.mov from Revver to upload to Youtube

[zylstra]

I have downloaded my .mov files from Revver.com, which is going down the tubes, and I'd like to upload them to Youtube. But Youtube doesn't recognize the .mov files as valid videos. I think there is something small wrong with the files. I can convert it only with MyVideoConverter - and I tried a bunch of others. But I'd like to use the original file since the conversion degrades it so much. What do you recommend? How should I fix these files? Or convert them losslessly?

I've attached a sample .mov so that you can see for yourself.

Thanks.

[aedipuss]

start over again with the original sources and create mp4s for youtube. any kind of re-conversion will lower the quality.

[bat999]

@zyistra
Those mov files contain 5 tracks:-
1 JPEG
2 RLE
3 MPEG-4
4 AAC
5 Text

That's why YouTube won't accept them.

You can use MKVmergeGUI (mmg) to create new mkv files containing only tracks 3 and 4 of the original files.
This is lossless conversion.
Then upload the mkv files to YouTube.

From here:- http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/
Instructions are here:- http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/doc/mkvmerge-gui.html#whatismkvmerge

[zylstra]

bat999, you're outstanding! I've got it working via the command line since I've got to process many files, but I can't get the batch file to process many files at once. Do you know any Windows scripting?

I'm using the following, as an example, for one file:

mkvmerge -o 293497.mkv -d 7 293497.mov

And for multiple files I've tried the following, but it doesn't work:

for %m in (./*.mov); do set mkvfile="$(echo %m | sed 's/mov/mkv/')"; mkvmerge -o $mkvfile -d 7 %m; done

Do you know how to do this?

Thanks.

[bat999]

Hi
This command really does work OK for one file:-

mkvmerge -o 293497.mkv -d 7 293497.mov

This is the batch command that I'd use WITH LINUX:-

for f in *mov; do mkvmerge -o "${f%.mov}.mkv" -d 7 "$f"; done

I don't know the Windows syntax.

[zylstra]

Thanks, bat999. A friend of mine just replied in an email with a command that worked for me:

  for /f %a IN ('dir /B *.mov') do call mkvmerge -o %~na.mkv -d 7 %a

For others who may want to use this exact command remember that the mkvmerge files and folders should be in the same folder as the videos to be converted.