MKVToolNix is a collection of tools for the Matroska media container format by Moritz Bunkus including mkvmerge. The free and open source Matroska libraries and tools are available for various platforms including Linux and BSD distributions, macOS and Microsoft Windows. The tools can be also downloaded from video software distributors^[4][5][6][7] and FOSS repositories.^[8]

Applications[edit]

MKVToolNix: info tool: when saving to a text file the checkbox 'Save as default for saving output to text files' did nothing. MKVToolNix: info tool: when saving to a text file in 'all elements in a tree-like structure' mode, the GUI always stopped at the first cluster regardless of the setting of the 'verbosity' option. MKVToolNix is a set of tools to create, alter, split, join and inspect Matroska files (mkv). With these tools one can get information about (mkvinfo) Matroska files, extract tracks/data from (mkvextract) Matroska files and create (mkvmerge) Matroska files from other media files. Matroska is a multimedia file format aiming to become THE new. When MKVToolNix is compiled with the libdvdread (tm) library, mkvmerge (1) can read chapters from DVDs. For that you can use the path to one of the folders or files on the DVD with the. MKVToolNix GUI Multiplexer & chapter editor In MKVToolNix's multiplexer and chapter editor all controls taking a single language have been changed to use a language selection dialog. That dialog offers the user the choice between a free-form input or selecting each component of the language with the help of drop-down boxes.

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MKVToolNix was reviewed by the Linux Journal, Linux Format, the ICTE Journal, and Softpedia among others.^{[9][10][11][12][13][14][15]} The tools are cited in patents for a 'Universal container for audio data'.^[16] A 'portable' Windows edition exists, but is not yet available in the PortableApps format.^[17]

MKVToolnix is a set of tools to create, alter and inspect Matroska files. With these tools one can get information about (mkvinfo) Matroska files, extract tracks/data from (mkvextract) Matroska files and create (mkvmerge) Matroska files from other media files.

Components[edit]

MKVToolNix GUI

is a QtGUI for mkvmerge and a successor of mmg.

mkvmerge

merges multimedia streams into a Matroska file.^[18]

mkvinfo

lists all elements contained in a Matroska file.

mkvextract

extracts specific parts from a Matroska file to other formats.

mkvpropedit

allows to analyze and modify some Matroska file properties.

Creating Matroska Files

See also[edit]

• Converting video on Wikimedia Commons

References[edit]

1. ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on April 5, 2021. Retrieved April 8, 2021.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
2. ^'MKVToolNix GUI · Wiki · Moritz Bunkus _ MKVToolNix · GitLab'. Archived from the original on December 29, 2020. Retrieved May 14, 2019.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
3. ^'Debian -- Details of package mkvtoolnix-gui in jessie'. Archived from the original on December 29, 2020. Retrieved May 14, 2019.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
4. ^'MKVToolnix'. videohelp.com. 2015.
5. ^'Downloads for Windows'. matroska.org. 2011. sec. Editors. Archived from the original on February 6, 2015. Retrieved February 6, 2015.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
6. ^'MKVToolnix'. digital digest. 2015.
7. ^'MKVToolnix'. free-codecs.com. 2015.
8. ^FOSShub (January 5, 2015). 'MKVToolNix'. Archived from the original on December 29, 2020. Retrieved February 8, 2015. This is a must-have software if you work with MKV files.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
9. ^Nick Veitch (February 2011). 'Video tools. MKVToolNix'(PDF). Linux Format. Future plc (141): 77. ISSN1470-4234. Archived(PDF) from the original on December 29, 2020. Retrieved February 8, 2015.
10. ^Mike Saunders (Christmas 2012). 'Video file creator. MKVToolNix'(PDF). Linux Format. Future plc (165): 68. ISSN1470-4234. Archived(PDF) from the original on December 29, 2020. Retrieved February 8, 2015.
11. ^Richard Smedley (April 2014). 'Video and audio file utilities. MKVToolNix'(PDF). Linux Format. Future plc (182): 67. ISSN1470-4234. Archived(PDF) from the original on December 29, 2020. Retrieved February 8, 2015. they're pretty robust, but continue to get incremental improvement and feature updates with fairly regular point releases.
12. ^D. Bartholomew (2008). 'Reviews: The popcorn hour a-100'. Linux Journal. Archived from the original on December 29, 2020. Retrieved February 7, 2015.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
13. ^A. Oujezdský (2014). 'Creation of educational video tutorials and their use in education'(PDF). ICTE Journal. p. 28. Archived(PDF) from the original on December 29, 2020. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
14. ^Silviu Stahie (January 5, 2015). 'Merge, Split, and Convert MKV Files with MKVToolNix'. SoftpediaLinux blog. Archived from the original on December 29, 2020. Retrieved February 7, 2015.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
15. ^Cory Altheide, Harlan Carvey (March 29, 2011). Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools. Elsevier. ch. 8 'File Analysis'. ISBN978-1597495875.
16. ^US patent 8494866, William G. Stewart; James E. McCartney & Douglas S. Wyatt, 'Universal container for audio data', published July 23, 2013, assigned to Apple Inc.Google Patent entryArchived December 29, 2020, at the Wayback Machine
17. ^darksabre76 (January 21, 2013). 'MKVToolNix Portable 7.1.0 Dev Test 1'. PortableApps.com. Archived from the original on December 29, 2020. Retrieved February 7, 2015.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
18. ^Moritz Bunkus (2015). 'mkvmerge -- Merge multimedia streams into a Matroska™ file'. mkvtoolnix. Retrieved February 6, 2015.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)

External links[edit]

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• Official website
• mkvtoolnix project on GitLab
• MKVToolNix at Open Hub