Recommended Way to Convert VC1 MKV to H264 MKV?

[Charlie97l]

I have several HDDVD rips (and a few BD) that are VC1. Those won't play well on my HTPCs (Raspberry Pi and Acer Revo 1600) running XBMC.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. I know it's not possible to do a 1:1 conversion, but as close to that as possible would be ideal.

Thanks!

[Smithcraft]

If they are interlaced VC1 then you need to get something that transcodes interlaced VC1.

If it's just regular VC1 then Handbrake would be fine.

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[Romansh]

Update to a bleeding-edge version of XBMC? If they use the latest libavcodec, interlaced VC-1 should work fine.

Or find a way to use hardware-accelerated decoding on the Pi (don't know whether it's possible, TBH).

XBMC forums could help with that.