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 new multimedia file format aiming to become the new container format for the future. You can find more information about it and its underlying technology, the Extensible Binary Meta Language (EBML), at https://www.matroska.org/

What's New

New features and enhancements

  • Translations: added a Belarusian translation of the programs & the man pages by prydespar (see AUTHORS).
  • mkvmerge, MKVToolNix GUI's chapter editor: added support for reading chapters from ffmpeg metadata files. Implements #3676.
  • MKVToolNix GUI: added a new action type for execution after jobs or the queue finishes: quitting MKVToolNix. Implements #3677.

Build system changes

  • The bundled fmt library was updated to v10.2.1.

Other changes

  • Tons of changes were made to support the latest development versions of libEBML & libMatroska.