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# Table of contents
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1. [Introduction](#1-introduction)
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2. [Installation](#2-installation)
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1. [Requirements](#21-requirements)
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1. [Hard requirements](#211-hard-requirements)
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2. [Requirements with bundled fallbacks](#212-requirements-with-bundled-fallbacks)
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2. [Optional components](#22-optional-components)
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3. [Building libEBML and libMatroska](#23-building-libebml-and-libmatroska)
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4. [Building MKVToolNix](#24-building-mkvtoolnix)
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1. [Getting and building a development snapshot](#241-getting-and-building-a-development-snapshot)
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2. [Configuration and compilation](#242-configuration-and-compilation)
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5. [Notes for compilation on (Open)Solaris](#25-notes-for-compilation-on-opensolaris)
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6. [Unit tests](#26-unit-tests)
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3. [Reporting bugs](#3-reporting-bugs)
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4. [Test suite and continuous integration tests](#4-test-suite-and-continuous-integration-tests)
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5. [Code of Conduct](#5-code-of-conduct)
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6. [Included third-party components and their licenses](#6-included-third-party-components-and-their-licenses)
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1. [avilib](#61-avilib)
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2. [Boost's utf8_codecvt_facet](#62-boosts-utf8_codecvt_facet)
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3. [libEBML](#63-libebml)
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4. [libMatroska](#64-libmatroska)
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5. [librmff](#65-librmff)
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6. [nlohmann's JSON](#66-nlohmanns-json)
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7. [pugixml](#67-pugixml)
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8. [utf8-cpp](#68-utf8-cpp)
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9. [Oxygen icons and sound files](#69-oxygen-icons-and-sound-files)
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10. [MKVToolNix icons](#610-mkvtoolnix-icons)
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11. [QtWaitingSpinner](#611-qtwaitingspinner)
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12. [Fancy tab widget](#612-fancy-tab-widget)
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13. [fmt](#613-fmt)
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# 1. Introduction
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Update README.md
In order to make the text more beautiful and easier to read/understand for readers, I have added the following changes:
1. Added the word **via** before the product names in brackets → (**via** mkvinfo), (**via** mkvextract), (**via** mkvmerge). The word **via** clearly indicates that these tools are meant to be used for something, and they are not lonely.
2. Added many missing commas, inter alia:
a) before the word **then**. In English we (almost) always add a comma before **then** if it is located in the middle of a sentence. The word **then** is often seen in English conditional sentences, but in 99% cases it's optional, so we can use a subject directly (see also: http://images.slideplayer.com/28/9327486/slides/slide_3.jpg)
For more information about **then** and English conditional sentences, you can visit the following websites:
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_conditional_sentences
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_sentence
b) before a subject (e.g. **I**, **you**) if it is located in the middle of a sentence. For example: **If you want to install it yourself, I suggest you use..........** In such cases we always add a comma in order to emphasize the difference between two sentences (two subjects); in the first one: **you** and in the second one: **I**. Thanks to the comma we can easily distinguish them when reading the text.
c) before an (ad)verb if a sentence starts with **If**. For example: **If at all possible, please include.......**. In this case I have added the comma in order to separate an adjective (**possible**) and an (ad)verb (**please**). And also before the adverb **there** which is located in the middle of a sentence and before a noun (**development**). For example: **As both Matroska and MKVToolNix are under heavy development, there might be features......**.
3. Removed one unnecessary comma which was located before **if** (when the **if-clause** is at the end) → **e.g. include the command line, if you use Windows or Linux etc.pp.** In English we don't generally add a comma if the word **if** is located in the middle of a sentence. See here for rationale: http://images.slideplayer.com/11/3193271/slides/slide_4.jpg and also above for the English Wikipedia (conditional sentences).
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With these tools one can get information about (via mkvinfo) Matroska
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files, extract tracks/data from (via mkvextract) Matroska files and create
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(via mkvmerge) Matroska files from other media files. Matroska is a new
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multimedia file format aiming to become THE new container format for
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the future. You can find more information about it and its underlying
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technology, the Extensible Binary Meta Language (EBML), at
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http://www.matroska.org/
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The full documentation for each command is now maintained in its
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man page only. Type `mkvmerge -h` to get you started.
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This code comes under the GPL v2 (see www.gnu.org or the file COPYING).
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Modify as needed.
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The icons are based on the work of Alexandr Grigorcea and modified by
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Eduard Geier. They're licensed under the terms of the
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[Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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The newest version can always be found at
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https://mkvtoolnix.download/
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Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>
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# 2. Installation
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If you want to compile the tools yourself, you must first decide
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if you want to use a 'proper' release version or the current
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development version. As both Matroska and MKVToolNix are under heavy
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Update README.md
In order to make the text more beautiful and easier to read/understand for readers, I have added the following changes:
1. Added the word **via** before the product names in brackets → (**via** mkvinfo), (**via** mkvextract), (**via** mkvmerge). The word **via** clearly indicates that these tools are meant to be used for something, and they are not lonely.
2. Added many missing commas, inter alia:
a) before the word **then**. In English we (almost) always add a comma before **then** if it is located in the middle of a sentence. The word **then** is often seen in English conditional sentences, but in 99% cases it's optional, so we can use a subject directly (see also: http://images.slideplayer.com/28/9327486/slides/slide_3.jpg)
For more information about **then** and English conditional sentences, you can visit the following websites:
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_conditional_sentences
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_sentence
b) before a subject (e.g. **I**, **you**) if it is located in the middle of a sentence. For example: **If you want to install it yourself, I suggest you use..........** In such cases we always add a comma in order to emphasize the difference between two sentences (two subjects); in the first one: **you** and in the second one: **I**. Thanks to the comma we can easily distinguish them when reading the text.
c) before an (ad)verb if a sentence starts with **If**. For example: **If at all possible, please include.......**. In this case I have added the comma in order to separate an adjective (**possible**) and an (ad)verb (**please**). And also before the adverb **there** which is located in the middle of a sentence and before a noun (**development**). For example: **As both Matroska and MKVToolNix are under heavy development, there might be features......**.
3. Removed one unnecessary comma which was located before **if** (when the **if-clause** is at the end) → **e.g. include the command line, if you use Windows or Linux etc.pp.** In English we don't generally add a comma if the word **if** is located in the middle of a sentence. See here for rationale: http://images.slideplayer.com/11/3193271/slides/slide_4.jpg and also above for the English Wikipedia (conditional sentences).
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development, there might be features available in the git repository
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that are not available in the releases. On the other hand the git
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repository version might not even compile.
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## 2.1. Requirements
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### 2.1.1. Hard requirements
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Update README.md
In order to make the text more beautiful and easier to read/understand for readers, I have added the following changes:
1. Added the word **via** before the product names in brackets → (**via** mkvinfo), (**via** mkvextract), (**via** mkvmerge). The word **via** clearly indicates that these tools are meant to be used for something, and they are not lonely.
2. Added many missing commas, inter alia:
a) before the word **then**. In English we (almost) always add a comma before **then** if it is located in the middle of a sentence. The word **then** is often seen in English conditional sentences, but in 99% cases it's optional, so we can use a subject directly (see also: http://images.slideplayer.com/28/9327486/slides/slide_3.jpg)
For more information about **then** and English conditional sentences, you can visit the following websites:
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_conditional_sentences
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_sentence
b) before a subject (e.g. **I**, **you**) if it is located in the middle of a sentence. For example: **If you want to install it yourself, I suggest you use..........** In such cases we always add a comma in order to emphasize the difference between two sentences (two subjects); in the first one: **you** and in the second one: **I**. Thanks to the comma we can easily distinguish them when reading the text.
c) before an (ad)verb if a sentence starts with **If**. For example: **If at all possible, please include.......**. In this case I have added the comma in order to separate an adjective (**possible**) and an (ad)verb (**please**). And also before the adverb **there** which is located in the middle of a sentence and before a noun (**development**). For example: **As both Matroska and MKVToolNix are under heavy development, there might be features......**.
3. Removed one unnecessary comma which was located before **if** (when the **if-clause** is at the end) → **e.g. include the command line, if you use Windows or Linux etc.pp.** In English we don't generally add a comma if the word **if** is located in the middle of a sentence. See here for rationale: http://images.slideplayer.com/11/3193271/slides/slide_4.jpg and also above for the English Wikipedia (conditional sentences).
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In order to compile MKVToolNix, you need a couple of libraries. Most of
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them should be available pre-compiled for your distribution. The
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programs and libraries you absolutely need are:
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- A C++ compiler that supports several features of the C++11, C++14
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and C++17 standards: initializer lists, range-based `for` loops,
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right angle brackets, the `auto` keyword, lambda functions, the
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`nullptr` keyword, tuples, alias declarations, `std::make_unique()`,
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digit separators, binary literals, generic lambdas, user-defined
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literals for `std::string`, `[[maybe_unused]]` attribute, nested
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namespace definition, structured bindings. Others may be needed,
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too. For GCC this means at least v7; for clang v4 or later.
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- [libOgg](http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ogg/) and
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[libVorbis](http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/) for access to Ogg/OGM
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files and Vorbis support
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- [zlib](http://www.zlib.net/) — a compression library
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- [Boost](http://www.boost.org/) — Several of Boost's libraries are
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used: `RegEx`, `filesystem`, `system`, `math`, `operators`, `Range`,
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`rational`, `variant`. At least v1.60.0 is required.
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- [libxslt's xsltproc binary](http://xmlsoft.org/libxslt/) and
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[DocBook XSL stylesheets](https://sourceforge.net/projects/docbook/files/docbook-xsl/)
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— for creating man pages from XML documents
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You also need the `rake` or `drake` build program. I suggest `rake`
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v10.0.0 or newer (this is included with Ruby 2.1) as it offers
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parallel builds out of the box. If you only have an earlier version of
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`rake`, you can install and use the `drake` gem for the same gain.
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### 2.1.2. Requirements with bundled fallbacks
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Several required libraries might not be available for your
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distribution. Therefore they're bundled with the MKVToolNix source
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code. The `configure` script will look for those libraries and use
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existing versions if present. If not, the bundled versions are used
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instead.
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It is highly recommended to install the versions provided by your
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distribution instead of relying on the bundled versions.
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These libraries are:
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- [fmt](http://fmtlib.net/) — a small, safe and fast formatting
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library. Version 3 or later is required.
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- [libEBML v1.3.5](http://dl.matroska.org/downloads/libebml/) or later
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and [libMatroska v1.4.8](http://dl.matroska.org/downloads/libmatroska/)
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or later for low-level access to Matroska files. Instructions on how to
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compile them are a bit further down in this file.
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- [librmff](https://www.bunkus.org/videotools/librmff/index.html) — a
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library for accessing RealMedia files
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- [nlohmann's JSON](https://github.com/nlohmann/json) — JSON for
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Modern C++
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- [pugixml](http://pugixml.org/) — light-weight, simple and fast XML
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parser for C++ with XPath support
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- [utf8-cpp](http://utfcpp.sourceforge.net/) — UTF-8 with C++ in a
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Portable Way
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## 2.2. Optional components
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Other libraries are optional and only limit the features that are
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built. These include:
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- [Qt](http://www.qt.io/) v5.9.0 or newer — a cross-platform GUI
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toolkit. You need this if you want to use the MKVToolNix GUI.
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- [cmark](https://github.com/commonmark/cmark) — the CommonMark
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parsing and rendering library in C is required when building the Qt
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GUIs.
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- [libFLAC](http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/flac/) for FLAC
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support (Free Lossless Audio Codec)
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- [lzo](http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/) and
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the least important libraries as almost no application supports
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Matroska content that is compressed with either of these libs. The
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aforementioned zlib is what every program supports.
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- [libMagic](http://www.darwinsys.com/file/) from the "file" package
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for automatic content type detection
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- [po4a](https://po4a.alioth.debian.org/) for building the translated
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## 2.3. Building libEBML and libMatroska
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This is optional as MKVToolNix comes with its own set of the
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libraries. It will use them if no version is found on the system.
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Start by either downloading releases of [libEBML
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v1.3.5](http://dl.matroska.org/downloads/libebml/) and [libMatroska
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v1.4.8](http://dl.matroska.org/downloads/libmatroska/) or by getting
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git clone https://github.com/Matroska-Org/libebml.git
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git clone https://github.com/Matroska-Org/libmatroska.git
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instructions. Afterwards do the same for libMatroska.
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## 2.4. Building MKVToolNix
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Either download the current release from
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[the MKVToolNix home page](https://mkvtoolnix.download/)
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and unpack it or get a development snapshot from my Git repository.
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### 2.4.1. Getting and building a development snapshot
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tarball.
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All you need for Git repository access is to download a Git client
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from the Git homepage at http://git-scm.com/. There are clients
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for both Unix/Linux and Windows.
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First clone my Git repository with this command:
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git clone https://gitlab.com/mbunkus/mkvtoolnix.git
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`./autogen.sh` which will generate the "configure" script. You need
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the GNU "autoconf" utility for this step.
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### 2.4.2. Configuration and compilation
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Update README.md
In order to make the text more beautiful and easier to read/understand for readers, I have added the following changes:
1. Added the word **via** before the product names in brackets → (**via** mkvinfo), (**via** mkvextract), (**via** mkvmerge). The word **via** clearly indicates that these tools are meant to be used for something, and they are not lonely.
2. Added many missing commas, inter alia:
a) before the word **then**. In English we (almost) always add a comma before **then** if it is located in the middle of a sentence. The word **then** is often seen in English conditional sentences, but in 99% cases it's optional, so we can use a subject directly (see also: http://images.slideplayer.com/28/9327486/slides/slide_3.jpg)
For more information about **then** and English conditional sentences, you can visit the following websites:
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_conditional_sentences
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_sentence
b) before a subject (e.g. **I**, **you**) if it is located in the middle of a sentence. For example: **If you want to install it yourself, I suggest you use..........** In such cases we always add a comma in order to emphasize the difference between two sentences (two subjects); in the first one: **you** and in the second one: **I**. Thanks to the comma we can easily distinguish them when reading the text.
c) before an (ad)verb if a sentence starts with **If**. For example: **If at all possible, please include.......**. In this case I have added the comma in order to separate an adjective (**possible**) and an (ad)verb (**please**). And also before the adverb **there** which is located in the middle of a sentence and before a noun (**development**). For example: **As both Matroska and MKVToolNix are under heavy development, there might be features......**.
3. Removed one unnecessary comma which was located before **if** (when the **if-clause** is at the end) → **e.g. include the command line, if you use Windows or Linux etc.pp.** In English we don't generally add a comma if the word **if** is located in the middle of a sentence. See here for rationale: http://images.slideplayer.com/11/3193271/slides/slide_4.jpg and also above for the English Wikipedia (conditional sentences).
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If you have run `make install` for both libraries, then `configure`
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should automatically find the libraries' position. Otherwise you need
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to tell `configure` where the libEBML and libMatroska include and
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library files are:
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./configure \
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--with-extra-includes=/where/i/put/libebml\;/where/i/put/libmatroska \
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--with-extra-libs=/where/i/put/libebml/make/linux\;/where/i/put/libmatroska/make/linux
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Now run `rake` and, as "root", `rake install`.
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### 2.4.3. If things go wrong
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By default the commands executed by the build system aren't
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output. You can change that by adding `V=1` as an argument to the
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`rake` command.
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If `rake` executes too many processes at once, then you've stumbled
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across a known bug in `rake`. In that case you should install the
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`drake` Ruby gem and use the command `drake` instead of
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`rake`. `drake` supports parallelism properly and doesn't try to
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execute all jobs at once.
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## 2.5. Notes for compilation on (Open)Solaris
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You can compile MKVToolNix with Sun's sunstudio compiler, but you need
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additional options for `configure`:
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./configure --prefix=/usr \
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CXX="/opt/sunstudio12.1/bin/CC -library=stlport4" \
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CXXFLAGS="-D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS" \
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--with-extra-includes=/where/i/put/libebml\;/where/i/put/libmatroska \
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--with-extra-libs=/where/i/put/libebml/make/linux\;/where/i/put/libmatroska/make/linux
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## 2.6. Unit tests
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Building and running unit tests is completely optional. If you want to
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do this, you have to follow these steps:
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1. Download the "googletest" framework from
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https://github.com/google/googletest/ (at the time of writing the
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file to download was "googletest-release-1.8.0.tar.gz")
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2. Extract the archive somewhere and create a symbolic link to its
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`googletest-release-1.8.0/googletest` sub-directory
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inside MKVToolNix' `lib` directory and call it `gtest`, e.g. like this:
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`ln -s /path/to/googletest-release-1.8.0/googletest lib/gtest`
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3. Configure MKVToolNix normally.
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4. Build the unit test executable and run it with
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rake tests:run_unit
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# 3. Reporting bugs
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2016-07-03 20:06:52 +00:00
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If you're sure you've found a bug — e.g. if one of my programs crashes
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with an obscur error message, or if the resulting file is missing part
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of the original data, then by all means submit a bug report.
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2017-12-16 16:27:02 +00:00
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I use [GitLab's issue system](https://gitlab.com/mbunkus/mkvtoolnix/issues)
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2015-03-27 14:37:19 +00:00
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as my bug database. You can submit your bug reports there. Please be as
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2016-12-27 19:58:31 +00:00
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verbose as possible — e.g. include the command line, if you use Windows
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or Linux etc.pp.
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2012-03-09 17:07:49 +00:00
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Update README.md
In order to make the text more beautiful and easier to read/understand for readers, I have added the following changes:
1. Added the word **via** before the product names in brackets → (**via** mkvinfo), (**via** mkvextract), (**via** mkvmerge). The word **via** clearly indicates that these tools are meant to be used for something, and they are not lonely.
2. Added many missing commas, inter alia:
a) before the word **then**. In English we (almost) always add a comma before **then** if it is located in the middle of a sentence. The word **then** is often seen in English conditional sentences, but in 99% cases it's optional, so we can use a subject directly (see also: http://images.slideplayer.com/28/9327486/slides/slide_3.jpg)
For more information about **then** and English conditional sentences, you can visit the following websites:
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_conditional_sentences
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_sentence
b) before a subject (e.g. **I**, **you**) if it is located in the middle of a sentence. For example: **If you want to install it yourself, I suggest you use..........** In such cases we always add a comma in order to emphasize the difference between two sentences (two subjects); in the first one: **you** and in the second one: **I**. Thanks to the comma we can easily distinguish them when reading the text.
c) before an (ad)verb if a sentence starts with **If**. For example: **If at all possible, please include.......**. In this case I have added the comma in order to separate an adjective (**possible**) and an (ad)verb (**please**). And also before the adverb **there** which is located in the middle of a sentence and before a noun (**development**). For example: **As both Matroska and MKVToolNix are under heavy development, there might be features......**.
3. Removed one unnecessary comma which was located before **if** (when the **if-clause** is at the end) → **e.g. include the command line, if you use Windows or Linux etc.pp.** In English we don't generally add a comma if the word **if** is located in the middle of a sentence. See here for rationale: http://images.slideplayer.com/11/3193271/slides/slide_4.jpg and also above for the English Wikipedia (conditional sentences).
2016-12-27 18:49:34 +00:00
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If at all possible, please include sample files as well so that I can
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reproduce the issue. If they are larger than 1 MB, please upload
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them somewhere and post a link in the issue. You can also upload them
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to my FTP server. Details on how to connect can be found in the
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[MKVToolNix FAQ](https://gitlab.com/mbunkus/mkvtoolnix/wikis/FTP-server).
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# 4. Test suite and continuous integration tests
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MKVToolNix contains a lot of test cases in order to detect regressions
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before they're released. Regressions include both compilation issues
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as well as changes from expected program behavior.
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As mentioned in section 2.6., MKVToolNix comes with a set of unit
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tests based on the Google Test library in the `tests/unit`
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sub-directory that you can run yourself. These cover only a small
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amount of code, and any effort to extend them would be most welcome.
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A second test suite exists that targets the program behavior, e.g. the
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output generated by mkvmerge when specific options are used with
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specific input files. These are the test cases in the `tests`
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directory itself. Unfortunately the files they run on often contain
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copyrighted material that I cannot distribute. Therefore you cannot
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run them yourself.
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A third pillar of the testing effort is the
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[continuous integration tests](https://buildbot.mkvtoolnix.download/)
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run on a Buildbot instance. These are run automatically for each
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commit made to the git repository. The tests include:
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* building of all the packages for Linux distributions that I
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normally provide for download myself in both 32-bit and 64-bit
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variants
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* building of the Windows installer and portable packages in both
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32-bit and 64-bit variants
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* building with both g++ and clang++
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* building and running the unit tests
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* building and running the test file test suite
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* building with all optional features disabled
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# 5. Code of Conduct
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Please note that this project is released with a
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[Code of Conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md). By participating in this project
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you agree to abide by its terms.
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# 6. Included third-party components and their licenses
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MKVToolNix includes and uses the following libraries & artwork:
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## 6.1. avilib
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Reading and writing AVI files. Originally part of the `transcode`
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package.
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* Copyright: 1999 Rainer Johanni <Rainer@Johanni.de>
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* License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
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* URL: the `transcode` project doesn't seem to have a home page anymore
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* Corresponding files: `lib/avilib-0.6.10/*`
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## 6.2. Boost's utf8_codecvt_facet
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A class, `utf8_codecvt_facet`, derived from `std::codecvt<wchar_t, char>`,
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which can be used to convert utf8 data in files into `wchar_t` strings
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in the application.
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* Copyright:
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* 2001 Ronald Garcia, Indiana University (garcia@osl.iu.edu)
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* Andrew Lumsdaine, Indiana University (lums@osl.iu.edu)
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* License: Boost Software License - Version 1.0 (see `doc/licenses/Boost-1.0.txt`)
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* URL: http://www.boost.org
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* Corresponding files: `lib/boost/*`
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## 6.3. libEBML
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A C++ library to parse EBML files
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* Copyright: 2002-2010 Steve Lhomme et. al.
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* License: GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 or later (see `doc/licenses/LGPL-2.1.txt`)
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* URL: http://www.matroska.org/
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* Corresponding files: `lib/libebml/*`
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## 6.4. libMatroska
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A C++ library to parse Matroska files
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* Copyright: 2002-2010 Steve Lhomme et. al.
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* License: GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 or later (see `doc/licenses/LGPL-2.1.txt`)
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* URL: http://www.matroska.org/
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* Corresponding files: `lib/libmatroska/*`
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## 6.5. librmff
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librmff is short for 'RealMedia file format access library'. It aims
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at providing the programmer an easy way to read and write RealMedia
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files.
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* Copyright: Moritz Bunkus
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* License: GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 or later (see `doc/licenses/LGPL-2.1.txt`)
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* URL: https://www.bunkus.org/videotools/librmff/index.html
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* Corresponding files: `lib/librmff/*`
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## 6.6. nlohmann's JSON
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JSON for Modern C++
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2019-05-18 13:51:55 +00:00
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* Copyright: 2013-2019 Niels Lohmann
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* License: MIT (see `doc/licenses/nlohmann-json-MIT.txt`)
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* URL: https://github.com/nlohmann/json
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* Corresponding files: `lib/nlohmann-json/*`
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## 6.7. pugixml
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2016-07-03 20:06:52 +00:00
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An XML processing library
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* Copyright: 2006–2019 by Arseny Kapoulkine <arseny.kapoulkine@gmail.com>
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* License: MIT (see `doc/licenses/pugixml-MIT.txt`)
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* URL: http://pugixml.org/
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* Corresponding files: `lib/pugixml/*`
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## 6.8. utf8-cpp
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UTF-8 with C++ in a Portable Way
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* Copyright: 2006 Nemanja Trifunovic
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* License: custom (see `doc/licenses/utf8-cpp-custom.txt`)
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* URL: http://utfcpp.sourceforge.net/
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* Corresponding files: `lib/utf8-cpp/*`
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## 6.9. Oxygen icons and sound files
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Most of the icons included in this package originate from the Oxygen
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Project. These include all files in the `share/icons` sub-directory
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safe for those whose name starts with `mkv`.
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The preferred form of modification are the SVG icons. These are not
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part of the binary distribution of MKVToolNix, but they are contained
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in the source code in the `icons/scalable` sub-directory. You can
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obtain the source code from the
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[MKVToolNix website](https://mkvtoolnix.download/).
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2017-04-05 11:28:25 +00:00
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All of the sound files in the `share/sounds` sub-directory originate
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from the Oxygen project.
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* License: GNU Lesser General Public License v3 (see `doc/licenses/LGPL-3.0.txt`)
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* URL: https://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Oxygen
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* Corresponding files:
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* `share/icons/*` (except for `share/icons/*/mkv*`)
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* `share/sounds/*`
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## 6.10. MKVToolNix icons
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* Copyright:
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* 2011 Alexandr Grigorcea <cahr.gr@gmail.com>
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* 2012 Eduard Geier <edu.g@online.de>
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* 2012 Ben Humpert <ben@an3k.de>
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* License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) (see `doc/licenses/CC-BY-3.0.txt`)
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* Corresponding files: `share/icons/*/mkv*`
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## 6.11. QtWaitingSpinner
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A highly configurable, custom Qt widget for showing "waiting" or
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"loading" spinner icons in Qt applications
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2017-12-27 22:00:34 +00:00
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* Copyright:
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* 2012–2014 by Alexander Turkin
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* 2014 by William Hallatt
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* 2015 by Jacob Dawid
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* License: MIT (see `doc/licenses/QtWaitingSpinner-MIT.txt`)
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* URL: https://github.com/snowwlex/QtWaitingSpinner
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* Corresponding files: `src/mkvtoolnix-gui/util/waiting_spinning_widget.{h,cpp}`
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## 6.12. Fancy tab widget
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A beefed-up tab widget class for Qt extracted from the Qt Creator project
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* Copyright: 2011 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
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* License: GNU General Public License v2 (see `COPYING`)
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* Corresponding files: `src/mkvtoolnix-gui/util/fancy_tab_widget.{h,cpp}`
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2018-11-20 10:34:52 +00:00
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## 6.13. fmt
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Small, safe and fast formatting library
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2019-09-27 08:16:26 +00:00
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* Copyright: 2012–2019 by Victor Zverovich
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2018-11-20 10:34:52 +00:00
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* License: BSD (see `doc/licenses/fmt-BSD.txt`)
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* URL: http://fmtlib.net/latest/
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* Corresponding files: `lib/fmt/*`
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