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June 17, 2019 at 11:42 am #23205
fatmac
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    You could make yourself a little script to do the conversion for you, only needing the file name (less extension) as the parameter ($1) – might make it easier for you in the future. 🙂

    
# Just use the filename less extension as parameter
ffmpeg -i $1.mp4 -vcodec copy -acodec copy $1.mkv

    Then you just call it mp4-2-mpv, (or anything else you like), & run it as so,

    mp4-2-mpv filename

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