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MKVToolNix

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Developer(s)
  
Moritz Bunkus

Development status
  
Active

MKVToolNix

Initial release
  
30 April 2003; 13 years ago (2003-04-30)

Stable release
  
9.8.0 / 22 January 2017; 47 days ago (2017-01-22)

Repository
  
github.com/mbunkus/mkvtoolnix

Written in
  
C++, build system: Ruby (MKVToolNix-GUI wxWidgets)

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 Windows. The tools can be also downloaded from video software distributors and FOSS repositories.

Contents

Applications

MKVToolNix was reviewed by the Linux Journal, Linux Format, the ICTE Journal, and Softpedia among others. The tools are cited in patents for a "Universal container for audio data". A "portable" Windows edition exists, but is not yet available in the PortableApps format.

Components

MKVToolNix GUI
is a Qt GUI for mkvmerge and a successor of mmg.
mkvmerge
merges multimedia streams into a Matroska file.
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.

References

MKVToolNix Wikipedia
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