{"id":7827,"date":"2018-06-12T15:50:20","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T15:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7827"},"modified":"2019-01-04T16:34:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T16:34:43","slug":"mkvtoolnix-24-0-0-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/06\/mkvtoolnix-24-0-0-released\/","title":{"rendered":"MKVToolNix 24.0.0 Released! How to Install it in Ubuntu 18.04"},"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>MKVToolNix 24.0.0, free and open-source Matroska software, was released 2 days ago. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.10.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mkvtoolnix.download\/doc\/NEWS.md\" target=\"_blank\">MKVToolNix 24.0.0<\/a> &#8220;Beyond The Pale&#8221; release highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>mkvmerge: MP4 reader: improved the detection of edit lists consisting of two identical entries, each spanning the file&#8217;s duration as given in the movie header atom.<\/li>\n<li>mkvmerge: JSON identification: the &#8220;display unit&#8221; video track property is now reported as &#8216;display_unit&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>mkvmerge, mkvextract: AVC\/h.264: empty NALUs will now be removed.<\/li>\n<li>mkvextract: VobSub extraction: empty SPU packets will now be dropped during extraction<\/li>\n<li>mkvmerge: E-AC-3 parser: fixed determining the number of channels for streams that contain an AC-3 core with dependent E-AC-3 frames.<\/li>\n<li>Updated Niels Lohmann&#8217;s JSON library to v3.1.1.<\/li>\n<li>Updated pugixml library to v1.9.<\/li>\n<li>Various bug-fixes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>How to Install MKVToolNix 24.0.0 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>The official apt repository offers the latest packages for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.10, and Ubuntu 18.04 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\/2018\/06\/add-mkvtoolnix-repo-bionic-600x87.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"87\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/add-mkvtoolnix-repo-bionic-600x87.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/add-mkvtoolnix-repo-bionic-450x65.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/add-mkvtoolnix-repo-bionic.jpg 746w\" 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 24.0.0, free and open-source Matroska software, was released 2 days ago. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.10. MKVToolNix 24.0.0 &#8220;Beyond The Pale&#8221; release highlights: mkvmerge: MP4 reader: improved the detection of edit lists consisting of two identical entries, each spanning the file&#8217;s duration as given in the movie [&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-7827","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\/7827","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=7827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}