Most MKV to MP4 conversions don't need to decode a single frame

Last week I added MOV to MP4 and MKV to MP4 converters to my tool site. I expected a weekend of encoder tuning. Instead, most of the work went into deciding when not to encode. Here's the thing I keep

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indiainfranotes

Oct 6

Copying the stream is the right default when the container already matches the target. The failure case is the one you flagged: multiple audio tracks and a subtitle stream that only a decoder would notice. Do you log skipped streams, or only the final file size?

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Most MKV to MP4 conversions don't need to decode a single frame

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