Software Update: MKVToolNix 46.0.0

Moritz Bunkus has released version 46 of MKVToolNix. With this open source program, matroska files can be viewed, edited and converted. For example, sound tracks and subtitles can be added, removed or set as default. MKVToolNix is ​​a collection of separate command line tools, but a graphical user interface is also included. Downloads are available for Windows, various Linux distributions, and macOS. The changelog for this release looks like this:

New features and enhancements

• mkvmerge: when splitting, the placeholder %c can be used in the destination file name. It’ll be replaced by the name of the first chapter in the file. implementations #2791†
• mkvmerge: when reading MPLS playlists mkvmerge will include a tag named SOURCE_ID in the track’s statistics tags that conveys the fact that the source was a Blu-ray and what the track’s ID was in the source container. When reading Matroska file existing SOURCE_ID tags will be kept. The format used is the same format MakeMKV uses. implementations #2774†
• mkvmerge: for audio-only files mkvmerge will now write a cue entry every 500ms instead of every 2s.
• MKVToolNix GUI: job actions: split up the option “execute when the job finishes successfully or with warnings” into two separate options: “…when finishes successfully” and “…when exits with warnings”. implementations #2798†

bug fixes

• mkvmerge: Matroska reader: when regenerating UIDs for chapters mkvmerge will now fix referencing tag chapter UID targets to have the same values. Fixes #2804†
• mkvmerge: MP4 reader: fixed a crash that could potentially happen while trying to identify H.265/HEVC tracks.
• mkvmerge: MP4 reader: when reading H.265/HEVC tracks without a frame offset table (ctts atom) present, mkvmerge did not parse the hevcC structure correctly in certain cases, causing no video frames to be output at all or the output not being playable. This fixes #2782a bug introduced in v45.
• mkvmerge: MPLS handling/MPEG TS reader: timestamp restrictions as given in an MPLS file were only honored for the first play item, not for subsequent play items. For those play items the whole referenced file was always copied. Part of the fix of #2789†
• mkvmerge: MPLS handling/MPEG TS reader: under certain circumstances mkvmerge copied one frame too many before switching to the next play item. Part of the fix of #2789†
• mkvmerge: for audio-only files cues will only be created for I frames (important for eg TrueHD where decoding can only start on a sync frame). Fixes #2790†
• MKVToolNix GUI: fixed a crash that happened when closing the preferences after having closed at least one multiplexer tab. Fixes #2785†
• MKVToolNix GUI: macOS: changed the default of the “elide tab header labels” feature introduced in v45 from “no” to “yes” to mirror how versions before v45 behaved on macOS.