2014-04-17, 17:37
I don't know what platform you are on, but assuming it is linux or os x I just ran this as a quick test as i'm in a similar situation to you and it seems to work just fine:
Code:
find /media/raid/testconvert/ -name "*.avi" | while read i; do mkvmerge -o "${i%avi}mkv" "${i}"; done
Replace "/media/raid/testconvert/" with the path to your Movies. That command will find all .avi files and convert them to .mkv
Thanks for the tip. This batch process works great!