Convert multiple files of multiple format to mkv

I have started using .mkv for all recorded tv especially, mpeg and avc held in a .ts format. I use mkvtoolnix tools now to do the conversion.

I tend to do video work on windows as it is my main gaming pc which has the big graphics card but i'm not a massive fan of windows powershell, so I tend to use cygwin on top of windows, then automate the converstion process with a bash script, here is shell script I use to look for all .ts files in a directory and convert them to .mkv format. if you wanted to do other formats, either change "-name *.ts" to something like "-name *.mp4" of just remove the section altogether for everything.

#!/bin/bash # Set the cygwin file path to the mkv tool "mkvmerge.exe" this is a linux style file path. MkvMergeBin=/drives/f/VideoWork/MkvToolsInstall/mkvtoolnix/mkvmerge.exe # Set the directory where you store all the video files you want to convert, as this is running in cygwin it is a windows style file path. InputDir='F:\VideoWork' # Set the directory where you want to output the converted files. Again a windows style file path. OutputDir='F:\VideoWork' # The find command will look only in the given InputDir location and in this example look only for all files ending .ts. the output of this command is piped to the while iteration and each file is passed to mkvmerge for conversion and output to the given output dir. find "$InputDir" -type f -name '*.ts' -maxdepth 1 -exec basename {} ';' | { while read InFile ; do $MkvMergeBin -o "${OutputDir}\\${InFile%.ts}.mkv" "${InputDir}\\${InFile}" done }