Matroska and Mac?

[metro.tramp]

I've just started encoding my dvds on os x and would really like to be able to encode them in the mkv format. It seems best suited to files with multiple audio tracks and subs and i like the fact that it's open source.

But as far as i can tell, there's pretty much no software for making matroska files on a mac. The only thing i can find is mkvtoolnix, and for some reason i can't get that to run on my computer. I've installed it, but when i try any of the commands, i get 'command not found' on the terminal. I'm running 10.4.6 so could it be a compatibility problem, or am i just missing something out. I try typing the command but it just doesnt work.

So could my terminal be broken? Is that possible?

Are there any other programs available for the mac that will encode to mkv? Would it be possible to install a unix app to do it? I was half-tempted to run gordian knot or something through virtualpc, but figure i'd rather not wait a week for each file. Would it be worth dual booting linux in order to do this?

I really really want to get matroska working as it definitely seems the best option, but it's just not looking very possible, please help!

thanks

[metro.tramp]

So after asking on the osxhints forum, it seems i need to set my terminal to look in the directory that mkvtoolnix is installed to in order for it to run.

So does anybody have any idea where the mkvtoolnix installer puts the files?

[yuvi]

If you're talking about Holwegner's package, they install to /usr/local/bin
Thus, to have your shell find them, add the following line to .bashrc in your home directory (assuming the default bash shell):
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
(google for setting it for tcsh if you've upgraded from a much older version of Mac OS X.)

Also note that mkvtoolnix does no encoding; it only muxes separate files into one matroska file. If you want to encode to H.264 or XviD, you can compile ffmpeg with x264 or XviD or several other programs from source.

[metro.tramp]

Thanks. It all seems to have worked nicely!

Worked out the thing about mkvtoolnix being for muxing, just the lingo is still a bit new to me :-)

Yeah, i'm using ffmpeg to demux and encode the mpegs with x264. Slow but seems better quality than xvid...

Thanks again!