xrqp Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 (edited) I got videos in ISO and BDMV files/folders on the unraid server and want to convert all to mkv, which will also be on the unraid sever. I use Emby to paly videos and mkv works better for Emby. I assume I can do it from my Win10 computer with an app running on the Win10 computer. But should I instead do it with an app on the unraid server? Does having the app and the files on the same machine make it faster? How do you do it - on Win10 or on unraid? Any suggestion what app to use? Apps that require knowing linux, would not be good for me. Edited December 11, 2021 by xrqp Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 Personally, I always do it on Windows (MakeMKV), but the MakeMKV app for Unraid will work. Quote Link to comment
hawihoney Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 7 hours ago, xrqp said: But should I instead do it with an app on the unraid server? I'm using the jlesage/makemkv Docker Container on Unraid since years to do that exactly. If the ISO files are stored on Unraid it's the best solution. Why bother with network to transfer files twice? Quote Link to comment
kizer Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 Many years ago I did a search on google for "Batch ISO to MKV" and found a command line script to run in windows and converted 50-60 files in a loop. Sadly I don't recall exactly what I used. Quote Link to comment
hawihoney Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 19 hours ago, kizer said: Sadly I don't recall exactly what I used. In 2018 I wrote a Perl script to convert ISO files to MKV files automatically. It uses makemkvcon from the MakeMKV docker container and mkvpropedit from the MKVToolNix container. It uses some rules from my personal folder/file naming so some small corrections are neccessary. But someone with a little bit Perl knowledge can fix that easily. This script did process a complete ISO backup library in three months. The ISOs were created by tsmuxer and did contain the relevant streams only. So no full DVD/BD backups. Quote Link to comment
xrqp Posted January 16, 2022 Author Share Posted January 16, 2022 Thanks for the excellent replies! Quote Link to comment
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