Engineering and technology notes
linux – Find document files and copy them to another directory
video – How to convert an MKV to AVI with minimal loss
In order to just copy the video and audio bitstream, thus without quality loss:
ffmpeg -i filename.mkv -c:v copy -c:a copy output.avi
If you want FFmpeg to convert video and audio automatically:
ffmpeg -i filename.mkv output.avi
Source: video – How to convert an MKV to AVI with minimal loss – Super User
avconv – How can I convert video to DivX4 to play on my Kogan TV?
It turns out that I just needed to trick the TV into thinking it was the DivX codec when it is really the xvid codec, by changing the video tag (or FourCC to DIVX) using -tag:v DIVX:
avconv -i input.mp4 -c:v libxvid -c:a libmp3lame -b 700k -tag:v DIVX output.avi
https://askubuntu.com/questions/262631/how-can-i-convert-video-to-divx4-to-play-on-my-kogan-tv