.mkv to iTunes

[kjs862]

I was just curious if someone can give me the best possible advice on how to convert a .mkv movie file to play in iTunes.

I have bought visual hub, but not too sure of what settings to use. Also I read of this 4gb file limit; not too sure what to do about that.

Also when the .mkv movie file is finally in iTunes how does the quaility compare to the original? If it doesn't compare I'm thinking about holding out on all this converting and just burning the.mkv file to a blueray disk.

[Mernak]

If you don't need to convert it for compatibility reasons (AppleTV, iPhone, iPod, etc) and just want to organize it using iTunes, just load the mkv in Quicktime (with Perian) and once it is loaded, save it as a reference movie and add that to iTunes (which also stops it from needing to load for so long when you first open it)

[northy124]

Search before you post, I personally have come too the conclusion that it is worthless to convert a .MKV to .MP4 as you do lose hell of alot of quality.

[EgbertAttrick]

Originally Posted by Mernak

If you don't need to convert it for compatibility reasons (AppleTV, iPhone, iPod, etc) and just want to organize it using iTunes, just load the mkv in Quicktime (with Perian) and once it is loaded, save it as a reference movie and add that to iTunes (which also stops it from needing to load for so long when you first open it)

I have tried to save as a reference movie, but Save As... is greyed out. Using QT 7 Pro... Has anyone else run across this?

[spacepower7]

There are several apps that can do this, especially if the video is h.264. You can pull the raw video and audio out of the mkv and repackage it into a quicktime compatible mp4/m4v with absolutely no loss in quality

MKVtools is one

[babyboyhealthy]

Until now, iTunes can only import QuickTime and MPEG-4 movie files that end in ".mov", ".m4v", or ".mp4" and are playable in QuickTime Player. MKV or HD MKV, however, is a video format that iTunes cannot re-encode. In order to add MKV to iTunes to successfully play MKV in iTunes or sync MKV to Apple devices like iPad, iPhone, we had better convert MKV to iTunes supported format.

Bigasoft iTunes Video Converter is just the ideal MKV to iTunes Converter. It can convert MKV, HD MKV to iTunes supported video format with almost no loss of video quality and super fast conversion speed. It even can convert MKV video to iTunes supported audio format to only play MKV audio in iTunes. Moreover, it also enables to convert other video formats like WTV, WMV, AVI, VOB, FLV, F4V, 3GP, WebM, MXF, MPG, 720p, 1080p, 1080i HD, AVCHD to iTunes compatible video or audio format.
Detailed Guide to Convert, Import and Play MKV in iTunes

[happyboybaby]

Originally Posted by kjs862

I was just curious if someone can give me the best possible advice on how to convert a .mkv movie file to play in iTunes.

I have bought visual hub, but not too sure of what settings to use. Also I read of this 4gb file limit; not too sure what to do about that.

Also when the .mkv movie file is finally in iTunes how does the quaility compare to the original? If it doesn't compare I'm thinking about holding out on all this converting and just burning the.mkv file to a blueray disk.

mkv is a video format which is not supported by itunes

in order to import mkv to itunes, we had better convert it to itunes more compatible video format like mp4, m4v or mov

well, most of converter software need you pay for it

if there is only one mkv files, it is not worthy to buy

[Dobbs2]

Originally Posted by kjs862

I was just curious if someone can give me the best possible advice on how to convert a .mkv movie file to play in iTunes.

I have bought visual hub, but not too sure of what settings to use. Also I read of this 4gb file limit; not too sure what to do about that.

Also when the .mkv movie file is finally in iTunes how does the quaility compare to the original? If it doesn't compare I'm thinking about holding out on all this converting and just burning the.mkv file to a blueray disk.

Handbrake, check out the apple tv section for more info.