MKV2AVI

MKV2AVI is a lightweight program with a name that perfectly describes its functionality - it allows you to turn MKV files into AVI videos. The tool can be easily used, even by inexperienced individuals.

This is a portable app, so installing MKV2AVI is not necessary. It means that you can place it on a removable drive (like a USB flash drive), store it on any system and directly run its executable file.

More importantly, no changes are made to the Windows registry and no leftover items can be found after removal.

The interface of the application is plain and uncomplicated. Video clips can be imported via the file browser because the "drag and drop" method is unsupported. Unfortunately, you cannot process multiple videos in a single session.

You can check out the source path of the video clips. If you are satisfied with the default settings, then you can immediately proceed with the conversion operation with the click of a button.

Advanced users can fiddle with the settings regarding AviSynth (frames per second, sharpen, trimming), XviD (e.g. quantizers, motion search, threads) and XSUB (use AVIAddXSubs after muxing). Unfortunately, you cannot restore these options to default.

You can set MKV2AVI to create a log file, delete temporary files and to show spawned tools windows, as well as specify the temporary folder.

The video conversion tool requires a low-to-moderate amount of CPU and system memory, has a good response time and delivers videos with a good image and sound quality. No error dialogs have been displayed throughout our testing and MKV2AVI did not freeze or crash. Its interface could use some improvements in the visual department.