MiniMKV v1.0 ~ Copyright ©2015 Pawlygon.

* MiniMKV is merely a GUI for FFmpeg that is used to convert a video file to an MKV file.
* Launch MiniMKV.exe and click 'Choose a file to encode' (Alt + C) to select the video file to be converted.
* Choose the desired quality:
-- 'Low Quality' encodes the file at the 'veryslow' x264 preset using a CRF value of 25 with AAC audio @128kbps.
-- 'Optimum Quality' encodes the file at the 'slow' x264 preset using the default CRF value (23) with AAC audio @160kbps.
-- 'High Quality' encodes the file at the 'fast' x264 preset using a CRF value of 18 with AAC audio @192kbps.
* Next, click 'Generate commandline' (Alt + G) to generate the default commandline for conversion.
* You may make any necessary changes to the commandline if you wish. [For help see https://ffmpeg.org/documentation.html]
* Finally, click 'Start Processing' (Alt + S) to convert the file.
* FFmpeg starts the conversion as you can see in the console window.
* To terminate the conversion process at any time, press Ctrl+C in the console window.
* To clear the commandline, click 'Clear'.
* After you've completed your task, you may quit MiniMKV by clicking 'Exit' or press Alt+E or Ctrl+Q.

Note: MiniMKV is portable.  It has been tested on Windows 7 and works flawlessly (so far).


Known Issues:
(1) MiniMKV is entirely dependent on the features of 'ffmpeg.exe' and newer versions of 'ffmpeg.exe' may have deprecated parameters or newer parameters specified by the developers. Thus these deprecated/new features are likely to break the functioning of MiniMKV.  The latest version of 'ffmpeg.exe' can be obtained here: http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/win32/static/ffmpeg-latest-win32-static.7z
(2) MiniMKV overwrites the destination file by default.  So, make sure you do not have any identically named files in the destination folder.  We merely add the ".mkv" extension to the existing filename to be on the safe side.  On the other hand, you can also change the filename in the commandline box before you start processing the file.


Copyright:
(1) FFmpeg is Copyright ©The FFmpeg developers.  FFmpeg is a trademark of Fabrice Bellard, originator of the FFmpeg project.  FFmpeg is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2.1 or later.  See here for more information: https://ffmpeg.org/legal.html


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