Here’s how: Open the VLC media player and click Tools > Preferences. Click All at the bottom left corner. Click on the Input / Codecs tab, click Video codecs, and choose Demuxers > Matroska. Deselect Preload MKV files in the same directory on the right side, and click Save.
Open this video converter and you should see a +Video button at the top left corner of the main interface. Click it and then browse and open the AVI file you need to convert to MKV. If you want to batch convert AVI to MKV, import all AVI files now. Convert AVI to MKV on Windows. Step 2. Choose MKV as the output format.
FAT32 has a limit for how big files can be, 4 GB. One hour BD is typically 4,5 GB so I have a problem here. However, VLC seems to support seamless playback of files if they are numbered (at least a movie I had that came on two CDs Movie CD1.avi and Movie CD2.avi worked fine) so my plan was to simply split my too big files in parts slightly
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