If it doesn't then you will have to start converting (Xmedia or Handbrake can both do this. (Add Subtitles on the Subtitles tab if you have any)įinally click on Add to queue > Encode in the top toolbar.Ī few seconds later you have your Xvid video in a Matroska container.

Main tab: Set Output format = Custom > MKV Load the video and highlight it in the top list view. When you've installed it, do the following: To do this, I can recommend Xmedia Recode (quite similar to Handbrake, but it comes with some extra features such as video remuxing). XviD technically corresponds to a very old MPEG4 (part 2) standard, so before you actually start converting these (probably less than 480p) videos to H.264 video, you might want to remux at least one of those videos to MKV or MP4 just to be completely sure. If you want to avoid conversion, you will need a device (such as a PC) to act as 'middleware'. stream copying) isn't really an option in this case.

The main problem for you is that Roku doesn't support the 19 years old XviD codec. I know ffmpeg is I'm not sure what's possible - any advice is helpful. I'm not comfortable with command line interfaces - I'm running Windows 10 and have Handbrake and VLC but can download other apps with GUIs. I'm looking to change a large batch of AVIs to a format I can use on my Roku TV - I know Plex and other DLNA servers can do this with AVIs but I believe you need a computer to act as a server and I just want to hookup a USB. I have read that AVI is a container format like MP4 and that it is possible to change containers without re-encoding the video -remuxing? - I'm not clear on what the difference is but in my attempt at research a number of threads/posts have mentioned this. I can post any additional info as needed.

So I have a large batch of videos that are AVIs and according to MediaInfo have: 1 video stream MPEG-4 Visual (XviD) and 1 audio stream MPEG Audio MP3 or 1 audio stream AC3. First off, I apologize if this is the wrong subreddit - I would post in r/vlc or r/handbrake but I'm not sure what software will do what I think it can.

Convert xvid to mp4