Mkvextract GUI [Archive]

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DarkDudae

3rd April 2004, 20:11

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, 22:29

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, 02:22

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, 02:31

Wooow

Great job Dark :D

ChristianHJW

4th April 2004, 12:15

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

scrat

4th April 2004, 13:52

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, 15:15

@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, 15:37

Hey!

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

cu, scrat

DarkDudae

4th April 2004, 18:00

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, 06:07

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, 11:10

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, 15:45

@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, 08:58

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

10x

jjseth

6th April 2004, 17:24

Oh yeah DarkDudae!:D

ssjkakaroto

6th April 2004, 23:56

nice one DarkDudae, thx :cool:

ashyak

10th April 2004, 00:50

Mosu

10th April 2004, 10:31

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, 15:20

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, 12:50

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, 13:02

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, 20:41

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, 02:12

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, 10:18

@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, 21:37

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 ;)