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Old 11th August 2022, 17:16   #1681  |  Link
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Hi Mosu,

At the Dolby Vision support status page, I wonder why there is no "Supported check" under mkvextract for single track dual layer. Extracting hevc from STDL seems ok.
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Mostly because it doesn't do anything with the data stored in the various "addition" blocks (the stuff that corresponds to the CodecPrivate of the base laye, the dvcC/dvvC atoms). For regular, non-DV HEVC it's quite common that the parameter set NALUs are only stored once at the start, and mkvextract tries its best to normalize them so they're present before each and every key frame.

It could do something similar with the Dolby Vision NALUs, but it doesn't yet (as that is simply not implemented).

So yeah, for well-formed tracks you only take out and remux somewhere else as-is, the current code should work fine. The edge cases probably won't, though.
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Old 14th August 2022, 08:52   #1683  |  Link
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MKVToolNix v70.0.0 released

Heyo!

A new small release is ready, mostly fixing two annoying bugs in the GUI's handling of color parameters that unfortunately slipped in in v69.

Here are the usual links: the MKVToolNix home page, the Windows installer/portable version & macOS DMG & Linux AppImage and the source code.

The Windows and macOS binaries as well as the Linux AppImage are available already. The other Linux binaries are still being built and will be available over the course of the next couple of hours.

Here are the NEWS since the previous release:

Version 70.0.0 "Caught A Lite Sneeze" 2022-08-14
New features and enhancements
  • MKVToolNix GUI: the user can now control where the job queue files & the preferences INI file are stored via environment variables. If set, the variable "MKVTOOLNIX_GUI_STATE_DIR" can point to a directory where the GUI stores both the job queue sub-directory and the preferences INI file. If you only want to relocate the preferences INI file, you can store the desired file name for the INI file in "MKVTOOLNIX_GUI_CONFIG_FILE". Implements #3382.
  • MKVToolNix GUI: when adding directories via drag & drop/copy & paste the GUI will now offer the user the option to create one multiplex settings tab per directory & adding all files from that directory to the corresponding, newly created tab. Implements #3371.

Bug fixes
  • mkvmerge: AV1 OBU parser: fixed identifying files that only contain single frame. Fixes #3380.
  • MKVToolNix GUI: multiplexer: when reading color parameters from identified files that are floating point numbers (minimum/maximum luminance, projection pitch/roll/yaw) the numbers will be formatted in floating-point notation instead of scientific notation as mkvmerge only supports the former. Fixes #3368.
  • MKVToolNix GUI: multiplexer: color parameters that are floating point numbers (minimum/maximum luminance, projection pitch/roll/yaw) will only be set to a value during identification if the identification actually contains the property, and not to 0 anymore if it doesn't.

Build system changes
  • Several merge requests where accepted that improve compilation on MSYS2 on Windows. Note that this build type isn't supported.

Have fun 😁
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Old 14th August 2022, 14:07   #1684  |  Link
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Old 15th August 2022, 08:47   #1685  |  Link
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I wonder why A/V detection is 3/15 on Windows portable and 0/15 on Windows installer. Also some antiviruses don't like hevcc_dump.exe.
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Old 15th August 2022, 08:51   #1686  |  Link
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New EXEs that have never been seen in the wild are often the target of false positives.

I create both the 7z and the installer from the same set of compiled EXEs. I compile on Linux. There's no Windows involved in the build process at all.

So… yeah.
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Old 16th August 2022, 17:45   #1687  |  Link
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A build question.
When you're building for Linux (we will forget targeting Windows for now).
Will --enable-static-qt build QT (or something similar) ? If not, what will it do ?
Is --enable-static-qt mandatory for --enable-static ?
Or for --enable-static you just need to have installed the proper allready build QT package ?
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If you want to use a statically-linked Qt, you'll have to use "--enable-static-qt".

"--enable-static" compiles all programs as static binaries, requiring all libraries to exist as static libraries. This isn't supported. The option is only present because one user provided a merge request for it. I don't use it, I don't test it, I don't support it.
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Old 17th August 2022, 08:42   #1689  |  Link
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Ok, thanks.
When you're building for Linux, what are the required QT packages for --enable-static-qt ?
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I only use static Qt libraries for the Windows builds, via the MXE project.
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Old 17th August 2022, 10:53   #1691  |  Link
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I'm not talking about the Windows build via MXE.
As i've specified, when you build for Linux, what are the required QT package for --enable-static-qt ?
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I'm not building with static Qt libraries on Linux. That's what I meant above. I only build with static Qt libraries when I build for Windows. For that I only use MXE.
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Old 17th August 2022, 12:31   #1693  |  Link
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Ah... Ok...
Sorry, i didn't understood, thanks for these informations.
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https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.p...08#post1972708

Sorry for bringing this up again, but I think I found the issue now...

It turned out that the source files are borked, but playing the original .TS files in any player did not reveal the problem. Only after converting the source to .MKV usind MKVToolNix the audio sync was broken.

dmMediaConverter to the rescue. It reported THIS in its log:

[mpegts @ 076b04c0] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:1; previous: 16190735, current: 16189009; changing to 16190736. This may result in incorrect timestamps in the output file.

The solution was to just repack the source with dmMediaConverter (everything in DirectStreamCopy mode) to another .TS file and then use this repacked source file as the input for MKVToolNix. All audio sync errors are gone...


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@Mosu
Assuming i want to build a Linux release, the same way you do, but from a clean fresh mkvtoolnix repo cloning.

My guess is that i have to do the following, am i correct ?

Code:
./autogen.sh  (is there parameters here ?)
./configure (what parameters are you using ?)
rake (is there parameters here ?)
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Highly depends on which distro I build for, if I build for development, if I try to test certain features.

For releases I build from source tarballs, not git repo checkouts, meaning that you don't have to run "autogen.sh" (that builds the "configure" script, but the source tarball already includes "configure"). "autogen.sh" doesn't need parameters.

In general I only add those parameters to "configure" that are required for it to find the required libraries if they're stored in locations "configure" doesn't search in. Ideally I don't add any parameter to "configure".

"rake" doesn't need any parameters either.
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Old 24th August 2022, 02:31   #1698  |  Link
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I used MKVToolnix to put a subtitle (SRT) inside a m2ts file, and noticed that as MKV the filesize decreased from 65.1 to 61.9 GB.

By comparing both MediaINFO details from them, can this reduction be explained?

m2ts (original file):

https://pastebin.com/VuBWVUn8

MKV:

https://pastebin.com/r1VSWpXu

Is the MKV still "lossless" after I used MKVtoolnix? I only added the SRT.

EDIT: I just found this explanation:

Is that it?

The CONTAINER OVERHEAD of a transport stream is much greater than the container overhead of other formats (MPG, AVI, MKV, MP4). In this way, when you remux from (m2)ts to Matroska, you will ALWAYS get a very-noticeable filesize reduction.

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Yes. The MPEG (2) transport stream container has one of the highest overhead of all the usual containers. It's really noticeable.

Another possible part of the explanation are filler NALUs. Video streams might contain so-called "filler NALUs" that don't contain any data and are only present to keep the effective bitrate above a certain threshold. As those NALUs are completely superfluous wrt. decoding, they're dropped by MKVToolNix.
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Old 27th August 2022, 20:22   #1700  |  Link
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Hi Mosu

Short question. mkvmerge writes always 8 bytes for the Segment DataSizeLength?
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