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mkvmerge

Merge and extract multimedia streams. More information: https://mkvtoolnix.download/doc/mkvmerge.html.
  • Display information about a Matroska file:
    mkvmerge --identify {{path/to/file.mkv}}
  • Extract the audio from track 1 of a specific file:
    mkvextract tracks {{path/to/file.mkv}} {{1}}:{{path/to/output.webm}}
  • Extract the subtitle from track 3 of a specific file:
    mkvextract tracks {{path/to/file.mkv}} {{3}}:{{path/to/subs.srt}}
  • Add a subtitle track to a file:
    mkvmerge --output {{path/to/output.mkv}} {{path/to/file.mkv}} {{path/to/subs.srt}}

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