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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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<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#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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<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
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two programs created by <a href="mailto:moritz@bunkus.org">Moritz
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Bunkus</a>. They're part of the <i>mkvtoolnix</i>
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package. <i>mkvmerge</i> can read a lot of different multimedia
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files and put their contents into Matroska files. Unfortunately this
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is a command line program, and not everyone is comfortable working
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on the command line. This is where <i>mkvmerge GUI</i> comes into
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play. It is a GUI that provides the user with an intuitive but
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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 <a
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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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<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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<td> </td>
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<img src="images/selectmkvmergeexecutable.png"
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alt="selecting the mkvmerge executable">
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<font size="-1">Use this button to select the path to the
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<i>mkvmerge</i> program.</font>
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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
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file 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
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more input files, select advanced options for each track, apply some
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more global 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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<p>When <i>mmg</i> starts up it shows the first and probably
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most important tab: the <i>input tab</i>. Here you see four
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different 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>The two buttons to the right of the upper list box can be
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used to add files to the list box with the <i>+</i> button and
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to remove the selected entry with the <i>-</i> button.</p>
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<td> </td>
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<img src="images/addremovefiles.png"
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alt="adding and removing files">
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<font size="-1">Use these buttons to add and remove
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files.</font>
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<p>Once the user selects an input <i>file</i> in the upper list
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box the second list box will contains all <i>tracks</i> that
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can be read from this <i>file</i>. Each track is ENabled by
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default and will be muxed into the resulting file. However,
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you can change that by simply clicking on the check box right
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in front of the track's name in the second list box. For each
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of these tracks the user can select track specific options
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with the input boxes and check boxes below the track
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listing. These options will be described in the following
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sections.</p>
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alt="selecting specific tracks">
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<br>
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<font size="-1">Three enabled tracks and one disabled track. The
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fourth track will not be copied into the output file.</font>
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<h3><a name="fileoptions">3.2. Options for input file</a></h3>
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<p>Once the user has added and selected an input file he can set
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options that apply to this specific file. At the moment three such
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options have been implemented, and they all are only available for
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Matroska files: <code>No chapters</code>, <code>No
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attachments</code> and <code>No tags</code>. These options tell
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<i>mkvmerge</i> not to copy any chapters / attachments / tags from
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the current source file.
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<br>
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<b>Note:</b> At the time of writing <i>mkvmerge</i> cannot copy tags
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from a source Matroska file. You have to extract them with
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mkvextract first.</p>
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<p>More information about chapters can be found in the section about
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the <a href="mkvmerge-gui.html#chaptereditor">chapter editor</a> in
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this 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,
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video, subtitles) and even depending on the contents of the track
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only a subset of all the track specific options are available. The
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options are:</p>
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<table width="100%" border="0">
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<tr>
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<td valign="top">
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<ul>
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<li><code>Language:</code> The user can select the language
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for each track regardless of its type. This language is
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coded in the ISO639-2 language code. The drop-down box
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contains all ISO639-2 codes so the user does not have to
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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
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current track. This name is a free-form string. Practical
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examples could be 'director's comments' or 'great view of
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Seattle'. Note that these names are not meant to contain the
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movie title!</li>
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<li><code>Cues:</code> The <i>cues</i> are for Matroska what
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the index is for AVI files. They contain links to the key
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frames. Usually this option should be left on the value
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'default'. <i>mkvmerge</i> will automatically chose the best
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method for any given track type. A full explanation of
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tracks can be found in <a
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href="mkvmerge.html"><i>mkvmerge</i>'s
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documentation</a>.</li>
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<li><code>Aspect ratio:</code> With this option the user can
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set the aspect ratio that should be used upon playback. It
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defaults to the aspect ratio that the movie was encoded with
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but can be changed, e.g. for anamorphic encodings. The GUI
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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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This option is only available for video tracks.</li>
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<li><code>FourCC:</code> Matroska does not normally store the
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Four-CC which is used in other containers to identify the
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codec used. Matroska has its own format, called
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<i>CodecID</i>, but it also has an AVI compatibility
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mode. In this mode the FourCC is also stored. With this
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option the FourCC can be forced to a different
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value. However, you cannot change the <i>CodecID</i> used by
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<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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<li><code>Delay (in ms):</code> In some cases audio and video
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are not synchronized properly. With this option the user can
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offset the audio track by a given amount, either positive or
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negative. <i>mkvmerge</i> will either remove samples at the
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beginning or insert silence at the beginning to adjust the
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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
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slowly drift apart during playback. This can be fixed by
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supplying a factor of how much the time codes should be
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stretched by <i>mkvmerge</i>. If nothing is given then '1.0'
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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
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track types yet.
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<br>
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This option is available for audio and text subtitle
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tracks.</li>
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<li><code>Subtitle charset:</code> Some text subtitle formats
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do not store the charset that they were created with. This is
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important because text subtitles are automatically converted
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to the UTF-8 charset during muxing. <i>mkvmerge</i> will
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normally assume that the system's current charset is the
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same that the subtitle file was written in. But in case this
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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>Make default track:</code> Matroska knows a flag
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which tells the player that a specific track should be
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preferred upon playback if the user does not chose another
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one. Of course each track <i>type</i> has its own default
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track - e.g. the default audio track is the English one, and
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the default subtitle track is the French one. If no track is
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set to be the default track then <i>mkvmerge</i> will
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promote the first track of each type that it finds to be the
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default track. This is consistent with the behavior of
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various media players.</li>
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<li><code>AAC is SBR/HE-AAC/AAC+:</code> The new technology
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called 'high efficiency AAC' has some drawbacks when it is
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being stored in <code>.AAC</code> files: it is not possible
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to detect the HE-AAC part for these files. Therefore the
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user has to check this option manually if it applies. Please
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note that this problem does not exist for HE-AAC stored in
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<code>.MP4</code> files.</li>
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<li><code>Tags:</code> For each track you can create a XML
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tags file. For a full explanation of all tags please refer
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to the example file and <a
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|
href="mkvmerge.html"><i>mkvmerge</i>'s own
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documentation</a>. In probably 99% of all cases you want to
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use THIS option and associate tags with a specific
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track. The tags option on the global tab is probably not
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what you need.</li>
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</ul>
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</td>
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<td> </td>
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<td valign="top">
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<p>
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<img src="images/videotrackoptions.png"
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alt="typical options for a video track">
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<br>
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<font size="-1">Typical options for a video track</font>
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</p>
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<p>
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<img src="images/audiotrackoptions.png"
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alt="typical options for an audio track">
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<br>
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<font size="-1">Typical options for an audio track</font>
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</p>
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<p>
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<img src="images/textsubtitlestrackoptions.png"
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alt="typical options for a text subtitle track">
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<br>
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<font size="-1">Typical options for a text subtitle track</font>
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</p>
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</td>
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</tr>
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</table>
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<h3><a name="attachments">3.4. Attachments</a></h3>
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<table width="100%" border="0">
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<tr>
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<td valign="top">
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<p>Matroska files can also contain other files, called
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attachments. This works basically just like with your
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favorite email program. The idea is to provide additional
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information about the file. Some examples could be cover
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photos for a CD rip, additional background information in text
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form about the movie or even some compressed fonts for the
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subtitles.</p>
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<p>Every attachment needs two things: the file name (obviously)
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and the MIME type that should be associated with the file. The
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usage is very easy and similar to adding files on the
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<i>input</i> tab.</p>
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<p>On the second tab of the GUI, the <i>attachment</i> tab, you
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can add a file with the <i>+</i> button and remove the
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selected attachment with the <i>-</i> button. Once an
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attachment has been selected the other controls on this tab
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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
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good idea to always provide a description. This makes it
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easier for others to identify what you've attached to this
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Matroska file.</p>
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<p>The last option, <code>attachment style</code>, is only
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evaluated when you also split the output into several
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files. (Splitting in general is explained in the following
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section.) If the option <code>To all files</code> is selected
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then the current file will be attached to all output files
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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
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output file created.</p>
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</td>
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<td> </td>
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<td valign="top">
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<p>
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<img src="images/addingremovingattachments.png"
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alt="adding and removing attachments">
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<br>
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<font size="-1">Add and remove attachments with these buttons.</font>
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</p>
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<p>
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<img src="images/attachmentoptions.png"
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alt="typical options for an attachment">
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<br>
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<font size="-1">Typical options for an attachment</font>
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</p>
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</td>
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</tr>
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</table>
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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
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to the complete file and not just to one or more tracks.</p>
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<table width="100%" border="0">
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<tr>
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<td valign="top">
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<h4><a name="global_title">3.5.1. File/segment title</a></h4>
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<p><code>File/segment title:</code> This title is used for the
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actual movie title, e.g. 'Vanilla Skies'.</p>
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</td>
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<td> </td>
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<td valign="top">
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|
<p>
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<img src="images/movietitle.png"
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alt="selecting a movie title">
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<br>
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<font size="-1">Selecting a title for the movie</font>
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</p>
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</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td valign="top">
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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
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split into several smaller files. If no splitting is selected
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then only one big file is generated. If splitting is activated
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|
|
then you can tell <i>mkvmerge</i> to start a new output file
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after either a specific amount of data has been written to the
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current file or after a specific amount of time has
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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
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'K', 'M' or 'G' indicating kilobytes (1024 bytes),
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megabytes (1024 * 1024 bytes) or gigabytes (1024 * 1024 *
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|
1024 bytes). Examples: '700M' or '100000K'.</li>
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<li>For the time: The format is either <code>HH:MM:SS</code>
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or a number followed by the letter 's' indicating a number
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of seconds. Examples: '01:20:00' (split after 1 hour, 20
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|
minutes) or '1800s' (split after 1800 seconds = 30
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minutes).</li>
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</ul>
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</p>
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<p><code>Don't link:</code> This option controls how
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<i>mkvmerge</i> will handle splitting. A little explanation
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|
|
about this feature:</p>
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<p>Matroska supports file linking which simply says that a
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specific file is the predecessor or successor of the current
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file. To be precise, it's not really the files that are linked
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but the Matroska segments. As most files will probably only
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contain one Matroska segment I simply say 'file linking'
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although 'segment linking' would be more appropriate.</p>
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<p>Each segment is identified by a unique 128 bit wide segment
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UID. This UID is automatically generated by
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<i>mkvmerge</i>. The linking is done primarily via putting the
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segment UIDs of the previous/next file into the segment header
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information. <i>mkvinfo</i> prints these UIDs if it finds
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them.</p>
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<p>If a file is split into several smaller ones and linking is
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used then the time codes will not start at 0 again but will
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continue where the last file has left off. This way the
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absolute time is kept even if the previous files are not
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available (e.g. when streaming). If no linking is used then
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the time codes should start at 0 for each file. By default
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<i>mkvmerge</i> uses file linking. If you don't want that you
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can turn it off by enabling this <code>Don't link</code>
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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
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given in the <code>Previous segment UID</code> input box, and
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the last file is linked to the UID given in the <code>Next
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segment UID</code> input box. If splitting is not used then
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the one output file will be linked to both of the two
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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
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the output file. A full explanation of all aspects around
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chapters can be found in the <a
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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
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tab the tags selected here have to contain the track
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UIDs. These tags are not assigned to any track
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automatically. In 99% of all cases this is NOT the option you
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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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</td>
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<td> </td>
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<td valign="top">
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<p>
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<img src="images/splitting.png"
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alt="typical options for splitting">
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<br>
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<font size="-1">Typical options for splitting. Create two
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files which will be approx. 700megs big.</font>
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</p>
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</td>
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</tr>
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</table>
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<h3><a name="doit">3.6. Starting the merge process</a></h3>
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<table width="100%" border="0">
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<tr>
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<td valign="top">
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<p>Once everything has been set up the muxing process can be
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started. The last thing to do is to chose where to mux
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to. With the <code>browse</code> button you can select the
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output file. After this has been done hit the <code>Start
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muxing</code> button or select the same entry from the
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<code>Muxing</code> menu.</p>
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<p>If everything has been set up correctly <i>mmg</i> will show
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the muxing dialog. The progress is shown at the top, as is a
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general description of what <i>mkvmerge</i> is doing at the
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moment (muxing, 1st pass of splitting files or 2nd pass of
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splitting files).</p>
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<p><i>mkvmerge</i> knows three different 'severity levels' for
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its messages: status reports, warnings and errors. All status
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report messages are shown in the upper window. These include
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the track types encountered and other interesting things.</p>
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<p>Warnings are shown in the middle window. <i>mkvmerge</i> will
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not abort when it issues a warning, but it might stop muxing
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the track for which the warning was printed. You should pay
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close attention to all warning messages.</p>
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<p>Errors are show in the lower window. Errors are always fatal,
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and <i>mkvmerge</i> will stop muxing right after it has printed
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the error message. Such a message might be that the hard disc
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is full or that the source file is damaged and cannot be
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processed any further.</p>
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<p>The button <code>Abort</code> sends <i>mkvmerge</i> the
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signal to stop muxing. Unless <i>mkvmerge</i> is stuck in some
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endless loop it will stop soon after you've pressed the
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button. With <code>Save log</code> you can save the complete
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output from <i>mkvmerge</i> into a text file for further study
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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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</td>
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<td> </td>
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<td valign="top">
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<p>
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<img src="images/muxingwindow.png"
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alt="the muxing window">
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<br>
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<font size="-1">The muxing window</font>
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</p>
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</td>
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</tr>
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</table>
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<h3><a name="saveload">3.7. Saving and loading muxing settings</a></h3>
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<p>All your hard work of setting options does not have to be lost when
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you exit the program. You can save all your muxing settings into
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text based configuration files with the <code>Save settings</code>
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option in the <code>File</code> menu and restore them later with the
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<code>Load settings</code> option. The default extension is
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<code>.mmg</code> and is usually not used by other programs. You can
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also associate this extension with <i>mmg</i> so that it
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automatically loads the settings if it is called with the name of
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such a settings file.</p>
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<hr>
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<h2><a name="chaptereditor">4. The chapter editor</a></h2>
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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
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existing Matroska files, write text based chapter files that can be
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selected on the global tab and write chapters directly to existing
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Matroska files.</p>
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<h3><a name="chapterconcept">4.1. Matroska's chapter concept</a></h3>
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<p>Unlike a lot of other systems Matroska supports <i>nested</i>
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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
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UID of the track(s) it applies to, the chapter title/name, it's
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start time and the language code associated with it. Additional
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elements are optional and include the end time, more language codes
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and country codes. Usually the user will only need the mandatory
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elements. Of these he can only specify the name, the start time and
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the language code. <i>mkvmerge</i> will then automatically assign
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all chapters to the complete file.</p>
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<h3><a name="chapterexamples">4.2. Examples</a></h3>
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<p>The first example is a simple one. The movie in question contains
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four parts: The intro starting at the beginning, the first act, the
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second act, and the credits. Note that the end timestamps are
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optional.</p>
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<p><code>Intro (from 00:00:00, language English)<br>
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Act 1 (from 00:01:00, language English)<br>
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Act 2 (from 00:05:30, language English)<br>
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Credits (from 00:12:20 until 00;12:55, language
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English)</code></p>
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<p>A more complex example including sub chapters. Let's take Ludwig
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van Beethoven's opera Fidelio. For the sake of brevity I'm only
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including the 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>
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</p>
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<p>The first act, which will be our first chapter, has a combined
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length of 11:20. Our second act has a length of 17:06. These
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chapters would look like this:</p>
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<p><code>Erster Akt (from 00:00:00 until 00:11:20, language German,
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country Germany)<br>
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Ouvertüre (from 00:00:00 until 00:06:24, language German,
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country Germany)<br>
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Arie: 'Jetzt, Schätzchen, jetzt sind wir allein' (from
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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, language
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German, country Germany)<br>
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Zweiter Akt (from 00:11:20 until 00:28:26, language German,
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country Germany)<br>
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Ouvertüre und Arie: 'Gott! welch Dunkel hier!' (from 00:11:20
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until 00:22:06, language German, country Germany)<br>
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Melodrama und Duett: 'Wie kalt ist es' (from 00:22:06 until
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00:27:27, language German, country Germany)<br>
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Dialog: 'Er erwacht!' (from 00:27:27 until 00:28:26, language
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German, country Germany)
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</code>
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</p>
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<h3><a name="chapterformats">4.3. Chapter formats supported by mkvmerge
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</a></h3>
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<p><i>mkvmerge</i> and <i>mmg</i>'s chapter editor both support
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different 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
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is a text based format. Each chapter entry contains of two lines,
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the first containing the start time, the second the chapter's
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title/name. All lines 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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</code>
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</p>
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<p>The second example cannot be expressed in this format because it
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supports neither language specifications nor end times or nested
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chapters. The advantage is that such files are very easy to create,
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and there are several tools available for both Windows and
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Unix/Linux that create such files 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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2003-10-03 19:04:48 +00:00
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<h4><a name="cfxml">4.3.2. Full-featured XML style chapter files</a></h4>
|
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>I've created a XML based chapter format that closely matches the
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system Matroska uses. With this format you have the full control
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over all features. I won't describe this format here in
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detail. Please have a look at the example XML chapter files that
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came with <i>mkvtoolnix</i>.</p>
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2003-10-03 19:04:48 +00:00
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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
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files. These can be written to XML chapter files or back to the same
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Matroska file or another Matroska file. All features are
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supported.</p>
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<h3><a name="creatingchapters">4.4. Creating chapter files</a></h3>
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<table width="100%" border="0">
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<tr>
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<td valign="top">
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<p>The chapter editor consists of three parts: the tree view of
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all chapters, the four buttons used for adding and removing
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chapter entries, and the input boxes which are used for
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setting the chapter entry's data.</p>
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<p>In Matroska files one chapter is defined by having a start
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time, a name and a language that is associated with that
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name. You can have several names for one chapter and each
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associated with a different language. You may also add an end
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time, but that is not mandatory.</p>
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<p>A new chapter file is started with the <code>New</code>
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option from the <code>Chapter editor</code> menu. You can add
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a new chapter with the <code>Add chapter</code> or <code>Add
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subchapter</code> buttons. The difference between these two
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buttons is that when a chapter has been selected <code>Add
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chapter</code> will append a new chapter directly after the
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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
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the currently selected chapter.</p>
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<p>The <code>Remove chapter</code> has to be used with care. It
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removes the complete subtree without asking for confirmation,
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and there is no undo option available at the moment.</p>
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<p>After selecting a chapter entry you can change its data. The
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format for the start and end time are either
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<code>HH:MM:SS.mmm</code> or simply <code>HH:MM:SS</code>. One
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chapter name will already have been added. You can edit it and
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select the language that this name is given in. This way you
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could provide names in several languages, e.g. 'The hero
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arrives' with 'eng' as the language and 'Der Held kommt an'
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with 'ger' as the language. Just hit the <code>Add name</code>
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button if you need more entries and <code>Remove name</code>
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in order to get rid of one.</p>
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<p>Creating many chapters and always changing the language can
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be quite some work. Therefore you can select which language
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and country tags <i>mmg</i> should add by default with the
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<code>Set default values</code> menu entry in the
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<code>Chapters</code> menu. The <code>Set values</code> button
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does something similar. With it you can apply a language
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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
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write chapters to an existing Matroska file - you'll have to
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use <code>Save to Matroska file</code> for that.</p>
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<td> </td>
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<p>
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<img src="images/chaptereditor.png"
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alt="the chapter editor">
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<br>
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<font size="-1">The chapter editor showing the example from
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above</font>
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</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
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by selecting the <code>Load</code> option from the <code>Chapter
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editor</code> menu. <i>mmg</i> will automatically detect the file
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type used and read the chapters.</p>
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