I just got into usenet and some of the files downloaded are ISOs. I’m trying to figure out the best way to convert them to mp4s so that I can play them through plex. I’m running on a headless arch server (Manjaro), and I’d prefer to keep the conversion there if possible.

Anyone have experience with this?

  • dishpanmanEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m glad I could help! Can you post the CLI command syntax that worked for you to run makemkv to decrypt your ISO? It will help others are trying to figure this out in the future. Or was it just the single makemkvcon command you posted?

    • body_by_make@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Oh, I did in my comment. It was just:

      makemkvcon mkv iso:my_file_name.iso all outputDirectory

      Note: outputDirectory must exist, it could even just be ./

      makemkv will then scan the iso for its chapters, filter out the small ones, convert the large ones to mkv files and output them in your directory you provided. Then I just looked for the biggest one and deleted the smaller ones, the big one ended up being almost the same size as the ISO and was indeed the movie output I was looking for.

      • dishpanmanEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Thanks for following up! I’m surprised it just dumped out one mkv file without you having to command a specific chapter to decrypt. It’s good to know that you can probably set up a batch file to decrypt everything in a whole directory!

        • body_by_make@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Well the all parameter had it convert all the ones big enough, I ended up with 3 then just paired it down to the one I cared about.