For Mac, Handbrake or MPEG Streamclip are both free.
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Also both free for Windows in fact. Excellent easy choices.
ETA: though Handbrake is definitely easier and would be my rec. MPEG Stream clip is more powerful but somewhat less intuitive.
I have .mkv files that won't copy onto an empty 64GB thumb drive. Are they really big? Is the format the problem?
I have them on my old laptop and played them on VLC no problem. I just want to move them now.
How big are they, do you know? If the thumb drive is formatted as FAT instead of NTFS, there's a limit on file size.
Thanks, Dana. That will help, I think. I just have to look up how this thumb is formatted.
I think the maximum flie size on FAT 32 is 4 GB.
It is a FAT32. Hmmm. Now to get the other kind, too, I guess ...
You should be able to reformat it.
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