MKVToolNix v24.0.0 released

[Kurtnoise]

Originally Posted by DarrellS

Maybe by then, someone will have implemented stdin input into the Multicoreware x265 encoder which seems to be a lot faster than the DivX encoder and has more options. The Rovi build does mux the DivX hevc file after it's created and creates an insync file if given the frame rate. It's just a lot easier using your builds to mux with with since they accept "--default-duration 0:%(fpsnum)/%(fpsden)fps" which saves me from either having to create separate encoder sets for each frame rate or muxing after the audio and video files have been created. The other issue is that the DivX files will only play in the DivX player and not in MPC-HC which is my player of choice.

who cares ? You're off-topic right now...

[hubblec4]

hi mosu

i have a problem with appending files.
i have a movie(h264 untouched), i want cut a short videosequence by timecodes getting from the chapters (chapterfile).

first cut 00:01:30.000
second cut 00:02:50.000

now i have three videoparts. i load the first part in mmg and append the third part. muxing done with 0 error.

the videofile plays fine till the first cut (00:01:30.000), then stuttering the video for 2 or 3 seconds. and only madvr recalibrate the video after this short time. (EVR, vmr, haali renderer sucks).
when i jump back to 00:01:30.000 (in MPC-HC with chapter prev) plays the video fine, no stuttering. but when i go to previous timestamp as 00:01:30.000, the video stuttering agian.

the three video parts play seperatly fine.

[sneaker_ger]

It was originally a complete, single file? Was it encoded with OpenGOP?

[hubblec4]

Originally Posted by sneaker_ger

It was originally a complete, single file? Was it encoded with OpenGOP?

it is a single file, yes. and it came from a bluray.

OpenGOP, i dont know. mediainfo:
Allgemein
UniqueID/String : 142136116527023072389979487536299840814 (0x6AEE6B98C50B77314A39226D8E07152E)
CompleteName : ***video.mkv
Format : Matroska
Format_Version : Version 1
FileSize/String : 5,38 GiB
Duration/String : 42min
OverallBitRate_Mode/String : variabel
OverallBitRate/String : 18,0 Mbps
Encoded_Date : UTC 2013-09-22 16:23:23
Encoded_Application : eac3to
Encoded_Library/String : Haali DirectShow Matroska Muxer 1.13.138.14

Video
ID/String : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format_Profile : High@L4.1
Format_Settings_CABAC/String : Ja
Format_Settings_RefFrames/String : 4 frames
MuxingMode : Container profile=Unknown@0.0
CodecID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration/String : 42min
BitRate_Mode/String : variabel
BitRate/String : 17,6 Mbps
BitRate_Maximum/String : 38,0 Mbps
Width/String : 1 920 Pixel
Height/String : 1 080 Pixel
DisplayAspectRatio/String : 16:9
FrameRate_Mode/String : konstant
FrameRate/String : 23,976 FPS
ColorSpace : YUV
ChromaSubsampling : 4:2:0
BitDepth/String : 8 bits
ScanType/String : progressiv
Bits-(Pixel*Frame) : 0.354
StreamSize/String : 5,27 GiB (98%)
Default/String : Nein
Forced/String : Nein
colour_primaries : BT.709
transfer_characteristics : BT.709
matrix_coefficients : BT.709

[sneaker_ger]

MediaInfo does not offer detection for open gop AFAIK (aside from reading x264 custom sei). Can you upload a short (~1 minute) sample, perhaps your "first cut"?

[hubblec4]

Originally Posted by sneaker_ger

MediaInfo does not offer detection for open gop AFAIK (aside from reading x264 custom sei). Can you upload a short (~1 minute) sample, perhaps your "first cut"?

ok.

video.mkv

[sneaker_ger]

It seems to indeed be using open gop which cannot be cut reliably using mkvtoolnix.

[hubblec4]

mmh other episodes are work fine.

is this a problem to the entire file? or can i cut on other timecodes?

[sneaker_ger]

You should be able to cut on a few specific timecodes, namely I frames that are directly preceded by a P frame. You will mostly find these on scene changes.
This AviSynth script will show you the type of a given frame:

ffvideosource("split-001--1-.mkv")
ffinfo()

[Chetwood]

@sneaker_ger

I tried to adapt your batch to muxing a folder full of MKVs and Vobsubs but failed. Can you give it another try?

1 idx/sub with 2 languages per MKV:
"D:\Programme\MKVtoolnix\mkvmerge.exe" -o "e:\\ok\\Test 1x05.mkv" "--priority" "lowest" "--language" "0:jpn" "--default-track" "0:yes" "--forced-track" "0:no" "--display-dimensions" "0:1280x720" "--language" "1:ger" "--track-name" "1:de DTS" "--default-track" "1:yes" "--forced-track" "1:no" "--language" "2:eng" "--track-name" "2:en AC3" "--default-track" "2:no" "--forced-track" "2:no" "-a" "1,2" "-d" "0" "-S" "-T" "--no-global-tags" "--no-chapters" "(" "D:\\remux\\Test 1x05.mkv" ")" "--language" "0:ger" "--track-name" "0:de" "--default-track" "0:no" "--forced-track" "0:no" "--language" "1:eng" "--track-name" "1:en" "--default-track" "1:no" "--forced-track" "1:no" "-s" "0,1" "-D" "-A" "-T" "--no-global-tags" "--no-chapters" "(" "D:\\remux\\Test 1x05.idx" ")" "--track-order" "0:0,0:1,0:2,1:0,1:1" "--engage" "no_cue_duration" "--engage" "no_cue_relative_position"

2 idx/sub with one language each per mkv:
"D:\Programme\MKVtoolnix\mkvmerge.exe" -o "e:\\ok\\Test 1x05.mkv" "--priority" "lowest" "--language" "0:jpn" "--default-track" "0:yes" "--forced-track" "0:no" "--display-dimensions" "0:1280x720" "--language" "1:ger" "--track-name" "1:de DTS" "--default-track" "1:yes" "--forced-track" "1:no" "--language" "2:eng" "--track-name" "2:en AC3" "--default-track" "2:no" "--forced-track" "2:no" "-a" "1,2" "-d" "0" "-S" "-T" "--no-global-tags" "--no-chapters" "(" "D:\\remux\\Test 1x05.mkv" ")" "--language" "0:ger" "--track-name" "0:de" "--default-track" "0:no" "--forced-track" "0:no" "-s" "0" "-D" "-A" "-T" "--no-global-tags" "--no-chapters" "(" "D:\\remux\\Test 1x05-de.idx" ")" "--language" "0:eng" "--track-name" "0:en" "--default-track" "0:no" "--forced-track" "0:no" "-s" "0" "-D" "-A" "-T" "--no-global-tags" "--no-chapters" "(" "D:\\remux\\Test 1x05-en.idx" ")" "--track-order" "0:0,0:1,0:2,1:0,2:0" "--engage" "no_cue_duration" "--engage" "no_cue_relative_position"

I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one to benefit from this. Thx.

[sneaker_ger]

I don't really see how you adapted my script. You simply copied the command-line from mkvmerge GUI which is not bad per se but is hard for others to take a look at. It's even harder if you just say "failed" instead of posting the error message.

As I told you in my last PM:
1. all parameters of an input file come directly in front on the input file
2. mkvmerge starts counting at 0. TrackIDs are per input file.
http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkv.../mkvmerge.html

You are trying to use TrackID 1 with an idx file but unless the idx file has two subtitle tracks (uncommon but possible) you should only be using TrackID 0.

/edit:
corrected idx tracks being able to hold more than 1 subtitle track as per Mosu's correction

[Mosu]

Minor nitpick : VobSub files can contain arbitrary number of tracks. I have plenty of those here. Otherwise you're correct, of course.

[sneaker_ger]

I feared somebody might come and say that. But does mkvmerge read more than one track? I never actually tried.

[Mosu]

Sure it does :-) all of them, unless you tell it not to. Like with all file types it supports.

[Chetwood]

Originally Posted by sneaker_ger

I don't really see how you adapted my script.

I haven't since I failed miserably at adapting it. Thanks for rubbing it in

[sneaker_ger]

Maybe we start from the beginning so you can get a clear understanding. I'm using the mkvmerge docs for reference.

This is the general order of an mkvmerge command-line:

mkvmerge [global options] {-o out} [options1] {file1} [[options2] {file2}] [@optionsfile]

We start off with simply muxing an h264 video to an mkv container:

mkvmerge -o output.mkv input.h264

The next exercise would be to mux one h264 video track and one idx/sub subtitle track:

mkvmerge -o output.mkv video.h264 subtitles.idx

As you can see mkvmerge simply adds all files that don't have a "-o" in front of them into the file.

Now we want to define the video language as "English" and the subtitle language as "Dutch":

mkvmerge -o output.mkv --language 0:eng video.h264 --language 0:dut subtitles.idx

Notice how I've used the TrackID "0" for both input files. Lessons learned:
- the input TrackID's apply for each input file on their own.
- the options of an input file go in front of the input file

Since working with raw files is boring we will now try adding an mkv input file that has 3 tracks, with the first track being English, the second track being Finnish and the third track being Japanese. We will also add an idx/sub subtitle that is supposed to be German:

mkvmerge -o output.mkv --language 0:eng --language 1:fin --language 2:jpn input.mkv --language 0:ger subtitles.idx

As you can see we count from 0 to 2 for the input file with three tracks and still only use 0 for the single track after that.

We can do the same, but now with a second subtitle track which we will also mark as "forced":

mkvmerge -o output.mkv --language 0:eng --language 1:fin --language 2:jpn input.mkv --language 0:ger subtitles.idx --language 0:ger --forced-track 0:yes forced_subtitles.idx

Now let's say we also want to use some global options, for example --engage no_cue_relative_position and --clusters-in-meta-seek. We will simply put them into the front:

mkvmerge --engage no_cue_relative_position --clusters-in-meta-seek -o output.mkv --language 0:eng --language 1:fin --language 2:jpn input.mkv --language 0:ger subtitles.idx --language 0:ger --forced-track 0:yes forced_subtitles.idx

Well, that's pretty much it. We just have to be careful sometimes:
1.) If our file names or other descriptions have spaces in them, we have to use quotes around them. For example if we have "forced subtitles.idx" or we want to name the a track "Director's comment":

mkvmerge --engage no_cue_relative_position --clusters-in-meta-seek -o output.mkv --language 0:eng --language 1:fin --language 2:jpn --track-name 2:"Director's comment" input.mkv --language 0:ger subtitles.idx --language 0:ger --forced-track 0:yes "forced subtitles.idx"

2.) Some special characters have to be escaped
3.) In some cases (numbered VOBs) mkvmerge tries to automatically load several files without asking. We can stop it from doing so if we add a "=" directly before the filename or if we put it in Parentheses with spaces: "(" filename ")", (see the end of chapter 2.5 in the mkvmerge docs)

mkvmerge --engage no_cue_relative_position --clusters-in-meta-seek -o output.mkv --language 0:eng --language 1:fin --language 2:jpn --track-name 2:"Director's comment" ( input.mkv ) --language 0:ger subtitles.idx --language 0:ger --forced-track 0:yes ="forced subtitles.idx"

[Chetwood]

Thanks for taking the time. I really appreciate it.

[Morku]

I have a little noob question.
Whats the difference between the subttles default flag and forced flag? I know forced subtitles are for parts of the movie with a different language in the scene. When I have the forced and complete subtitles in srt, I set the forced subtitles as default track and it will be shown in the media player. What would be the difference, if I use the forced flag?
Thank you very much.

[Mosu]

Please read this fine FAQ entry about this very topic.

[Chetwood]

@Morku
You might also wanna read this.