These mkv files have h.265 hevc video which my media player can’t read, so I’d like to convert only the video stream to h.264, while leaving all other streams (2 audio tracks in aac, 2 subtitle tracks) intact.

ffmpeg -i some-x265-video.mkv -map 0 -c:v libx264 -c:a copy /tmp/x264-version.mkv