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How to Convert H.264 MKV to H.265 MP4

Have a bunch of unpack H.264 MKV files, and you may want them in the smaller package of H.265. Now in this article, we will guide you to convert H.264 MKV to H.265 MP4 while keeping the same quality(at least no difference in visual). Two options are provided for you.

Handbrake

You can use Handbrake, but be aware, you are putting the video through another decode-re-encode process, so there will be quality loss. It may look fine on your setup, and you probably won't get that much savings in size.

Brorsoft Video Converter

Brorsoft Video Converter(or Mac) is one of the?best H.265 encoder?from the market so far. It recently upgraded to support H.265 encoding and decoding and it can be taken as a completely professional H.265/HEVC encoder, decoder, player and editor. With it, you can convert .mkv H.264 to .mp4 H.265 without quality loss effortlessly. And it is available to customize the output resolutions to any size the users want and edit video file with trim, crop, add watermark, insert subtitles, split, merge and other options before conversion. What's more, it also supports convert?H.265 to H.264, DivX, MOV, WMV, MOG, VOB, etc for different use.

Converting H.264 MKV to H.265 MP4

1. Install and run this H.264 to H.265 converter and then import your H.264 MKV files to it either by clicking add button or dragging & dropping.

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2. Click Format bar and select H.265 MP4 as output format from "Common Video".

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Tip: Before conversion, this H.265 converter software allows you to click "Settings" button right besides "Format" and enter "Profile Settings" panel to adjust video size, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channels.

3. Click Convert button to start converting H.264 MKV file to H.265 MP4. Once the conversion is done, click Open button to locate the results videos.

Editor’s Note: The benefit of using H.265 over H.264 doesn't really become evident until you are compressing videos at 1440p or higher. Given the still limited support of H.265 compared to H.264 on external playback hardware, and given the time it takes to compress to H.265 without visible quality loss, we would not bother converting 2k video from H.264. But for UHD / 4k resolutions like 2160p, the compression factor of H.265 is approximately 9 times better than H.264.

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