Panasonic TV plays only Divx

[RickB]

I hope this is the right forum. Apologies if its not. I have just started to convert my DVD's to MKV to stream via my Asus router with a hard drive plugged in. I hope to put all my DVD's on this. My new Panasonic TV does this perfectly through its wireless connection. My older Panasonic TV which is hard wired into the router will only play DVD format and Divx. What the best and preferably free converter to convert my DVD's to Divx.

Thanks for your help

[foxyshadis]

Unless you really want to spend the time and hassle, you might want to look into getting a Chromecast or Roku stick. Otherwise, if you're just doing one or two at a time when you want them, get Mediacoder (http://www.mediacoderhq.com/dlfull.htm), set video to MPEG4, audio to MP3, and container to AVI, then the rest of the bitrates how you want. If you're going to convert everything, get the latest copy of ffmpeg 64-bit static (http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/), put it in the folder with your videos, and save this as convert.bat in the same folder:
for %%A IN (*.mkv) DO ffmpeg -i "%%A" -c:v mpeg4 -vtag xvid -q:v 3 -codec:a libmp3lame -q:a 3 "%%A.avi"

(Test that "xvid" works for your TV, some demand "DX50".)

[RickB]

foxyshadis

Thanks for that. I will give it a go

[RickB]

foxyshadis

Thanks again, bought a ROKU, its okay. However I have problems on play back on some files with sound as ROKU does not support all file formats