What to use to convert files.. mkv to avi, mp4 to avi. etc

[Hollywood_12]

Hi.
I've been out of the loop for quiet sometime and I need to covert some files one from the other.

What programs do you suggest?
My tv will not play mkv fies.

Also I would like to be able to put multiple fies on one dvd top play from teh dvd player.

so I have files on my computer that I can not play other than on my computer.
I need to convert them to another format so I can.

Please help
Thanks in advance

[newpball]

My tv will not play mkv fies.

What does your TV play? How do you connect, directly through a USB connection?

If through a Blu-ray player the TV has nothing to do with it, it is the Blu-ray player that accepts certain files or not.

[DarrellS]

For single files, I use Virtualdub.

For batch conversion, I create folders for each file type that I want to convert and use ffmpeg to batch convert. Here is a link to show different conversions and instructions on how to set everything up...

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/356314-How-to-batch-convert-multiplex-any-files-with-ffmpeg

[Hollywood_12]

On my tv I want to play them from my Hard Drive or USB stick
I know my tv will play avi but not sure what else.
Not at home now to look at the owners manual.

[newpball]

On my tv I want to play them from my Hard Drive or USB stick
I know my tv will play avi but not sure what else.
Not at home now to look at the owners manual.

Both avi and mkv are containers, containers are like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are gonna get!

The videos are inside the containers and are encoded in a format determined by the codec. The is an n to n mapping between codecs and containers.

So in order to properly answer your question you really need to tell what your TV supports.

[dfisher052]

Format Factory could be one converter that you could try. And it's free. But, use Mediainfo to determine what your settings should be.

[Baldrick]

I guess it supports avi divx/xvid. You can use for example xmedia recode, load all mkvs, choose the dvd player preset and convert.