Free MKV to AVI Converter

1. Open Programs and Features by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking Programs, and then clicking Programs and Features.
2. On the list of installed programs select Free MKV to AVI Converter and then click Uninstall. This will launch the uninstall wizard.
3. Follow the instructions displayed on the screen.

To encode the video files the program uses the FFmpeg encoder (ffmpeg.org).

To retrieve information about video files, the program uses the library MediaInfo.dll (http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/).

The program is accompanied by a special version of the FFmpeg encoder, adapted to the needs of the program. Not recommended to use other versions of FFmpeg.

Version 1.10 (2021.02.09)

• Updated conversion engine (FFmpeg) and multimedia information library (MediaInfo).
• Information about the conversion progress is displayed on the title bar of the main window and on the taskbar.
• Fixed Stack overflow bug when selecting next files in the list very quickly.
• Added support for files from network shares whose names start with the characters “\\“.
• When saving the report to a text file in the File properties window, UTF-8 encoding is used (in previous versions the system default code page was used).
• After the user has interrupted the conversion, the program displays a window asking whether to delete the incompletely converted file. Such files usually have a damaged internal structure and cannot be played.
• If incorrect parameters are passed to the conversion engine (FFmpeg) and the conversion process fails, the output file will be automatically deleted. Such a file usually does not contain any data (0 bytes in size) and only unnecessarily litter the disk.
• The file names, encoder options and some words (error, invalid, unable etc.) are highlighted in the error log window. This makes the log more readable now.
• UTF-8 encoding (instead of the system code page) is used when writing the error log to a text file.
• The ability to save the log also to an HTML file has been added.
• Lots of minor changes and fixes to the source code and the program interface.

Version 1.9 (2018.08.02)

• New conversion engine (FFmpeg) and multimedia information library (MediaInfo).
• Added option to save the creation, last access and last write time of the source files in the output files.
• New video filters: color conversion to grayscale or sepia, brightness, saturation, flip horizontal, flip vertical, rotation, negative.
• Added the ability to copy and paste encoder settings.
• Displaying the size of the resulting file during conversion.
• Highlighting the conversion speed and highlighting the number of the current pass during two-pass conversion.
• Added support for Material Exchange Format files (MXF).
• Highlighting with separate colors of audio and video streams in the File Info window for easier identification.
• A new control displaying a list of pre-defined video resolutions. All resolutions that meet the 16:9 aspect ratio are highlighted in green, 4:3 – light red. The list has also been complemented with slightly less used resolutions.
• The control displaying the list of profiles has been changed. Now additional separators are displayed between the profiles, which increases the readability.
• Changed the position and size of some interface elements, mainly related to facilitating access to advanced program options.
• A small changes to many controls: file list (table), buttons, audio volume slider, menus, page control, some panels…
• The error causing displaying of negative values of processed data after exceeding the 2GB threshold has been fixed.
• New About window displaying additional information.
• Lots of smaller improvements and bug fixes.
• Support for Windows XP was dropped. Windows Vista or later is required. Maintaining compatibility with Windows XP would prevent the use of new technologies, audio and video encoders, and new FFmpeg features only available for Windows Vista and newer.
• Slovenian translation.

Version 1.8 (2018.06.13)

• New conversion engine (FFmpeg) and multimedia information library (MediaInfo).
• New module: Check for updates.
• Added the ability to select visible columns from the context menu of the file list and from the main menu.
• Automatic scrolling of text in the window with the conversion progress.
• Minor color changes in the main window and menu.
• Bug fixes and enhancements.

Version 1.7 (2017.02.28)

• New conversion engine (FFmpeg) and multimedia information library (MediaInfo).
• Improved compatibility with Windows XP.
• Changes in the program interface: modified toolbar and menus.
• New window: Tools Info
• Bug fixes and enhancements.
• Program name was changed from Pazera Free MKV to AVI Converter to Free MKV to AVI Converter.

Version 1.6 (2016.08.12)

• From now the program is also available in a 64-bit version.
• New conversion engine (FFmpeg) and multimedia information library (MediaInfo).
• New columns: video codec, video codec ID, video profile, video bitrate, width, height, resolution, display aspect, frames/sec., scan type, bits/pixel, video stream size, audio codec, audio codec ID, audio profile, audio bitrate, channels, sampling, audio stream size.
• New actions: Uncheck all files, Check selected files, Uncheck selected files, Clear file list.
• The default video encoder was changed from H.264 to Xvid, which is more “native” to AVI files.
• Added support for Swedish language.
• Minor bug fixes and enhancements.

Version 1.5 (2016.06.10)

• Changed toolbar.
• New icons.
• New file list control with many additional features (sorting, row and column moving…).
• New version of the FFmpeg and MediaInfo library.
• Possibility to set the default video encoder by the user.
• Better support for Matroska video files.
• Added support for additional languages: Chinese (simplified), Finnish, Hungarian, Russian.

Version 1.4 (2014.06.21)

• Changes in the program interface.
• Added possibility to set display aspect ratio.
• New version of the FFmpeg and MediaInfo library.
• New conversion profiles.
• Better detection of data streams in video files.
• Added support for Latvian language.

Version 1.3 (2013.12.07)

• Small changes in the program interface.
• New version of the FFmpeg and MediaInfo library.
• Fixed saving audio codec ID when converting audio to AC3 and AAC.
• Improved detection of data streams in video files.
• Closing the window with the conversion progress at the end of the conversion process.
• Improved reading and writing of encoder parameters from/to profiles.
• Added support for additional languages: Greek, Portuguese, Turkish.

Version 1.2 (2013.06.06)

• New version of the FFmpeg that supports the latest versions of the x264, Xvid and other encoders.
• New version of the MediaInfo library.
• Adding to the processing list of all supported files from the selected folder and its subfolders.
• Changed the application toolbar.
• Removed automatically adding a program icon to the system tray after startup. This icon is added only after selecting the Minimize to system tray command.
• Improved matching of encoding parameters with automatic settings.

Version 1.1 (2013.03.29)

• New version of the FFmpeg that supports the latest versions of the x264, LAME, Xvid and other encoders.
• New version of the MediaInfo library.
• Changed the default video codec from Xvid to H.264/MPEG-4 AVC (x264).
• Fixed a list of a video bitrates.
• Improved matching of encoding parameters with automatic settings.
• Improved detection of data streams in video files.
• Improved interrupting the conversion process.
• Saving and restoring size of the window with the conversion progress.
• Added support for languages: Czech, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Serbian, Spanish.

Version 1.0 (2011.05.17)
Initial release.