Remux TV Progs to Matroska Video .mkv

[David Cantrell]

As far as I know conversion to mp4 is just changing the container format, there’s no recompression.

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> On 9 Jul 2022, at 22:46, Computing <computing at windcheetah.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hi, I'm trying to get programmes from the Beeb into .mkv format.
> 
> I know you can do it by using --command-tv='ffmpeg -i "<filename>" -c:v copy -c:a copy  -y "<dir>/<fileprefix>.mkv"'
> 
> but it still downloads the raw .ts file, converts it to a .mp4, tags it, then converts to a .mkv as required.
> 
> Is there a way to do download  .ts, convert to .mkv, tag .mkv?? I.E. Avoid the mp4 lossy conversion??
> 
> Thanks loads
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
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