Macworld commenter Lisban Osorio has a multimedia problem that faces a few of us. He writes:
MKVToolNix; Once plumbed in, install the dependencies with (mkvtoolnix needs to be from bunkus): sudo apt-get install -yy -no-install-recommends -t wheezy-backports lsdvd libdvdcss2 xmlstarlet transcode pv mkvtoolnix fuseiso9660 subtitleripper. VSO ConvertXtoDVD (formerly DivxToDVD) is a free program that can convert your AVI videos to make them compatible with any home DVD player. This tool, developed by VSO Software, will guide you through the process of converting videos (DivX, Xvid, MKV MPEG, MP4, MOV, WMV, etc.) to make them compatible with DVD discs that can be played on any home or portable player without installing additional. Use the Add button to select files, and the Append to combine source files (such as DVD VOBs). If you're muxing from elementary streams you'll need to add both the video and each audio stream individually. Tracks Tracks are the individual streams in your input files. Select the ones you want to keep and uncheck the ones you don't.
My copy of the Godfather II comes on two DVD discs. I’d like to play it on my Apple TV as one continues file. How can I do that?
First, you’ll have to rip each disc, a process we’ve described many times. The free HandBrake continues to be my tool of choice for such chores. I’d suggest that you rip them using HandBrake’s Apple TV 3 preset to get the best looking video.
Once you have the ripped versions of your two movies you must find a way to join them. Although you can do this in iMovie and QuickTime 7 Pro, the operation can take hours. To speed up the process I use MKVToolNix an open-source utility that converts video files into the MKV format. Among its talents is MKVMerge, which will combine multiple movie files and export them as a single MKV file.
Launch MKVToolNix and in the window that appears, drag your first movie file into the Input Files area (or click the Add button, navigate to the file, and then add it). Then click the Append button and navigate to the second movie. Click the Start Muxing button at the bottom of the window and the app will set about combining them into a single MKV file. This should take less than two minutes on a reasonably fast Mac.
Now that you have your MKV file, you’ll need to convert it back to an MPEG-4 movie that’s compatible with your Apple TV. Fortunately, you’ve already used the tool you need to do the job—HandBrake.
Choose this MKV file as the source and then select the appropriate output preset (again I’d use Apple TV 3). Start the job and HandBrake should present you with a finished movie in something under 90 minutes.
Debian packages
I provide i386 and Amd64 binaries for MKVToolNix for Debian 10 'buster' (the current stable).
![Mkvtoolnix dvd chapters Mkvtoolnix dvd chapters](/uploads/1/1/7/9/117936388/369094620.jpg)
I do not provide binaries for libEBML and libMatroska anymore as they're already part of the official distribution. If those are too old MKVToolNix even bundles the current version of both libraries.
You first have to import my public GPG key because all of my pools are signed. Run this once:
sudo wget -O /usr/share/keyrings/gpg-pub-moritzbunkus.gpg https://mkvtoolnix.download/gpg-pub-moritzbunkus.gpg
You can access the packages by adding the lines below to a file such as
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/mkvtoolnix.download.list
:Version | APT source |
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Debian 10 (aka 'buster') | deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/gpg-pub-moritzbunkus.gpg] https://mkvtoolnix.download/debian/ buster main deb-src [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/gpg-pub-moritzbunkus.gpg] https://mkvtoolnix.download/debian/ buster main |
![Dvd Dvd](/uploads/1/1/7/9/117936388/762451272.jpg)
Now simply run
sudo apt update
followed by sudo apt install mkvtoolnix mkvtoolnix-gui
.If updating the package lists fails, make sure you have the package
apt-transport-https
installed.Debian 8 'Jessie' and 9 'stretch': you can get versions up to v38.0.0 (for Stretch) and v29.0.0 (for Jessie) from my repositories.
Version | APT source |
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Debian 9 (aka 'Stretch') | deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/gpg-pub-moritzbunkus.gpg] https://mkvtoolnix.download/debian/ stretch main deb-src [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/gpg-pub-moritzbunkus.gpg] https://mkvtoolnix.download/debian/ stretch main |
Debian 8 (aka 'Jessie') | deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/gpg-pub-moritzbunkus.gpg] https://mkvtoolnix.download/debian/ jessie main deb-src [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/gpg-pub-moritzbunkus.gpg] https://mkvtoolnix.download/debian/ jessie main |
Mkvtoolnix Dvd To Mkv
If you're looking for older Debian or MKVToolNix releases, you can look through the repository directory yourself.