MKVToolNix


MKVToolNix is a collection of tools for the Matroska media container format by Moritz Bunkus including mkvmerge. The free and open source Matroska libraries and tools are available for various platforms including Linux and BSD distributions, macOS and Microsoft Windows. The tools can be also downloaded from video software distributors and FOSS repositories.

Applications

MKVToolNix was reviewed by the Linux Journal, Linux Format, the Journal of Information and Communication Technologies in Education">ICTE Journal, and Softpedia among others. The tools are cited in patents for a "Universal container for audio data". A "portable" Windows edition exists, but is not as of 2015 available in the PortableApps format.

Components

;MKVToolNix GUI: is a Qt GUI for mkvmerge and a successor of mmg.
;mkvmerge: merges multimedia streams into a Matroska file.
;mkvinfo: lists all elements contained in a Matroska file.
;mkvextract: extracts specific parts from a Matroska file to other formats.
;mkvpropedit: allows to analyze and modify some Matroska file properties.