Other command line tools (example: mkvinfo) This time the process was even faster - at the end I could read the following message 'Muxing took 34 seconds'. Again, the same button named 'Start Muxing' was doing all the magic. Again, I went to 'Input' tab and used the 'Add' button, I selected an AVI file from my computer and I noticed that the program displayed the Output filename automatically with the name of the same file but this time in MKV (Matroska) format. After this, I wanted to mux the content of an AVI file in MKV format.

The program required just 45 seconds for this operation and the result was 14 smaller MKV files.

Finally I clicked on 'Start Muxing' button. I selected a 710 MB MKV file and I wanted to split this (from 'Global' tab - select 'Split Mode' - 'split after size' and then I specified the size - in this case 50M = 50MB) in smaller files with a size of 50 MB for each. I went to program interface at the 'Input' tab and used the 'Add' button (it also works using the 'drag and drop' method. At a first look, the interface looks quite intuitive so my first action was to open an MKV file, select an option and see the result. I wanted to test two things: the mkvmerge GUI (software interface) and see how easy or hard is to use the command line for all the other tools such as 'mkvinfo'.Īs soon as the setup finished, I opened the 'mkvmerge GUI' shortcut from my desktop. Therefore, if you're looking for more information on how to compile MKVToolNix yourself, check the README file (online). Note: I tested MKVToolNix on Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit using mkvmerge GUI and several other tools opened from the Command Prompt such as mkvinfo. Please note that from this page you can download the Windows (installer and portable) and Mac OS X versions. This is a cross platform application that will work on Windows (both 32 and 64 bit versions), Mac OS X and Linux. The program will also work with other video formats (AVI, MPEG, MP4, MPEG, Ogg/OGM, RealVideo, MPEG1/2, h264/AVC, Dirac, VC1) including some video codecs (such as VP9 video codec support - reading from IVF/Matroska/WebM files, extract to IVF files), audio (AAC, FLAC, MP2, MP3, (E)AC3, DTS/DTS-HD, Vorbis, RealAudio) and also most subtitle formats (SRT, PGS/SUP, VobSub, ASS, SSA etc.). You can use MKVToolNix to create, split, edit, mux, demux, merge, extract or inspect Matroska files. MKVToolNix is a small collection of tools (mkvmerge, mkvinfo, mkvextract, mkvpropedit and mmg) that allows you to manipulate Matroska (MKV) files in several ways.

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