What to do with ISOs? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I just got into usenet and some of the files downloaded are ISOs. I’m trying to figure out the best way to convert them to mp4s so that I can play them through plex. I’m running on a headless arch server (Manjaro), and I’d prefer to keep the conversion there if possible.

Anyone have experience with this?

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[-] Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh, I did in my comment. It was just:

makemkvcon mkv iso:my_file_name.iso all outputDirectory

Note: outputDirectory must exist, it could even just be ./

makemkv will then scan the iso for its chapters, filter out the small ones, convert the large ones to mkv files and output them in your directory you provided. Then I just looked for the biggest one and deleted the smaller ones, the big one ended up being almost the same size as the ISO and was indeed the movie output I was looking for.

[-] dishpanman@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for following up! I'm surprised it just dumped out one mkv file without you having to command a specific chapter to decrypt. It's good to know that you can probably set up a batch file to decrypt everything in a whole directory!