MKVToolNix 19.0.0 “Brave Captain” released. Install MKVToolNix Matroska tools for Linux Ubuntu. MKVToolNix is a set of tools to create, alter and inspect Matroska files on Linux Systems. MKVToolNix Matroska is aiming to become the new standard media container format. These tools can work with Matroska files: mkvmerge creates Matroska files and mkvinfo lists information about them.
MKVToolNix 19.0.0 – New features and enhancements
* mkvmerge: splitting by duration, by timestamps or by timestamp-based parts: mkvmerge will now consider the first key frame within 1ms of the requested value to be eligible for splitting.
* MKVToolNix GUI: the GUI will now save and restore the widths of columns in tree and list views. Implements #2057.
* MKVToolNix GUI: header editor: when closing or reloading a modified file, the GUI will now focus the first element that’s been modified before asking the user for confirmation regarding discarding unsaved changes.
MKVToolNix 19.0.0 – Bug fixes
* mkvmerge: fixed reading text files encoded in UTF-16 order UTF-32 that have different forms of line endings (new lines, carriage returns or a mix of both). Fixes #2160.
* mkvmerge: MP4 reader: fixed mkvmerge’s interpretation of edit list entries with `segment_duration == 0` when there’s more than one edit list entry. In that case mkvmerge was reading the whole content more than once. Fixes #2152.
* mkvmerge, GUI’s multiplexer: MIME types: added the `font` top-level media types from RFC 8081. This means that the following new MIME types for fonts can be used: `font/ttf`, `font/otf`, `font/woff` and `font/woff2`.
* mkvmerge: MPEG transport stream reader: fixed slow speed on Windows due to lack of buffering.
* mkvextract: fixed slow track extraction speed on Windows due to lack of buffering. Fixes #2166.
* MKVToolNix GUI: multiplexer: changing the “subtitle/chapter character set” drop-down was ignored when the selected track was a chapter track. Fixes #2165.
* MKVToolNix GUI: multiplexer: once a “subtitle/chapter character set” was set for a track it couldn’t be changed back to the empty entry (=auto-detection) anymore.
* MKVToolNix GUI: header editor: fixed re-translating several displayed strings when the GUI language is changed if the language the GUI was started with was not English. Fixes #2159.
* MKVToolNix GUI: header editor: whenever a file did not contain a “date” element in its segment information section, the GUI would erroneously ask the user to confirm discarding unsaved changes when closing or reloading the tab. Fixes #2167.
* MKVToolNix GUI: job queue: jobs are now saved when their status changes in addition to when the program exits. Fixes #2168.
Install MKVToolNix on Linux Ubuntu
Run the following commands in Terminal to install MKVToolNix Matroska tools for Linux Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get update
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://mkvtoolnix.download/ubuntu/$(lsb_release
-sc)/ ./" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bunkus.org.list'
wget -q -O - https://mkvtoolnix.download/gpg-pub-moritzbunkus.txt | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mkvtoolnix mkvtoolnix-gui
Please note that in the first line of command “sudo sh -c ‘echo “deb http://mkvtoolnix.download/ubuntu/$(lsb_release -sc)/ ./” >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bunkus.org.list’” replace $(lsb_release -sc) with the Ubuntu release name. For example, to install it on Ubuntu 16.10, use yakkety in the code and thus the line becomes “$ sudo sh -c ‘echo “deb http://www.bunkus.org/ubuntu/yakkety/ ./” >> /etc/apt/sources.list’”