I change the extensions from MKV to MP4.

Plex then sees them. I use Roku, Plex, and VLC for playbook...they all work fine after the extension change.

YMMV

 

So I just installed Plex as well and am now looking at converting all my ISOs straight in to MKV files.

 

Is there a current package installer available? - do you need to use the most recent one like with the Windows desktop version?

Is there a batch mode so I can say something like:

makemkvcon mkv file:/path/to/*.iso all /path/to/mkv/folder/

 

Also how do I tell it to keep the exact same content and extract all audio and subtitle tracks?

 

Many thanks for any pointers.

I had a collection of about 500 Blu-ray ISO's and converted them all to MKV's. I saved 9TB of space on my server. It took me nearly 5 weeks but I learnt loads along the way, I just used the highest Audio format and English subtitles. The one thing I did learn is that ripping from one drive back to the same drive caused loads of problems for me, so I would make sure you rip from one drive and send the output to a different drive on your server. In the end I just ripped from my 3TB NTSC drives in an external caddy connected to my Laptop by USB and then fired them back to the same drive after I filled my Laptop drive. After I filed my 3TB drive with the MKV's I sent them via ethernet to my unRAID box without parity installed and then deleted the 3TB NTSC drive and added it to the unRAID server. It was a risk with no parity but I took a gamble and could always have used my original Blu-ray discs if I had a drive fail. The movies load in 3 seconds on my openELEC box compared to 29 seconds before with My Movies and TMT5, and then I still had to skip through all the menu's. I had 7 ISO's that wouldn't convert and neither would the original discs and of course my 3D Blu-rays won't play with openELEC, but Im sure that will change in the future and its so much better in my opinion than running XBMC on top of windows, especially with a 10 second boot up time.