diff --git a/Batch-muxing-with-the-GUI.md b/Batch-muxing-with-the-GUI.md index 5639012..0d50b06 100644 --- a/Batch-muxing-with-the-GUI.md +++ b/Batch-muxing-with-the-GUI.md @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ I'd like mmg to be able to do XYZ automatically on a bunch of files. With "batch muxing" users usually mean doing similar steps with a bunch of files without having to create a job for each individual file. -Sorry, but such a feature will never be implemented in mmg itself. +Sorry, but such a feature will never be implemented in MKVToolNix GUI itself. However, mkvmerge, which is doing all the work, is fully scriptable via its command line. There are excellent shells out there with which you can automate pretty much all aspects of muxing. For example, with the bash or zsh shells you could convert all .avi files into Matroska with these commands: @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ for file in *.mkv ; do done ``` -I do realize that using shells is not everyone's thing. However, implementing a powerful and flexible batch remuxer/header editor requires countless hours of work. If I cut down on the hours then either the flexibility or the number of features would be severely reduced and therefore the work would not be worth it because too few people could actually use it in such a state. +I do realize that using shells is not everyone's thing. However, implementing a powerful and flexible batch remuxer/batch header editor requires countless hours of work. If I cut down on the hours then either the flexibility or the number of features would be severely reduced and therefore the work would not be worth it because too few people could actually use it in such a state. The short version is that it's way too much work and that I don't have that amount of free time. So the answer is "no". Sorry.