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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 and FOSS repositories.

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Software.name: MKVToolNix
Software.logo: mkvmerge256.png
Software.logo alt: mkvmerge logo
Software.screenshot: Mkvmerge cut video.png
Software.caption: mkvmerge GUI v5.7.0, a component of MKVToolNix, showing its "Global" tab
Software.author: Moritz Bunkus
Software.developer: Moritz Bunkus
Software.discontinued: no
Software.latest release version: 97.0
Software.programming language: C++ (GUI: originally in wxWidgets, but ported to Qt5 due to the wxWidgets problems.
Software.operating system: Unix-like, macOS, Microsoft Windows, Linux
Software.size: ~20 MB
Software.language count: 27
Software.language footnote: list
Software.genre: Multimedia software (container format manipulation)
Software.license: GPLv2 or later

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Key dates

Inception: 30 April 2003

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: free software
Country of origin: Germany
Official website: mkvtoolnix.download
Image: Mkvmerge cut video.png

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P277: Q161053
P275: GNU General Public License, version 2.0
P306: Q34225
P1414: Q201904
P1073: Matroska

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Applications
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== Applications == MKVToolNix was reviewed by the Linux Journal, Linux Format, the ICTE Journal, and Softpedia among others. The tools are cited in patents for a "Universal container for audio data". A "portable" Windows edition exists, but is not available in the PortableApps format.