Use HandBrake to encode video files into formats supported by any device, and use this. This will let you check the quality before you commit to a long project.
HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs. Features.
Supported Sources. VIDEOTS folder, DVD image or real DVD (unencrypted - CSS is not supported internally and must be handled externally with third-party software and libraries), BDMV folder (unencrypted), and some.VOB and.TS files. Any multimedia file it can get libavformat to read and libavcodec to decode. Outputs. File format: MP4 and MKV.
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Video: MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264 or Theora (1 or 2 passes or constant What's New in HandBrake. HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs. Features. Supported Sources. VIDEOTS folder, DVD image or real DVD (unencrypted - CSS is not supported internally and must be handled externally with third-party software and libraries), BDMV folder (unencrypted), and some.VOB and.TS files. Any multimedia file it can get libavformat to read and libavcodec to decode. I am a big fan and true believer of HandBrake.
I have been using it for more than 6 years to convert MKV or WMV movies to mp4 to add them to my iTunes Library or watch them on iPad or Apple TV. It's a very easy-to-use app and provides a lot of options for performing the conversion. It has given me the greatest service during the past 6 years, so as I have never looked for other competent apps. The only thing that makes it a little cumbersome is that it crops the movie frame in some situations; therefore, I have to go to the Picture Settings section and check the size of the output movie frame and remove the cropping if necessary. This makes it a little awkward when I need to convert a huge batch of MKV files. This is the only reason that I give it a rating value of 4.5.
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Also, if HandBrake developers provide a rather new UI to enable doing the conversion in batch, it will become so much better.