Sets the parse mode to \*(Aqfull\*(Aq\&. The default mode does not parse the whole file but uses the meta seek elements for locating the required elements of a source file\&. In 99% of all cases this is enough\&. But for files that do not contain meta seek elements or which are damaged the user might have to use this mode\&. A full scan of a file can take a couple of minutes while a fast scan only takes seconds\&.
Sets the character set to which strings are converted that are to be output\&. It defaults to the character set given by system\*(Aqs current locale\&.
instead of to the console\&. While this can be done easily with output redirection there are cases in which this option is needed: when the terminal reinterprets the output before writing it to a file\&. The character set set with
\fIoptions\-file\fR\&. Lines whose first non\-whitespace character is a hash mark (\*(Aq#\*(Aq) are treated as comments and ignored\&. White spaces at the start and end of a line will be stripped\&. Each line must contain exactly one option\&. There is no meta character escaping\&.
The following command line options are available for each track in the \*(Aqtracks\*(Aq extraction mode\&. They have to appear in front of the track specification (see below) they should be applied to\&.
Sets the character set to convert the next text subtitle track to\&. Only valid if the next track ID targets a text subtitle track\&. It defaults to UTF\-8\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-\-blockadd\fR\fIlevel\fR
.RS4
Keep only the BlockAdditions up to this level\&. The default is to keep all levels\&. This option only affects certain kinds of codecs like WAVPACK4\&.
sheet from the chapter information and tag data for the following track into a file whose name is the track\*(Aqs output name with \*(Aq\&.cue\*(Aq appended to it\&.
Each output name should be used only once\&. The exception are RealAudio and RealVideo tracks\&. If you use the same name for different tracks then those tracks will be saved in the same file\&. Example:
Exports the chapter information in the simple format used in the
OGM
tools (CHAPTER01=\&.\&.\&., CHAPTER01NAME=\&.\&.\&.)\&. In this mode some information has to be discarded\&. Default is to output the chapters in
XML
format\&.
.RE
.PP
The extracted chapters are written to the console unless the output is redirected (see the section about
output redirection
for details)\&.
.SS"Cue sheet extraction mode"
.PP
Syntax:
\fBmkvextract\fR
\fBcuesheet\fR
\fIsource\-filename\fR
[\fIoptions\fR]
.PP
The extracted cue sheet is written to the console unless the output is redirected (see the section about
output redirection
for details)\&.
.SS"Timecode extraction mode"
.PP
Syntax:
\fBmkvextract\fR
\fBtimecodes_v2\fR
\fIsource\-filename\fR
[\fIoptions\fR]
.PP
The extracted timecodes are written to the console unless the output is redirected (see the section about
output redirection
for details)\&.
.SH"OUTPUT REDIRECTION"
.PP
Several extraction modes cause
\fBmkvextract\fR(1)
to write the extracted data to the console\&. There are generally two ways of writing this data into a file: one provided by the shell and one provided by
The decision about the output format is based on the track type, not on the extension used for the output file name\&. The following track types are supported at the moment:
.PP
V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
.RS4
H\&.264
/
AVC
video tracks are written to
H\&.264
elementary streams which can be processed further with e\&.g\&.
MP4Box(TM)
from the
GPAC(TM)
package\&.
.RE
.PP
V_MS/VFW/FOURCC
.RS4
Fixed
FPS
video tracks with this
CodecID
are written to
AVI
files\&.
.RE
.PP
V_REAL/*
.RS4
RealVideo(TM)
tracks are written to
RealMedia(TM)
files\&.
.RE
.PP
A_MPEG/L3, A_AC3
.RS4
These will be extracted to raw
MP3
and
AC3
files\&.
.RE
.PP
A_PCM/INT/LIT
.RS4
Raw
PCM
data will be written to a
WAV
file\&.
.RE
.PP
A_AAC/MPEG2/*, A_AAC/MPEG4/*, A_AAC
.RS4
All
AAC
files will be written into an
AAC
file with
ADTS
headers before each packet\&. The
ADTS
headers will not contain the deprecated emphasis field\&.
has output at least one warning, but extraction did continue\&. A warning is prefixed with the text \*(AqWarning:\*(Aq\&. Depending on the issues involved the resulting files might be ok or not\&. The user is urged to check both the warning and the resulting files\&.
