Free and open source Matroska libraries and toolset
mkvmerge GUI v5.7.0, a component of MKVToolNix, showing its "Global" tab
Original author(s)
Moritz Bunkus
Developer(s)
Moritz Bunkus
Initial release
April 30, 2003; 20 years ago (2003-04-30)
Stable release
83.0.0[1]
/ March 10, 2024; 49 days ago (2024-03-10)
Repository
gitlab.com/mbunkus/mkvtoolnix
Written in
C++ (GUI: originally in wxWidgets, but ported to Qt5 due to the wxWidgets problems.[2][3]
Operating system
Unix-like, macOS, Microsoft Windows, Linux
Platform
Matroska
Size
~20 MB
Available in
25 languages: list
Type
Multimedia software (container format manipulation)
License
GPLv2 or later
Website
mkvtoolnix.download
MKVToolNix is a collection of tools for the Matroska media container format by Moritz Bunkus including mkvmerge. The free and open source Matroska libraries and tools are available for various platforms including Linux and BSD distributions, macOS and Microsoft Windows. The tools can be also downloaded from video software distributors[4][5][6][7] and FOSS repositories.[8]
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