Video Codex converter

[transmaster]

I have some old MP4 video's that have a problem with playback. I just switched to an Mac Studio moving out of the Windows world. The problem these files have is they play on some on my loaded players, Infuse, VLC, Quicktime but with only sound on my main player jRiver Media Center 30. This is not a new problem. This is the reason why I had several players loaded on the PC. I asked about this and was told that the best thing to do is covert them to AVI, MKV, etc. I have been looking at utilities the one in the Mac App store looks good but is limited in it only converts one file at a time. Any suggestions?

 

[Apple_Robert]

Permute is excellent and can do batch. Look for Charlie Monroe software online. I have used it for several years.

 

[ColdCase]

I think HandBrake would probably do what you want. It will batch convert.

HandBrake: Open Source Video Transcoder

HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder.

handbrake.fr

 

[R S K]

was told that the best thing to do is covert them to AVI, MKV

Those are two of the worst possible container formats that you could choose. They are both painfully outdated and—on the Mac—incompatible with more players than not. Go with either MOV or MP4.

 

[transmaster]

Those are two of the worst possible container formats that you could choose. They are both painfully outdated and—on the Mac—incompatible with more players than not. Go with either MOV or MP4.

Every container format has good and bad points. I loaded the "Video converter' located in the Mac App store. The files I converted were old MP4 files that had problems playing on Media Center 30. I converted them them to Matroska Video to repair whatever was wrong with them, it did. as for compatibility issues jRiver Media Center plays codex's even I have never heard of.

 

[bogdanw]

Free
media player – IINA https://iina.io
video converter - Shutter Encoder https://www.shutterencoder.com/en/
If you only need to change the container (mkv to mp4), without re-encoding, Avidemux https://avidemux.sourceforge.net/download.html

 

[transmaster]

Now that these files are working I can convert them to anything I want there is 22GB of them.