Mkvextract GUI [Archive]

DarkDudae

3rd April 2004, 21:11

I have programmed a GUI for MKVExtract. MKVExtract is a great tool programmed by Moritz Bunkus which can extracts tracks, attachments, chapters and tags of any MKV(Matroska) file. This GUI will help you using mkvextract.

If you can help me to find bugs, suggestions... you are welcome!
Remember you need to put this tool into the same folder than mkvmerge and mkvextract.

MKVExtract GUI 1.5.5 (changes made by Kurtnoise13)

-Added French Language.
-Added mkxuncat support (asked by RobuX4 himself to undo matroska files concatenation).
-Added dts and usf files extraction.
-Clean & improve the code.

MKVExtract GUI 1.5.4 (changes made by seth)

-MKVextractGUI can be found at CoreCodec.org.
-Added pre-selection of output path for MKVextractGUI folder, source folder or another path.
-Added new folder creation, name edition, etc in ouput path selection dialog (Browse button).
-Some tips have been translated to english/spanish.
-Add CoreCodec MKVextractGUI project ("http://corecodec.org/projects/mkvextractgui/") link in Help menu.
-Fixed "File no found" extracting bug (in rares cases) when Matroska file and output path have been selected manually.
-Some minor improvements in exceptions and internal bugs.

MKVExtract GUI 1.5.3.1 (changes made by seth)

-Fixed bug if Select Matroska File was closed without any selection.
-Drag&Drop Support.
-Reset button in File Menu.
-GUI redesigned.
-MKVextractGUI folder is the default path to extract the tracks.
-Added automatic recognition of VOBSUB subtitles.

Changelog since MKVExtract GUI 1.5.1 (changes made by seth)

-English and Spanish languages in the same exe file.
-Added XP Style.

Changelog since MKVExtract GUI 1.5.0

-Fixed chapter parser bug. (No more problems detecting different matroska streams/attachments...)

-Fixed ouput folder selection bug.

-Some help tips added.

-.mka and .mks loading added.

Changelog since MKVExtract GUI 1.2:

-Added chapters and tags extraction support. (They will be showed like the rest of tracks/attachments). Chapters can be extracted in XML and Simple(OGG)txt formats. Tags only can be extracted in xml.

-A lot of internal corrections.

-Monospace font for CommandLines.

-Added RM files extraction.(Added in latest mkvtoolnix 0.8.7)

-Added new formats system that will allow you to customize the GUI for future A/V formats actually not supported by mkvextract. For example: QUICKTIME A/V extraction is not supported by mkvtoolnix 0.8.7, but it is for sure that future versions will do. If you check in MKVExtract GUI a track like this:

Track ID 1 (V_QUICKTIME)

Then the program will ask you what output extension you want to assing to that sort of track. (In this case qtv) So the next time you find that sort of track, the program will remember it and will assing the output ext automatically. The new formats are saved into Formats.txt file, so you can edit/delete/add them easily.

(TRACK_TYPE) ext
------------------------------
Example of Formats.txt file:
(V_QUICKTIME) qtv
(A_QUICKTIME/QDM2) qta
------------------------------

You can download it HERE (http://corecodec.org/projects/mkvextractgui/)

EDITED: Until seth can upload Kurtnoise changes to project page, latest version (1.5.5) can be found HERE (http://www.unite-video.com/phpbb/download.php?id=1884) and the sources HERE (http://kurtnoise.free.fr/MKVextractGUI155_src.zip).

It is programmed in Delphi under GNU License.

Greetings

DarkDudae

3rd April 2004, 23:29

New version of the GUI 1.2Beta.

-Fixed some bugs in extracting attachment files whith blanks on their names.

-Fixed extraction of more than 2 attachment files.

The link is the same.

Greetings

P0l1m0rph1c

4th April 2004, 03:22

Nice util, man! :)

This is very useful, as mkvextract is the only one that can handle some formats supported by Matroska.

Thanks for this app.

Affar

4th April 2004, 03:31

Wooow

Great job Dark :D

ChristianHJW

4th April 2004, 13:15

Mosu ! We need this in the mkvtoolnix pack for win32 !!

scrat

4th April 2004, 14:52

Hey!

I got an CRC-error and could not extract your GUI. Could you please check if the archive is broken? I have the newest version of Winrar...

cu, scrat

DarkDudae

4th April 2004, 16:15

@scrat

Yeah, I checked it and it works perfectly :confused: :confused:

Anyways, I uploaded a zip mirror, you can download it HERE (http://enigmax.eresmas.com/MKVEXTRACTGUI.zip)

scrat

4th April 2004, 16:37

Hey!

Thanks. The .zip-version works fine. Great job!

cu, scrat

DarkDudae

4th April 2004, 19:00

Hi again, I have uploaded the source code (delphi language) and MKVEXTRACTGUI 1.2 final version witch contains cosmetic fixes like:

-Warnings messages if mkvextract or mkvmerge are not detected in the same folder.

-Extract button will only be enabled if one or more files are checked.

-Program window will appear in the center of the screen.

-Some minor internal fixes.

You can download them in the main post.

Greetings

Blkbird

5th April 2004, 07:07

I have a few comments about the interface. First, why the permanent "warning" box there? Why not check the existence of the files required (in current dir and in PATH) at program start and bring a *modal* warning dialog if not found?

Second, the three "options" are not really options, they are actions. The "option" box is not really necessary.

And you may want to use a monospace font for the command lines.

Finally, the code you use to excute the commandline programs are somewhat problematic. Maybe the following sample could inspire you a bit:

function ExecConsoleApp(CommandLine: string; var Output: string): Cardinal;
const
BufferSize = $4000;
var
SecurityAttr: TSecurityAttributes;
ReadHandle, WriteHandle: THandle;
StartupInfo: TStartupInfo;
ProcessInfo: TProcessInformation;
ReadBuffer: PChar;
BytesRead: DWord;
begin
SecurityAttr.nLength := SizeOf(TSecurityAttributes);
SecurityAttr.bInherithandle := True;
SecurityAttr.lpSecurityDescriptor := nil;
if CreatePipe (ReadHandle, WriteHandle, @SecurityAttr, 0) then
begin
FillChar(StartupInfo, Sizeof(StartupInfo), 0);
ReadBuffer := AllocMem(BufferSize + 1);
StartupInfo.cb := SizeOf(StartupInfo);
StartupInfo.dwFlags := STARTF_USESTDHANDLES + STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW;
StartupInfo.hStdInput := ReadHandle;
StartupInfo.hStdOutput := WriteHandle;
StartupInfo.hStdError := WriteHandle;
StartupInfo.wShowWindow := SW_HIDE;
if CreateProcess(nil, PChar(CommandLine), @SecurityAttr, @SecurityAttr,
True, DETACHED_PROCESS or NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS, nil, nil,
StartupInfo, ProcessInfo)
then begin
WaitForSingleObject(ProcessInfo.hProcess, INFINITE);
(* If you want to do a running update of the output of the console app,
you would not block here. Instead you could loop while GetExitCodeProcess
returned STILL_ACTIVE all the while calling ReadFile on the pipe. *)
// Output := '';
// Without clearing Output before, its content will be expanded.
repeat
BytesRead := 0;
ReadFile(ReadHandle, ReadBuffer[0], BufferSize, BytesRead, nil);
ReadBuffer[BytesRead] := #0;
Output := Output + ReadBuffer;
until (BytesRead < BufferSize);
// OemToAnsi(Output, Output);
// OemToAnsi only works for PChar.
GetExitCodeProcess(ProcessInfo.hProcess, Result);
end
else Result := Cardinal(-1);
FreeMem(ReadBuffer);
CloseHandle(ProcessInfo.hProcess);
CloseHandle(ProcessInfo.hThread);
CloseHandle(ReadHandle);
CloseHandle(WriteHandle);
end;
end;

Mosu

5th April 2004, 12:10

Originally posted by ChristianHJW
Mosu ! We need this in the mkvtoolnix pack for win32 !!

:) No, not really. I will place a link on my web page to it, certainly, but including it would only make things problematic. First, it's not my program, it's his. Second, I'd have to update the mkvtoolnix package each time the MEG is updated. Third, it'll cause all kinds of confusion - which version is newer and stuff like that.

Hmm, I still haven't looked at it... this->slap(2);

DarkDudae

5th April 2004, 16:45

@Blkbird

Thanks for the tips, I will follow your advices. About my "execute commandline function", I don´t see significative differences respect the one you post. Just that mine waits proccess finish to read stdout of mkvmerge. Anyways, I am thinking at implementing a running stdout of mkvextract in real time for logging purposes, and your lines will be helpful. For example, quicktime tracks extraction is not supported in actual mkvextract.exe, and a realtime log would help a lot with that.

@Mosu

I understand you perfectly, this is a small app that I programmed because I really needed a friendly GUI working with mkv files. I just uploaded it trying to help. I will add some little features, like described before, and I won´t follow with this. I just wait my code can help in future versions of mkvtoolnix tools or other oficial mkvextracts GUIs.

Regards

Kurtnoise

6th April 2004, 09:58

A suggestion for the next release : adding support to extract chapters. ;)

10x

jjseth

6th April 2004, 18:24

Oh yeah DarkDudae!:D

ssjkakaroto

7th April 2004, 00:56

nice one DarkDudae, thx :cool:

ashyak

10th April 2004, 01:50

Mosu

10th April 2004, 11:31

Originally posted by ashyak
i think this not possible with mkvextract.exe, but with mkvinfo.exe, here a sample:

Why don't you read mkvextract's documentation at http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/doc/mkvextract.html or at least the help text it prints if you call it without arguments?

DarkDudae

12th April 2004, 16:20

Changelog since MKVExtract 1.2:

-Added chapters and tags extraction support. (They will be showed like the rest of tracks/attachments). Chapters can be extracted in XML and Simple(OGG)txt formats. Tags only can be extracted in xml.

-A lot of internal corrections.

-Monospace font for CommandLines.

-Added RM files extraction.(Added in latest mkvtoolnix 0.8.7)

-Added new formats system that will allow you to customize the GUI for future A/V formats actually not supported by mkvextract. For example: QUICKTIME A/V extraction is not supported by mkvtoolnix 0.8.7, but it is for sure that future versions will do. If you check in MKVExtract GUI a track like this:

Track ID 1 (V_QUICKTIME)

Then the program will ask you what output extension you want to assing to that sort of track. (In this case qtv) So the next time you find that sort of track, the program will remember it and will assing the output ext automatically. The new formats are saved into Formats.txt file, so you can edit/delete/add them easily.

(TRACK_TYPE) ext
------------------------------
Example of Formats.txt file:
(V_QUICKTIME) qtv
(A_QUICKTIME/QDM2) qta
------------------------------

jjseth

13th April 2004, 13:50

I usually mux .idx subtitles in matroska but then i can't demux it.
I add .idx demux to the wish list...:D

Sorry my poor english.

Mosu

13th April 2004, 14:02

Originally posted by jjseth
I usually mux .idx subtitles in matroska but then i can't demux it.
I add .idx demux to the wish list...:D

This would be a wish for mkvextract, not for the GUI. But I won't implement that. At least not anytime soon.

jjseth

13th April 2004, 21:41

This would be a wish for mkvextract, not for the GUI. But I won't implement that. At least not anytime soon.Yes, i know the difference but now mkvextractgui can be configured to support new formats. My question was for mkvextract cause it skip the .idx subtitles files demux.
Maybe in the future... :D

niamh

14th April 2004, 03:12

I have tried both mirrors, and I can't open either archive, it says it's corrupted, with winrar, and winzip :'(

Keep up the good work lads, from a long time lurker ;) and yes, idx support would be nice (no rush) :D I am extremely impressed by mkvtoolnix as a rule...you lot seem to be offering us any goodie,nearly before we have time to even wish it :)

DarkDudae

14th April 2004, 11:18

@niamh

You have a mirror in matroska.info. The direct link is THIS (http://www.portaldivx.com/matroska/programas/MKVEXTRACTGUI.zip)

Regards

niamh

14th April 2004, 22:37

nice one, this works :D
thank you very much, now to test the nifty little thing ;)

jjseth

14th December 2004, 12:07

New version of DarkDudae Matroska demux tool (a MKVtoolnix complement? :D).
Some minor bugs fixed:
-Chapter parser bug.
-Ouput folder selection bug.

Some help tips added.
.mka and .mks loading added.

ENGLISH (http://perso.wanadoo.es/sethftp/MKVextractGUI_1.5.1.ENG.rar) version.
SPANISH (http://perso.wanadoo.es/sethftp/MKVextractGUI_1.5.1.SPA.rar) version.

ENGLISH (http://perso.wanadoo.es/sethftp/MKVEXtractGUI_1.5.1.ENG_source.rar) source.

jjseth

22nd December 2004, 15:18

Server problems?.....:(

MKVextractGUI 1.5.1 can be downloaded at "Downloads" section of SethNet.tk (http://www.sethnet.tk)

Mosu

26th December 2004, 22:57

Dang, and again I've totally forgotten to add a link to it to my home page :( Anyway, I tried downloading the current English version, but the server again told me to bugger off ('page not found' in Spanish).

Is the link jjseth posted to sethnet.tk permant? Will that be the new home page? I'd really like to point to the "original" page for the downloads...

If you guys cannot find a reliable server then I can certainly give you space on mine; the page could be accessible as http://mkvextract-gui.bunkus.org/ (just an example). Just an offer ;)

DeathTheSheep

28th December 2004, 19:19

Sweet! I muxed an AVC MP4 into an MKV file (mkvtoolnix). I'm wondering if I can... EXTRACT IT and mux TO AN AVI NOW (with this program)!! (This could be the solution to "MP4 to AVI (old school style)"). Woah, if this works... hehehehe.....;-)

Cheers, baa

Mosu

28th December 2004, 20:05

Originally posted by DeathTheSheep
Sweet! I muxed an AVC MP4 into an MKV file (mkvtoolnix). I'm wondering if I can... EXTRACT IT and mux TO AN AVI NOW (with this program)!! (This could be the solution to "MP4 to AVI (old school style)"). Woah, if this works... hehehehe.....;-)

Cheers, baa

AVC is only supported in mkvtoolnix' development version, and we haven't finalized how AVC is stored in Matoska yet. And no, you cannot do this because mkvextract doesn't support extracting V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC tracks.

clone83

29th December 2004, 16:53

none of the links for this program work.....:( can someone plz put up a reliable link so everyone can try this program?

buzzqw

30th December 2004, 09:16

in my matroska page (sorry italian page, not software... :D )

http://www.64k.it/andres/MKVextractGUI_1.5.1.ENG.rar

BHH

clone83

30th December 2004, 16:31

thx heaps...:D

[EDIT]: i have only one problem with this program and its that it doesnt extract realmedia files that are contained inside the mkv file.... is it possible to get it enabled in an update or something?

jjseth

10th January 2005, 14:19

Sorry, Christmas Holidays!!!

New link and new version:

MKVextractGUI 1.5.2 (http://es.geocities.com/setheubd/MKVextractGUI152.zip)
Other (http://rapidshare.de/files-en/329528/MKVextractGUI152.zip.html)
Other (http://rapidshare.de/files-de/329528/MKVextractGUI152.zip.html)

Changelog since MKVExtract GUI 1.5.1 (by Seth)
English/Spanish language in one only .exe.
Added XP style.

Dang, and again I've totally forgotten to add a link to it to my home page Anyway, I tried downloading the current English version, but the server again told me to bugger off ('page not found' in Spanish).

Is the link jjseth posted to sethnet.tk permant? Will that be the new home page? I'd really like to point to the "original" page for the downloads...

If you guys cannot find a reliable server then I can certainly give you space on mine; the page could be accessible as http://mkvextract-gui.bunkus.org/ (just an example). Just an offer

Thanks Mosu, sethnet.tk link is permanent (i think) but you can create a mirror or a specific space in your web if you want

Bluedan

10th January 2005, 19:47

Originally posted by Mosu
AVC is only supported in mkvtoolnix' development version, and we haven't finalized how AVC is stored in Matoska yet.

:eek: Uhhh, shhhhh....
I wasn't aware Matroska container not being defined to it, yet. (And a quick look into the docs persuaded me.)

My search for answers so far lead me to this thread (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=82107&highlight=avc+in+matroska+container) which stopped 16-09-2004.

One quote of StephenV: mkv doesnt accept H264 from mp4 yet...
Currently, I'm far away from my PC at home, so I cannot try things here, I remember that mkvmerge accepted mp4 container as input and correctly identified all streams - except sub streams created by Recode2 which were muxed as "private streams" - merely the demuxing failed with no valid mkv being produced (well, I stopped the muxing...).

Well, I know these questions about "prediction" could be annoying: When do you think, AVC will be supported in matroska - and yes, I know, it's much more addressing to the matroska devs??

Mosu

10th January 2005, 19:49

Originally posted by Bluedan
Well, I know these questions about "prediction" could be annoying: When do you think, AVC will be supported in matroska - and yes, I know, it's much more addressing to the matroska devs??

Sometime between end of January and end of February, I hope/guess.

Bluedan

10th January 2005, 20:21

.:'".,
(shy kisses on various spots)

Bluedan

10th January 2005, 21:47

Erp..

On the matroska site they do not mention imminent MPEG4-AVC support at all in the latest news (http://www.matroska.org/news/index.html) dating some days ago.
Nevertheless, this doesn't have to mean anything as the list of supported codec - if you may take the codec-ID list for that - is outdated anyway but the devs (including you Mosu) are obviously very busy.

I just wonder why they advertise MPEG1/2 support while currently it seems much more urging to me to focus on AVC support, though it comes along with its own container format.

MPEG 1/2 video support: Latest Pre-Release versions of mkvmerge (mkvtoolnix) have had support for Elementary Streams (ES) for some time now already, based on John 'spyder' Cannon's code. However, it was a big PITA to use, as you had to demux the MPEG ES from the MPEG files with TMPEGencoder or bbdemux before you could mux it into the MKV files. Mosu has now been working hard to allow support for MPEG files directly, and it's working fine for Program Stream (PS) and VOB files now. Expect an official release of this feature with next mkvtoolnix (1.2.0), except for demuxing.

But please don't feel offended, obviously AVC support will become reality in a few weeks anyway, I just couldn't stop me from sharing my views...

Mosu

10th January 2005, 21:54

Originally posted by Bluedan
I just wonder why they advertise MPEG1/2 support while currently it seems much more urging to me to focus on AVC support, though it comes along with its own container format.

Everyone has his own priorities. For us there are (at least) two very important areas:

1. Menus & full DVD-to-Matroska copies. This involves copying the menus, all audio/video/subtitle tracks etc into a Matroska file. If we want that without having to reencode the video then mkvmerge needs support for MPEG-1/-2. It does have that now ;)

2. Support for AVC. While a lot of people see this as the non plus ultra I don't agree with that 100%. Anyway, we are working on it. Muxing seems to be fine so far (atm I'm implementing getting the number of FPS from the MP4 container. For fixed FPS this is pretty easy, and only for that will I support it for now). Playback with VERY recent mplayer versions (and my not yet checked in patch) works nicely, but only with libavcodec updated from max. a week ago. Haali on the other hand has serious problems getting AVC playback working on Windows, mainly due to the crappy Nero decoder. Now that ffmpeg has support for B frames (that's what the "updated max. a week ago" is about) we can expect ffdshow to include support for them soon, so I hope Haali will be able to make some progress on the playback front.

But please don't feel offended,

Don't worry ;)

Bluedan

10th January 2005, 22:52

Good!

Nice to let us have more inside view on current achievements also.

What does fixed FPS refer to?
Never heard of it before.

Mosu

10th January 2005, 22:54

Originally posted by Bluedan
What does fixed FPS refer to?
Never heard of it before.

Fixed FPS = each frame has the same duration = there is a constant number of frames per second. The "opposite" would be variable FPS -- e.g. the number of frames varies between 23.976 and 29.960.

Bluedan

10th January 2005, 23:09

Ahh,

fixed like static.

I thought of fixed as oposite of broken.

Cleared up.
Thanks.

You Know

16th January 2005, 19:04

Is possible extract timecode information from a VFR MKV?? so i can recostruct vfr mkv with other audio tracks

iapir

17th January 2005, 10:12

That would indeed be a good thing.
You could ask Mosu to do it (or at least place a TODO in his list).

Mosu

17th January 2005, 10:32

Originally posted by You Know
Is possible extract timecode information from a VFR MKV??

Not at the moment, no.

so i can recostruct vfr mkv with other audio tracks

If you only want to do that then you definitely do not need the VFR info. You can add the original Matroska file to mmg, DEselect all the audio tracks, add the new audio files, and mux everything. No need for mkvextract in this scenario.

You Know

17th January 2005, 20:58

yes, it's ok if can swap audio tracks
but i need for a few of anime change 29.97 vfr to 25 vfr

thanks for tips

jkwarras

14th March 2005, 20:40

I don't know why, but every mkv file I load in this program doesn't show anything to extract. I've tried with version 1.5 and 1.5.2 :(

All my files are done with mkvmerge GUI (even one that I just created with 1.4.0 which is the latest version of this tool).

planet1

14th March 2005, 21:03

@ DarkDudae or Seth

thx for this GUI, could you add drag&drop to 1.5.3 ?

@ jkwarras

is your MKVextractGUI.exe in the same folder as mkvextract.exe ?

jkwarras

14th March 2005, 22:09

Originally posted by planet1

@ jkwarras

is your MKVextractGUI.exe in the same folder as mkvextract.exe ?
Yes, it is. I'll try with different mkv files I have around here and see what I'm doing wrong.

jjseth

16th March 2005, 12:51

Originally posted by planet1
@ DarkDudae or Seth
thx for this GUI, could you add drag&drop to 1.5.3 ?

I'll try to add drag&drop in the next version but DarkDudae is the expert:o :D
Originally posted by jkwarras
I don't know why, but every mkv file I load in this program doesn't show anything to extract. I've tried with version 1.5 and 1.5.2

All my files are done with mkvmerge GUI (even one that I just created with 1.4.0 which is the latest version of this tool).
mmm...could you send me to my e-mail a small .mkv file to try?

jkwarras

17th March 2005, 22:11

Originally posted by jjseth
mmm...could you send me to my e-mail a small .mkv file to try?
I've just tried with another file and it works fine. It seems that for some reasons I had a corrupted mkv. The last try it didn't even list the tracks, now I get a list but an error about the file that couldn't be open succesfully.

So: don't worry your tool works fine, I'm dumb ;)

jjseth

18th March 2005, 12:08

Originally posted by jkwarras
I've just tried with another file and it works fine. It seems that for some reasons I had a corrupted mkv. The last try it didn't even list the tracks, now I get a list but an error about the file that couldn't be open succesfully.

So: don't worry your tool works fine, I'm dumb ;)
OK, don't worry :D :D ( Vamos que no pasa na ;) :D )

jjseth

11th April 2005, 12:41

Changelog from v.1.5.2:
Fixed bug if Select MatroskaFile was closed without any selection.
Partially support for Drag&Drop function (Is not limited to matroska files yet).
Reset button in File Menu.
GUI redesigned.
MKVextractGUI folder is the default path to extract the tracks.
Added automatic recognition of VOBSUB subtitles.

Download HERE (http://rapidshare.de/files/1219848/MKVextractGUI_1.5.3.7z.html)

Kurtnoise

11th April 2005, 13:35

Can we have the sources files please ?

buzzqw

11th April 2005, 14:04

direct download link

http://www.64k.it/andres/MKVextractGUI_1.5.3.rar

BHH

jjseth

12th April 2005, 13:27

Small update of MKVextractGUI.

Changelog from v.1.5.3:
Improvements in Drag&Drop function. Now only Matroska files (.mkv/.mka/.mks) are allowed.
Translation of some tip depending on language (English/Spanish) used.

Download HERE (http://rapidshare.de/files/1234613/MKVextractGUI_1.5.3.1.7z.html)

BetaBoy

12th April 2005, 17:48

jjseth.... I was on IRC and nexus3 mentioned about the new GUI... Why don't you just register a project CoreCodec.org... I'm home today and will approve the project right away.

Mosu

12th April 2005, 18:52

Alternatively I can provide a mirror for the files / a website. If you want just drop me a mail at moritz@bunkus.org and I'll create an account / subdomain for you.

jjseth

13th April 2005, 14:08

Originally posted by BetaBoy
jjseth.... I was on IRC and nexus3 mentioned about the new GUI... Why don't you just register a project CoreCodec.org... I'm home today and will approve the project right away.
OK, project has been sent to CoreCodec administrators to wait their approval.
Originally posted by Mosu
Alternatively I can provide a mirror for the files / a website. If you want just drop me a mail at moritz@bunkus.org and I'll create an account / subdomain for you.
Thanks for your offering, if CoreCodec non exclude other options I'll send you a mail.

planet1

13th April 2005, 16:47

some files missing ;) :

http://corecodec.org/projects/mkvextractgui/

jjseth

14th April 2005, 13:45

Originally posted by planet1
some files missing ;) :

http://corecodec.org/projects/mkvextractgui/
Thanks planet1.
Files have been updated. Source code will be available in a few days.

planet1

14th April 2005, 19:58

thx great work

some bug:

Its not enough to enter a new output folder and hit the extract button - extraction will always occur in MKVextractGUI folder!
(you have to use the output "browse" button first)

in this regard:

IMHO the output/extraction path should be configurable through some setting:

1. same directory as mkvextractGUI (home path)
2. always using the input file directory (same path as input)
3. fixed location (user path)

btw the "extraction successful" message is in spanish :p
"iArchivos extraídos corrétamente!"

planet1

14th April 2005, 20:01

In the next release you could also mention your project's website in the about box - http://mkvextractgui.corecodec.org/ :)

NikWing

14th April 2005, 21:18

Hello :)

MKVextGUI really is useful :D

BTW: The Reset in File is Spanish too (Reestablecer)

Hmm, though it doesn't have much to do with the GUI, I wonder when it's possible to extract/demux H.264 encoded vid streams from MKVs, that would really help many users a lot :)
Why is demuxing harder to do than muxing ...

Regards,
Nik

Mosu

14th April 2005, 21:50

Originally posted by NikWing
Why is demuxing harder to do than muxing ...

Learning to read a file format is always easier than learning to write one -- especially if it should conform to some standard.

jjseth

15th April 2005, 10:19

Originally posted by planet1
thx great work

some bug:

Its not enough to enter a new output folder and hit the extract button - extraction will always occur in MKVextractGUI folder!
(you have to use the output "browse" button first)

in this regard:

IMHO the output/extraction path should be configurable through some setting:

1. same directory as mkvextractGUI (home path)
2. always using the input file directory (same path as input)
3. fixed location (user path)

btw the "extraction successful" message is in spanish :p
"¡Archivos extraídos corrétamente!"

In the next release you could also mention your project's website in the about box

I'll try to correct ouput path in the next version but I'm a beginner in programming so I don't promise it.:D

Originally posted by NikWing
BTW: The Reset in File is Spanish too (Reestablecer)

I forget translate some tips....maybe I'm becoming old.:D

jjseth

19th April 2005, 14:53

New update of this Matroska demux GUI tool.

Changelog from 1.5.3.1:
-MKVextractGUI can be found at CoreCodec.org.
-Add pre-selection of output path to MKVextractGUI folder, source folder or other path.
-Add new folder creation, name edition, etc in ouput path selection dialog (Browse button).
-Some tips have been translated to english/spanish.
-Add CoreCodec MKVextractGUI project ("http://corecodec.org/projects/mkvextractgui/") link in Help menu.
-Fixed "File no found" extracting bug (in rares cases) when Matroska file and output path have been selected manually.
-Some minor improvements in exceptions and internal bugs.
-Thanks to CanalXviD team's member DarkDudae and Doom9 forum's members planet1 and NikWing.

MKVextractGUI and sources can be downloaded HERE (http://corecodec.org/projects/mkvextractgui/).

NikWing

19th April 2005, 16:26

Hi jjseth, hi all,

thanks for the new version!
You're fast :D

Regards, Nik

J-Pierre

10th May 2005, 21:51

Hi,

Well, I downloaded this last version of MKVExtractGUI, and I'm getting a file without a valid extension: MKVextractGUI_1[1].5.4.7z. What should I do with it ?

By the way, is a french version of the GUI available ?

Thanks for your answer
Jean-Pierre

niamh

11th May 2005, 08:22

7zip is a zip extension. Find it at sourceforge :)
Basically unzip all in the mkvtoolnix directory.

DarkDudae

11th May 2005, 09:35

Originally posted by J-Pierre

By the way, is a french version of the GUI available ?

You can unzip that file also with winrar. About french version, a guy called NEXUS6 translated old versions of the GUI, however, his webpage (http://users.skynet.be/NEXUS6/nexusrv9.html) is not online.

Since sourcecode is avilable, anyone can translate it, or you can wait until we release a new version with support for multi-language (with .ini files).

Greetings

J-Pierre

11th May 2005, 11:05

Many thanks for the quick answer, problem is solved.

I'm not that good to look at the source code, I'll go ahead with the english version :p

Jean-Pierre

Kurtnoise

20th June 2005, 00:37

No news from jjSeth since my last PM 10 days ago, so I decide to put online here this new release :

Changelog:
-Add French Language.
-Add mkxuncat support (asked by RobuX4 himself to undo matroska files concatenation).
-Add dts and usf files extraction.
-Clean & improve the code.

MKVextractGUI 1.5.5 (http://www.unite-video.com/phpbb/download.php?id=1884) & Sources (http://kurtnoise.free.fr/MKVextractGUI155_src.zip)

Great Dragon

20th June 2005, 09:09

I have spoted that after extraction SSA-file that containing both "Dialogues:" and "Comments:" from MKV there is not text after "Dialogue:" - line is blank. :(
Is this MKVextrakt GUI bug or mkvextract.exe ?
I'm using GIU 1.5.4 and MKVToolnix 1.4.2.

jjseth

20th June 2005, 11:02

No news from jj :( Seth since my last PM 10 days ago, so I decide to put online here this new release
Sorry Kurtnoise, I haven't time cause it's time to fail all my exams :(
Thanks for this new version and work in the sources, I'm a Delphi newbie yet (in English too) so maybe I'll learn something.

GUTB

25th June 2005, 07:49

I'm glad tools like this exist in order to correct some people's work who insist on releasing content in Matroska or other broken/bugged/lame container formats.

But one question: can this utility replace AVIMux-GUI as the king of mkv extraction? Or is it one of those half-working tools that often get released to these forums? AVIMux works but is kind of annoying so if this is really better than I'll try it out.

Mosu

25th June 2005, 08:41

GUTB

25th June 2005, 08:49

Why? Just asking if this app is half-working or not. I'm sure I'm not the only one to waste hours fighting with non-working and half-working apps from this forum.

As for mkv, everyone knows it sucks. This isn't exactly top secret information.

buzzqw

25th June 2005, 09:25

@all

remember rules

4) Be nice to each other and respect the moderator. Profanity and insults will not be tolerated. If you have a problem with another member turn to the respective moderator and if the moderator can't help you send a private message to Doom9.

@GUTB

mkv is a very good container, no complain
if you think As for mkv, everyone knows it sucks.
don't use it. Several members on this forum use mkv on regular basis as container (and me too).
If you got a problem be fair and post it on forum, don't say just it sucks. You will be kindly helped.

MkvExtract is a nice gui application, working and doing what aspected to do

try it. AND THEN COMPLAIN

BHH

buzzqw

25th June 2005, 09:31

direct link to MkvExtractGui 1.5.5 (http://www.64k.it/andres/MKVextractGUI-1.5.5.zip)

on my italian (http://www.64k.it/andres/matroska.htm) matroska page

BHH

jkwarras

25th June 2005, 14:52

As for mkv, everyone knows it sucks. This isn't exactly top secret information.
Hmmm...this must be your top secret 'suck' information. Matroska is great for me, I use it for my own backups, it has the power to allow muxing a lot of different formats. And if you don't like it, just don't use it and do't be so unrespectful with developpers :(

GUTB

25th June 2005, 18:38

1. The tools, frankly, suck. They are just buggy piles of code with no proper documentation and crappy erganomics. But mostly because they produce buggy output which is unacceptable. Not that they're any worse than the broken MP4 tools floating around (actually better than them) but they still suck.

2. It uses buggy splitters. Just see the long threads about them on this forum.

3. It requires installation of codec packs. Why on Earth would I make my users go download whole sets of codecs for to use a container format? Why can't the developers TRY to be little bit more professional about it and release a one-install binary That Just Works like Divx6 or Quicktime?

4. Issues with editing. Because some people inexplicably feel the need to release content in MKV that does not require ANY of the features (like just a single video stream) I have to go de-mux the streams for transcoding. With AVI this is very easy. With MKV it's like pulling teeth. Vdub has issues. Errors will be thrown back. All because someone just HAD to release in MKV.

So, in short, MKV would not suck if it could be installed as a one-install all-working binary with solid, working tools. But as it is, it's a junker that often fails to produce working output and even some people have managed to crash Windows installing the codec/splitter packs.

stephanV

25th June 2005, 19:07

1. The tools, frankly, suck.
You, sir, suck.
They are just buggy piles of code with no proper documentation and crappy erganomics. But mostly because they produce buggy output which is unacceptable. Not that they're any worse than the broken MP4 tools floating around (actually better than them) but they still suck.
They don't produce buggy output. Yes, there are bugs (ever seen software without it?), but those will usually be fixed.

2. It uses buggy splitters. Just see the long threads about them on this forum.
Again, a false claim. A buggy splitter would fail on most files. Newer MKV splitters do not. I would say DirectShow is maybe not the best environment for keeping compatibility with every filter there is out there. Of course companies like DivX and Nero are not to blame for that... right?

3. It requires installation of codec packs. Why on Earth would I make my users go download whole sets of codecs for to use a container format? Why can't the developers TRY to be little bit more professional about it and release a one-install binary That Just Works like Divx6 or Quicktime?
This is ridiculous. Or are you actually inept enough to use google? Or inept enough to deselect options in an installer? Probably I guess.

4. Issues with editing. Because some people inexplicably feel the need to release content in MKV that does not require ANY of the features (like just a single video stream) I have to go de-mux the streams for transcoding. With AVI this is very easy. With MKV it's like pulling teeth. Vdub has issues. Errors will be thrown back. All because someone just HAD to release in MKV.
Oh so you are actually lame enough to not pay a cent for the movies you download and then still complain you are not served as a royalty. You win some, you lose some. Moron.

Giving constructive input is a lot harder than say, bashing, right?

Kurtnoise

25th June 2005, 19:19

Oh my...a new flame-wars. :mad:

1. The tools, frankly, suck. They are just buggy piles of code with no proper documentation and crappy erganomics.
Wrong...there are many docs concerning matroska to edit/create/view. Second, if you don't like the ergonomy of the tools, there are also different frontend or GUI to use this container. Third, matroska is the most x-plateform user-friendly. And, if you don't like them, try to develop something by hourself instead of to insult developpers here.

2. It uses buggy splitters. Just see the long threads about them on this forum.
Well...it's the normal way when you develop a new thing. Sorry to learn you this...

3. It requires installation of codec packs. Why on Earth would I make my users go download whole sets of codecs for to use a container format? Why can't the developers TRY to be little bit more professional about it and release a one-install binary That Just Works like Divx6 or Quicktime?
completely wrong...if you want to play mkv files use simply VLC. No need to install some codecs with this player.

4. Issues with editing. Because some people inexplicably feel the need to release content in MKV that does not require ANY of the features (like just a single video stream) I have to go de-mux the streams for transcoding. With AVI this is very easy. With MKV it's like pulling teeth. Vdub has issues. Errors will be thrown back. All because someone just HAD to release in MKV.
Anyway...it doesn't concern matroska specifically. Did you try to edit mp4 files ? It's not easy...

I'd ask to moderators to clean these BS please.

GUTB

25th June 2005, 19:39

The installer is a joke. The light installer does not create a fully working environment. MKV relies on a bunch of external filters to play the stuff it claims to support.

Don't like DirectShow? Tough. I'm sorry, but life isn't fair, we have to play with Microsoft's environment. Does MS's wrapper suck for features? It does. But it WORKS. If you can shoe-horn something into MS's splitter guess what -- It Just Works. The reason why real companies have to stick with it is because the vast overwhelming majority of users will NEVER even install ffdshow. In the real world you can't ask people who just want to watch the video clip to go download this or that or make this or that settings, and so on. That is why AVI is staying alive -- because MOST releasers understand this and moreover LIKE the simplicity and WORKING functionality of the vfw+vdub system.

If you want to be a real contender to MS's wrapper, you have to make a better one. And quite frankly ALL attempts at this have failed. Not because they don't work as wrappers (Ogg,MP4,MKV) but because they fail to satisfy the requirements of the USERS (ie releasers like me). I have enumerated the main reasons why MKV has failed as a replacement. On *** OUR *** systems everything works. But WE aren't the audience of a releaser's work, our audience is everyone else who Just Wants It To Work. And MKV just lacks value in that marketplace because of it's unprofessionalism, bugginess, etc.

The first company to release AVC+chapters+menues+AAC in a single-install binary that Just Works with professional, solid editing tools will be the new winner. Maybe QT7 will take over. Maybe once real dev tools for Divx6 comes out that will be it. But at this rate MKV is a failure.

stephanV

25th June 2005, 19:51

The installer is a joke. The light installer does not create a fully working environment. MKV relies on a bunch of external filters to play the stuff it claims to support.

Again a ridiculous statement. EVERYTHING relies on external filters to play. Or are you suggesting that an MKV splitter should also be a decoder, subtitles filter and video renderer as well. NOTHING works this way, in fact combining filters together is the whole point of DirectShow. It will be tough for you to play anything in AVI without actually having decoders for it.

Teegedeck

25th June 2005, 21:44

The installer is a joke. The light installer does not create a fully working environment. MKV relies on a bunch of external filters to play the stuff it claims to support.
[...]
That is why AVI is staying alive -- because MOST releasers understand this and moreover LIKE the simplicity and WORKING functionality of the vfw+vdub system.
[...] And quite frankly ALL attempts at this have failed. Not because they don't work as wrappers (Ogg,MP4,MKV) but because they fail to satisfy the requirements of the USERS (ie releasers like me). I have enumerated the main reasons why MKV has failed as a replacement. On *** OUR *** systems everything works. But WE aren't the audience of a releaser's work, our audience is everyone else who Just Wants It To Work. And MKV just lacks value in that marketplace because of it's unprofessionalism, bugginess, etc.
[...]But at this rate MKV is a failure.
Certainly movie pirates ("releasers") are the last people that gifted , dedicated and good programmers like Mosu need to take flaming from.

You should have listened to what buzzqw said.

Your post shows a total lack of technical knowledge and experience, utter ignorance of the whole point of our community and no manners at all. [edited: some harsh words] Perhaps you better look for a place where you blend in better.

Strike for violation of rule 4). You're banned.

multicone

25th June 2005, 23:04

LOL .... this guy is really strange. matroska, if i understand correctly, was never ment to be used from release groups. It is more ment to be a very powerful video container for editing, capturing or simply for using it for your very own purpose. The fact that many release groups will use MKV today for their stuff is because
- it has better subtitles support than any other existing video container
- there are very nice and powerful tools ( avi-mux GUI, mkvtoolnix ) to create MKV files
- they don't WANT morons like this guy coming here to be able to play the files, at least not without investing some brains first :D

Of course, he is pissed that stuff he is downloading illegally is in MKV container, because this is less convenient for his own purposes ( he probably will convert any files he is downloading into DVDs, so he can watch them on his standalone ). This makes him believe, he has the right to critize a project which he doesnt understand at all. Sometimes we have to be ashamed of our own race, don't we :( ?

Didée

26th June 2005, 02:28

I've the feeling he cancelled his sessions too early, or something.

Paulcat

26th June 2005, 03:42

I prefer to use MKV Extract GUI over AVI Mux GUI for the sole reason that MKV Extract GUI can demux video as well as audio while AVI Mux GUI can only do audio.

darkavatar1470

27th June 2005, 09:06

hmm, I guess some "Codec Pack" messed up his sys.
I recently did a fresh Win XP pro install , and the only thing I did is to DL the Full pack from Matroska.org , and I can playback MKVs I created myself and those floating on the net perfectly..... It's so quick & stable that I'm thinking of creating another XP partition for Office and other stuff that tends to clutter windows..

filewalker

27th June 2005, 12:30

This guy is....either confused, out of touch with reality, or a complete noob who doesn't know from what he's speaking and he's flame waring just after 15 days being a member...

Strike for violation of rule 4). You're banned.
The one and only right answer! :goodpost:

DarkDudae

27th June 2005, 16:29

I have edited main post of this thread with Kurtnoise13 changes. (Thanks)

I hope to find time for implement a better multi-language support with .ini files. IMHO, the source code is somehow confusing with all different language sentences.

Greetings

DKDIB

12th August 2005, 11:40

I noticed a bug with version 1.5.5 and mkvtoolnix 1.5.0 2005-08-06-1.

If I imported a Matroska with a space in the file path, MKVExtract GUI doesn't quote all file paths when generating the command.

EXEMPLE

Wrong:
mkvextract tracks "P:\Filmati\Title with the no word in the middle\Title with the no word in the middle.mkv" 3:P:\Filmati\Title with the no word in the middle\Track3.ssa

Good:
mkvextract tracks "P:\Filmati\Title with the no word in the middle\Title with the no word in the middle.mkv" 3:"P:\Filmati\Title with the no word in the middle\Track3.ssa"

Mosu

12th August 2005, 11:47

BTW: I've changed the current SVN version of mkvextract to accept command argument files just like mkvmerge. It would therefore be easier (especially for files with non-ASCII file names) to create a temporary file, write a UTF-8 BOM at the beginning and then write one argument per line encoded in UTF-8. So if the original command line was "mkvextract tracks c:\where\ever\input.mkv 1:c:\temp\output.avi" then the file, let's call it c:\temp\mkvextract-commands.txt, would look like this:

tracks
c:/where/ever/input.mkv
1:c:/temp/output.avi

and the new command line would be

mkvextract @c:\temp\mkvextract-commands.txt

mmg does the same with mkvmerge.

zz2

19th August 2005, 08:54

This must be a stupid question, but where do I get mkvextract.exe? ..because I get an error message mkvextract.exe and/or mkvmerge.exe file has no been found in the same folder
of MKVextractGUI. Copy then into this folder and try again.
:stupid:

Palikrovol

19th August 2005, 09:18

zz2

19th August 2005, 12:55

Thanks that works now.

...but now when I want to extract video track I get the following error :(

Error: Extraction of track number 1 with the CodecID 'V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC'
is not supported.

Mosu

19th August 2005, 13:04

Guess what the message "is not supported" means.

Now, if you download the latest build from http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/win32/pre/ then extraction of such tracks IS actually supported. The result is a AVC elementary stream that can be used by other MP4 apps (don't ask me about their names, mp4box maybe?).

zz2

19th August 2005, 13:34

Yeah I know is says "not supported" but if it managed to get in then it should also get out :)

The latest build works.. so :thanks:

Mosu

19th August 2005, 13:43

Yeah I know is says "not supported" but if it managed to get in then it should also get out :)

Why do people always think that? No, there's simply NO reason why this "should" be the case. Reading a file format is always easier than writing it. And getting something out most often involves writing some other file format. In the AVC case I would have to write complete MP4 files. Do you have any idea how much work that is? Probably not. That it works now is only because a friendly user wrote a patch that produces AVC elementary streams, not full-blown MP4 files. And I wouldn't have been able to do this patch myself either because I don't know much anything about those elementary streams either. Nor is there a lot of free documentation available on this topic. Etc etc etc.

Sorry, I'm just a bit pissed at the moment about the "I have a right to get this stuff out of a file" attitude. The MP4 guys don't write such tools either! Or does mp4box come with a "put Vorbis from MP4 back into Ogg" tool?

(Nothing personal.)

zz2

19th August 2005, 15:55

sorry :scared:

I just tought that mkv container is like some sort of zip that stores files independently what format they are and holds additional info for every file, like this is video, this is audio track 1, audio tarck 2 etc.

Mosu

19th August 2005, 16:40

No, it's a bit more complicated than that ;)

BetaBoy

19th August 2005, 17:03

lol....

Doom9

19th August 2005, 18:35

Or does mp4box come with a "put Vorbis from MP4 back into Ogg" tool?can't you demux with mp4box (audio only of course)?

I agree with your sentiments though, people want to mux and demux left and right for no good reason.
<sarcasm>
It seems to be some kind of sport.. I wonder if we'll ever find the hidden "who can convert a DVD to the most formats within 5 minutes" league ;) /me wants mkvtoolnix to put AVC into WMV now, add wma to it, transmux to ogg, and finally extract the audio as an mp3 ... gimme gimme,.</sarcasm>

Kurtnoise

4th October 2005, 20:23

BetaBoy

4th October 2005, 20:52

Heya,

I'm rewriting a tool to extract tracks/chapters/attachments/cuesheets/tags...from mkv & mka files. Could you test this (http://kurtnoise.free.fr/Wizard.zip) please ? It's just a Wizard. No complicated to use it. There are only 3 steps :

http://kurtnoise.free.fr/wizard_step1.gif

http://kurtnoise.free.fr/wizard_step2.gif

http://kurtnoise.free.fr/wizard_step3.gif

mka support is not finished yet. So, test it only with mkv files. :thanks: Suggestions are welcome of course...

All credits for Alexnoe & Mosu. Many thanks guys for your work & tools. ;)
Kurtnoise... get that up on CoreCodec.org!!! It's damn sweet!

Kurtnoise

5th October 2005, 00:47

well done sir...;)

LeMoi

5th October 2005, 15:09

Seems really good, but doesn't work by me :o
I correctly set the mkvextract path, etc., but when i clic on 'extract', it says
[15:08:59] : Extraction started.
[15:08:59] : Extraction completed.
and nothing has been extracted :o
(i chose two sub tracks and the chapter)
did i do something wrong ?

planet1

5th October 2005, 16:05

@Kurtnoise13

:thanks: for this tiny but useful tool!

@BetaBoy

Since there is no project website (yet) - how about redirecting
http://mkvextractgui.corecodec.org/ -> http://corecodec.org/projects/mkvextractgui/ ?

Kurtnoise

5th October 2005, 19:26

LeMoi

5th October 2005, 21:09

Srt subs...
i chose more than one track, if i copy paste the command line in a cmd window, no problem...
"C:\Program Files\MKVtoolnix\mkvextract.exe" tracks "E:\Mes documents\Mes Vidéos\Films\Graver\file.mkv" 4:"E:\Mes documents\Mes Vidéos\Films\Graver\file_track4.srt" 5:"E:\Mes documents\Mes Vidéos\Films\Graver\file_track5.srt" 6:"E:\Mes documents\Mes Vidéos\Films\Graver\file_track6.srt"

[21:07:21] : MKVE Wizard started.
[21:07:45] : Parsing file.mkv ...
[21:08:00] : Extraction started.
[21:08:00] : Extraction completed.

buzzqw

6th October 2005, 08:17

could the problem be "é" letter in path ?

BHH

Kurtnoise

6th October 2005, 09:26

I don't think so because he said that it works with cmd prompt window. I'll check this...

LeMoi

16th October 2005, 23:17

Maybe it's an unicode problem.
i had same problem with files where there were ê and è in the name, i changed into 'e', and it worked fine :s

shukero

25th February 2006, 06:22

Heya,

I'm rewriting a tool to extract tracks/chapters/attachments/cuesheets/tags...from mkv & mka files. Could you test this (http://corecodec.org/frs/?group_id=55&release_id=186#r186) please ? It's just a Wizard. No complicated to use it. There are only 3 steps :

http://kurtnoise.free.fr/wizard_step1.gif

http://kurtnoise.free.fr/wizard_step2.gif

http://kurtnoise.free.fr/wizard_step3.gif

mka support is not finished yet. So, test it only with mkv files. :thanks: Suggestions are welcome of course...

All credits for Alexnoe & Mosu. Many thanks guys for your work & tools. ;)

OK I've had troubles with this new wizard:

When-ever I try and use your new wizard extractor It says this: C:\Documents and Settings\Michael\Desktop\Wizard\\mkveX.bat doesn't exist.

Ibeleive that its's because of the extra "\"right in front of the mkvrX.bat but I can see "mkveX.bat in the wizard folder while this is happening.

I was wolndering if you could help me get rid of this problem. or if you could give me a new wizard. I downloaded the wizard off of yuor CoreCodec site.

I'm using the wizard because when ever I try to open a file into MKVExtract 1.5.5 with the mkvtoolnix and runtime uni-code installed it gives me this message:

Error creating Chilg Process

CreatChildProcess(ExeName,CommandLine, FChildStdoutWr)

I was also wondering what this is... could you help me out? thank you very much.

Kurtnoise

25th February 2006, 08:06

The big problem is : I lost the sources of this tool.

Which mkvtoolnix version did you use ? Did you try to extract files manually with mkvextract ?

BetaBoy

25th February 2006, 09:11

The big problem is : I lost the sources of this tool.

DOH!!! What a shame, I loved it!

shukero

25th February 2006, 17:26

What do you mean which mkvtoolnix did I use? I guessing you are talking about the mkvextractgui, and for that I used the latest one I beleive it was 1.6.5 or something and the runtime was 1.4 I beleive... I just want to get that wizard working cause .mkv is ALL I use that program for so I can turn stuff into .avi PLEASE I just need a fix for the new wizard so it can find the .bat file that was up ^above^ if you are asking m if I used anyway mkvtoolnix on the wizard then I would have to say no. Cause I just thought that I needed everything in the wizard's folder. But I did get the mkvextract.exe out of my other folder and pu it in there.

So If you can just tell me how to fix the wizard problem (how to take out of th extra "\") or if you could send me something that would get rid of the problem it would be grat. thanks ^^

Kurtnoise

25th February 2006, 20:28

well, this wizard uses mkvextract from mkvtoolnix. I asked what mkvtoolnix version did you use...

Tell me also what did you have as video and audio streams...

I'll try to rewrite it from scratch tomorrow.

shukero

25th February 2006, 20:36

OK well I got the mkvextract.exe from the 1.5.5 that I was trying to get to work before that error message came up. So when the wizard asked for it, I just pulled the mkvextract.exe out of that folder and into my wizard folder. The mkvextract in that 1.5.5 folder was from the most recent release of mkvtoolnix, I believe it was 1.6.5 unicode.

Now for the audio and video streams. I usually use this program to extract the .avi(video) and .acc(audio) since I have a converting program to changed it from .acc to .mp3 If its not a .acc audio file then I can always use virtualdubmod to encode the usual .ogg audio file to .mp3

So the extracted video and audio are .avi and .acc

P.S.
By the way thank you SOOOO much to help me in such a short amount of time, and thank you for fixing the program. It helps me trumendously ^^

shukero

8th March 2006, 17:49

Has anyone been able to fix the wizard? I need the wizard cause I cant use the MKVExtact GUI due to the error message I get thats already on page 6. Can anyone tell me how to fix that error or can someone give me the fixed wizard? I cant demux anything till I get the wizard. I only use the wizard for demuxing .avi and .aac files. PLEASE help

tomos

30th April 2006, 18:01

Hi,

I'm trying to use this to extract video and audio from an mkv file. the audio always works perfectly, but it always fails on mpeg 2 video for some reason.

error is: extraction of track number 1 with the CodecID 'V_MPEG2' is not supported

i've had a look around this forum but cant get any results for this err.

robU*4

30th April 2006, 20:52

for MPEG2 try to extract it as raw.

shukero

30th April 2006, 22:17

has the new mini-program been built yet? or is he still working on it?

saga_gx

1st May 2006, 00:36

I'm having problems extracting subtitles from a mkv file
it works fine with the audio and video, but the subtitles are wrong,
when I play the files, the subs seem to be fine, but I can't extract them,
this is what appears to be the .sub file inside the mkv when I open it with the notepad after mkv extracted them

http://img279.imageshack.us/img279/522/untitled18vi.th.jpg (http://img279.imageshack.us/my.php?image=untitled18vi.jpg)

any idea???

LeMoi

1st May 2006, 00:42

.sub shouldn't be opened with notepad, it comes with an .idx, you can convert it into an srt, if that's what you need, with SubRip ;)

saga_gx

1st May 2006, 02:31

.sub shouldn't be opened with notepad, it comes with an .idx, you can convert it into an srt, if that's what you need, with SubRip ;)
thanks a lot!

shukero

1st May 2006, 04:07

still waiting for a new version of the wizard... since the one they have on the site still doesnt work ><

Kurtnoise

1st May 2006, 11:00

still waiting for a new version of the wizard... since the one they have on the site still doesnt work ><
Wizard has been rewritten from scratch (I had lost the sources :s ). It's almost finished now but I need to test 2-3 things before to release it. So, stop to ask when. It's very annoying.

Apart from that, what's wrong with mkvextractGUI ? Why it doesn't work for you ? Did you have an error return ?

crashray

4th May 2006, 17:00

Could you make a macinstosh Version ?

Kurtnoise

4th May 2006, 17:24

Me ? Sorry...I don't have a Mac OS.

crashray

5th May 2006, 10:16

Could you give me your source ? I will try to make the same in mac os.
Thanks

Kurtnoise

5th May 2006, 12:19

crashray

5th May 2006, 14:02

You mean sources of MkvextractGUI or the Wizard ?

MkvextractGUI sources are available here (http://corecodec.org/frs/?group_id=55&release_id=141#r141). I hope you have BootCamp with Windows otherwise you can't compile some Delphi stuff.

Otherwise Lazarus can help you (free pascal). Maybe...
Thanks.
But the version of mkvtoolnix in mac os is not the same in windows. We have the version 1.6.5 :scared:

But i tried to do something :p

crashray

12th May 2006, 17:17

How can we know if the mkv have chapter ?
For the tracks and attachments, i make mkvmerge -i.
And how can i "study" the source in Windows Xp ?

Kurtnoise

12th May 2006, 18:18

How can we know if the mkv have chapter ?
Use mkvinfo.

And how can i "study" the source in Windows Xp ?
What you mean by "study" ? To compile mkvextractGUI, you need Delphi 7/2005 Personal Edition at least.

azsd

4th June 2006, 11:35

I found these parts in source
---------------------------------------
if JLAquaCheckbox5.Checked then
JLAquaCheckbox5.Enabled:=False;
JLAquaCheckbox3.Checked:=False;
JLAquaCheckbox3.Enabled:=True;
JLAquaCheckbox4.Checked:=False;
JLAquaCheckbox4.Enabled:=True;
Edit2.Enabled:=True;
JLAquaPicker2.Enabled:=True;
---------------------------------------
it means
---------------------------------------
if JLAquaCheckbox5.Checked then
begin
JLAquaCheckbox5.Enabled:=False;
end;
JLAquaCheckbox3.Checked:=False;
JLAquaCheckbox3.Enabled:=True;
JLAquaCheckbox4.Checked:=False;
JLAquaCheckbox4.Enabled:=True;
Edit2.Enabled:=True;
JLAquaPicker2.Enabled:=True;
---------------------------------------
infact the last 6 line be executed every time.
I think the author means it only be executed follow the "then".
---------------------------------------
if JLAquaCheckbox5.Checked then
begin
JLAquaCheckbox5.Enabled:=False;
JLAquaCheckbox3.Checked:=False;
JLAquaCheckbox3.Enabled:=True;
JLAquaCheckbox4.Checked:=False;
JLAquaCheckbox4.Enabled:=True;
Edit2.Enabled:=True;
JLAquaPicker2.Enabled:=True;
end;
---------------------------------------
thx n bye.

azsd

4th June 2006, 11:40

I had post it on codecodecs mkvextractgui bugtrack in 2006-04-14,
but the message still marked as open.

thuongshoo

15th June 2006, 05:29

Hi ! This Gui only extract video and audio. Can you add "timecode" "...." options ?
Thank you very much !

Kurtnoise

25th June 2006, 19:47

Hi ! This Gui only extract video and audio. Can you add "timecode" "...." options ?
http://corecodec.org/frs/?group_id=55&release_id=298#r298

Weltall

3rd July 2006, 08:10

Could someone help me!? I have some x264+aac ps files in .mkv extension on my pc, I wanted to remux it to .mp4, but I couldn't! How can I do that? I tried to extract video and audio with Matroska GUI and mux with YAMB, but I hadn't sucess, video doesn't sync with audio. Thanks in advance.

thuongshoo

3rd July 2006, 11:07

New version can't extract timcode file becasue it uses timecode_v2 argument instead of timecodes_v2
Hope this bug is fixed.

Weltall

4th July 2006, 19:08

Problem solved, thanks to Kurtnoise! You are great man!

neo squidward

30th July 2006, 16:18

for MPEG2 try to extract it as raw. How is it possible to extract it as raw? I'm using MKVExtract GUI 1.6.2 and cannot find a corresponding option.

vlada

1st August 2006, 11:49

Borbus

30th January 2007, 12:40

Hello, I have following problem with MKVExtract GUI 1.6.3 - I opend a MKA file with one AC3 audio track, attachments and chapters. I can demux the AC3 file and attachments, but I don't know how could I extract the chapters. If I switch to the Chapters tab, I can only select there OGM and XML, but what next?
Also could you please add support for extracting chapters as CUE sheet? The support for CUE is in mkvextract.exe, so it should be just a matter of adding one more checkbox to the GUI.

Tick chapters in the first tab. Then go to the second tab and select which format you want. Now copy and paste the text into a new file. CUE sheet format is supported but maybe only if you used a CUE sheet with mkvmerge originally.

BoNeCrUsHeR

30th January 2007, 22:12

OK I've had troubles with this new wizard:

When-ever I try and use your new wizard extractor It says this: C:\Documents and Settings\Michael\Desktop\Wizard\\mkveX.bat doesn't exist.

Ibeleive that its's because of the extra "\"right in front of the mkvrX.bat but I can see "mkveX.bat in the wizard folder while this is happening.

I was wolndering if you could help me get rid of this problem. or if you could give me a new wizard. I downloaded the wizard off of yuor CoreCodec site.

I'm using the wizard because when ever I try to open a file into MKVExtract 1.5.5 with the mkvtoolnix and runtime uni-code installed it gives me this message:

Error creating Chilg Process

CreatChildProcess(ExeName,CommandLine, FChildStdoutWr)

I was also wondering what this is... could you help me out? thank you very much.

I didn't notice a straight answer to this yet, (but I know it asks for a path for mkvextract on very 1st run.) For some reason it ran fine when I first extraced it. I moved everything but the .INI file to MKVnix and then it re-asks for mkvextract and I get the same error. Is something written to registry? Hmm.. I will keep testing it...

And if this was answered and I missed it, sorry ......

-bC

BoNeCrUsHeR

30th January 2007, 22:13

I get that same error with MKVExtractGUI:
Error creating Chilg Process

CreatChildProcess(ExeName,CommandLine, FChildStdoutWr)

which is why I was using the Wizard instead. Now that the wizard has stopped working I just copy and paste the line it makes to CLI/DOS\

EDIT:

Ok, I re-installed to a 1st level directory (example: c:\wizard) (not c:\blahblah\blahblah\blahblah\wizard)
and it is working again. I think it is simply not formatting the path correctly (obviously) but this allows it to at least work without having to keep opening CLI's...
Hope this helps someone.

crashray

4th February 2007, 20:20

The source are not available here : http://kurtnoise.free.fr/MKVextractGUI155_src.zip
Where can i find the source ?
Thanks

jjseth

13th March 2007, 15:13

After a long time out i loss the sources and CoreCodec seems to be down.

BoNeCrUsHeR

13th March 2007, 18:32

The source are not available here : http://kurtnoise.free.fr/MKVextractGUI155_src.zip
Where can i find the source ?
Thanks

I don't know where source is for 'wizard' but corecodecs is back up (today)... :)
http://corecodec.org/frs/?group_id=55&release_id=310#r310

You will find sources for most/all mkvextractgui versions.

jjseth

14th March 2007, 12:47

CoreCodec.org is down again...... thanks a lot for all BoNeCrUsHeR :thanks:

Kurtnoise

14th March 2007, 22:50

PM me if you want MKVExtractGUI sources...I'll create a new project on CoreForge this weekend for this tool.

Kurtnoise

17th March 2007, 16:17

Ok the last package (1.6.4) and sources have been reloaded on CoreFore.org now : http://mkvextractgui.coreforge.org/

After a long time out i loss the sources and CoreCodec seems to be down.
subscribe to the new website and I'll add you as a developper...:)

jjseth

28th March 2007, 10:42

Thanks Kurtnoise13! I´ll suscribe in the new web now and I going to send you a pm.

Kriz

17th April 2007, 02:22

I'm having some trouble with the gui, it's not displaying correctly.

http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/2575/screenshotza7.png

Redmist

18th April 2007, 04:50

Does anyone know how to extract EAC3 (DD+) from an mkv?

vlada

18th April 2007, 11:45

I think it should be possible to extract any track from MKV at least as binary data. Have you tried using mkvextract from command line?

mkvextract.exe tracks "file.mkv" --raw 2:audio.eac3

Something like this should work for you.

Redmist

18th April 2007, 12:25

Thanks, vlada! Worked perfectly.

Kurtnoise

18th April 2007, 18:59

Come on guys...eac3 != ac3 :rolleyes:

@Kriz :: did you try to resize the window ? I'll look at this asap.

foxyshadis

19th April 2007, 06:31

I think it's just because it uses pixel layout, so it doesn't work with large font dpi (or as Doom9 charitably calls it, granny fonts).

Kurtnoise

27th April 2007, 13:17

I'm having some trouble with the gui, it's not displaying correctly.
Should be ok now in the last release...

http://coreforge.org/projects/mkvextractgui/

Kurtnoise

1st May 2007, 17:21

A new wizard (http://coreforge.org/frs/?group_id=33&release_id=18) has been released today...:) Feel free to test it.

- Rewrite from scratch.
- Improve Matroska Parsing (many thanks Toff for the code ;-))
- Able to save Infos (as txt or xml format).
- Vista compatible.
- Full Unicode support.

http://img368.imageshack.us/img368/3919/capture1rb0.th.png (http://img368.imageshack.us/my.php?image=capture1rb0.png) http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/4770/capture2ss1.th.png (http://img512.imageshack.us/my.php?image=capture2ss1.png) http://img368.imageshack.us/img368/1839/capture3nl5.th.png (http://img368.imageshack.us/my.php?image=capture3nl5.png)

vlada

1st May 2007, 17:52

Hi Kurtnoise,

unfortunately when trying your new GUI, I found this problem:

http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/9537/mkvewcp5.png

Edit: Forgot to mention I'm running Windows XP. Apparently this version is not just Vista compatible, it is Vista demanding. :-)

Kurtnoise

1st May 2007, 19:20

ooops...Sorry. Should be ok now.

Same link as above.

KoD

1st May 2007, 20:09

Works nicely now. Great job. ^^

lolent

2nd May 2007, 02:25

Thanks Kurtnoise13, I will test it :)

Thunderbolt8

28th September 2007, 19:27

would be great if this tool is continued further, if one could for example extract E-AC3 and the dts core (from dts-hd) tracks out of a .mkv file again.

TheSof

19th January 2008, 01:34

Is there still no way to extract eac3 from mkv?

marknyc5

3rd February 2008, 20:48

I used MKV Wizard to extract three files from my mkv file: aac, ass, and h264. How do I convert these into an avi or mpg?

Thanks,

Mark

vlada

3rd February 2008, 21:20

Well extracting the tracks won't help you in converting. Where did you get this idea?

In fact you can convert the .h264 video to AVI using AVC2AVI. But it probably won't help you. I guess you want to convert the MKV because of compatibility reasons. If I'm right, then tell me what exactly are you trying to do. I should be able to help you. But not unless I know more details of your motivation to convert the MKV to AVI. Anyway extracting the tracks won't help you in most cases.

mrdummy

7th March 2008, 22:21

Do you forget standalone DVD players with MPEG4 playback function? They're cheap now and that is why we want convert them, MKV files mainly, to compatible Xvid/MP3 format, and if possible, hardcoded substitles. (SUB/SRT is okay, but some players has poor subtitle view: bad fonts, wrong color, no black outline, hard to read. Hardcoded is better.)

Even some people tell us why we don't buy better player with mkv and h264/aac playback... there is reason: they're still expensive.
A DVD player with mpeg4 playback is already found from $30, and that is cheap. Why not encode to AVI?

I know MKV is good, but that is only at PC playback so far. But not all people has pc near the TV. And no money for expensive i-can-play-all player.

I tried http://how-2-do.blogspot.com/2007/12/how-to-convert-mkv-files-to-avi-with.html guide, but my AutoGK cannot encode AVI further, it stays by 'Analyzing AVI' :(
Another method to hardcode subs?

Edit: I try now with VirtualDub + Vobsub plugin (TextSub filter)

KoD

8th March 2008, 10:13

I'm going to be evil like most other people here when they want to close a discussion, and say: in that case you'd better rip from the DVD/original disc, instead of trying to make a DVD back from your self-made mkv.

SpAwN_gUy

14th March 2008, 11:24

hello, i'm using Wizard... and i 'kinda like it..

but.. as i've noticed.. the coreCodec-site is "a bit" down..

and.. the last version of Wizard (as i see) is the version that i have...
so.. Kurtnoise13 can you update the wizard, so it could read InputFile from commandline?

so i could "Sent To" the wizard...

Kurtnoise

14th March 2008, 21:07

mmh...it shouldn't be hard to do that but I don't get your point imho. It's just a GUI. So, why do you want to have some command lines switches with it ?

guada2

16th March 2008, 15:05

Hello kurtnoise13,

Thanks for your GUI.
But I noticed a small problem, when i decide to open an file (in "INPUT"); then, I decide to leave by click on "cancel" , it occurs this:"can' T open file"

With MKVextracGui, there is no problem.

Bye..

SpAwN_gUy

17th March 2008, 09:43

mmh...it shouldn't be hard to do that but I don't get your point imho. It's just a GUI. So, why do you want to have some command lines switches with it ? ok.. i'll try to explain...
this is for "Send To" option...
like, VirtualDub - has this thing.. like i "Send To" VirtualDub.. and it(VD) opens itself and opens the file... so i don't need to start VD, "open file", search for it.. and the open..

thanks :) ...

Kurtnoise

19th March 2008, 11:00

I'll see what can I do...can't code during the week (only the weekend).

SpAwN_gUy

28th October 2008, 11:03

Hello, me again :) ...
as i can see.. mkvtoolnix 2.4.0 is out.. and now MKVE Wisard.. is working, but it does not show any progress. (files are still 0b... but when stopped - the are normal file sizes..)

and what about my old request? ;) ... about command-line switch :)

viceversa

3rd November 2008, 03:49

ok, here is my problem.
First, thanks for the app, it works like a charm.
But lets see... I've got around 700 MKV files and all of their track 1 is the audio i need. Is there any way to batch extract all first tracks?
If i do this manually, it will take ages...

NanoBot

3rd November 2008, 05:05

You "got" the 700 MKV files ?

Please have a look at rule 6 of the forum rules:
http://forum.doom9.org/forum-rules.htm

6) No warez, cracks, serials or illegally obtained copyrighted content! Links to content of a questionable nature, asking for, offering, or asking for help/helping to process such content in any way or form is not tolerated.

Sorry, nobody can help you unless you can produce evidence that you are a legal owner of that content you "got". :rolleyes:.

C.U. NanoBot

viceversa

3rd November 2008, 14:11

So i had to give my firms confidential files, because i need some help?
Thanks anyway, i can do the "1 click per file" job for not to get fired...

Anyway, not everything is about cracks, warez, serials, illegally obtained stuff. You must clear this insanity...

vlada

3rd November 2008, 17:14

viceversa
It should be very easy to write a batch script which will convert all your files. Use the CLI version of MKVExtract.

Mosu

3rd November 2008, 17:18

If you're using some kind of Linux-ish/BSD-ish system or a proper shell on Windows (e.g. cygwin's bash or MSYS from the mingw project) then you could script something. Assuming that the first audio track is always a MP3 you could do something like...

for file in *.mkv ; do
track_id="`mkvmerge -i "$file" | grep '^Track.*: audio' | head -n 1 | awk '{ gsub(":", "", $3); print $3 }'
if [ "$track_id" != "" ]; then
mkvextract tracks "$file.mkv" "${track_id}:${file}-extracted-${track_id}.mp3"
fi
done

What it does is:

It calles mkvmerge in "identification" mode which prints out the track IDs and track types.
Next, the line corresponding to the first audio track is extracted.
The track ID is extracted from this line.
mkvextract is called with this ID and an automatically constructed file name.

Of course on plain Windows you're probably out of luck :)

viceversa

3rd November 2008, 21:36

@vlada
I'm working on it, hope to solve before weeks end :)

@Mosu
Windows :(
But thanks for the tip, maybe i can arrange one of the ITs and get him to job with a live Linux...

Thank you both.

mcrossy

5th January 2009, 02:09

Hi all,
I'm new using this useful tool.
I have been curious to make it work in something like a "batch mode" (having a certain number of files to be extracted from their sources).
So I tried a simple mode to let it do automatically.
Here is how I do:

1. (In MKV Extract GUI) I open the source file (from where I want to extract the tracks)

2. In the "Tracks" tab (located at the bottom window in the main screen) I will see a text with the commands for the current job: select all that text and copy it (CTRL+C)

3. Now I open a TXT file in which I PASTE the copied command. At the end of the command line I put a Carriage Return and start with a new line.

4. Repeat this procedure for all of the files I want to extract (the commands will be one after another in the TXT file.

5. Now select all the text in the TXT file and copy it in the clipboard (CTRL+C)

6. Open a DOS window (Start -> Run... -> CMD), change dir to the folder where is MKVToolnix

7. Now PASTE (mouse right-click -> paste) the copied text and let the batch work.

For me it works perfectly; hope it will be useful for anyone who need it.

Enjoy.

hiper56

17th December 2009, 03:16

I have a question about the mkxuncat.exe. The one that comes with MKVExtractGUI is 212 KB and the one with MKVE Wizard 74.5 KB. Both versions seem to work with MKVExtractGUI, console window that pops up shows with both "mkxuncat v0.1.0". So why the filesize difference when they're suppose to be the same thing at least by the version number? So which one of them is newer or better so to speak?

Second question is about MKVE Wizard and its uncat feature. Is it broken?
See the picture: http://i47.tinypic.com/255nbtk.jpg

johnsonlam

18th December 2009, 17:41

To: DarkDudae

Thank you very much for the program, just want the GUI version to "fill the gap" of MKV tools.

I've drag a file with Unicode characters on the GUI, it display some ? characters, can you please compile with UTF-8 support?

Thanks.

mark0077

21st January 2010, 21:29

Hi all,

I have been trying to find mkvextract gui to be used with the latest mkvtoolnix but 90% of the places I try to download from have bad links.

Where can I find mkvextract gui latest as 1.6.4.1 doesn't seem compatible with newest mkvextract.exe

XhmikosR

21st January 2010, 21:49

1.6.4.1 is the latest version. What do you mean not compatible? It works for me with the latest Mkvtoolnix.

sneaker_ger

21st January 2010, 21:52

This application seems to be abandoned. Try MKVcleaver (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=152108) instead.

/edit:
@XhmikosR
It will error on attachments and maybe some other things.

If so. wants to get MKVExtractGUI anyways, get it here: MKVExtractGUI 1.6.4.1 (http://www.mediafire.com/?wonod22mxxj)

mark0077

21st January 2010, 22:16

Thanks sneaker_ger.

Well extracting things like tags, I am getting strange command line errors printed to the txt file rather than proper contents. I assumed the command line interface has changed format in a recent mkvextract.exe and the gui doesn't support it.

I am converting all of my DVD's to mkv to put into library on pc. I have a DVD that I have never been able to get to mkv properly. Its "The World Is Not Enough". Here is what I am doing

Convert DVD to mkv using makemkv

Now if I play this the way it is there are two problems.

1) The audio is perfectly in sync.
2) There is an audio glitch at one (or maybe more) points in the movie. They are reproducable, and even visible on the mpc-hc evr graph. The graph is flat until these points.

So I continue anyways.

Use mkvextract to extract the mpeg2 video
Use DVD Patcher to force each frame to be the correct 16:9 aspect ratio (this dvd is a little different to the rest, and needs this to play correctly in mpc-hc and ffdshow).
Use mkvmerge using original mkv, disabling its mpeg2 video, and inserting the new mpeg2 from dvd patcher above.

Now if I play this the way it is there are two problems.

1) The audio is out of sync, significantly
2) There is an audio glitch at one (or maybe more) points in the movie. They are reproducable, and even visible on the mpc-hc evr graph. The graph is flat until these points.

So I tried to now use audio and video timecode files. With this

1) The audio is perfectly in sync
2) The audio glitch is still there.

I can't get rid of this glitch, for many months. The original dvd doesn't have it, and even converting mkv back to a ts file doesn't have it. It seems to be only when its as an mkv.......

I suppose if anyone knows, what software other than makemkv I can use to stop this glitch from appearing at certain points in the movie? I assume its the cause of the problem.