thanks,

G
 
Freemake video converter. Just be careful when installing it. You need to say no to a few unsavoury addons it tries to install with it.

If you get the install right you'll be golden. Easiest conversion method I've found without paying.
 
Vidcoder.

64bit version of Handbrake basically.

Do some test encode son a small file size to see what suits your iPad/viewing preference the most.
 
Managed to us handbrake in the end, down mixed to stereo and it's put the files around a tenth of the size that they were :)

Done 7 films :)

It absolutely cains the CPU doesn't it! Was making BF3 a little jerky :p

Thanks all :)

G
 
Yup, it's one of the few times where it's worth getting an i7 over an i5.

Personally, I opted for the i5.
 
How things have moved on :D

Encoding and gaming at the same time? I remember the days when burning a CD made my PC almost unusable...
 
Which iPad do you have? If space is worrying you, you could just drop the resolution on the videos to 854x480 (DVD quality).
 
I have the 64GB iPad 4 :)

It was full because every time an app is free I get it lol freed up about 15GB of rubbish and filled it up again with movies :) was using it for 5 hours on the coach and still 50% battery left :)

Got stuck on Limbo though :p
 
There's also a BETA of Handbrake that can use QuickSync on SB, IB and Haswell CPUs. I think that might speed things up. Have heard there might be some quality issues though.
 
Handbrake more often than not though makes the audio out of sync really badly no single answer to it either transcoding can be a very complex business sometimes :(
 
Everything I have watched so gas the audio has been fine :) I used iPad preset but untucked large files and changed to stereo audio :)
 
I've been using AppGeeker video converter for many years, its easy to control and I use it for video and audio, it's well rounded for everything you want to convert.

http://www.appgeeker.com/topics/convert-mkv-to-mp4-mac.html

With it you get a lot of presets for all playback devices. Very clean.

If you want to shrink the original file to a smaller size, you need to tweak output settings such as bitrate, video quality, etc. Generally, the smaller file size, the greater the loss of quality.
 
I don't think "large file size" is really that large. I may be wrong, but I'm sure when I converted some bluray rips to put on my daughters iPad they came out at 1-2GB each on the iPad preset.
 
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