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<title>A guide to mkvmerge GUI</title>
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<h1>A guide to mkvmerge GUI (mmg)</h1>
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<i>Moritz Bunkus</i>
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<h2>Table of contents</h2>
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<a href="mkvmerge-gui.html#introduction">Introduction</a>
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<li>
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<a href="mkvmerge-gui.html#whatismatroska">What is Matroska?</a>
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<a href="mkvmerge-gui.html#whatismkvmerge">What is mkvmerge?
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What is mkvmerge GUI?
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<a href="mkvmerge-gui.html#latestversion">Obtaining the latest
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version
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<a href="mkvmerge-gui.html#scope">Scope of this guide</a>
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<a href="mkvmerge-gui.html#setup">Setting up mkvmerge GUI</a>
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<a href="mkvmerge-gui.html#muxing">Creating Matroska files</a>
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<a href="mkvmerge-gui.html#basics">Basics</a>
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<a href="mkvmerge-gui.html#fileoptions">Options for input
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files
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<a href="mkvmerge-gui.html#trackoptions">Options for each
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track
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<a href="mkvmerge-gui.html#attachments">Attachments</a>
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<a href="mkvmerge-gui.html#globaloptions">Global options</a>
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<a href="mkvmerge-gui.html#global_title">File/segment
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title</a>
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<a href="mkvmerge-gui.html#global_split">Automatic
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splitting and file linking</a>
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<a href="mkvmerge-gui.html#global_link">Manual
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file/segment linking</a>
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<a href="mkvmerge-gui.html#global_chapters">Chapters</a>
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<a href="mkvmerge-gui.html#global_tags">Global tags</a>
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<a href="mkvmerge-gui.html#doit">Starting the merge
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process
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<a href="mkvmerge-gui.html#saveload">Saving and loading
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muxing settings
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<a href="mkvmerge-gui.html#jobqueue">Queueing several jobs</a>
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<a href="mkvmerge-gui.html#chaptereditor">The chapter editor</a>
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<a href="mkvmerge-gui.html#chapterconcept">Matroska's
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chapter concept
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<a href="mkvmerge-gui.html#chapterexamples">Examples</a>
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<a href="mkvmerge-gui.html#chapterformats">Chapter formats
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supported by mkvmerge
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</a>
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<a href="mkvmerge-gui.html#cfsimple">Simple/OGM style
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chapter files
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<a href="mkvmerge-gui.html#cfxml">Full-featured XML
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style chapter files
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<a href="mkvmerge-gui.html#cfkax">Chapters found in
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Matroska files
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<a href="mkvmerge-gui.html#creatingchapters">Creating
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chapter files
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<a href="mkvmerge-gui.html#editingchapters">Editing existing
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chapters
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<h2><a name="introduction">1. Introduction</a></h2>
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<h3><a name="whatismatroska">1.1. What is Matroska?</a></h3>
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<p>(<i>Note: simply copied from <a href="http://www.matroska.org/">
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www.matroska.org</a>.</i>)</p>
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<p><b>Matroska</b> aims to become THE Standard of Multimedia Container
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Formats. It was derived from a project called MCF, but
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differentiates from it significantly because it is based on EBML
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(Extensible Binary Meta Language), a binary derivative of XML. EBML
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enables the Matroska Development Team to gain significant advantages
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in terms of future format extensibility, without breaking file
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support in old parsers.</p>
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2003-10-02 23:48:14 +00:00
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<p>If you need any more info please head over to
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<a href="http://www.matroska.org/">Matroska's homepage</a>.</p>
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<h3><a name="whatismkvmerge">1.2. What is mkvmerge? What is mkvmerge
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GUI?</a></h3>
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<p><i>mkvmerge</i> and <i>mkvmerge GUI</i> (or just <i>mmg</i>) are two
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programs created by <a href="mailto:moritz@bunkus.org">Moritz
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Bunkus</a>. They're part of the <i>mkvtoolnix</i> package. <i>mkvmerge</i>
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can read a lot of different multimedia files and put their contents into
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Matroska files. Unfortunately this is a command line program, and not
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everyone is comfortable working on the command line. This is where
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<i>mkvmerge GUI</i> comes into play. It is a GUI that provides the user
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with an intuitive but powerful interface to <i>mkvmerge</i>.</p>
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<p>Both programs are available for both Windows and GNU/Linux and
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other Unix derivatives. The program is licensed under the GPL, so
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the source code is available to anyone interested.</p>
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<h3><a name="latestversion">1.3. Obtaining the latest version</a></h3>
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<p>You can always find the latest version of <i>mkvtoolnix</i> on
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<a href="http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/">Moritz
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Bunkus' website</a>. Windows users will have to download the runtime
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DLLs as well as the <i>mkvtoolnix</i> binaries. Linux/Unix users
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will probably download the sources and compile
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<i>mkvtoolnix</i> themselves.</p>
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<h3><a name="scope">1.4. Scope of this guide</a></h3>
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<p>This guide only focuses on the GUI part of these tools. All
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command line options are explained in detail in
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<a href="mkvmerge.html"><i>mkvmerge</i>'s man page/HTML page</a>.</p>
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<h2><a name="setup">2. Setting up mkvmerge GUI</a></h2>
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<p>(<i>Note: This section does not cover compilation and
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installation. <i>mkvmerge</i>'s own documentation and the
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<code>README</code> files that are included in the
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<i>mkvtoolnix</i> package.</i>)</p>
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<img src="images/selectmkvmergeexecutable.gif"
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alt="selecting the mkvmerge executable">
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<font size="-1">Figure 1: Use this button to select the path to the
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<i>mkvmerge</i> program.</font>
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<p>The only thing that <i>mmg</i> needs to know is the location
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of the <i>mkvmerge</i> binary. Under normal circumstances it
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will be found automatically. But if not then you can select
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the binary to use on the <i>Settings</i> tab.</p>
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<a name="wxhh_muxing"></a>
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<h2><a name="muxing">3. Creating Matroska files</a></h2>
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<h3><a name="basics">3.1. Basics</a></h3>
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<p><i>mkvmerge</i> strictly differentiates between <i>files</i> and
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<i>tracks</i>. An input <i>file</i> usually contains one or more
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<i>tracks</i>. <i>mkvmerge</i> needs at least one input file and the file
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name of the Matroska file it should create before it can do any
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work. Starting with this minimal set of options the user can add more input
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files, select advanced options for each track, apply some more global
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options etc.</p>
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<p>The typical basic steps are:<br>
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<li>Select some input <i>files</i>,</li>
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<li>set language options for the <i>tracks</i>,</li>
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<li>set the movie/file title,</li>
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<li>select the file to write to and</li>
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<li>start the muxing process.</li>
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<img src="images/addremovefiles.gif"
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alt="adding and removing files">
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<font size="-1">Figure 2: Use these buttons to add and remove
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files.</font>
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<p>When <i>mmg</i> starts up it shows the first and probably most
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important tab: the <i>input tab</i>. Here you see four different
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elements. The topmost input box lists all input
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<i>files</i>. Directly under this box are options that apply
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to the currently selected input <i>file</i>.</p>
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<p>Figure 2 shows the three buttons to the right of the upper list box that
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can be used to add files to the list box with the <i>add</i> and
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<i>append</i> buttons and to remove the selected entry with the
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<i>remove</i> button.</p>
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<p>There is a difference between <i>adding</i> and <i>appending</i> a
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file. Normally, the tracks of all <i>added</i> files are put into the
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resulting Matroska file in parallel. This is usually the case if you
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have e.g. a video track, one or more audio tracks and one or more
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subtitle tracks. They all contain material that belongs to the same
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timecodes and that has to be played simulatneously.</p>
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<p><i>Appending</i> a file on the other hand will cause all tracks of the
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second file to be appended to tracks of a previously <i>added</i>
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file. That way the contents of those tracks will be played one after the
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other. You can only concatenate tracks that are of the same kind (video
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to video tracks etc), have the same codec (e.g. MP3 to MP3 but not MP3
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to AC3) and the same parameters (e.g. the sample rate must match).</p>
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<p>You can tell an <i>added</i> file from an <i>appended</i> one by
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looking at its name. <i>Appended</i> files and tracks start with
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"<code>++></code>".</p>
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<div align="center">
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<img src="images/trackselection.gif"
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alt="selecting specific tracks">
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<font size="-1">Figure 3: One enabled and one disabled track. The second
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track will not be copied into the output file.</font>
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<p>Once the user has added at least one input <i>file</i> in the upper
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list box the second list box will contains all available
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<i>tracks</i>. Each track is ENabled by default and will be
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muxed into the resulting file. However, you can change that by
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simply clicking on the check box right in front of the track's
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name in the second list box. This is shown in figure 3.</p>
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<p>For each of these tracks the user can select track specific options with
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the input boxes and check boxes below the track listing. These options will
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be described in the following sections.</p>
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<p>To the right of the track list box there are two buttons with which
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you can control the order of the tracks in the output file. By hitting
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the <i>up</i> and <i>down</i> the currently selected track is moved in
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the appropriate direction. There are some restrictions to moving
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<i>appended</i> tracks around (the ones that start with
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"<code>++></code>") like an <i>appended</i> track must not be
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the first track etc.</p>
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<p>Once the user has added and selected an input file he can set options
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that apply to this specific file. At the moment three such options have
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been implemented, and they all are only available for Matroska files:
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<code>No chapters</code>, <code>No attachments</code> and <code>No
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tags</code>. These options tell <i>mkvmerge</i> not to copy any
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chapters / attachments / tags from the current source file.</p>
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<p>More information about chapters can be found in the section about the
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<a href="mkvmerge-gui.html#chaptereditor">chapter editor</a> in this
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document and in <i>mkvmerge</i>'s own documentation.</p>
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<h3><a name="trackoptions">3.3. Options for each track</a></h3>
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<p>Depending on the type of the currently selected track (audio, video,
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subtitles) and even depending on the contents of the track only a subset of
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all the track specific options are available. <b>Note:</b> Unless
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overridden by the user <i>mkvmerge</i> will either copy track settings from
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the input file if the source format supports such information, or it will
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use sensitive default values.</p>
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<div align="center">
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<p>
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<img src="images/videotrackoptions.gif"
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alt="typical options for a video track">
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<br>
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<font size="-1">Figure 4: Typical options for a video track</font>
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</p>
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</div>
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<p>The available options are:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><code>Language:</code> The user can select the language for each track
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regardless of its type. This language is coded in the ISO639-2 language
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code. The drop-down box contains all ISO639-2 codes so the user does not
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have to worry about selecting the wrong language code.</li>
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<li><code>Track name:</code> The user can set a name for the current
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track. This name is a free-form string. Practical examples could be
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'director's comments' or 'great view of Seattle'. Note that these names
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are not meant to contain the movie title!</li>
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<li><code>Cues:</code> The <i>cues</i> are for Matroska what the index is
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for AVI files. They contain links to the key frames. Usually this option
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should be left on the value 'default'. <i>mkvmerge</i> will automatically
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chose the best method for any given track type. A full explanation of
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tracks can be found in <a href="mkvmerge.html"><i>mkvmerge</i>'s
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documentation</a>.</li>
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<li><code>FourCC:</code> Matroska does not normally store the Four-CC
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which is used in other containers to identify the codec used. Matroska
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has its own format, called <i>CodecID</i>, but it also has an AVI
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compatibility mode. In this mode the FourCC is also stored. With this
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option the FourCC can be forced to a different value. However, you
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cannot change the <i>CodecID</i> used by <i>mkvmerge</i>.
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<br>
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This option is only available for video tracks.</li>
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</ul>
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<div align="center">
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<p>
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<img src="images/audiotrackoptions.gif"
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alt="typical options for an audio track">
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<br>
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<font size="-1">Figure 5: Typical options for an audio track</font>
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</p>
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</div>
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<ul>
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<li><code>Aspect ratio:</code> With this option the user can set the aspect
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ratio that should be used upon playback. It defaults to the aspect ratio
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that the movie was encoded with but can be changed, e.g. for anamorphic
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encodings. The GUI expects the format to be either a floating point number
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(e.g. '2.33') or a fraction (e.g. '16/9').
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<br>
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Another possibility is to set the values for the display width and display
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height manually. This can come in handy if you want to adjust the
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parameters to a specific resolution. If you specify the aspect ratio then
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<i>mkvmerge</i> will calculate the display dimensions based on the size of
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the video track.
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<br>
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This option is only available for video tracks.</li>
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<li><code>Delay (in ms):</code> In some cases audio and video are not
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synchronized properly. With this option the user can offset the audio
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track by a given amount, either positive or negative. <i>mkvmerge</i> will
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either remove samples at the beginning or insert silence at the beginning
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to adjust the track.
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<br>
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This option is available for audio and text subtitle tracks.</li>
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<li><code>Stretch by:</code> In some cases audio and video slowly drift
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apart during playback. This can be fixed by supplying a factor of how much
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the time codes should be stretched by <i>mkvmerge</i>. If nothing is given
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then '1.0' is assumed which does not alter the time codes. Please note
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that this option has not been implemented for all audio track types yet.
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<br>
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This option is available for audio and text subtitle tracks.</li>
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<li><code>Subtitle charset:</code> Some text subtitle formats do not store
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the charset that they were created with. This is important because text
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subtitles are automatically converted to the UTF-8 charset during
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muxing. <i>mkvmerge</i> will normally assume that the system's current
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charset is the same that the subtitle file was written in. But in case
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this is not true the user can select the correct charset.
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<br>
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This option is only available for text subtitle tracks.</li>
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<li><code>Compression:</code> Matroska features a powerful system for
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compressing tracks with lossless compression algorithms. Those
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compressions can be applied to any given track, but some players only
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support this for VobSub tracks. This is where it's most useful. Other
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tracks, especially audio and video tracks, are already compressed so
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that additional compression will not yield any result. For VobSubs you
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can achieve an additional gain of about 30% if you enable zlib
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compression. That's why it is the default for VobSub tracks.
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<br>
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You should just leave this setting at <i>default</i>.</li>
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</ul>
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<div align="center">
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<p>
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<img src="images/textsubtitlestrackoptions.gif"
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alt="typical options for a text subtitle track">
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<br>
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<font size="-1">Figure 6: Typical options for a text subtitle track</font>
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</p>
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</div>
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<ul>
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<li><code>Make default track:</code> Matroska knows a flag which tells the
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player that a specific track should be preferred upon playback if the user
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does not chose another one. Of course each track <i>type</i> has its own
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default track - e.g. the default audio track is the English one, and the
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default subtitle track is the French one. If no track is set to be the
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default track then <i>mkvmerge</i> will promote the first track of each
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type that it finds to be the default track. This is consistent with the
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behavior of various media players.</li>
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<li><code>AAC is SBR/HE-AAC/AAC+:</code> The new technology called 'high
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efficiency AAC' has some drawbacks when it is being stored in
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<code>.AAC</code> files: it is not possible to detect the HE-AAC part
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for these files. Therefore the user has to check this option manually
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if it applies. Please note that this problem does not exist for HE-AAC
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stored in <code>.MP4</code> files.</li>
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<li><code>Tags:</code> For each track you can create a XML tags file. For a
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full explanation of all tags please refer to the example file and <a
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href="mkvmerge.html"><i>mkvmerge</i>'s own documentation</a>. In probably
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99% of all cases you want to use THIS option and associate tags with a
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specific track. The tags option on the global tab is probably not what you
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need.</li>
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</ul>
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<h3><a name="attachments">3.4. Attachments</a></h3>
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<p>Matroska files can also contain other files, called attachments. This
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works basically just like with your favorite email program. The idea is to
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provide additional information about the file. Some examples could be cover
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photos for a CD rip, additional background information in text form about
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the movie or even some compressed fonts for the subtitles.</p>
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<p>Every attachment needs two things: the file name (obviously) and the MIME
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type that should be associated with the file. The usage is very easy and
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similar to adding files on the
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<i>input</i> tab.</p>
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<div align="center">
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<p>
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<img src="images/addingremovingattachments.gif"
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alt="adding and removing attachments">
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<br>
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<font size="-1">Figure 7: Add and remove attachments with these
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buttons.</font>
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</p>
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</div>
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<p>On the second tab of the GUI, the <i>attachment</i> tab, you can add a
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file with the <i>+</i> button and remove the selected attachment with the
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<i>-</i> button. Once an attachment has been selected the other controls on
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this tab will be available. You do have to select a MIME type for each
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attachment, but the description is optional - although it is a good idea to
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always provide a description. This makes it easier for others to identify
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what you've attached to this Matroska file.</p>
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<div align="center">
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<p>
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<img src="images/attachmentoptions.gif"
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alt="typical options for an attachment">
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<br>
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<font size="-1">Figure 8: Typical options for an attachment</font>
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</p>
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</div>
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<p>The last option, <code>attachment style</code>, is only evaluated when
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you also split the output into several files. (Splitting in general is
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explained in the following section.) If the option <code>To all
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files</code> is selected then the current file will be attached to all
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output files created. If the option <code>Only to the first</code> is
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selected then the file is only attached to the very first output file
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created.</p>
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<h3><a name="globaloptions">3.5. Global options</a></h3>
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<p>The third tab, <i>Global</i>, is packed full of options that apply to the
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complete file and not just to one or more tracks.</p>
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<h4><a name="global_title">3.5.1. File/segment title</a></h4>
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<div align="center">
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<p>
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<img src="images/movietitle.gif"
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alt="selecting a movie title">
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<br>
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<font size="-1">Figure 9: Selecting a title for the movie</font>
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</p>
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</div>
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<p><code>File/segment title:</code> This title is used for the actual
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movie title, e.g. 'Vanilla Sky'.</p>
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<h4><a name="global_split">3.5.2. Automatic splitting and file
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linking </a></h4>
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<p>The <code>Split</code> section handles how the output file is split
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into several smaller files. If no splitting is selected then only one
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big file is generated. If splitting is activated then you can tell
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<i>mkvmerge</i> to start a new output file after either a specific
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amount of data has been written to the current file or after a specific
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amount of time has accumulated. The formats accepted are:
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<br>
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<ul>
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<li>For the size: A number optionally followed by the letter 'K', 'M'
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or 'G' indicating kilobytes (1024 bytes), megabytes (1024 * 1024
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bytes) or gigabytes (1024 * 1024 * 1024 bytes). Examples: '700M' or
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'100000K'.</li>
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<li>For the time: The format is either <code>HH:MM:SS</code> or a
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number followed by the letter 's' indicating a number of
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seconds. Examples: '01:20:00' (split after 1 hour, 20 minutes) or
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'1800s' (split after 1800 seconds = 30 minutes).</li>
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</ul>
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</p>
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<div align="center">
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<p>
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<img src="images/splitting.gif"
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alt="typical options for splitting">
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<br>
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<font size="-1">Figure 10: Typical options for splitting. Create two files
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which will be approx. 700megs big.</font>
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</p>
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</div>
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<p><code>Don't link:</code> This option controls how <i>mkvmerge</i> will
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handle splitting. A little explanation about this feature:</p>
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<p>Matroska supports file linking which simply says that a specific file
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is the predecessor or successor of the current file. To be precise, it's
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not really the files that are linked but the Matroska segments. As most
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files will probably only contain one Matroska segment I simply say 'file
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linking' although 'segment linking' would be more appropriate.</p>
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<p>Each segment is identified by a unique 128 bit wide segment UID. This
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UID is automatically generated by <i>mkvmerge</i>. The linking is done
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primarily via putting the segment UIDs of the previous/next file into
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the segment header information. <i>mkvinfo</i> prints these UIDs if it
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finds them.</p>
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<p>If a file is split into several smaller ones and linking is used then
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the time codes will not start at 0 again but will continue where the
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last file has left off. This way the absolute time is kept even if the
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previous files are not available (e.g. when streaming). If no linking is
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used then the time codes should start at 0 for each file. By default
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<i>mkvmerge</i> does not use file linking because some players still
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don't handle linked files properly. If you want linking that you can
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turn it on by enabling this <code>link files</code> check box.</p>
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<h4><a name="global_link">3.5.3. Manual file/segment linking</a></h4>
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<p>Regardless of whether splitting is active or not the user can tell
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<i>mkvmerge</i> to link the produced files to specific
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UIDs. This is done by entering a valid segment UID into the
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two input boxes, <code>Previous segment UID</code> and
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<code>Next segment UID</code>. These options accept a segment
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UID in the format that <i>mkvinfo</i> outputs: 16 hexadecimal
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numbers between 0x00 and 0xff prefixed with '0x' each and
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separated with spaces, e.g. <code>0x41 0xda 0x73 0x66 0xd9
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0xcf 0xb2 0x1e 0xae 0x78 0xeb 0xb4 0x5e 0xca 0xb3
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0x93</code>. Alternatively a shorter form can be used: 16
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hexadecimal numbers between 0x00 and 0xff without the '0x'
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prefixes and without the spaces, e.g.
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<code>41da7366d9cfb21eae78ebb45ecab393</code>.</p>
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<p>If splitting is used then the first file is linked to the UID given in
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the <code>Previous segment UID</code> input box, and the last file is
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linked to the UID given in the <code>Next segment UID</code> input
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box. If splitting is not used then the one output file will be linked to
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both of the two UIDs.</p>
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<h4><a name="global_chapters">3.5.4. Chapters</a></h4>
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<p>With the browse button you can select the chapters to add to the
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output file. A full explanation of all aspects around chapters can be
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found in the <a href="mkvmerge-gui.html#chaptereditor"> Chapter editor
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section</a>.</p>
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<h4><a name="global_tags">3.5.5. Global tags</a></h4>
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<p>Unlike the tags you can select for each track on the input tab the
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tags selected here have to contain the track UIDs. These tags are not
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assigned to any track automatically. In 99% of all cases this is NOT the
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option you want to use!</p>
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<p>The full explanation can be found in
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<a href="mkvmerge.html">mkvmerge's documentation</a>.</p>
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2003-10-03 18:56:54 +00:00
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<h3><a name="doit">3.6. Starting the merge process</a></h3>
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2005-01-10 20:35:11 +00:00
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<p>Once everything has been set up the muxing process can be started. The
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last thing to do is to chose where to mux to. With the
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<code>browse</code> button you can select the output file. After this has
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been done hit the <code>Start muxing</code> button or select the same entry
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from the <code>Muxing</code> menu.</p>
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<p>If everything has been set up correctly <i>mmg</i> will show the muxing
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dialog. The progress is shown at the top, as is a general description of
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what <i>mkvmerge</i> is doing at the moment.</p>
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<div align="center">
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<p>
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<img src="images/muxingwindow.gif"
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alt="the muxing window">
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<br>
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<font size="-1">Figure 11: The muxing window</font>
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</p>
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</div>
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<p><i>mkvmerge</i> knows three different 'severity levels' for its messages:
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status reports, warnings and errors. All status report messages are shown
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in the upper window. These include the track types encountered and other
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interesting things.</p>
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<p>Warnings are shown in the middle window. <i>mkvmerge</i> will not abort
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when it issues a warning, but it might stop muxing the track for which the
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warning was printed. You should pay close attention to all warning
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messages.</p>
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<p>Errors are show in the lower window. Errors are always fatal, and
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<i>mkvmerge</i> will stop muxing right after it has printed the error
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message. Such a message might be that the hard disc is full or that the
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source file is damaged and cannot be processed any further.</p>
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<p>The button <code>Abort</code> sends <i>mkvmerge</i> the signal to stop
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muxing. Unless <i>mkvmerge</i> is stuck in some endless loop it will stop
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soon after you've pressed the button. With <code>Save log</code> you can
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save the complete output from <i>mkvmerge</i> into a text file for further
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study or in case you've encountered a bug and want to send me some
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additional information.</p>
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2003-10-03 18:56:54 +00:00
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<h3><a name="saveload">3.7. Saving and loading muxing settings</a></h3>
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2004-06-29 15:18:16 +00:00
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<p>All your hard work of setting options does not have to be lost when you
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exit the program. You can save all your muxing settings into text based
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configuration files with the <code>Save settings</code> option in the
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<code>File</code> menu and restore them later with the <code>Load
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settings</code> option. The default extension is <code>.mmg</code> and is
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usually not used by other programs. You can also associate this extension
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with <i>mmg</i> so that it automatically loads the settings if it is called
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with the name of such a settings file.</p>
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2003-10-02 23:48:14 +00:00
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2004-06-29 20:59:20 +00:00
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<h3><a name="jobqueue">3.8. Queueing several jobs</a></h3>
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<p>For the case that you have several files that you want to mux you don't
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have to prepare the first file, wait for it to finish muxing, prepare the
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second, wait for it to finish muxing etc. <i>mkvmerge GUI</i> contains a
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job manager which can queue complete jobs and run them one after another at
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your conveniance. The basic steps when using the job manager are:</p>
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<p>
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<ol>
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<li>Add all files, set all the options, set the output file name.</li>
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<li>Hit the <code>Add to job queue</code> button and select a title that
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this job will be referred under.</li>
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<li>Repeat as often as wanted.</li>
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<li>Bring up the job manager window by selecting <code>Manage jobs</code>
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from the <code>Muxing</code> menu.</li>
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<li>Hit the <code>Start</code> button.</li>
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<li>Get something to drink, go shopping or talk to your significant other
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;)</li>
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</ol>
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</p>
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|
2005-01-10 20:35:11 +00:00
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<div align="center">
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<p>
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<img src="images/jobmanager.gif" alt="the job management dialog">
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<br>
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<font size="-1">Figure 12: The job management dialog</font>
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</p>
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</div>
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<p>Each job has six attributes: an ID which is automatically chosen my
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<i>mkvmerge GUI</i>; its status (<code>pending</code> - it hasn't been
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muxed yet, <code>done</code> - muxing has completed successfully,
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<code>done with warnings</code> - muxing has completed successfully but
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there were warnings, <code>failed</code> - the muxing process failed); the
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name that you've entered before; the time and date on which the job was
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added to the job queue; the time and date when the muxing process was
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started for this job and the time and date when the muxing process
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finished.</p>
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<p>The general controls are located at the bottom. The <code>Start</code>
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button will start the muxing process for all jobs whose status is
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<code>pending</code>. The <code>Start selected</code> button will start
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the muxing process for all jobs that are currently selected independent
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of their status.</p>
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<p>The buttons on the right manipulate all selected jobs. The
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<code>Up</code> and <code>Down</code> move the selected jobs up and down in
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the list. The <code>Re-enable</code> button sets the jobs' status to
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<code>pending</code> so that they will be started the next time the
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<code>Start</code> button is pressed. The <code>Disable</code> button
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will set the status to <code>done</code>.</p>
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<p>During the muxing process <i>mkvmerge</i>'s output will not be shown but
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saved. If you want to see a job's output you can hit the <code>View
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log</code> button. This is useful if a job completed with warnings or if it
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failed completely.</p>
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2003-09-28 20:25:14 +00:00
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<hr>
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2005-01-08 14:37:33 +00:00
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<a name="wxhh_chaptereditor"></a>
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<h2><a name="chaptereditor">4. The chapter editor</a></h2>
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2003-10-02 23:48:14 +00:00
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<p>One of the new features of <i>mmg</i> is a full-featured chapter
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editor. It can read text based chapter files, import chapters from existing
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Matroska files, write text based chapter files that can be selected on the
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global tab and write chapters directly to existing Matroska files.</p>
|
2003-10-02 23:48:14 +00:00
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2003-10-03 18:56:54 +00:00
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<h3><a name="chapterconcept">4.1. Matroska's chapter concept</a></h3>
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2003-09-28 20:25:14 +00:00
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2003-10-02 23:48:14 +00:00
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<p>Unlike a lot of other systems Matroska supports <i>nested</i>
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2004-06-29 15:18:16 +00:00
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chapters. This basically means that you can define sub chapters for
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chapters.</p>
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<p>A chapter entity in Matroska consists of at least four items: The UID of
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the track(s) it applies to, the chapter title/name, it's start time and the
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language code associated with it. Additional elements are optional and
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include the end time, more language codes and country codes. Usually the
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user will only need the mandatory elements. Of these he can only specify
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the name, the start time and the language code. <i>mkvmerge</i> will then
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automatically assign all chapters to the complete file.</p>
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2003-10-02 23:48:14 +00:00
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2003-10-03 18:56:54 +00:00
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<h3><a name="chapterexamples">4.2. Examples</a></h3>
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2004-06-29 15:18:16 +00:00
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<p>The first example is a simple one. The movie in question contains four
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parts: The intro starting at the beginning, the first act, the second act,
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and the credits. Note that the end timestamps are optional.</p>
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2004-06-29 15:18:16 +00:00
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<p><code>Intro (from 00:00:00, language English)
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<br>
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Act 1 (from 00:01:00, language English)
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<br>
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Act 2 (from 00:05:30, language English)
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<br>
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Credits (from 00:12:20 until 00;12:55, language English)</code></p>
|
2003-10-02 23:48:14 +00:00
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2004-06-29 15:18:16 +00:00
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<p>A more complex example including sub chapters. Let's take Ludwig van
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Beethoven's opera Fidelio. For the sake of brevity I'm only including the
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first three pieces of the two acts.</p>
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<p>The first act contains:
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<ol>
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<li>Overtüre (6:24 long),</li>
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<li>Arie: 'Jetzt, Schätzchen, jetzt sind wir allein' (4:46
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long) and</li>
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<li>Dialog: 'Armer Jaquino' (0:10 long).</li>
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</ol>
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The second act contains:
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<ol>
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<li>Ouvertüre und Arie: 'Gott! welch Dunkel hier!' (10:46
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long),</li>
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<li>Melodrama und Duett: 'Wie kalt ist es' (5:21 long) and</li>
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<li>Dialog: 'Er erwacht!' (0:59 long).</li>
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</ol>
|
2003-10-02 23:48:14 +00:00
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</p>
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|
2004-06-29 15:18:16 +00:00
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<p>The first act, which will be our first chapter, has a combined length of
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11:20. Our second act has a length of 17:06. These chapters would look like
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this:</p>
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2003-10-02 23:48:14 +00:00
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<p><code>Erster Akt (from 00:00:00 until 00:11:20, language German,
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country Germany)
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<br>
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Ouvertüre (from 00:00:00 until 00:06:24, language
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German, country Germany)
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<br>
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Arie: 'Jetzt, Schätzchen, jetzt sind wir allein'
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(from 00:06:24 until 00:11:10, language German, country Germany)<br>
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Dialog: 'Armer Jaquino' (from 00:11:10 until 00:11:20,
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language German, country Germany)
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<br>
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Zweiter Akt (from 00:11:20 until 00:28:26, language German,
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country Germany)
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<br>
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Ouvertüre und Arie: 'Gott! welch Dunkel hier!'
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(from 00:11:20 until 00:22:06, language German, country Germany)
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Melodrama und Duett: 'Wie kalt ist es' (from 00:22:06
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Dialog: 'Er erwacht!' (from 00:27:27 until 00:28:26,
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language German, country Germany)
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<h3><a name="chapterformats">4.3. Chapter formats supported by mkvmerge
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<p><i>mkvmerge</i> and <i>mmg</i>'s chapter editor both support different
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formats for chapter files.</p>
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<h4><a name="cfsimple">4.3.1. Simple/OGM style chapter files</a></h4>
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<p>One of the most basic formats is the format used in OGM files. It is a
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text based format. Each chapter entry contains of two lines, the first
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containing the start time, the second the chapter's title/name. All lines
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are numbered.</p>
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<p>The first example from above can be expressed in this format:<br>
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<code>CHAPTER01=00:00:00.000<br>
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CHAPTER01NAME=Intro<br>
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CHAPTER02=00:01:00.000<br>
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CHAPTER02NAME=Act 1<br>
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CHAPTER03=00:05:30.000<br>
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CHAPTER03NAME=Act 2<br>
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CHAPTER04=00:12:20.000<br>
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CHAPTER04NAME=Credits
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<p>The second example cannot be expressed in this format because it supports
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neither language specifications nor end times or nested chapters. The
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advantage is that such files are very easy to create, and there are several
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tools available for both Windows and Unix/Linux that create such files
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directly from DVDs.</p>
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<p>Due to its limitations <i>mmg</i> cannot output chapters in this
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format.</p>
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<h4><a name="cfxml">4.3.2. Full-featured XML style chapter files</a></h4>
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<p>I've created a XML based chapter format that closely matches the system
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Matroska uses. With this format you have the full control over all
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features. I won't describe this format here in detail. Please have a look
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at the example XML chapter files that came with <i>mkvtoolnix</i>.</p>
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<h4><a name="cfkax">4.3.3. Chapters found in Matroska files</a></h4>
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<p>The chapter editor can read chapters directly from Matroska files. These
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can be written to XML chapter files or back to the same Matroska file or
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another Matroska file. All features are supported.</p>
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<h3><a name="creatingchapters">4.4. Creating chapter files</a></h3>
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<p>The chapter editor consists of three parts: the tree view of all
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chapters, the four buttons used for adding and removing chapter entries,
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and the input boxes which are used for setting the chapter entry's
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data.</p>
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<div align="center">
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<img src="images/chaptereditor.gif"
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alt="the chapter editor">
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<font size="-1">Figure 13: The chapter editor showing the example from
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above</font>
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<p>In Matroska files one chapter is defined by having a start time, a name
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and a language that is associated with that name. You can have several
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names for one chapter and each associated with a different language. You
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may also add an end time, but that is not mandatory.</p>
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<p>A new chapter file is started with the <code>New</code> option from the
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<code>Chapter editor</code> menu. You can add a new chapter with the
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<code>Add chapter</code> or <code>Add subchapter</code> buttons. The
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difference between these two buttons is that when a chapter has been
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selected <code>Add chapter</code> will append a new chapter directly
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after the selected chapter on the same level, and <code>Add
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subchapter</code> will add a new chapter as the last child of the
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currently selected chapter.</p>
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<p>The <code>Remove chapter</code> has to be used with care. It removes the
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complete subtree without asking for confirmation, and there is no undo
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option available at the moment.</p>
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<p>After selecting a chapter entry you can change its data. The format for
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the start and end time are either <code>HH:MM:SS.mmm</code> or simply
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<code>HH:MM:SS</code>. One chapter name will already have been added. You
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can edit it and select the language that this name is given in. This way
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you could provide names in several languages, e.g. 'The hero arrives' with
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'eng' as the language and 'Der Held kommt an' with 'ger' as the
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language. Just hit the <code>Add name</code> button if you need more
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entries and <code>Remove name</code> in order to get rid of one.</p>
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<p>Creating many chapters and always changing the language can be quite some
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work. Therefore you can select which language and country tags
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<i>mmg</i> should add by default with the <code>Set default values</code>
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menu entry in the <code>Chapters</code> menu. The
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<code>Set values</code> button does something similar. With it you can
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apply a language and/or country to the currently selected entry and all its
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children.</p>
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<p>Saving chapters to XML files can be done with <code>Save</code> or
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<code>Save as</code>. <code>Save as</code> cannot be used to write chapters
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to an existing Matroska file - you'll have to use <code>Save to Matroska
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file</code> for that.</p>
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<h3><a name="editingchapters">4.5. Editing existing chapters</a></h3>
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<p>You can load existing chapter files or chapters from Matroska files by
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selecting the <code>Load</code> option from the <code>Chapter editor</code>
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menu. <i>mmg</i> will automatically detect the file type used and read the
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chapters.</p>
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