Atom feedMKVToolNix v92.0 released
2025-04-26 — mosu
Hey y’all fine folks 😁
Here’s a new MKVToolNix release with a handful of bug fixes & enhancements. Nothing major in this one.
You can download the source code or one of the packages. The Windows packages as well as the Linux AppImage are available already. The other Linux packages & the macOS disk image are still being built and will be available over the course of the next couple of hours.
Here are the NEWS since the previous release:
Version 92.0 “Everglow” 2025-04-26
New features and enhancements
- mkvmerge: FLAC reader: pictures embedded into the FLAC file were already handled as attachments, but they were left in the codec initialization data as well. They’re now removed from the codec initialization data. See #6079.
- mkvmerge: FLAC reader: padding metadata blocks will now be removed from the codec initialization data. See #6079.
- mkvmerge: FLAC reader: embedded Vorbis comments will now be converted into Matroska comments or track/global header fields when available (e.g.
TITLEwill become the segment title & track’s name,LANGUAGEwill become the track’s language). Copying of Vorbis comments that are converted into actual Matroska tags can be prevented with the usual options, e.g.--no-track-tags. The comments will also be removed from the codec initialization data. Implements #6079. - mkvmerge, MKVToolNix GUI’s chapter editor: when reading simple (OGM-style) chapter files & no character set is given for the file, mkvmerge will try UTF-8 first before falling back to the system’s default encoding. Implements #6084.
- MKVToolNix GUI: multiplexer: the special drag & drop zones added in v91 are now shown by default in new installations.
- MKVToolNix GUI: in new installations the main window will now be sized at 75% of the screen’s resolution initially with a certain minimum initial size. This improves initial readability on high DPI screens that use screen scaling factors such as 150%.
Bug fixes
- mkvmerge: Ogg reader: during identification the track tags are now reported properly.
- MKVToolNix GUI: multiplexer: within the “additional options”, both track-specific ones & the global ones on the “Output” tab, it wasn’t possible to specify empty (zero-length) arguments. With the intended syntax of two consecutive single or double quotation marks the empty arguments were simply skipped. This was fixed, and it is now possible to specify e.g.
--title ""in the global “Additional options” in order to force no title to be written ever. Fixes #6087.
Build system changes
- Windows build: the
packaging/windows/populate_installer_dir.shnow expects the user to pass the Saxon-HE’s JAR file name to be passed with the-sor--saxon-jarparameter instead of the base directory for Saxon-HE. This allows newer versions of Saxon-HE to be used.
Have fun 😁
MKVToolNix v91.0 released
2025-03-16 — mosu
Helloooooo!
The new MKVToolNix is out, with a lot of enhancements in MKVToolNix GUI & several bug fixes in the other parts.
You can download the source code or one of the packages. The Windows packages as well as the Linux AppImage are available already. The other Linux packages & the macOS disk image are still being built and will be available over the course of the next couple of hours.
Here are the NEWS since the previous release:
Version 91.0 “Signs” 2025-03-16
Important notes
- The MKVToolNix project’s source code repository, bug tracker and wiki have been moved to Codeberg.
- The customized MXE repository used for building the Windows variants has been moved from Gitlab to Codeberg.
New features and enhancements
- MKVToolNix GUI: multiplexer: added actions in the “Multiplexer” menu for saving all currently open multiplexer tabs to a single
.mtxcfgfile. Loading this file later will restore all tabs. Implements #3797. - MKVToolNix GUI: multiplexer: when adding files the GUI can automatically enable the “commentary” flag for audio and subtitle tracks if the file name contains the word “comments” or “commentary” delimited by certain characters (configurable). This feature is turned on by default. Part of the implementation of #3798.
- MKVToolNix GUI: multiplexer: when adding files the GUI can automatically enable the “original language” flag for audio and subtitle tracks if the track’s language matches one configured by the user (configurable). This feature is turned off by default. Part of the implementation of #3798.
- MKVToolNix GUI: multiplexer: when adding files the GUI can automatically set several track flags based on the file name. It can now look for the same patters in the track names, too (configurable). This feature is turned on by default. Part of the implementation of #3798.
- MKVToolNix GUI: multiplexer: added special drag & drop zones where users can drop files to circumvent the preferences wrt. what to do with multiple dropped files. Each drop zone corresponds to one of the three possible choices (add all to current settings; create one new settings & add all there; add new settings for each file & add one file to each). This feature is turned off by default. Implements #3796.
- MKVToolNix GUI: multiplexer: added additional special drag & drop zones where users can drop files to add them as attachments. One of the zones will automatically set up the dropped file to function as a cover image. Implements #3794.
- MKVToolNix GUI: multiplexer: when making destination file names unique by suffixing them with a running number the GUI will now also consider the destination file names of multiplex jobs currently in the queue that are currently running or still waiting for execution. Implements #3801.
Bug fixes
- mkvmerge: timestamps format v3: fixed the parser; it was completely broken for the lines containing the duration & an optional number of frames per second. Fixes #2285.
- mkvmerge: DTS parser: if the X96 extension is present in a DTS-HD High Resolution stream, the sampling frequency will be set to 96kHz. This was broken when reading DTS from elementary streams & from Matroska files. Fixes #3288.
- mkvpropedit, MKVToolNix GUI’s chapter & header editors: fixed a bug leading to a segmentation fault when trying to replace an element at the end of the file that’s followed by only void elements (at least one). Fixes #3802.
Build system changes
- The bundled
nlohmann-jsonlibrary was updated to v3.11.3.
MKVToolNix v90.0 released
2025-02-08 — mosu
Heya fine folks.
The first release of 2025 brings you a handful of bug fixes & one nice improvements for header editor users.
You can download the source code or one of the packages. The Windows packages as well as the Linux AppImage are available already. The other Linux packages & the macOS disk image are still being built and will be available over the course of the next couple of hours.
Here are the NEWS since the previous release:
Version 90.0 “Hanging On” 2025-02-08
New features and enhancements
- MKVToolNix GUI: header editor: double-clicking on one of the three flag indicators (“Default track”, “Forced display”, “Enabled”) for a track in the tree view will now toggle the corresponding flag. Implements #3773.
Bug fixes
- mkvmerge: AAC parser: LOAS/LATM streams: fixed use of uninitialized data when the
StreamMuxConfigelement doesn’t contain theaudioMuxVersionelement; version 0 must be assumed in such a case. The result was that sometimes certain valid AAC packets were dropped. Fix by Stefan Pöschel. - mkvmerge: HEVC/H.265 parser: fixed calculation of picture order count calculation that was triggered under rare circumstances. Fixes #3775.
- mkvmerge: Matroska reader: enabled limits for how much data a single Matroksa reader instance might buffer when the muxing core looks for packets for specific tracks, avoiding huge memory consumption in cases where tracks have huge gaps between packets. This might happen when appending files containing forced-only subtitle tracks, for example. Fixes #3771.
- mkvmerge: TrueHD reader: increased the probe range for TrueHD sync frames from 128 KB to 512 KB to avoid mis-detection with certain files with a lot of data between sync frames. Fixes #3783.
- mkvmerge: MP4/QuickTime reader: fixed detection of Big Endian LPCM audio. Fixes #3788.
Build system changes
- The bundled
fmtlibrary was updated to v11.1.2. - added a new option to
configurecalled--disable-dbusto disable looking for & using QtDBus even if it’s present on the system. Default remains to probe for its existence. Patch by Anthony Ryan.
Have fun! 😁
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