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2015-02-08 05:50 GMT

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 since 2003-05-01 for various platforms including Linux and BSD distributions, Mac OS and Windows. The tools can be also downloaded from video software distributors   and FOSS repositories. Version 7.5.0 was released on 2015-01-24.

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 available in the PortableApps format.

Components

 * mmg: is a simple wxWidgets GUI for mkvmerge.
 * mkvmerge: merges multimedia streams into a Matroska file.
 * mkvinfo: lists all elements contained in a .mkv file.
 * mkvextract: extracts specific parts from a .mkv file to other formats.
 * mkvpropedit: allows to analyse and modify some .mkv file properties.