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@ -620,9 +620,20 @@ VALUES\fR.
.SH TRACK IDS
.LP
Some of the options for \fBmkvmerge\fR need a track ID to specify which track
they should be applied to. Those track IDs are printed by the readers when
demuxing the current input file, or if \fBmkvmerge\fR is called with the
\fB\-\-identify\fR option. Track IDs are assigned like this:
they should be applied to.
Those track IDs are printed by the readers when demuxing the current input
file, or if \fBmkvmerge\fR is called with the \fB\-\-identify\fR option.
An example for such output:
.LP
$ \fBmkvmerge -i v.mkv\fR
.br
File 'v.mkv': container: Matroska
.br
Track ID 1: video (V_MS/VFW/FOURCC, DIV3)
.br
Track ID 2: audio (A_MPEG/L3)
.LP
Track IDs are assigned like this:
.TP
*
AVI files: The video track has the ID 0. All audio tracks get the ID 1, 2...
@ -631,8 +642,8 @@ AVI files: The video track has the ID 0. All audio tracks get the ID 1, 2...
AAC, AC3, MP3, SRT and WAV files: The one 'track' in that file gets the ID 0.
.TP
*
Ogg/OGM files: The track's ID is its serial number as given in the Ogg stream
header page.
Ogg/OGM files: The track's ID is its position in the Ogg stream.
The first stream encountered has the ID 0, the second one the ID 1 etc.
.TP
*
Matroska files: The track's ID is the track number as reported by \fBmkvinfo\fR
@ -642,9 +653,10 @@ The special track ID '-1' is a wild card and applies the given switch to all
tracks that are read from an input file. This was the behavior of these
switches prior to version 0.4.4.
.LP
The options that use the track IDs are: \fB\-\-atracks\fR, \fB\-\-vtracks\fR,
\fB\-\-stracks\fR, \fB\-\-btracks\fR, \fB\-\-sync\fR, \fB\-\-default-track\fR,
\fB\-\-cues\fR and \fB\-\-language\fR.
The options that use the track IDs are the ones whose description contains
\'TID\'.
The following options use track IDs as well: \fB\-\-atracks\fR,
\fB\-\-vtracks\fR, \fB\-\-stracks\fR and \fB\-\-btracks\fR.
.SH SUBTITLES
@ -1091,9 +1103,30 @@ Example for an audio file:
etc.
.SH EXIT CODES
.LP
\fBmkvmerge\fR exits with one of three exit codes:
.TP
0
This exit codes means that muxing has completed successfully.
.TP
1
In this case \fBmkvmerge\fR has output at least one warning, but muxing did
continue.
A warning is prefixed with the text \'Warning:\'.
Depending on the issues involved the resulting file might be ok or not.
The user is urged to check both the warning and the resulting file.
.TP
2
This exit code is used after an error occured.
\fBmkvmerge\fR aborts right after outputting the error message.
Error messages range from wrong command line arguments over read/write errors
to broken files.
.SH NOTES
.LP
What works:
What works (this list is probably outdated):
.TP
*
AVI as the video and audio source (only raw PCM, MP3 and AC3 audio tracks at