Description
A handy frontend CLI to many common operations on Matroska (MKV) files using
mkvtoolnix (and some extras). I wrote this program after
spending considerable time with the (necessarily) complex command-line options
of the mkvtoolnix toolkit.
Installation
Pre-requisites
mkvtoolnix
(sudo apt-get install mkvtoolnix
on debian based systems): required.
pandoc
(sudo apt-get install pandoc
on debian based systems): optional.
Only required to generate the man page).
Download a binary version from github
Github automatically builds new versions for multiple platforms. You can download
a binary (and manpage) for your platform from the mkvtool releases page.
Once downloaded, use the following commands to install it in your system:
$ ARCH="your architecture name" # (E.g. amd64)
$ sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
$ sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/man/man1
$ sudo install -m 755 "$ARCH/mkvtool" /usr/local/bin
$ sudo install -m 644 "$ARCH/mkvtool.1" /usr/local/man/man1
Run mkvtool
for a short help message or man mkvtool
for the full man page.
Clone and compile
This requires a recent version of Go Installed in your system. You also need
pandoc
if you want to recreate the manpage.
$ git clone https://github.com/marcopaganini/mkvtool
$ cd mkvtool
$ make
$ make manpage # <-- optional
$ sudo make install
Documentation
Documentation is available online or by typing man mkvtool
in your shell prompt.
Author
Marco Paganini paganini@paganini.net.
Comments, ideas, and PRs are welcome.