mkvextract not extracting chapters (archlinux)

[donfrenchiano]

I don't think this is a bug as it is only happening on my current install of archlinux. I have mkvtoolnix version 6.9.1 which is the latest installed. I was using fedora and everything worked fine although i didn't take note of which mkvtoolnix version was installed. Basically if i have an mkv and i try to get chapters from it the chapter file has nothing in it and is 0 bytes. If i run the command without redirecting it to a file it just shows as complete and prints no output. Another strange thing is if i download the portable version of mkvtoolnix for windows and use MKVExtractGui it does the same thing. it will see the chapter track and extract an empty file. If i use the same exact portable mkvtoolnix directory with mkvextractgui on a windows machine and open the same mkv file it extracts the chapter file fine. mkvinfo and mkvmerge -i all show the chapter information being in the file and look ok. Does anyone have any idea what else i should be looking at?

[microchip8]

hmm, this is indeed strange. I've used mkvextract, both versions 6.9.1 and 7.0.0, and they work fine in the console. Never see them outputting an empty file from a video file that has chapters in it. I honestly don't know from where your problem comes but I'd suggest you install the packaged rpm from the mkvtoolnix website and give that a try. I don't think there's an Arch package (I could be mistaken) but there are Fedora/Ubuntu/openSUSE packages