mkv to avi convertion

Myouh · Post by **Myouh** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 4:07 pm

is there any image quality loss when converting from mkv to avi?

are there any important things to know before proceeding to such convertion?

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 4:27 pm

MKV and AVI are containers that can hold a wide variety of video streams of different types. Moving from one container type to another in and of itself isn't going to cause a difference in quality (if done correctly).

Rapture** · Post by Rapture** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 3:31 am

DirectShowSource()

That's all you need to know.

Phantasmagoriat · Post by **Phantasmagoriat** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 9:35 am

Myouh wrote:are there any important things to know before proceeding to such convertion?

-converting from mkv to avi will give you bad quality or good/lossless quality depending on the codec and codec settings you use to recompress your video.
-Using a lossless codec like HUFFYUV will retain original quality.
-[The file sizes will be very large though, however you can cut the size in half by saving to yv12 colorspace through <a href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/phpBB/v ... 5">ffdshow compression</a>...]
-generally speaking... if your files aren't big, you probably don't have lossless quality