{"id":7441,"date":"2018-01-16T14:43:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T14:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7441"},"modified":"2019-01-04T16:35:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T16:35:23","slug":"mkvtoolnix-20-0-0-released-with-mkvinfo-rewritten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/01\/mkvtoolnix-20-0-0-released-with-mkvinfo-rewritten\/","title":{"rendered":"MKVToolNix 20.0.0 Released with mkvinfo Rewritten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mkvtoolnix-icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6408\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MKVToolNix, free and open-source Matroska software, reached 20.0.0 release a day ago. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.10.<\/p>\n<p>MKVToolNix 20.0.0 fixed quite a number of bugs in mkvmerge, and removed those options and features deprecated a year ago. An important change was the near complete rewrite of mkvinfo\u2019s internals. <\/p>\n<p>Important notes in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bunkus.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/mkvtoolnix-v20-0-0-released\/\" target=\"_blank\">announcement<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Feature removal: several deprecated features have been removed:\n<ul>\n<li>mkvmerge: the deprecated options <code>--identify-verbose<\/code> (and its counterpart -I), <code>--identify-for-gui<\/code>, <code>--identify-for-mmg<\/code> and <code>--identification-format verbose-text<\/code><\/li>\n<li>support for the deprecated, old, proprietary format used for option files<\/li>\n<li>support for passing command line options via the deprecated environment variables <code>MKVTOOLNIX_OPTIONS<\/code>, <code>MKVEXTRACT_OPTIONS<\/code>, <code>MKVINFO_OPTIONS<\/code>, <code>MKVMERGE_OPTIONS<\/code> and <code>MKVPROPEDIT_OPTIONS<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>mkvinfo: most of its code was re-written in order to lay the groundwork for including its functionality in MKVToolNix GUI but with more features than the existing mkvinfo GUI. Changes include but aren\u2019t limited to:\n<ul>\n<li>Several element names are a bit clearer (e.g. <code>Maximum cache<\/code> instead of <code>MaxCache<\/code>).<\/li>\n<li>All timestamps and durations are now output as nanoseconds in formatted form (e.g. <code>01:23:45.67890123<\/code>). All additional formats (e.g. floating point numbers output in seconds or milliseconds) were removed.<\/li>\n<li>Element names for chapters and tags are now translated if a translation is available.<\/li>\n<li>Elements located in wrong positions within the Matroska document are handled better.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>How to Install MKVToolNix 20.0.0 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>The official apt repository offers the latest packages for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 17.10 so far.<\/p>\n<p>Open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching it from app launcher. When it opens, do following steps:<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Run command to add the repository:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo sh -c 'echo \"deb https:\/\/mkvtoolnix.download\/ubuntu\/ $(lsb_release -sc) main\" >> \/etc\/apt\/sources.list.d\/bunkus.org.list'<\/pre>\n<p><i>Replace <code>$(lsb_release -sc)<\/code> with <code>xenial<\/code> for Linux Mint 18.x. And input your password (no visual feedback while typing) when it prompts and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/mkvtoolnix-repo-600x86.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"86\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/mkvtoolnix-repo-600x86.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/mkvtoolnix-repo-450x64.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/mkvtoolnix-repo.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Then install the key:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">wget -q -O - https:\/\/mkvtoolnix.download\/gpg-pub-moritzbunkus.txt | sudo apt-key add -<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mkvtoolnix-key-600x89.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"89\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mkvtoolnix-key-600x89.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mkvtoolnix-key-450x66.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mkvtoolnix-key.jpg 747w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>3.<\/b> Finally either upgrade the software via Software Updater (Update Manager):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/upgrade-mkvtoolnix.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/upgrade-mkvtoolnix-450x312.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"312\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/upgrade-mkvtoolnix-450x312.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/upgrade-mkvtoolnix-600x416.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/upgrade-mkvtoolnix.jpg 721w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>or run command to install the software packages:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get install mkvtoolnix mkvtoolnix-gui<\/pre>\n<p><b>Uninstall:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To remove the repository, launch <i>Software &#038; Updates<\/i> utility and navigate to <i>Other Software<\/i> tab.<\/p>\n<p>To remove MKVToolNix, use Synaptic Package Manager or run following command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get remove --autoremove mkvtoolnix mkvtoolnix-gui<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MKVToolNix, free and open-source Matroska software, reached 20.0.0 release a day ago. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.10. MKVToolNix 20.0.0 fixed quite a number of bugs in mkvmerge, and removed those options and features deprecated a year ago. An important change was the near complete rewrite of mkvinfo\u2019s internals. Important notes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[862,861],"class_list":["post-7441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-mkvmerge-gui","tag-mkvtoolnix"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}