MKV to AVI slow

[natty]

Hi I am using MKV to AVI Converter I have this movie which before converting to AVI from MKV its 1.07gb but its taken so far taken 6 hours to convert to avi and the size is now so far 1.51gb is this normal for that size movie as I have another to convert which is 4gb so god knows how long thats going to take and what end result size will be. isnt there another converter to do this quicker

[jagabo]

What are the running time, frame rate, and frame size of your videos?

[natty]

how do i find this out as gspot dont read mkv movies since i posted this here the file has now been converting for 7 hours and is now nearly 2gb when it was only 1.07gb as a mkv

[jagabo]

The size of the output file is determined by the bitrate you chose to save at.

What player do you use to play the MKV files? Many players have the option to report the video properties.

[poisondeathray]

Use mediainfo to determine information on your .MKV file

Why do you want to put it into an .AVI container?

If it's just a DivX or XviD, extra the video & audio streams with mkvextractgui and put it into an .AVI container with avimux-gui

If it's h.264 video, then you can "force" it into an avi container with AVC2AVI, but you might get jerky playback depending on how the video was encoded, and the number of b-frames used

Both these methods should take a couple of minutes, because they do not re-encode, and therefore you lose no quality. The size should be about the same as well.

[natty]

What are the running time, frame rate, and frame size of your videos?

this is what i got from mediainfo

Format : Matroska
File size : 1.07 GiB
PlayTime : 37mn 39s
Bit rate : 4083 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2007-08-26 14:35:09
Writing application : mkvmerge v2.0.2 ('You're My Flame') built on Feb 21 2007 23:40:55
Writing library : libebml v0.7.7 + libmatroska v0.8.1

Video #0
Codec : AVC
Codec/Family : AVC
Codec/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Codec profile : High@L5.1
Codec settings, CABAC : Yes
Codec_Settings_RefFrames : 8
PlayTime : 37mn 39s
Bit rate : 3529 Kbps
Nominal bit rate : 3696 Kbps
Width : 1280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display Aspect ratio : 16/9
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Chroma : 4:2:0
Interlacement : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.160
Writing library : x264 - core 56 svn-667C
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:-2:-1 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=6 / brdo=1 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=2 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=0 / threads=3 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / wpredb=1 / bime=1 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40(pre) / rc=2pass / bitrate=3696 / ratetol=1.0 / rceq='blurCplx^(1-qComp)' / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30 / aq=1:0.1:15.0

Audio #0
Codec : AC3
PlayTime : 37mn 39s
Bit rate mode : CBR
Bit rate : 384 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Rear: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz

[natty]

Use mediainfo to determine information on your .MKV file

Why do you want to put it into an .AVI container?

If it's just a DivX or XviD, extra the video & audio streams with mkvextractgui and put it into an .AVI container with avimux-gui

If it's h.264 video, then you can "force" it into an avi container with AVC2AVI, but you might get jerky playback depending on how the video was encoded, and the number of b-frames used

Both these methods should take a couple of minutes, because they do not re-encode, and therefore you lose no quality. The size should be about the same as well.

I tried MKVExtractGUI but i get this error where do i find these

[Baldrick]

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