MKVToolNix v90.0 released

2025-02-08 — mosu

Heya fine folks.

The first release of 2025 brings you a handful of bug fixes & one nice improvements for header editor users.

You can download the source code or one of the packages. The Windows packages as well as the Linux AppImage are available already. The other Linux packages & the macOS disk image 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 90.0 “Hanging On” 2025-02-08

New features and enhancements

• MKVToolNix GUI: header editor: double-clicking on one of the three flag indicators (“Default track”, “Forced display”, “Enabled”) for a track in the tree view will now toggle the corresponding flag. Implements #3773.

Bug fixes

• mkvmerge: AAC parser: LOAS/LATM streams: fixed use of uninitialized data when the StreamMuxConfig element doesn’t contain the audioMuxVersion element; version 0 must be assumed in such a case. The result was that sometimes certain valid AAC packets were dropped. Fix by Stefan Pöschel.
• mkvmerge: HEVC/H.265 parser: fixed calculation of picture order count calculation that was triggered under rare circumstances. Fixes #3775.
• mkvmerge: Matroska reader: enabled limits for how much data a single Matroksa reader instance might buffer when the muxing core looks for packets for specific tracks, avoiding huge memory consumption in cases where tracks have huge gaps between packets. This might happen when appending files containing forced-only subtitle tracks, for example. Fixes #3771.
• mkvmerge: TrueHD reader: increased the probe range for TrueHD sync frames from 128 KB to 512 KB to avoid mis-detection with certain files with a lot of data between sync frames. Fixes #3783.
• mkvmerge: MP4/QuickTime reader: fixed detection of Big Endian LPCM audio. Fixes #3788.

Build system changes

• The bundled fmt library was updated to v11.1.2.
• added a new option to configure called --disable-dbus to disable looking for & using QtDBus even if it’s present on the system. Default remains to probe for its existence. Patch by Anthony Ryan.

Have fun! 😁

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MKVToolNix v89.0 released

2024-12-27 — mosu

Hello fellow gentle humans!

Here’s a small update for MKVToolNix, v89. Must keep the fixes flowing! Hope y’all are having a mostly stress-less end of the year.

You can download the source code or one of the packages. The Windows packages as well as the Linux AppImage are available already. The other Linux packages are still being built and will be available over the course of the next couple of hours. Due to technical issues the macOS disk image is not available yet, and I cannot give you an ETA when it’ll be done as I currently don’t have access to a working macOS build environment.

Here are the NEWS since the previous release:

Version 89.0 “And the Melody Still Lingers On (Night in Tunisia)” 2024-12-27

New features and enhancements

• mkvmerge: AC-3 writer: mkvmerge will now use the codec ID A_AC3 even for streams with bitstream IDs 9 or 10 instead of the deprecated codec IDs A_AC3/BSID9 & A_AC3/BSID10. Fixes #2387.
• MKVToolNix GUI: multiplexer: the mechanism for setting track languages to specific values upon adding a file has gotten a new option to always set the language, no matter whether or not the source container provided a track language or what it was set to.
• all command-line tools: implemented an escape mechanism for when you want to use the @ sign as the first character in an argument to an option such as --title. To escape it the @ sign has to be doubled as in --title @@midnight. Implements #3768.

Bug fixes

• mkvmerge, mkvpropedit, MKVToolNix GUI’s multiplexer & header editor: the MIME type for TrueType & OpenType fonts will be set properly to either the current MIME types font/ttf & font/otf or to the legacy MIME types application/x-truetype-font & application/vnd.ms-opentype depending on whether the “use legacy font MIME types” option is disabled or enabled, even if the MIME database used by Qt returns the wrong one or even other MIME types such as application/x-font-ttf & application/x-font-otf. This was the case on Windows due to Qt 6.7.3 switching to a different embedded MIME database. Partially fixes #3751.
• MKVToolNix GUI’s multiplexer & header editor: ensured that both the legacy & the current font MIME types are always present in the MIME type combo boxes of attachments, no matter what Qt’s MIME type database contains. Partially fixes #3751.
• MKVToolNix GUI: the “disable tooltips” option in the preference will now disable the tooltip for the status bar, too.

Have fun! 😁

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MKVToolNix v88.0 released

2024-10-19 — mosu

Hey y’all!

Time for another small update to MKVToolNix, v88. Still not much going on at the moment. But still… enjoy!

You can download the source code or one of the packages. The Windows packages and macOS disk image as well as the Linux AppImage are available already. The other Linux packages 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:

New features and enhancements

• mkvmerge, MKVToolNix GUI’s chapter editor: added support for reading chapters from PotPlayer bookmark files.

Bug fixes

• configure: fixed setting HAVE_QTDBUS properly if the QtDbus module is found. Fixes #3744.
• mkvmerge: MP4 reader: mkvmerge will no longer warn when multiple identical FourCCs are present within the same track headers. Fixes #3748.
• mkvmerge man page: removed the wrong statement that an attachment’s MIME type must be set before use of the --attach-file & --attach-file-once options. If not given, mkvmerge auto-detects the MIME type.

Have fun! 😁

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