Errors playing back AVIs from 10 years ago / server not powerful enough / not enough CPU

[TeknoJunky]

I cant play xvid avi with hardware transcoding on, any idea how to fix that?

I have a proposal. How about I write a shell script. The shell script will require only two things: mediainfo and ffmpeg. Given the top of a directory tree to scan and given the top most directory of where to put the output Batch convert all the AVI files it finds and puts them in MKV containers as well as converting them to viable H.264 encoding. Preserves the directory tree under the top most directory A small bitrate bump would be added to compensate for any encoding loss. As example: …