Download MKVToolnix 5.8.0

MKVToolNix has been updated to version 5.8.0. MKVToolNix is ​​a collection of open source programs that allow viewing, editing, and conversion of Matroska files. For example, unnecessary audio tracks and subtitles can be removed or set as default. They are separate command line tools, but a graphical user interface is included. Versions are available for download for Windows, many Linux distributions, and Mac OS X. This release includes the following changes and improvements:

Released v5.8.0.

• mkvpropedit: new feature: Added support for adding, deleting and replacing attachments.
• mmg: new feature: chapter editor: Added support for the edition flags “hidden”, “default” and “ordered” as well as the chapter values ​​”segment UID” and “segment edition UID”. Implementation ticket #736.
• documentation: Added a Basque translation of mmg’s guide by Xabier Aramendi (see AUTHORS).
• all: bug fix: Fixed a buffer overflow in the Base64 decoder routine.
• source: Various fixes for building with g++ 4.7.x and clang 3.1.
• Build system: Boost’s “bind” library is not required anymore. The C++11 features from “functional” are used instead.
• mkvmerge: bug fix: MPEG transport streams whose timecodes wrap around/overflow are handled correctly. Fixes #777.
• mkvmerge: bug fix: MP2/MP3 audio tracks in MPEG program streams that contained garbage at the start of the very first packet caused mkvmerge to use uninitialized/random values ​​for certain parameters (sample rate, number of channels, and therefore also during timecode calculation ).
• mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for reading ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) from CAF (CoreAudio), MP4 and Matroska files. Implementation #753.
• mkvmerge: new feature: mkvmerge will remove stuffing bytes from MPEG-1/-2 video streams that are used to keep the bit rate above certain levels (the 0 bytes between slices and the following start code). Implementation #734.
• mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed audio/video synchronization when reading MPEG program streams with MPEG-1/2 video with respect to B frames. Fixes #579.
• mkvmerge: enhancement: SRT files can have spaces in their timecode line’s arrow (eg “– >”).
• mkvmerge: bug fix: VC1: mkvmerge will now only mark frames as I frames if a sequence header precedes them directly. Fix #755.
• all: new feature: Added a Basque translation by Xabier Aramendi (see AUTHORS).
• all: bug fix: The programs do not try to create directories with empty names anymore. This happened if the output file name for eg mkvmerge or mkvextract was only a file name without a directory component. With Boost v1.50.0 the call to “boost::filesystem::create_directory()” would result in an error if the name was empty (it didn’t in earlier versions of Boost).
• mmg: bug fix: Fixed mmg not reading the very last line of mkvmerge’s output. The result was that messages like “the cues are being written” did not show up in mmg and that the progress bar was not filled completely. Fix #774.