I love people like this - let me guess: 50+ inch TV in a 6 x 10 foot living room?
Or Handbrake which is free.
I would have said Handbrake, but OP strictly asked for easiest.
I love people like this - let me guess: 50+ inch TV in a 6 x 10 foot living room?
Or Handbrake which is free.
Which doesn't matter for 99% of the movies out there because either the transfer was crap and/or the movie isn't driven by visuals.
Avatar? Blu-Ray is the only option.
Juno? VHS would do.
Bullsh*t, cinema is inherently a visual medium. The catalog of film worth watching in high quality is vast, the number of films already restored for bluray is pretty damn big now. Unless you are watching thousands of direct to video garbage films anything actually worth watching is or will be in hidef soon.
Watching a great film on vhs would be folly, even juno benefits. Its like saying that you can listen to great music on a 25 dollar cassette radio from the 1980's, after all its about the music, the sound quality is only for the shallow technical people.
In any case, its just not a good idea, its like someone making copies of their vhs collection, the whole ripping dvds is wasting time on something that was already obsolete years ago.
Any value you think you are providing is completely lost by your opening statement, which is also almost 6 years late.Just love the way people put nonsense opinions into their replies, would be nice if people would just answer the question to the best of their knowledge.
1. You can take your original over-sized MKV file and extract the audio, subtitles, & chapters, no need to extract raw video, with MKVextractGUI or MKVextractGUI2, which ever works for you.
2. Take the MKV file into VLC media player and use Convert/Save to reduce the size making it an mp4, don't worry if your audio is out of sync, you will be replacing it with the original.
3. Next you open MKVToolNixGUI and drag your mp4 file to the source file on the Input tab, you uncheck the audio in the bottom box, click +Add source files and add back your original audio file which will be in-sync with your video, you can add your subtitle file as well if you want them.
4. Click on the Output tab and link your Chapter file.
5. Start muxing!
Note: if your file is still too large, you can convert/save in VLC media player and do it all over again.