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ADD YOUR AVI
Drop the AVI file into the box above or choose it from your device.
AVI → MKV / online converter
AVI to MKV Converter
Convert an AVI video to MKV for media servers and players like Plex, Jellyfin and VLC.
01 / how to
How to convert AVI to MKV
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CONVERT TO MKV
MKV is already selected. Press Convert and wait a few seconds.
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DOWNLOAD
Save the finished MKV file. The original is deleted from our server.
02 / what you get
What happens to your data
Kept
- Old AVI files with DivX, Xvid, MPEG-4 and similar codecs are read
- H.264 video with AAC audio in a Matroska container that plays in VLC, Plex, Jellyfin and most media players
- The original resolution and frame rate are kept
- A phone video recorded sideways or upside down is turned the right way up
- Surround sound (5.1) is kept when the source has it
Good to know
- The video is re-encoded, which is slightly lossy. Only one video track and one audio track are kept; extra audio tracks and subtitles are left out.
- A width or height that is an odd number of pixels is trimmed by one pixel, because video encoders need even sizes.
- HDR video (for example from a recent iPhone) is converted to normal SDR colors, and 10-bit video becomes 8-bit, so it plays everywhere.
- Files up to 150 MB are accepted. Long or very high-resolution videos can take several minutes, and a conversion that runs past about 4 minutes is stopped with a message.
03 / formats
AVI vs MKV
AVI
An AVI file is a video container from the early 1990s, one of the oldest still in circulation. Still shows up in old archives, but rarely produced new today.
Used in: Old video archives · Legacy software
MKV
An MKV (Matroska) file is an open-standard, highly flexible video container — popular for media archiving, torrents, and playback through apps like Plex or Jellyfin.
Used in: Media archiving · Plex & Jellyfin · Torrents
04 / more
More conversions
Have a different file? Open the main converter — it detects the format for you.