Extracting all tracks not easy or intuitive
I just want a command that when given, extracts all the tracks in a mkv file, to individual files. It should have default names - track number, language, codec, all in the filename. I should not have to decipher the right way to do it, nor assemble a commandline with 50 failed attempts.
I just want mkvextract file.mkv all
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Why?
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On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 1:28 PM Moritz Bunkus (@mbunkus) < gitlab@mg.gitlab.com> wrote:
Moritz Bunkus https://gitlab.com/mbunkus commented #3703 (comment 1931454171):
That won't be happening.
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'cause you can script that yourself using
mkvmerge -J sourcefile.mkv, parsing the output (it's JSON, easy enough to use with any of the available scripting languages) & generating appropriate command line arguments formkvextract. If you don't want to do that, there are third-party GUIs out there.Thanks for at least telling me that there are gooeys out there that can do this for me.
I have tried, but I literally can't even figure out how the hell to make 'jq' do what I want work, and I think understand bash pretty well. To be honest I probably would be better off scraping with grep.
So your direction script it is literally what I am attempting to avoid.
Pkzip did not require that I name files myself, after looking at debug info for the file to then know knowing what file type they are, then picking and choosing which files to keep and their names... it just extracts everything them if I type 'unzip file.zip'.
MKV is in essence a container like a zip file.
It contains metadata that understands what the files are intrinsically, and there should be just a simple 'unmkv' command.
Mike
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On Sat, Jun 1, 2024, 11:51 Moritz Bunkus (@mbunkus) gitlab@mg.gitlab.com wrote:
Moritz Bunkus https://gitlab.com/mbunkus commented #3703 (comment 1931823067):
'cause you can script that yourself using mkvmerge -J sourcefile.mkv, parsing the output (it's JSON, easy enough to use with any of the available scripting languages) & generating appropriate command line arguments for mkvextract. If you don't want to do that, there are third-party GUIs https://mkvtoolnix.download/links.html out there.
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