{"id":7550,"date":"2018-02-26T13:32:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T13:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7550"},"modified":"2019-01-04T16:34:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T16:34:39","slug":"mkvtoolnix-21-0-0-released-mkvinfos-gui-portion-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/02\/mkvtoolnix-21-0-0-released-mkvinfos-gui-portion-removed\/","title":{"rendered":"MKVToolNix 21.0.0 Released, mkvinfo\u2019s GUI Portion Removed"},"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=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6408\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Free and open-source Matroska software MKVToolNix v21.0.0 was released days ago. The biggest change is that mkvinfo\u2019s GUI portion has been removed.<\/p>\n<p>New features and enhancements in MKVToolNix 21.0.0:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>mkvmerge: track statistics tags: the <code>TagDefault<\/code> element will not be written anymore as it was always set to the default value 1 anyway.<\/li>\n<li>mkvmerge, MKVToolNix GUI: JSON files can now contain C++-style line comments outside of strings (e.g. something like this: <code>\/\/ this is ignored<\/code>). Such comments, even though not part of the official JSON specifications, are now ignored when reading JSON files.<\/li>\n<li>MKVToolNix GUI: chapter editor: opening a Matroska file without chapters in it will now open the file in an empty chapter editor instead of showing an error message.<\/li>\n<li>MKVToolNix GUI: an &#8220;info&#8221; tool has been added, replacing the functionality of mkvinfo\u2019s GUI. The functionality is not on par yet but will be for release v22.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the bug-fixes and other changes, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bunkus.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/mkvtoolnix-v21-0-0-released\/\" target=\"_blank\">release note<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>How to Install MKVToolNix 21.0.0 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>The official apt repository offers the latest packages for Ubuntu 16.04, 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>Free and open-source Matroska software MKVToolNix v21.0.0 was released days ago. The biggest change is that mkvinfo\u2019s GUI portion has been removed. New features and enhancements in MKVToolNix 21.0.0: mkvmerge: track statistics tags: the TagDefault element will not be written anymore as it was always set to the default value 1 anyway. mkvmerge, MKVToolNix GUI: [&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-7550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-mkvmerge-gui","tag-mkvtoolnix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550","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=7550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}