MKVToolNix

Last updated

Original author(s) Moritz Bunkus
Developer(s) Moritz Bunkus
Initial releaseApril 30, 2003;21 years ago (2003-04-30)
Stable release
88.0.0 [1] / October 19, 2024;0 days ago (2024-10-19)
Repository
Written in C++ (GUI: originally in wxWidgets, but ported to Qt5 due to the wxWidgets problems. [2] [3]
Operating system Unix-like, macOS, Microsoft Windows, Linux
Platform Matroska
Size ~20 MB
Available in25 languages: list
Type Multimedia software (container format manipulation)
License GPLv2 or later
Website mkvtoolnix.download

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]

Contents

Applications

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]

Components

MKVToolNix GUI
is a Qt GUI 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.

See also

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