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Is there and quick and easy way in which I can convert my MKV's to MP4's without loosing any quality? I have a number of MKV files that I would like to be able to stream to my xbox and iPhone but can't as there is MKV containers. I know in the past you couldn't convert them without loosing quality (no DTS in MP4). Has this changed at all I have been out of the game for sometime. Also if it is possibly any mac tools to make the job easier?
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Mp4box will help you extract the streams from an mkv and repackage them in an mp4 without compression. This is a command line utility that you can script otherwise there is shareware software doing the same thing with a GUI
in any case to play on devices with lower spec than a mac or appletv you will need to encode at power profiles and bitrate unless you use a real time encoder to stream, thus being highly unlikely you will end up reencoding your files for different devices
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Handbrake will re-encode the file, mp4box or other software will demux and remux which is what he needs in the first place
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He was asking for a mac tool...
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A mac tool would be better but I can always VM a PC tool. Sounds like there is still no way to convert mkv without loosing some quality wether it be audio or video. Some one just go and tell Microsoft and Sony to get there act together already.
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As I said you can repackage an MKV into an MP4 as long as the streams are supported
As of today you can package AAC and AC3 audio into an MP4 and any H264 video or AVC
I am not sure that MP4 as format supports DTS
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I didn't know about subtler but there is also mkvtoolnix and mkvtools that have a GUI
the issue remains DTS which not compliant to MP4
on mac the only option is to downmix to aac as a multichannel dts to AC3 converter is hard to find
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Did I not say that onpost 11 of this thread already?
The issue remains multichannel AAC a typical MP4 audio format that no decoder supports