MKVToolNix v24.0.0 released

[Mosu]

MakeMKV can mux TextST into Matroska. I have experimental patches for mkvmerge enabling the same thing, but there are still some unresolved issues left to tackle, e.g. retrieving the bloody encoding and re-encoding the text to UTF-8 if it isn't UTF-8 already.

[ndjamena]

OK, then.

I'm well aware that most of the time things aren't as easy as they would seem based on a cursory examination. That would be why I haven't mentioned it recently.

I'm more than willing to wait if it means getting the thing done properly. Anticipation of something worthwhile is better than knowledge of that possibility snuffed out.

[Mosu]

Well, I also lack a Blu-ray disc with TextST tracks on it, therefore testing has been extremely limited for the time being. I only have a single .m2ts and the .mkv that MakeMKV has created for them. That's pretty much the reason I've stopped working further on this as extracting the subtitle encoding requires parsing additional files on the disc (the clip info files which mkvmerge doesn't parse at the moment).

So some pointers which Blu-rays contain HDMV text subtitles so that I can obtain one would be appreciated.

Additionally I think Mike from MakeMKV and I weren't in agreement yet about all the details of how to store TextST subs outside of M2TS and Matroska files, and there may also have been some disagreement on the exact layout of CodecPrivate. But I'll have to dig out our email conversation to make sure I remember correctly.

[ndjamena]

I uploaded three entire Blu Ray structures, minus the actual video files, in a zip file to your server a while ago.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/21..._Subtitles.zip

I posted a link to the file on the forum and VLC bug tracker as well. It's been downloaded 56 times already. If there's something wrong with it I really ought to have been told.

Do you need an entire disc with video and all? My ADSL has unlimited download but it's not exactly lightning fast.

[Mosu]

I'm about to go on vacation and will follow up once I'll have returned.

[ndjamena]

Bon voyage!

[ndjamena]

Originally Posted by Nikolaj Olsson - Subtitle Edit

Hi again,
I've chatted with a guy who uses a lot of bd and he says that bd text subs now are much more common than pgs - at least on nordic discs...
I've committed some initial code here (a lot of work left): https://github.com/SubtitleEdit/subt...c4c4ddd4cdf91b
Also, do you know how to merge textst into mkv files?

I've told him not yet, I guess we'd need an extraction format first. I'd love to be able to get custom TestST into a m2ts file though.

The discs I have that I know have TextST subtitles in are The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, The Mummy Tomb of the Dragon Emperor and Van Helsing. Apparently there are more around the world.

[Kurtnoise]

Hi Mosu,

May I ask you a new feature about the GUI ? When we click on "Start Muxing" button, the ability to display directly the job output panel...That would be awesome.

Thanks in advance.

[kypec]

Originally Posted by Kurtnoise

Hi Mosu,

May I ask you a new feature about the GUI ? When we click on "Start Muxing" button, the ability to display directly the job output panel...That would be awesome.

Thanks in advance.

+++ I second that request. Today I tried new GUI for the first time and was like 'huh? what's going on? did clicking the button worked or not? where's the progress bar & all info about ongoing muxing process?'

[hubblec4]

push!

The output panel I miss too.

[Mosu]

Please file feature requests on Github, otherwise they're likely to be forgotten.

I will definitely not bring back the modal progress dialog. One of the main reasons for rewriting the GUI was to be able to continue working with the program while a mux job is running, and such a modal dialog prevents it.

hubblec4: I don't really know what you mean by "output panel". If you mean the dialog showing the mux progress, the output, warnings and errors reported by mkvmerge then see above.

[bartonnen]

Originally Posted by kypec

...where's the progress bar...

Bottom right corner of the window.

[kypec]

Originally Posted by Mosu

I will definitely not bring back the modal progress dialog. One of the main reasons for rewriting the GUI was to be able to continue working with the program while a mux job is running, and such a modal dialog prevents it.

No one had mentioned that the dialog should be modal, where did you get that from?
I and probably all other guys are perfectly fine with current muxing dialog as it is (non-modal). It's just that once you click Start button nothing happens visually on the GUI to indicate that muxing had really started. I suppose the best would be to implement checkbox with two options:

1. Keep current dialog/tab after muxing was started (this is the current GUI behaviour)
2. Switch to muxer stats dialog/tab immediately after muxing was started (this is what we are missing)

The first option is meant for people who prefer to add jobs in the queue without any interruption.
The second choice is for us, casual muxers who want to get overview of muxing job done straight away after it was executed because we tend to run jobs once in a while only.

[ndjamena]

Apparently I forgot to add most of the m2ts files to the "Mummy" movies in the zip file.

I've added Van Helsing as well.

[73ChargerFan]

Feature Suggestion: When jobs are running in the background, enable an animated icon with text below indicating the job number. If the user clicks on the icon, then a non-modal job status screen opens.

Calibre is a great example. Copying multiple files to my Kindle creates automatic epub to mobi conversion jobs, and a spinning icon indicates that something is going on, and it cycles though labels "Job 1", "Job 2", ..., and finally "Jobs Completed".

[Mosu]

I will not implement additional dialogs, be they modal or not. There is such a functionality, it is the "job output" tool.

I will likely implement an option to switch to the output tool as soon as the user starts muxing, and I only asked for you guys to file a feature request for it on Github. Otherwise chances are high that I will forget about it again as I have a lot of features to implement and bugs to fix.

I will likely extend the number of jobs shown in the status bar somehow, e. g. indicate whether or not one is currently running. In the same spirit clicking on those numbers could cause the GUI to switch to the job queue or the output (depending on where the user clicked). Having a feature request on Github for this would be beneficial for the same reasons stated above.

[Boulder]

Is it possible output the results from mkvalidator to a file (on Windows 7)? I'm trying to check all the Matroska files on my removable hard drive and a file with serious errors will often cause a lot of lines to appear in the console output. This means that the buffer runs out and I cannot see the earlier messages at all even if I've set the buffer size very high.

[sneaker_ger]

mkvalidator.exe input.mkv 2> log.txt

[Boulder]

Seems to work partially, it exports the output but the filename is missing so I don't know which files the errors concern..

[sneaker_ger]

Just echo the filename first:

for %%a in (*.mkv) do (
		echo %%a >> log.txt
		mkvalidator.exe "%%a" 2>> log.txt
	)