Convert massive video library from Xvid to H.264?

Hey guys, I have built up a fairly large video collection of movies and tv shows (~300) over the years, and they are all encoded in xvid. What I would like to do is convert them to h.264. It would be VERY tedious to go through and convert them all manually. I have searched everywhere I can think of for a solution, but haven't found one. If any of you guys have a solution, that would be great. Thanks in advance.

skottish wrote:There's a VDPAU driver specifically for DivX/Xvid in Mplayer called ffodivxvdpau now. You'll need a newer Mplayer revision than the one in the repos to use it.
Yeah, but you need a specific graphic card. As I said, they are listed under "Feature Set C" in Nvidia's VDPAU documentation. Other graphic cards cannot handle Xvid. But every CPU since like forever can, so unless one is just shopping for a new graphic card, I don't see any big need for hardware decoding of Xvid.

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