MKVToolNix v24.0.0 released

[Mosu]

What exactly don't you like? Are you missing certain features? Do features not use the way you want them to? Do you have a beef with the layout? Do you not understand how to do certain things?

The new GUI can do everything the old GUI can do, but it does things differently. I'd like to help you, but you'll have to be specific with your complaints. I cannot do anything with "I prefer blue over red".

[nada2k]

In the past I saved some .mmg settings files. Is it correct that the new MKVToolNix GUI can not open these anymore?

In the job cue some menu items are available over the "Job queue" menu on top and some over the right-click context menu. Some are exclusive to each menu, some appear in both. Is there a setting to make both menus show the same, combined content?

[Mosu]

Originally Posted by nada2k

In the past I saved some .mmg settings files. Is it correct that the new MKVToolNix GUI can not open these anymore?

That's correct. The new GUI uses a different storage format with different keys and values.

In the job cue some menu items are available over the "Job queue" menu on top and some over the right-click context menu. Some are exclusive to each menu, some appear in both. Is there a setting to make both menus show the same, combined content?

There are no duplicates, even if some of the options look similar. The options in the menu on the top are the ones that operate on the whole queue. The ones in the context menu operate on the ones that are selected when you open the context menu.

For example, the context menu option "Remove jobs" removes then ones that are currently selected whereas the main menu option "Remove completed jobs" removes all jobs that have been completed regardless of their current selection status.

Another example: "Start pending jobs" from the main job queue menu sets all jobs to "start automatically" that are currently in state "start manually". Whether or not they're selected doesn't matter. On the other hand the context menu option "Start jobs automatically" sets the status of all selected jobs to "start automatically" no matter what their current status is (which means that you can use this option to re-enable particular jobs that have already been completed).

It's easy enough to remember: do you want to manipulate the currently selected job(s)? Then use the context menu. Otherwise you'll find the corresponding option in the main job queue menu.

See also this related wiki article about "The job queue, statuses and their actions".

[magsoud]

MKVtoolnix not show about This errors and warnings (Show in image):
Please Fix This!

[LeMoi]

Some dialogs need (at least French) translation, like overwriting confirmation, for example.

EDIT : never mind, looks it's been fixed in latest version

[bin_ch]

I love the new GUI. Particularly for it showing the properties on the right side as a single scrollable widget. With the old mmg, I had to switch between tabs to set different options. I am just wondering is it possible to assign all the properties options with access keys (the underlined letters)? That would make jumping betweeen options even faster. Currently, access keys are only available for the top three options (Mux this track, Track name, Language).

Also, I sorta miss the "Copy to clipboard" button. Currently in the new GUI, one wants to copy the command line options has to go to Merge menu --> Show command line --> Copy to clipboard. I can understand it may not deserve a dedicated button in the main window because it's not very frequently used for normal users. But I personally often use it. What do you think about adding an entry under Merge menu (say, above/below "Show command line", like in mmg)?

Thank you.

[Mosu]

Originally Posted by bin_ch

I love the new GUI. Particularly for it showing the properties on the right side as a single scrollable widget. With the old mmg, I had to switch between tabs to set different options. I am just wondering is it possible to assign all the properties options with access keys (the underlined letters)? That would make jumping betweeen options even faster. Currently, access keys are only available for the top three options (Mux this track, Track name, Language).

Unfortunately assigning more hotkeys isn't as easy as one might hope. The whole "merge" tab dialog is a single form, and Qt's Creator tool doesn't really allow me to re-use the same hotkeys on different tabs. Some are silently changed whenever I make a change, and I don't want to have to fight the Qt Creator each time I edit the form.

Additionally there are so many options that selecting distinct hotkeys for all of them isn't even possible.

Also, I sorta miss the "Copy to clipboard" button. Currently in the new GUI, one wants to copy the command line options has to go to Merge menu --> Show command line --> Copy to clipboard. I can understand it may not deserve a dedicated button in the main window because it's not very frequently used for normal users. But I personally often use it. What do you think about adding an entry under Merge menu (say, above/below "Show command line", like in mmg)?

Nothing, to be honest. That would only move it one layer up and not improve your situation much. And you're right, copying to the clipboard is something that few people do regularly.

You seem to be a keyboard user. Why don't you memorize the hotkeys you need to press for copying to the clipboard? After doing it a couple of times pressing them should become somewhat automatic. For the English version it's Alt+M, h, Alt+O, Alt+C. You can even use Alt+H in the second step, so you don't even have to take your finger off Alt. Basically: Press and hold Alt, then hit m h o c in sequence. Release Alt.

[bin_ch]

Originally Posted by Mosu

Unfortunately assigning more hotkeys isn't as easy as one might hope. The whole "merge" tab dialog is a single form, and Qt's Creator tool doesn't really allow me to re-use the same hotkeys on different tabs. Some are silently changed whenever I make a change, and I don't want to have to fight the Qt Creator each time I edit the form.

Additionally there are so many options that selecting distinct hotkeys for all of them isn't even possible.

I see, didn't know the technical details.

Nothing, to be honest. That would only move it one layer up and not improve your situation much. And you're right, copying to the clipboard is something that few people do regularly.

You seem to be a keyboard user. Why don't you memorize the hotkeys you need to press for copying to the clipboard? After doing it a couple of times pressing them should become somewhat automatic. For the English version it's Alt+M, h, Alt+O, Alt+C. You can even use Alt+H in the second step, so you don't even have to take your finger off Alt. Basically: Press and hold Alt, then hit m h o c in sequence. Release Alt.

True. After imagining the workflow now I completely agree, three keystrokes indeed isn't too much different than five.

Thanks for the reply, and the new GUI.

[dansrfe]

It would be great to select/deselect by en-masse highlighting in the tracks, chapters, tags, and attachments section. For example to deselect a long list of subtitle streams.

[foxyshadis]

Originally Posted by dansrfe

It would be great to select/deselect by en-masse highlighting in the tracks, chapters, tags, and attachments section. For example to deselect a long list of subtitle streams.

All the usual text selection shortcuts work, along with the context (right-click) selection options. Maybe a shortcut and option for invert selection would be useful? Or perhaps being able to sort by the track headings, making it easy to use shift to select the right things.

[dansrfe]

Originally Posted by foxyshadis

All the usual text selection shortcuts work, along with the context (right-click) selection options. Maybe a shortcut and option for invert selection would be useful? Or perhaps being able to sort by the track headings, making it easy to use shift to select the right things.

Right, the right-click menu as is applied actions to the entire set of tracks, regardless of the subset of tracks which have been highlighted. The space-bar shortcut working with with a subset highlight would be nice as well.

[Mosu]

dansfre: use the right-click menu to select e.g. all subtitle tracks, then use the "mux this track" drop down on the right to toggle the state for all of the selected ones.

You're right about the space key only toggling the one track that's currently focussed. This should work on all selected tracks, and I'll fix it accordingly.

See also this short introduction video for selecting and changing multiple tracks at once.

[Mosu]

Oh wait, space isn't supposed to toggle all, that's what Enter/Return is there for. Space is supposed to work on the current one only.

[LeMoi]

I have 698 MB MKV file muxed with mkvmerge 7.9.0 5 months ago. I want to replace two audio tracks (LC-AAC 6ch, each one is 104 MB) with tow other ones with the exact same bitrate (160 kbps, both tracks have exactly the same size as the ones I want to replace).
When I mux the file with latest MKVToolnix, the result file is 707 MB!! And if I just remux the original file without unchecking or adding any track, the file is 704 MB!!
Is there a reason why the new version adds those MB?

[Mosu]

There are a couple of potential reasons, e.g. differences in how cues were created, or maybe the original muxer packed frames together in an illegal way (which mkvmerge doesn't). But that's all guesswork. Can you please create four files with mkvinfo and upload those to my FTP server so that I can analyze them? I'll need:

mkvinfo -v -v --redirect-output original-vv.txt original.mkv
mkvinfo -s --redirect-output original-s.txt original.mkv
mkvinfo -v -v --redirect-output remux-vv.txt remux.mkv
mkvinfo -s --redirect-output remux-s.txt remux.mkv

original.mkv is the orignal file you're trying to remux/change audio tracks in, and remux.mkv is the file after remuxing without changing anything (no audio tracks removed/added).

Thanks.

[LeMoi]

Remuxing with 8.3.0 resulted in a 698 MB file too. I'll upload the files on your server so that you can analyze them

[Mosu]

Your original file uses content compression (zlib compression) for the VobSub tracks; your remuxed file doesn't. Hence the bigger files.

[LeMoi]

I dind't change any setting, shouldn't zlib compression be enabled by default?

[Mosu]

Depends on your settings in the GUI ("Preferences" → "Merging" → "Disable additional lossless compression for all track types"). That setting is off by default, meaning that in a new installation the GUI will leave the setting on its default causing mkvmerge to use zlib compression for VobSub tracks.

The command-line mkvmerge uses zlib compression by default, too.

[LeMoi]

So since I began using the new GUI, all the files I muxed didn't have this (zlib) compression, since I didn't change that default setting? And if I remux a file in which tracks have this compression, if I don't enable it in settings, i'll lose this compression?
Can't you make the GUI keep the compression of tracks in files when you remux them?