How to convert MKV videos to AVI on Mac?
MKV to AVI on Mac OS X: Convert Video from MKV (Matroska Video) to AVI(Audio Video Interleaved) with Mac MKV video Converter, MKV2AVI converter for Mac, conversion
What are AVI videos?
AVI, an acronym for Audio Video Interleave, is a multimedia container format. An AVI file can carry audio/visual data inside in almost any compression scheme, including: MPEG-4, XviD, DivX and others.
AVI is Microsoft's response to Apple's QuickTime technology. Early AVI files were limited on choice of video and audio codecs, quality, and resolution. However, with the introduction of DirectShow, AVI became a very flexible and powerful architecture. Some newer codecs including DivX and XviD enable AVI files to have similar or even better quality than DVD.
How to convert MKV to AVI on Mac OS X?
Step 1, Download and install MKV video converter
You can download it for free here:
To install it, simply mount the .dmg archive by double-clicking it, and copy the application to your applications folder (or wherever you want ).
Step 2, Add MKV video files
Click the "Add Files" button to add MKV video files to the program. This MKV video converter for Mac supports drag and dropping. It also supports batch conversion, so you can import and convert several multimedia files at a time.
Step 3, Select output format
Use the “format” on the bottom of the window to control the output format. Click on the toggle to the right of the "Format" label to expand the panel. Select " Xvid AVI - Audio Video Interleaved(Xvid)" as the output format.
Step 4, Change AVI Video and audio Settings
Click on the “Setting” button to expand Setting” panel.
You can change the Resolution, Encoder, Bit rate and Frame rate of the AVI video and Sample Rate, Channels, Encoder and Bit Rate of the AVI Audio. The size of the AVI file depends a lot on these settings.
Microsoft ships some standard codecs with Windows, including MJPEG, Microsoft Video 1 and Cinepak. Those are old codecs and are not very efficient. It is not uncommon that your AVI files will be 10x to 50x bigger than your original files if you are converting from DIVX, MOV, MPEG, WMV or anything encoded with a MPEG based codec.
You can use additional codecs from Microsoft or third party codecs to reduce the file size. DivX and Xvid are two excellent third party codecs, which produces video with excellent quality with smaller file size. Both of them are based on MPEG-4, and both can be used with AVI file format.
This MKV video Converter use Xvid codes.
Step 5, Select output directory
Expand the "Output" panel. Use the "Browse" button to select an output directory.
Step 6, Click “Convert” to convert MKV to AVI on Mac.