Change Log

2012-01-02 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.
org>
* Released v5.2.1.
2011-12-29 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed certain DTS files being mis-detected as

AC3. Fix for bug 693.
* build system: Added an option "--without-gettext" that allows

for building without support for translations even if gettext
itself is installed.
* build system: Added an option "--without-curl" that allows for

building without CURL support even if CURL itself is installed.
* all: bug fix: Fixed compilation if gettext/libintl is not

available.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The MPEG program stream reader was reporting
wrong progress percentage if multiple files were used since
v5.1.0.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: Removed the posix_fadvise() code. The

application is using its own caching code which caused bad
performance if the OS caching provided via posix_fadvise() is used
as well.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: If an MP4 file contains chapters encoded in a

different charset than UTF-8 and --chapter-charset is not used
then the error message shown is a lot clearer why mkvmerge aborts
muxing. Before the error message was a generic
"mm_text_io_c::read_next_char(): invalid UTF-8 character. The
first byte:..."
* mkvmerge: bug fix: MPEG program streams in which a track

suddenly ends and others continue or in which a track has huge
gaps will no longer cause mkvmerge to try to read the whole file
at once. This could lead to excessive swapping and finally
mkvmerge crashing if no more memory was available.
* mkvextract: bug fix: The track IDs used for extraction are
consistent again with the IDs that mkvmerge's identification
reports. Fix for bug 689.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fix compilation if FLAC is not available. Fix

for issue #13.

* Released v5.2.0.
* mkvmerge, mmg: bug fix: Automatic MIME type recognition for

TrueType fonts will result in "application/x-truetype-font" again
instead of "application/x-font-ttf". Fix for bug 682.
2011-12-14 Andriy Bilous'ko <arestarh@ukr.net>
* documentation: enhancement: Added a Ukrainian translation for

mkvextract's man page.
* mkvinfo: bug fix: Various elements used to have a space between

their names and their value's hex dump. In v5.1.0 that space was
accentally removed. It has been added again. Fix for bug 583.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Turn off input file buffering for badly
interleaved MP4 files.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Changed how mkvmerge assigns IDs to tracks in

source files for Matroska and MP4 files. That way files whose
headers contain the same ID for multiple tracks will work
correctly. Fix for bug 681.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: The VP8 output module will always

re-derive frame types (key frame vs. non-key frame).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: VP8 read from AVI could not be put into WebM
compatible files.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed a rare audio type mis-detection of

MP2/MP3 audio tracks in MPEG program streams causing mkvmerge to
abort with an error message.
2011-12-04 Nils Maier <maierman@web.de>
* mkvmerge, mkvextract: enhancement: Implemented input file

buffering in mkvmerge and improved/implemented output file
buffering in other tools.
* mmg, mkvinfo's GUI: enhancement: Added new icons based on the

work of Alexandr Grigorcea (see AUTHORS).
* mmg: bug fix: Fixed a memory leak in mmg's header editor that
caused the "open file" function to stop working after opening a
few files. Fix for bug 679.

* Released v5.1.0.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed more timecode handling issues for video
tracks in MPEG transport streams whose PES packets sometimes don't
have a timecode.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: mkvmerge will no longer create folders on

drives it shouldn't create them on on Windows.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed bogus huge timecodes sometimes

occurring for AVC/h.264 video tracks read from MPEG transport
streams.
* all: enhancement: Made all EXEs declare their required access

level privileges for Windows' User Access Control.
* mmg: enhancement: Made mmg DPI-aware on Windows (tested up to

144 DPI).
* mmg: bug fix: mmg will append ".xml" to the file name entered
when saving from the chapter editor if no extension was given.
* mkvinfo: bug fix: Improved skipping broken data on all operating

systems.
* mkvmerge, mkvextract: bug fix: Skipping broken data in Matroska

file often caused the program to abort on Windows. This has been
fixed so that processing continues after the broken part. Fix for
bug 668.
* examples: Added XSLT 2.0 stylesheets in the

"examples/stylesheets" directory for turning Matroska chapters
into cue sheet and split points for "shntool" (useful for
situations in which you have e.g. a live recording from a concert
including chapters and want to create one audio file per song).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed reading VC1 video tracks from Matroska
files that don't use VC1 start markers (0x00 0x00 0x01 ...).
* mmg: enhancement: Added "ogv" to the list of known file

extensions for "Ogg/OGM audio/video files". Implements bug 667.
* mmg: bug fix: A utility function for breaking a line into

multiple ones was accessing invalid memory in rare situations
causing mmg to crash. Could happen e.g. when adding a job to the
job queue.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: mkvmerge will use DTS instead of PTS for VC1
video tracks read from MPEG transport streams.
* build system: Boost's "Range" library is now required.
* build system: Boost v1.46.0 or newer is now required. As a

consequence included copies of some of Boost's libraries have been
removed (foreach, property tree).
* build system: The C++ compiler must now support several features
of the C++11 standard: initializer lists, range-based 'for' loops,
right angle brackets, the 'auto' keyword and lambda
functions. configure checks for each of these. For GCC this means
at least v4.6.0.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed reading MPEG transport streams on big

endian systems.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: Added support for reading AAC tracks from

MPEG transport streams.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Relaxed the compatibility checks when

concatenating VP8 video tracks.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed PCM audio in WAV sometimes being

detected as DTS.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: The verbose identification mode will add

the properties "default_duration", "audio_sampling_frequency" and
"audio_channels" if appropriate and if the corresponding header
elements are present.
* Packaging: In v5.0.1 mmg's guide was accidentally moved into the

"mkvtoolnix" Debian/Ubuntu package. It has been moved back into
"mkvtoolnix-gui" again.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: "Castilan" has been merged with "Spanish"

into "Spanish; Castillan" in the ISO 639 language list as both
share the same ISO 639-2 code "spa".
* Released v5.0.1.

* build system: Updated the Debian/Ubuntu files to debhelper
v7/quilt 3.0 format.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: Implemented support for yet another way

of storing EAC3 and DTS in MPEG transport streams.
* mkvinfo: bug fix: Track information was not reset when opening
more than one file in the GUI.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The PGS subtitle output module was not
outputting any packet in certain cases due to uninitialized
variables.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed mkvmerge not finding any track in TS

streams whose first PMT packet could not be parsed (e.g. invalid
CRC).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed detection of TS streams that only

contain one PAT or PMT packet within the first few KB but no
others within the first 10 MB.
* Released v5.0.0.
* build system: libEBML 1.2.2 and libMatroska 1.3.0 are required

for building. If external versions are not found or if they're too
old then the included versions will be used as a fallback.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The "writing application" element will not be

localized but always be written in English.
* mkvmerge: new feature: MPEG TS: mkvmerge will extract the track
languages from a corresponding clpi (clip info) file. That file is
searched for in the same directory and in ../CLIPINF and must
have the same base name but with the ".clpi" extension.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: Added new stereo mode options to match

the current specs. The new options are "anaglyph_green_magenta"
(12), "both_eyes_laced_left_first" (13) and
"both_eyes_laced_right_first" (14).
* mkvmerge: The --stereo-mode named option "anaglyph" was renamed

to "anaglyph_cyan_red" to match the specs. The numerical value
(10) remains unchanged.

* mkvextract: bug fix: Fixed attachment number displayed during
extraction. Fix for bug 663.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: MPEG TS: Added support for HDMV PGS

subtitles.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: MPEG TS: Added support for DTS HD Master

Audio tracks.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: MPEG TS: Streams that are mentioned in

the PMT but do not actually contain data are neither reported
during identification nor muxed.
* mkvmerge: new feature: MPEG TS: Added support for reading the
language code.
* mmg: enhancement: Added MPEG transport streams to the "add file"

dialog file selector.
* mkvmerge: new feature: MPEG TS: Added support for normal DTS
tracks.
* mkvmerge: Tons of fixes and additions to the MPEG transport

stream demuxer.
* build system: configure will accept external versions of libEBML

and libMatroska again. Minimum required versions are libEBML 1.2.1
and libMatroska 1.1.0.
2011-09-07 DenB <denb10@free.fr>
* All: Updated the French translation with a complete set by DenB

(see AUTHORS).
2011-09-05 Cosme Domnguez <cosme.ddiaz@gmail.com>
* mmg: mmg respects the XDG Base Directory Specification regarding

its configuration files (environment variable
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mkvtoolnix if set, otherwise
~/.config/mkvtoolnix).
* all: Added an Lithuanian translation by Mindaugas Baranauskas

(see AUTHORS).
2011-08-14 Massimo Callegari <massimocallegari@yahoo.it>
* mkvmerge: new feature: Implemented a MPEG transport stream

demuxer.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: When looking for MPEG files with the same
base name as a source file mkvmerge will be stricter what it
accepts. The file name must consist of at least one char followed
by "-" or "_" followed by a number. That will match VTS_01_1.VOB
but not e.g. "some_series_s03e10.mpg".
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Opening MPEG files with numbers in their name
from folders with e.g. Cyrillic names failed on Windows.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Several elements are not written when

creating WebM compliant files. In the segment headers: SegmentUID,
SegmentFamily, ChapterTranslate, PreviousSegmentUID,
NextSegmentUID. In the track headers: MinCache, MaxCache and
MaxBlockAdditionID.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: Sped up file identification by caching

read operations.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed identifying QuickTime/MP4 files that

start with a 'skip' atom.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed a crash when reading AVI files with DTS
audio tracks that do not contain valid headers in the first couple
of packets. Fix for bug 646.
* Released v4.9.1.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed endless loop when reading AVI files on
Windows if MKVToolNix was compiled with a gcc mingw cross compiler
v4.4.x. Fix for bug 642.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed long file identification time caused by

DV detection. Fix for bug 641.
* Released v4.9.0.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: DV files are recognized as an unsupported

container type. Fix for bug 630.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed handling block groups in Matroska

files with a duration of 0.
* mmg: Various compatibility fixes for use with wxWidgets 2.9.x.

* mmg: bug fix: Fixed building with Sun Studio's C compiler.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: ISO 639-2 terminology language codes are

converted to the corresponding bibliography code upon file
identification (e.g. 'deu' is converted to 'ger').
* mkvinfo: bug fix: The timecode scale is retrieved first before

applying it to the segment duration.
* all: Added an Italian translation by Roberto Boriotti and

Matteo Angelino (see AUTHORS).
* mmg: bug fix: Fixed populating the 'compression' drop down box
according to what mkvmerge was compiled with.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: When a DTS track is read from a source file
that provides timecodes (e.g. Matroska files) then those timecodes
will be preserved.
* mkvmerge: Fixed remuxing certain VC1 video tracks from Matroska

files. Fix for bug 636.
* Released v4.8.0.
* mmg: bug fix (Windows): mmg will no longer convert the "mkvmerge
executable" from just "mkvmerge" into a full path name when
writing its preferences to the registry upon existing.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: Added support for VobSub IDX files with

negative "delay" fields.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The 'doc type read version' EBML header field
is only set to 2 even if a stereo mode other than 'none' is used
for at least one video track. Fix for bug 625.
* mkvpropedit: new feature: Added support for adding, replacing

and removing chapters.

* All: Avoided a segmentation fault in gcc by not including a
pre-compiled header if FLAC or CURL support is disabled.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Reading DTS files stored in 14-to-16 mode

were read partially.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: mkvmerge will rederive frame types for

VC1 video tracks stored in Matroska files instead of relying on
the container information. This fixes files created by
e.g. MakeMKV that mark all frames as key frames even if they
aren't.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed detection of AAC files with ADIF

headers. Fix for bug 626.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The 'doc type version' and 'doc type read
version' EBML header fields are only set to 3 if a stereo mode
other than 'none' is used for at least one video track. Fix for
bug 625.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: File identification for tracks read from

Matroska files with a codec ID of "A_MS/ACM" will show the track's
format tag field if it is unknown to mkvmerge. Implements bug
624.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Track, tag and attachment selection via

--audio-tracks, --video-tracks etc. can have their meaning
reversed by prefixing the list of IDs with "!". If it is then
mkvmerge will copy all tracks/tags/attachments but the ones with
the IDs given to the option (e.g. "--attachments !3,6").
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed handling AVIs with AAC audio format tag
0x706d and bogus private data size. Fix for bug 623.
* Released v4.7.0.
* build system: For the time being the build system will always
build and link statically against the internal versions of libEBML
and libMatroska.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed appending timecode calculation for

appended subtitle tracks if the subtitle tracks are read from
complex containers (e.g. Matroska, MP4, AVI etc). Fix for bug 620.
* mkvextract: bug fix: Fixed extraction of MPEG-1/2 video tracks

whose sequence headers change mid-stream but whose key frames are
not all prefixed with a sequence header. Fix for bug 556.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed reading AAC tracks from AVI files with
7 bytes long codec data. Fix for bug 613.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: Added support for WAV and AVI files that
use a WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE structure (wFormatTag == 0xfffe). Fix
for bug 614.
* mmg: bug fix: The output file name extension will be updated on
each track selection changed as well. The extension is based on
the actually selected tracks, not on the presence of tracks of
certain types. Fix for bug 615.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: mkvmerge was dropping the last full DTS
packet from a DTS files if that file was not encoded in "14-in-16"
mode and if the file size was not divisible by 16.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed huge slowdown when splitting by size is

active with certain kinds of input files. Fix for bug 611.
* mkvinfo: bug fix: Fixed redirecting the output into a file with
"--redirect-output"/"-r" and verbosity levels of 2 and higher.
* mkvpropedit, mmg header/chapter editor: bug fix: Fixed parsing

Matroska files if mkvtoolnix is compiled with newer versions of
libebml/libmatroska (SVN revisions after the releases of libebml
1.2.0/libmatroska 1.1.0).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: WAV files with unsupported format tags are
rejected instead of being treated like containing PCM. Fix for bug
610.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: The EBML header values "doc type version"

and "doc type read version" are both set to 3 if at least one of
the video tracks uses the stereo mode parameter.
* Released v4.6.0.
* build system: Fixed building the Qt version of mkvinfo's

GUI (again). Fix for bug 576.
* mmg: bug fix: If the header editor finds 'language' elements

with ISO-639-1 codes (e.g. "fra" instead of "fre" for "French")
then it will map the code to the corresponding ISO-639-2 code. Fix
for bug 598.
* mmg: bug fix: Fixed one of the issues causing mmg to report that
it is configured to use an unsupported version of mkvmerge when
the reported version was actually empty.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: HD-DVD subtitles are recognized as being

an unsupported file format. This makes the error message presented
to the user a bit clearer. Fix for bug 600.
* build: Boost 1.36.0 or newer is required (up from 1.34.0). Also

fixed building with v3 of Boost's filesystem library, e.g. with
Boost 1.46.0 Beta 1 or newer.
* mkvpropedit: new feature: Added support for adding, replacing

and removing tags.
* all: Added a translation for the programs into Turkish by

ouock (see AUTHORS).
* build system: Fixed compilation if configure choses the internal

versions of libebml and libmatroska while older versions are still
installed in a location named with "-I..." or "-L..." in
CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS/LDFLAGS or with configure's
"--with-extra-includes" and "--with-extra-libs" options.
* Released v4.5.0.
* build: Building mkvtoolnix now requires libebml v1.2.0 and

libmatroska v1.1.0 or later.
* build: enhancement: mkvtoolnix now includes libebml and

libmatroska. The configure script will use them if either no
installed versions of them is found or if the installed version is
too old.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed an infinite loop when reading program

stream maps in MPEG program streams. Part of a fix for bug 589.
* mkvinfo: new feature: Added an option "--track-info" (short:

"-t") that displays one-line statistics about each track at the
end of the output. The statistics include the track's total size,
duration, approximate bitrate and number of packets/frames.
* mkvinfo: bug fix: The hexdump mode was accessing invalid memory
if the data to dump was shorter than 16 bytes. It was also
outputting the values as characters instead of hexadecimal
numbers. Patch by ykar@list.ru. Fix for bug 591.
* mmg: enhancement: The output file name extension is

automatically set to ".mk3d" if the stereo mode parameter for any
video track is changed to anything else than "mono" or the default
value.
* mmg: enhancement: Added ".mk3d" to the list of known file name

extensions for Matroska files.
* mkvmerge, mmg: enhancement: Updated the "stereo mode" parameter

to match the current Matroska specifications.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: If mkvmerge encounters invalid UTF-8

strings in certain files or command line arguments then those
strings will simply be cut short. Before mkvmerge was exiting with
an error ("Invalid UTF-8 sequence encountered").
* all: new feature: Added online update checks. The command line
tools know a new parameter "--check-for-updates". mmg has a new
menu entry ("Help" -> "Check for updates") and checks
automatically when it starts, but at most once in 24 hours. Can be
turned off in the preferences. This function requires libcurl and
is not built if libcurl is not available.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Avoid a crash due to invalid memory access if

a source file name contains numbers (happens only if mkvtoolnix is
built with MS Visual Studio). Fix for bug 585.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for reading VP8 video from
Ogg files. Implements bug 584.
* mkvextract: enhancement: mkvextract will exit with an error if

the user specifies track IDs that do not exist in the source
file. This works in the "tracks" and "timecodes_v2" extraction
modes. Fix for bug 583.
* docs: mkvextract's man page has been updated to match the

program's expected command line syntax for the "timecodes_v2"
mode. Fix for bug 583.
* build system: Fixed building the Qt version of mkvinfo's

GUI. Fix for bug 576.
* mkvmerge, mmg: bug fix: Option files could not contain options
that started with '#' as they were interpreted as comment lines.

* mkvmerge: new feature: The "default duration" header field is
set for DTS audio tracks.
* build system: mmg's guide and its images are installed into the
location given by configure's "docdir" variable. Patch by Cristian
Morales Vega (see AUTHORS).
* all: Made the French translation selectable in all programs.
* mmg: bug fix: On Mac OS X the application type is set to a

foreground application preventing issues like the GUI never
getting focus.
* Released v4.4.0.
* build system: bug fix: Installation no longer fails if xsltproc

is available but the DocBook stylesheets aren't. Fix for bug 575.
* mkvmerge: new feature: If the name of an input file starts with

'=' then mkvmerge will not try to open other files with the same
name (e.g. 'VTS_01_1.VOB', 'VTS_01_2.VOB', 'VTS_01_3.VOB') from
the same directory. A single '=' as an argument disables this as
well for the next input file. Implements bug 570.
* mmg: new feature: Added an option to disable extra compression

when adding tracks by default.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Made file type detection stricter for MP3,
AC3 and AAC files. This prevents mis-detection of other file types
as one of these for certain files. Fix for bug 574.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed the usage of iterators with the STL
"deque" template class. This caused mkvmerge to abort on systems
which did not use the GNU implementation of the standard template
library, e.g. OpenSolaris with the SunStudio compiler. Fix for bug
567.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: The warning about subtitle entries that

are skipped because their start time is greater than their end
time now includes the subtitle number.
* Build system: bug fix: 'drake install' did not work if the login
shell was not POSIX compatible (e.g. fish). Fix for bug 559.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: When appending two Matroska files which

both contain chapters the chapter entries of all editions will be
merged even if the edition's UIDs were different to begin
with. This is done based on the order of the edition. If both
files contain three editions each then the chapters from the first
edition in the second file will be put into the first edition from
the first file; the chapters from the second edition into the
second edition and so on.
* all: Added a translation of the programs into French by

Trinine (see AUTHORS).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The MPEG ES reader was accessing

uninitialized data. This could lead to crashes or source files not
being read correctly.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Using "--no-video" on AVI files caused the

video track to be mistaken for an audio track and included
anyway. Fix for bug 558.
* Released v4.3.0.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Appending tracks which would normally be

compressed (e.g. with header removal compression) and turning off
compression for those tracks with "--compression TID:none" (or the
corresponsing option in mmg) was resulting in the second and all
following appended tracks to be compressed all the same.
* mkvextract: bug fix: Errors such as 'file does not exist' did
not cause mkvextract to quit. Instead it continued and exited with
the result code 0.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Certain frames in certain h.264/AVC raw

tracks were handled wrong, e.g. files created by x264 versions
starting with revision 1665. The situation occured if an IDR slice
comes immedtiately after a non-IDR slice and the IDR slice has its
frame_num and pic_order_count_lsb fields set to 0.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: Attachments will be rendered at the

beginning of the file again. Fix for bug 516.
* mkvpropedit, mmg's header editor: Fixed a crash corrupting files

in certain situations. If the updated header fields required
filling exactly one byte with an EbmlVoid element and if the next
Matroska element's "size" was already written with its maximum
length (8 bytes) then the crash would occur. Such files are
written by e.g. lavf. Fix for bug 536.
* All: bug fix: Fixed a couple of format strings in translations

which could cause the programs to crash.
* mkvinfo: new feature: mkvinfo will show the h.264 profile and
level for AVC/h.264 tracks along with the CodecPrivate element.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Video tracks with a width or height of 0 are

not read from AVI files anymore. Fix for bug 538.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed an error with losing packets (error

message "packet queue not empty") when reading IVF (VP8) files
using --default-duration on it.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed access to uninitialized memory in the

MPEG-2 ES parser.
* mmg: bug fix: The 'total remaining time' shown by the job
manager was totally wrong. Fix for bug 529.
* build system: The build system has been changed from "make" to
"rake", the Ruby based build tool. MKVToolNix includes its own
copy of it so all you need is to have Ruby itself installed. The
build proecss has been tested with Ruby 1.8.6, 1.8.7 and
1.9.1. Building is pretty much the same as before: "./configure",
"./drake", "sudo ./drake install". Most of the build targets have
similar if not identical names, e.g. "./drake install". You can
override variables just like with make, e.g. "./drake
prefix=/somewhere install".
* mmg header editor: bug fix: If a file was loaded that did not
contain 'track language' elements and those elements were
unchanged then they would be set to 'und' upon saving. Now they're
left as-is, and when adding them to the file the drop-down box
defaults to 'eng' being selected as per Matroska default value
specifications. Fix for bug 525.
* mkvextract, mkvinfo, mkvpropedit: new feature: Added the option

"-q" and its long version "--quiet". With "--quiet" active only
warnings and errors are output. Fix for bug 527.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The option "--quiet" was not working

properly.
* mkgmerge: bug fix: mkvmerge was treating SSA/ASS subtitle files
as audio files for the purpose of track selection (--no-subtitles
/ --no-audio). Fix for bug 526.
* Released v4.2.0.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: mkvmerge was accessing invalid memory In

certain cases, e.g. when appending Matroska files that use
compression while turning compression off.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Splitting output files by size was basing its
decision when to create a new file on an uninitialized
variable. This caused effects like a lot of small files being
created with sizes much smaller than the intended split size.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The speed with which mkvmerge skips garbage
in DTS tracks has been greatly improved.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: Reading Matroska files: DisplayWidth &

DisplayHeight values that are obviously not meant to represent
pixels but only to be used for aspect ratio calculation (e.g.
16x9) are converted into proper ranges based on the track's
PixelWidth & PixelHeight values and the quotient of DisplayWidth /
DisplayHeight.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: Attachments will be rendered at the end

of the file instead of at the beginning. The attachments will be
placed after the cues but before the chapters. Fix for bug 516.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: Header removal compression has been

enabled by default for MPEG-4 part 10 (AVC/h.264) video tracks
with a NALU size field length of four bytes.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Header removal compression has been

deactivated for MPEG-4 part 2 (aka DivX/Xvid) video tracks due to
incompatibility with packed bitstreams.
* mmg: enhancement: The taskbar progress is reset as soon as

mkvmerge finishes/as soon as all jobs are done (Windows 7).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed reading AVC/h.264 tracks from AVI files
if they're stored without NALUs inside the AVI. Was broken by a
fix for handling AVC/h.264 in NALUs inside AVI.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: All readers that only handled file formats
which do not contain more than one track did not respect the
"--no-audio / --no-video / --no-subtitles" options. This applied
to the following readers: AAC, AC3, AVC/h.264, CorePicture, Dirac,
DTS, FLAC, IVF, MP3, MPEG ES, PGS/SUP, SRT, SSA, TrueHD, TTA, VC1,
WAV and WavPack.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: Improved reading text files that use

mixed end-of-line styles (DOS & Unix mixed).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed invalid memory access in the PCM

packetizer. Fix for bug 510.
* mmg: bug fix: When mmg starts it will check the entries in the
file and chapter menu's list of recently used files and remove
those entries that no longer exist. Fix for bug 509.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed a crash when reading Matroska files

that were damaged in a certain way.
* Released v4.1.1.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed invalid memory access in the header

removal compressor. Fix for bug 508.
* mmg: bug fix: mmg will no longer add .mmg files opened by the
job runner to the file menu's list of recently opened files. Fix
for bug 509.
* Released v4.1.0.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed reading AVC/h.264 tracks from AVI files
if they're stored in NALUs inside the AVI.
* Build system: enhancement: Improved the error reporting if

certain Boost libraries are not found.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: mkvmerge will report if it finds data

errors in a Matroska file (e.g. due to storage failure or bad
downloads). The position is reported as well as a periodic update
as long as mkvmerge re-syncs to the next Matroska element.
* mmg: enhancement: The "compression" drop down box is enabled for

all track types. That way "no compression" can be forced for those
tracks mkvmerge uses "header removal" compression for.
* mmg: bug fix: Matroska files read from/written to by the header

and chapter editors will no longer be kept opened and locked. Fix
for bug 498.
* mmg: bug fix: If mmg was called with "--edit-headers

filename.mkv" then it crashed when the header editor was closed.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: mkvmerge will start a new cluster before

a key frame of the first video track. Fix for bug 500.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: The default cluster length has been

increased to five seconds (up from two seconds).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: mkvmerge will no longer report nonsensical

progress reports (e.g. -17239182%) when reading Matroska files
with all the flags "--no-audio --no-video --no-subtitles"
enabled. Fix for bug 505.
* mmg: bug fix: Fixed a crash in the job runner when the total
time was very big due to a division by zero.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: Implemented write caching resulting in

faster muxes especially on Windows writing to network shares.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for reading PGS subtitles

from PGS/SUP files.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Specifying an FPS with "--default-duration"

for AVC/h264 tracks in AVI files did not work. Fix for bug 492.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed an invalid memory access possibly

causing a crash in the AC3 detection code.
* mmg: bug fix: Changing mmg's interface language did not change
the entries in the "command line options" dialog if that dialog
had been opened prior to the language change.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: mkvmerge uses header removal compression

by default for AC3, DTS, MP3, Dirac and MPEG-4 part 2 tracks.
* all: Added desktop files for mmg/mkvinfo, a MIME type file for
.mmg files and icons to the installation procedure on Linux. Most
files were contributed by Cristian Morales Vega (see AUTHORS).
* all: Added a translation of the programs into Spanish by Isra
Lucas (see AUTHORS).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed access to uninitialized memory when

reading DTS tracks from AVI and Matroska files.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The Matroska reader will use the MPEG audio
packetizer for MP2 tracks instead of the passthrough packetizer.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The Matroska reader did not handle compressed
tracks correctly if the passthrough packetizer was used.
* docs: Added a Dutch translation for the man pages by Ren

Maassen (see AUTHORS).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The handling of Matroska files in which the

'default track flag' is not present has been fixed.
* Released v4.0.0.

* all command line tools: bug fix: Fixed the output of eastern
languages like Japanese or Chinese under cmd.exe on Windows.
* mmg: new feature: Added the estimated remaining time to the mux
and job dialogs.
* all: Added a translation of the programs into Dutch by Ren

Maassen (see AUTHORS).
* mkvextract: feature removal: Removed support for extracting FLAC

tracks into Ogg FLAC files. Instead they're always written into
raw FLAC files. The option "--no-ogg" has been removed as well.
* mkvmerge: feature removal: Removed support for the FLAC library

older than v1.1.1.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed support for reading FLAC tracks from
Ogg files following the FLAC-in-Ogg-mapping established with FLAC
v1.1.1. Fix for bug 488.
* mmg: enhancement: The "mkvmerge executable" input in the

preferences dialog is not read-only anymore. Final part of a fix
for bug 490.
* mmg: bug fix: mmg will output a warning if it is used with a

mkvmerge executable whose version differs from mmg's version. Part
of a fix for bug 490.
* mmg: bug fix: If adding a file fails mkvmerge's error message

will be shown in a scrollable dialog instead of a normal message
box. Part of a fix for bug 490.
* mmg: Added 'IVF' files to the list of known input file types.
* mkvmerge: Added support for reading IVF files with VP8 video
tracks.
* mkvextract: Added support for extracting VP8 video tracks into

IVF files.
* mkvmerge, mkvinfo, mkvextract: bug fix: Fixed handling of

clusters missing a cluster timecode element.
* mkvinfo GUI: bug fix: Frames for simple blocks were shown at the
wrong place in the element tree.
* mkvmerge, mkvextract: Fixed handling of clusters with an unknown

size.
* mkvinfo: bug fix: Fixed handling clusters with an unknown size.
* mkvinfo: new feature: Added an option ("-z" / "--size") for

displaying each element's size property. Elements with an
unknown/infinite size are shown as "size is unknown".
* mmg: new feature: Added a checkbox for enabling "WebM"

mode. This will also enable the same limitations that mkvmerge
enables: Only VP8 and Vorbis tracks, no chapters, no tags. The
output file name extension will be changed to ".webm" upon
enabling the mode.
* mkvmerge: change: mkvmerge will not write track header elements

whose actual value equals their default value anymore.

* mkvmerge: new feature: Neither chapters nor tags will be written
to WebM compliant files. Warnings are issued if chapters or
tags are found and not disabled.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Matroska files without clusters are accepted

as valid input files again.
* mmg: enhancement: Added "WebM" with the extension "webm" to

the list of known file types.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for muxing VP8 video

tracks.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: mkvmerge will no longer put all clusters

into a meta seek element resulting in smaller file size. The
parameter "--no-clusters-in-meta-seek" has been renamed to
"--clusters-in-meta-seek" and its meaning reverted.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: WebM compatibility mode will be

turned on automatically if the output file name's extension is
'.webm', '.webma' or '.webmv'.
* mkvinfo GUI: enhancement: Added "webm" to the list of known file

name extensions for WebM files both for the "Open file" dialog
and the drag & drop support.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added options "--webm"/"--web-media" that

enable the WebM compatibility mode. In this mode only Vorbis
audio tracks and VP8 video tracks are allowed. Neither chapters
nor tags are allowed. The DocType element is set to "webm".
* mkvinfo GUI: bug fix: Opening more than one file without
restarting mkvinfo GUI could result in wrong timecodes due to
variables not being reinitialized.
* mkvinfo: bug fix: Binary elements shorter than 10 bytes were not
output correctly.
* Build system: bug fix: The man page installation process only
installed the English originals instead of the Japanese and
Chinese translations.
* Released v3.4.0.

* all: Added a translation into Ukrainian by Serj (see AUTHORS).

* Windows installer: Added the choice to run the installer in the
same languages that the GUIs support. Patch by Serj (see AUTHORS)
with modifications by myself.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed the handling of non-spec compliant

AVC/h.264 elementary streams in Matroska files with the CodecID
V_ISO/MPEG4/AVC. Fix for bug 486.
* all: Added a translation into Russian by Serj (see AUTHORS).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: mkvmerge will not output a message that it

has extracted the display dimensions from AVC/h.264 bitstream if
the source container (e.g. Matroska) overrides that setting. Fix
for bug 485.
* mmg's header editor, mkvpropedit: Fixed crashes with files

created by Haali's GS Muxer containing "content encoding" header
elements.
* mkvextract: bug fix: Extracting SSA/ASS files which miss the

"Text" column specifier in the "Format:" line are handled
correctly. Fix for bug 483.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed a segfault when reading Matroska files

containing level 1 elements other than clusters with a size of 0.
* Build system: The LINGUAS environment variable determines which

man page and guide translations will be installed.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed a tiny memory leak. Fix for bug 481.
* Released v3.3.0.
* Build system: Sped up builds by using pre-compiled

headers. Patches by Steve Lhomme (see AUTHORS) and myself.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed the default duration for interlaced

MPEG-1/2 video tracks. Also added the 'interlaced' flag for such
tracks. Patches by Xavier Duret (see AUTHORS). Fix for bug 479.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Specifying a FourCC with spaces at the end

will not result in an error anymore. Fix for bug 480.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Timecodes for MPEG-1/2 tracks are calculated

properly, especially for B frames. Patch by Xavier Duret (see
AUTHORS). Fix for bug 475.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: Added a message in verbosity level 2 to

the splitting code. It reports before which timecode and after
what file size a new file is started.
* All: A lot of changes preparing mkvtoolnix for use with the

upcoming libebml2/libmatroska2 versions were applied. Patches by
Steve Lhomme (see AUTHORS).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed a crash when reading Matroska files

that contain Vorbis audio with in MS compatibility mode (CodecID
A_MS/ACM). Fix for bug 477.
* All: enhancement: Added support for old Mac-style line endings

(only '\r' without '\n') in text files.
* mmg: enhancement: Added the values "4483M" and "8142M" to the

"split after this size" drop down box.
* mmg: bug fix: Fixed compilation if gettext is not available.
* Build system: Added project files and fixes for compilation with
Microsoft Visual Studio 8. Patches by David Player (see AUTHORS).
* Installer: bug fix: A couple of start menu links to pieces of

the documentation were broken. Added missing start menu links to
translations of the documentation.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The SRT reader skips empty lines at the
beginning of the file.
* Build system: bug fix: Fixed the configure script and compilation
on OpenSolaris.
* Installer: bug fix: The "jobs" directory in the application data

folder is removed during uninstallation if the user requests
it. Fix for bug 474.
* mkvextract: bug fix: Fixed granulepos calculation when

extracting Vorbis tracks into Ogg files. Fix for bug 473.
* All: bug fix: The programs will no longer abort with an error
message if a selected interface translation is not available. The
"C" locale is used instead. Fix for bug 472.
* mkvmerge, mkvextract: enhancement: Improved the error resilience

when dealing with damaged Matroska files. When a damaged part is
encountered reading will continue at the next cluster.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed the handling of UTF-16 encoded chapter

names in MP4/MOV files.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: Some Matroska files contain h.264/AVC

tracks lacking their CodecPrivate element (e.g. files created by
gstreamer's muxer). For such tracks the CodecPrivate element (the
AVCC) is re-created from the bitstream. Fix for bug 470.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: MP4 files that do contain edit lists but
whose edit lists do not span the entire file are processed
properly. Such files are created by current x264 builds. Fix for
bug 469.
* Build system: Fixed configure for systems on which 'echo' does

not support the '-n' parameter (e.g. Mac OS).
* Released v3.2.0.
* Build requirements changed: The GUIs for mkvtoolnix now require

wxWidgets 2.8.0 or newer.
* mmg, mkvpropedit: Fixed another bug causing a crash writing

chapters/other elements to existing Matroska files.
* Build system: bug fix: Improved detection of Boost::Filesystem

for newer Boost versions.

* docs: Added a Chinese Simplified translation for the man pages
by Dean Lee (see AUTHORS).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Outputting error messages about invalid XML

files will not cause mkvmerge to crash on Windows anymore.
* mmg: enhancement: Added an input field for the segment info XML
file (mkvmerge's "--segmentinfo" option) on the "global" tab.
* mmg: bug fix: The jobs will be saved in the 'mkvtoolnix/jobs'

sub-directory of the 'application data' folder instead of the
'jobs' folder in the current directory. On Windows this is the
special 'application data' folder inside the user's profile
directory, e.g. 'C:\Users\mbunkus\AppData\mkvtoolnix'. On
non-Windows systems this is the folder '.mkvtoolnix' in the user's
home directory.
mmg's configuration file has also been moved from ~/.mkvmergeGUI
to ~/.mkvtoolnix/config on non-Windows systems.
Fix for bug 466.
* mkvextract: bug fix: Files are only opened for reading, not for
writing, so that mkvextract will work on files the user only has
read-only permissions for.
* mkvextract: bug fix: Modes 'attachments', 'chapters', 'tags' and

'cuesheet': mkvextract will output an error message if the file
cannot be opened (e.g. because it does not exist or due to lack of
access).
* mmg: enhancement: Changing the interface language does not

require a restart anymore.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Reading VOB files bigger than 4 GB was broken
in v3.1.0 on 32bit platforms.
* mmg: bug fix: Tooltips were not word-wrapped on Windows.
* mkvinfo: enhancement: Added the "EBML maximum size length"

element to the list of known elements. Fix for bug 464.
* mmg: new feature: Added a control for mkvmerge's "--cropping"

parameter.
* mmg: enhancement: Added the file extensions ".dtshd", ".dts-hd",

".truehd" and ".true-hd" to mmg's"'add/append file" dialogs.
* mkvextract: bug fix: "mkvextract --version" was only writing an

empty string. Fix for bug 463.
* Released v3.1.0.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: If the first input file was a Quicktime/MP4

file and all tracks from that file were deselected for muxing then
mkvmerge would crash. Fix for bug 458.
* mmg: bug fix: The option 'AAC is SBR/HE-AAC' was not honored
for appended AAC tracks. This could lead to mkvmerge aborting with
an error that the track parameters did not match if it itself
could not detect HE-AAC in the second file.
* documentation: Added a Chinese Simplified translation for mmg's

guide by Dean Lee (see AUTHORS).
* documentation: Added a Japanese translation for the man pages by

Katsuhiko Nishimra (see AUTHORS).
* mmg: bug fix: The output file name is checked for invalid
characters before the muxing process is started. Fix for bug 455.
* mkvpropedit, mmg: bug fix: Files with an infinite segment size

are handled correctly now. Fix for bug 438.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Matroska files which have its 'tracks'

element located behind the clusters are read correctly now.
* mmg: enhancement: After muxing the "abort" button is changed to

"open folder" which opens the explorer on the output file's
folder. This only happens on Windows.
* mmg: enhancement: When constructing the output file name mmg

will only suggest names that don't exist already by appending a
number to the file name (e.g. resulting in "/path/file (1).mkv").
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for reading chapters from

MP4 files that are stored in tracks with subtype 'text'. Such
files are used e.g. on iPods/iPhones and can be created by
HandBrake. Fix for bug 454.

* mmg: bug fix: The "tags" input box on the "general track
options" tab was not updated when a track was selected. Fix for
bug 453.
* mkvmerge, mmg: new feature: If a MPEG-2 program stream file is

added to mkvmerge whose base name ends in a number then mkvmerge
will automatically read and process all other files in the same
directory with the same base name, same extension and different
numbers. Those files are treated as if they were a single big
file. This applies e.g. to VOB files from DVD images that are
named VTS_01_1.VOB, VTS_01_2.VOB, VTS_01_3.VOB etc. mmg will
output an error message if the user tries to add or append one of
the other files that mkvmerge will process automatically (e.g. if
the user has added VTS_01_1.VOB already and tries to append
VTS_01_2.VOB).
This also fixes bug 437.
* Build requirements changed: mkvtoolnix requires Boost v1.34.0 or

later. It requires the Boost::Filesystem library (with all Boost
versions) and the Boost::System libraries (starting with Boost
v1.35.0).
* mkvmerge: enhancement: SRT files with negative timecodes will

are not rejected anymore. Negative timecodes will be adjusted to
start at 00:00:00.000.
* mkvextract: new feature: Added support for extracting Blu-Ray

subtitles (CodecID "S_HDMV/PGS").
* mkvmerge/mmg: enhancement: Added an option '--segment-uid' for

specifying the segment UIDs to use instead of having to use a XML
file and '--segmentinfo'.
* Installer: The installer will no longer offer to run mmg after

it has been installed. On Windows setups where a normal user
account doesn't have administrator privileges this caused mmg to
be run as the user "Administrator" instead of the normal user
account causing confusion and some things not to work, e.g. drag &
drop.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Zero-length frames in Theora bitstreams as

created by libtheora v1.1 and later were dropped. Fix for bug
450.
* mmg: bug fix: On Windows 2000/XP the 'add/append file' dialog

was not showing files with certain extensions (e.g. ".srt" or
".mp4") if the option "all supported media files" was
selected. Fix for bug 448.
* Released v3.0.0.
* mmg: enhancement: Added support for showing the muxing progress

for both normal muxes and the job manager in Windows 7's taskbar.
* all: bug fix: The charset for output in cmd.exe for non-English
interface languages has been fixed on Windows Vista and Windows 7.
* all: enhancement for Windows platforms: If one of the mkvtoolnix

components is run without having been installed before then
translations will be read from the directory the .exe is run
from.
* configure: Added an option ('--without-build-timestamp') that

omits the build timestamp from all version information so that two
builds of mkvtoolnix can be byte-identical.
* mkvpropedit, mmg: bug fix: Editing headers of files created by

HandBrake would cause crashes and/or corrupted files after
saving. Fix for bug 445.
* Released v2.9.9.
* mmg: bug fix: The warning that no FPS has been entered for
AVC/h.264 elementary streams is not shown anymore for appended
tracks (only once for the first track that they're appended to).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The pixel cropping parameters were not kept
when muxing from Matroska files.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The display width/height parameters were not

kept when muxing from Matroska files if the bitstream of the track
contained different aspect ratio information. Now the order is
"command line" first, "source container" second and "bitstream"
last.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed the subtitle track selection for AVI
files.

* mkvmerge: enhancement: A single '+' causes the next file to be
appended just like putting the '+' in front of the file name.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The integrated help ('--help') contained

wrong information about the '--sync' option. Fix for bug 435.
* mmg: enhancement: The file dialogs for 'add file'/'append file'

will show files with extensions in all uppercase as well. This
only applies to file systems that distinguish between case
(e.g. most of the non-Windows, non-FAT world). Fix for bug 433.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Missing ChapterLanguage elements were assumed

to be set to "und". They're now assumed to be "eng" in accordance
with the Matroska specifications.
* Added a new program 'mkvpropedit' that can modify certain

properties of existing Matroska files. It is mmg's header editor,
just for the command line.
* Released v2.9.8.
* mmg: bug fix: The inputs for timecode files and the language are
deactivated if the user has selected a track that will be appended
to another track. Fix for bug 432.
* mmg: bug fix: mmg will handle multiple consecutive spaces in the
options given with "add command line options" properly and not
cause mkvmerge to exit with misleading error messages anymore. The
"add command line options" dialog has been reordered, and the drop
down box in it is now read-only. Fixes for bug 429.
* doc, mmg: bug fix: The tooltip and documentation for the 'delay'
option was misleading. Fix for bug 420.
* mmg/header editor: enhancement: Implemented a considerable

speedup in the processing of large files.
* mmg/header editor: bug fix: The header editor copes better with
files that do not contain all mandatory header fields. The missing
ones are added or assumed to be default values.
* all: bug fix: Selecting the translations with the

"--ui-language" option did not work on Mac OS X.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed an invalid memory access in the VobSub

reader module. Fix for bug 426.
* mmg: bug fix: Tracks added from Matroska files did not get their
'default track' drop down box set correctly if the flag was 'off'
in the source file and no other track of its kind hat its 'default
track' flag set.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: mkvmerge was wrongly turning the 'default

track' flag back on for the first subtitle track muxed from a
Matroska file if none of the subtitle tracks muxed had their
'default track' flag set in their source files and if the user
didn't use the '--default-track' option for setting that flag
explicitely.
* mmg: bug fix: Running mkvmerge on Windows from an installation

directory with two spaces in the path (e.g. "C:\Program
Files\Video tools\mkvtolnix") crashed mmg when the user started
muxing. Fix for bug 419.
* mmg: bug fix: Files for which all tracks were disabled were left
out from mkvmerge's command line so that tags, chapters and
attachments were not copied from such files either.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Appending MPEG4 part 2 video tracks from

Matroska files which contain aspect ratio information will not
result in an error message "connected_to > 0" anymore. Fix for bug
427.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed the audio sync for tracks read from AVI
files containing garbage at the beginning. Fix for bug 421.
* mmg: bug fix: Trying to save chapters that contain editions

without a single chapter entry does no longer result in a crash
but a descriptive error message instead. Saving empty chapters to
a Matroska file will remove all chapters contained in the file
instead of not doing anything. Fixes for bug 422.
* mkvinfo: enhancement: Implemented speed-ups of up to 50% for

middle to larger files.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed reading AVC/h.264 video tracks from OGM
* mmg: bug fix: The chapter language for chapters copied from
source files (e.g. Matroska, MP4 or OGM files) is only changed if
the user has selected any language other than "und". Fix for bug
420.
* mmg: bug fix: mmg will no longer show an error message if the
user has not selected a country in the "chapters" tab of the
preferences dialog.
* Released v2.9.7.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The handling of NVOPs in native MPEG4 part 2

video storage has been improved. NVOPs are dropped again both from
packed and non-packed bitstreams, and timecodes are adjusted to
match the number of dropped frames.
* mmg: The "preferences" dialog has been split up into several

tabs. Some other preferences available in other dialogs have been
merged into the "preferences" dialog.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The I frame detection for AVC/h.264 video has
been fixed. Sometimes a single I frame was recognized as two or
more consecutive I frames resulting in garbled display and wrong
timestamps. Fix for bug 415.
* mmg: new feature: The list of common languages can be configured

by the user via the 'preferences' dialog.
* all: bug fix: The programs do not try to close iconv handles -1
anymore which resulted in segfault during uninitialization on some
platforms (e.g. FreeBSD, Mac OS X). Fix for bug 412.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Complete rewrite of the code for the native
storage mode for MPEG4 part 2 video tracks. Fix for bug 298.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Made the detection rules for raw MP3, AC3 and
AAC audio files more strict. This avoids a mis-detection of
certain files, e.g. AVC/h.264 ES files being misdetected as MP3
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Appending MP4 or OGM files with chapters will
merge the chapters from all appended files and not just take the
chapters from the first file and discard the chapters from the
following files. Fix for bug 397.
* mkvmerge, mmg: new feature: The language for chapters read from
files such as OGM and MP4 files can be chosen with the
--chapter-language command line option. Fix for bug 399.
* mkvmerge, mmg: new feature: Chapter and tag information

contained in source files are now shown in the "track" selection
box and can be toggled individually. The user can set the charset
for chapters if the source file's chapters are not encoded in
UTF-8 (e.g. in some OGM/MP4 files). The old file specific
checkboxes "no tags" and "no chapters" have been removed. Fix for
bug 400.
* mmg: bug fix: The chapter editor was corrupting Matroska files
if the chapters were saved to a file twice in a row without
reloading them from the Matroska file.
* mmg: enhancement: If the user selects the option "Verify" from

the "Chapters" menu then a message will be shown even if the
validation succeeded. Fix for bug 410.
* mmg/mkvmerge: bug fix: Adding MP4 files with chapter entries

that are not encoded in UTF-8 will not result in mkvmerge aborting
with a message about invalid UTF-8 sequences anymore. Fix for bug
408.
* Released v2.9.5.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The handling of TrueHD/MLP audio in MPEG

program streams was broken resulting in many dropped packets.
* all: bug fix: There was the possibility that invalid memory
access occured and e.g. mkvmerge crashed on systems with the
posix_fadvise() function (mainly Linux) if mkvmerge was opening
several files from certain file systems (e.g. VFAT). Apart from
obvious crashes the only other side effect was that the
posix_fadvise() function would not be used resulting in slightly
worse I/O performance.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Improved the control over which tags get
copied from a source file to the output file. The old option
"--no-tags" was replaced with the new options "--no-global-tags"
which causes global tags not to be copied and "--no-track-tags"
which causes track specific tags to not be copied. The new option
"--track-tags" can be used to select tracks for which tags will be
copied. The default is still to copy all existing tags.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Included chapters, global and track

specific tracks in the output of mkvmerge's identification mode.
* mkvmerge: Renamed a couple of command line options to make the
command line interface more consistent: "--no-audio",
"--no-video", "--no-subtitles", "--no-buttons", "--audio-tracks",
"--video-tracks", "--subtitle-tracks", "--button-tracks". The old
versions of these options "--noaudio", "--novideo", "--nosubs",
"--nobuttons", "--atracks", "--vtracks", "--stracks" and
"--btracks" still work.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The sequence header of MPEG-1/2 video tracks

is put into the CodecPrivate again while still leaving sequence
headers in the bitstream as well. This is more compatible with
some existing parsers.
* mmg: bug fix: Removed the check if the user has added
tracks and files before starting mkvmerge because mkvmerge itself
is able to create track-less files (e.g. chapters only). Fix for
bug 402.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Improved the handling of consecutive AC3

packets with the same timecode (e.g. if AC3 is read from MP4
files). Fix for bug 403.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed an endless loop in the TrueHD code

occuring when the TrueHD stream is damaged somewhere.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed the detection of MPEG transport streams

with other packet sizes than 188 bytes (e.g. 192 and 204 bytes).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The detection of invalid padding packet

lengths in the MPEG program stream reader was improved to not
produce as many false positives. Patch by Todd Schmuland (see
AUTHORS). Fix for bug 393.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for the FourCCs ".mp3" and
"XVID" in QuickTime files.
* mmg: bug fix: Pressing 'return' in the job dialog will close the
dialog on Windows, too. Fix for bug 392.
* mmg: bug fix: Fixed the behaviour of how mmg sets the output
file name automatically if the option is enabled. If the user adds
more than one file then the extension of the output file name is
set each time a file is added and not only when the first one
is. The full file name and path will only be set when the first
file is added. Fix for bug 391.
* Released v2.9.0.
* all: Added a translation to Traditional Chinese by Dean

Lee (see AUTHORS).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: mkvmerge was not handling dropped frames well
when converting from VfW-mode MPEG-4 part 2 to native mode MPEG-4
part 2 (with '--engage native_mpeg4'). This resulted in timecodes
being to low which in turn resulted in the loss of audio/video
synchronization. Fix for bug 236.
* mkvextract: bug fix: The modes 'chapters', 'cuesheet' and 'tags'

did not honor the '--redirect-output' option and where always
writing to the standard output.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added a hack ('vobsub_subpic_stop_cmds')

that causes mkvmerge to add 'stop display' commands to VobSub
subtitle packets that do not have a duration field. Patch by Todd
Schmuland (see AUTHORS).
* mmg: enhancement: Changed how mmg sets the output file name
automatically if the option is enabled. If the user adds more than
one file then the output file name is set each time a file is
added and not only when the first one is unless the user has
changed the output file name manually. Fix for bug 229.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: Improved support for QuickTime audio

tracks with version 2 of the STSD sound descriptor.
* mmg: bug fix: The "remove all" button was sometimes disabled
even though there were still files left to be removed.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: The MPEG program stream reader will now

detect invalid padding packets and skip only to the next 2048 byte
packet boundary instead of skipping several good packets. Patch by
Todd Schmuland (see AUTHORS).
* mmg: enhancement: The "no chapters" checkbox can now be used for
QuickTime/MP4 files and OGM files as well.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: The OGM reader will only print the

warning that no chapter charset has been set by the user if the
title or the chapter information contained in the OGM file is
actually used and not overwritten with '--title ...' or
'--no-chapters'.
* mkvextract: bug fix: The VobSub extraction was made more

compatible with most applications. Fix for bug 245. Patch by Todd
Schmuland (see AUTHORS).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed support for Windows systems that use
code pages that are not supported by the iconv library (e.g. code
page 720). mkvmerge was exiting with warnings causing mmg to
report that file identification had failed. Fix for bug 376.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for handling MPEG-1/-2

video in AVI files. Fix for bug 388.
* all: bug fix: Global variables are deconstructed in a

pre-defined way no longer causing segfaults when the programs are
about to exit.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: Implemented small speedups for some

common memory operation (affects e.g. the MPEG program stream
parser).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed potential and actual segmentation

faults occuring when appending VC-1 video tracks, Dirac video
tracks and DTS audio tracks.
* mmg: bug fix: The header and chapter editors will no longer
crash the application if the user wants to open a file that's
locked by another process and show an error message instead.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: Invalid VobSub packets whose internal SPU

length field differs from its actual length are patched so that
the SPU length field matches the actual length. This fixes
playback issues with several players and filters. Fix for bug
383.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for reading chapters from

MP4 files. Fix for bug 385.
* Released v2.8.0.
* all: Added a translation to Chinese (simplified) by Dean

Lee (see AUTHORS).
* mkvmerge: enhancement: Added support for handling AC3 audio in

MP4 files with the FourCC "sac3" (as created by e.g. Nero Recode
v3/4). Fix for bug 384.
* mkvmerge, mmg: enhancement: Made mmg's "FPS" input field

available for all video tracks. mkvmerge's corresponding option
"--default-duration" now not only modifies the track header field
but affects the frame timecodes as well.

* mkvmerge: bug fix: The VobSub reader was dropping the very last
MPEG packet possibly resulting in the very last subtitle entry
being garbled or discarded completely. Patch by Todd Schmuland.
* mmg: enhancement: Added "60000/1001" as a pre-defined option to

the "FPS" drop-down box.
* mmg (header editor): bug fix: The header editor controls on the
right stopped responding after the second file had been loaded or
the "reload file" feature had been used. Fix for bug 372.

* mmg: new feature: Added an option for clearing all inputs after
a successful muxing run.

* mkvmerge: bug fix: Made the AAC detection code stricter in what
it accepts. This results in fewer mis-detections. Fix for bugs 373
and 374.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Splitting without the option "--engage

no_simpleblocks" resulted in broken files: all frames were marked
as B frames. Fix for bug 371.
* mkvinfo: bug fix: Timecodes of SimpleBlock elements that were

output formatted in summary mode were too small by a factor of
1000000.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The duration of subtitle frames was

overwritten with the difference between the next frame's timecode
and the current frame's timecode if a timecode file was used for
that track. Fix for bug 286.
* mmg: bug fix: Removed the option "always use simple blocks" from
the preferences dialog as this option was already removed from
mkvmerge. Fix for bug 370.
* Released v2.7.0.
* Build requirements changed: mkvtoolnix requires Boost v1.32.0 or

later.
* mkvmerge: mkvmerge will now use SimpleBlock elements instead of

normal BlockGroup elements by default.

* mkvmerge, mmg: new feature: Added support for the "forced track"
flag. Fix for bug 128.
* mmg: bug fix: The header editor and chapter editor will not
write zero bytes anymore if there's not enough space to write an
EbmlVoid element when saving to Matroska files.
* mkvmerge: By default mkvmerge keeps the aspect ratio information

in AVC/h.264 video bitstreams now (equivalent to specifying
"--engage keep_bitstream_ar_info" in earlier versions). A new
option "--engage remove_bitstream_ar_info" is available that
restores the previous behaviour.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed the aspect ratio extraction for

AVC/h.264 video by adding three more pre-defined sample aspect
ratios. Mkvmerge also only assumes "free aspect ratio" if the
aspect ratio type information indicates it and not if the
type information is unknown.
* mmg: new feature: Added drag & drop support for the header
editor (files can be opened by dropping them on the header
editor).
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for reading the track

language from QuickTime/MP4 files. Thanks to Eduard Bloch for the
code for unpacking the language string.
* mmg: bug fix: All arguments are shell escaped and quoted instead
of only those with spaces in them. Only applies to the menu
options "show command line", "save command line to file" and "copy
command line to clipboard". Fix for bug 364.
* mkvmerge, mkvextract: new feature: Added support for MLP audio.
* mmg: bug fix: When adding a file with colons in the segment
title all colons were replaced with the letter 'c'.
* mkvmerge, mkvetract: new feature: Added support for TrueHD audio

(read from raw streams with or without embedded AC3 frames, MPEG
program streams).
* mmg: bug fix: The job manager's status output was garbled if mmg
was run with another language as English.
* mmg: bug fix: The progress bar for each individual job in the
job dialog wasn't updated if mmg was run with another language as
English.
* mmg: bug fix: The timecodes in the job queue editor were off by
one month. The "added job on" was additionally off by an amount
depending on the user's time zone. Fix for bug 362.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The MPEG program stream (VOB/EVO) reader was
sometimes reading the timecodes wrong resulting in bad audio/video
synchronization. Fix for bug 337.
* Released v2.6.0.
* mmg: new feature: Added a header editor for Matroska files.
* mkvextract: bug fix: The "simple" chapter extraction mode (OGM

style chapter output) outputs strings converted to the system's
current charset by default now instead of always converting to
UTF-8. This can be overridden with the "--output-charset" command
line option. Fix for bug 359.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: QuickTime audio tracks will be stored with

the CodecID "A_QUICKTIME". The CodecPrivate element contains the
full "STSD" element from the QuickTime file (just like
V_QUICKTIME). This method is used for all audio tracks which don't
have a well-defined storage spec for Matroska (e.g. AAC, AC3,
MP2/3 are still stored as A_AC3, A_AAC etc). Hopefully a fix for
bugs 354 and 357.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The CodecPrivate element for QuickTime video

tracks like Sorenson Video Codecs contained wrong data. Fix for
bug 355.
* all: Added a Japanese translation by Hiroki Taniura (see

AUTHORS).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed detection of little endian PCM tracks

in MOV files. Fix for bug 356.
* mkvextract: bug fix: The charset for text output was not
initialized correctly resulting in garbled display of non-ASCII
characters in non-UTF-8 locales.
* all: bug fix: A couple of translated strings were converted from

the wrong locale when they were displayed.
* mmg, mkvinfo: The GUIs now require an Unicode-enabled version of

wxWidgets.

* all: bug fix: The tools use the API call "GetOEMCP()" on Windows
instead of "GetACP()". This should make messages output in cmd.exe
come out correctly for Windows versions for which cmd.exe uses a
different code page than the rest (e.g. on German Windows).
* mkvinfo: enhancement: If mkvinfo is started in GUI mode on

Windows then the console that was started with it will be closed.
* mkvinfo: bug fix: Chapter names and tag elements were recoded to
the wrong charset resulting in garbled output. Fix for bug 353.
* Released v2.5.3.
* mkvmerge, mkvextract, mmg: bug fix: If the environment variables

LANG, LC_ALL, LC_MESSAGES contained a locale that was supported by
the system but for which mkvtoolnix did not contain a translation
(e.g. fr_FR, it_IT, en_AU) then the programs would abort with an
error message. Fix for bug 338.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Appending raw AVC/ES files resulted in

segmentation faults. Fix for bug 344.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: When mkvmerge was run with the --attachments
option to copy only some of the attachments in a Matroska file
then any attachment with an ID larger than the first skipped
attachment ID was not copied into the new file. Fix for bug 346.
* Released v2.5.2.
* installer: bug fix: If the installer is run in silent mode

(switch "/S") then it will not ask the user whether or not to
place a shortcut on the desktop, and that shortcut will not be
created. Fix for bug 345.
* mmg: new feature: Added two buttons "enable all" and "disable
all" to the list of attached files that enable / disable all
attached files.
* mmg: bug fix: The action "File" -> "New" did not clear the
internal list of attached files resulting in unexpected behaviour
if files with attachments where added afterwards.
* mmg: bug fix: The button "remove all files" did not clear the
list of attached files.
* mkvinfo: new feature: Made mkvinfo's GUI translatable. Added a

German translation for the GUI.
* mmg: On Linux wxWidgets 2.8.0 and newer uses the GTK combo boxes
which suck. A lot. Therefore mmg uses wxBitmapComboBoxes for
wxWidgets >= 2.8.0 on Linux and normal wxComboBoxes in all other
cases. wxBitmapComboBoxes are still drawn by wxWidgets itself
(just like wxComboBoxes before 2.8.0) and offer much better
functionality. Fix for bug 339.
* mkvmerge, mmg: bug fix: The MIME type autodetection for

attachments was broken for paths with non-ASCII characters on
non-UTF-8 encoded systems (mostly on Windows). Fix for bug 340.
* source: various fixes for compilation with wxWidgets 2.9.
* all programs: bug fix: The locale was not detected properly
often resulting in the program aborting with the message that
"the locale could not be set properly". Fix for bug 338.
* Released v2.5.1.
* mmg: bug fix: Fixed the selection of the translation to use if

the LC_MESSAGES environment variable has been set on Windows.
* Released v2.5.0.
* mmg: bug fix: Fixed a crash during the check if files could be
overwritten by the next mux. Possible fix for bugs 335 and 336.
* mkvmerge, mkvinfo, mkvextract, mmg: Made all those programs

nearly completly translatable. Added a German translation for all
four programs (only for the programs, not for the static
documentation: man pages, the guide to mmg etc).
* mkvmerge, mmg: new feature: Added options ('-m' /

'--attachments' and its counterparts '-M' / '--no-attachments')
to mkvmerge for selecting which attachments to copy and which to
skip and the corresponding controls to mmg.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed the detection of AAC files whose first
AAC header does not start on the first byte of the file.
* mmg: bug fix: It was possible to crash mmg by clicking onto the
root element in the chapter editor.

* mkvextract: bug fix: During timecode extraction mkvextract wrote
large timecodes in scientific notation.
* Released v2.4.2.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: If subtitle files are appended to separate

video files (e.g. two AVI and two SRT files) then the subtitle
timecodes of the second and all following subtitle files were
based on the last timecode in the first subtitle file instead of
the last timecode in the first video file. Fix for bug 325.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Due to uninitialized variables mkvmerge would

report OGM files as having arbitrary display dimensions. Fix for
bug 326.
* mkvmerge, mmg: enhancement: Implemented MIME type detection for

attachments with libmagic on Windows.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: If a Matroska file containing attachments was

used as an input file and splitting was enabled then the
attachments were only written to the first output file. Now
they're written to each output file. Partial fix for bug 324.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: Decreased the time mkvmerge needs for

parsing Quicktime/MP4 header fields.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The parser for the simple chapter

format (CHAPTERxx=...) can now handle more than 100 chapters. Fix
for bug 320.
* mmg: bug fix: The commands "Save command line" and "Create
option file" did not save mmg's current state but the state it was
in when the command "Show command line" was last used or when mmg
was started.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed a crash (segfault) with MPEG-4 part 2

video if "--engage native_mpeg4" is used. Fix for bug 318.
* Windows installer: The installer cleans up leftovers from old

installations during an upgrade. It doesn't write registry entries
for an exe called "AppMainExe.exe" anymore. It asks whether or not
the user wants a shortcut on the desktop. It does not install the
document for base64tool anymore because base64tool itself isn't
installed anymore either. Fixes for bugs 314, 315, 316 and 317.
* mmg: bug fix: Fixed a compilation problem with non-Unicode

enabled wxWidgets. Fix for bug 313.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for reading the pixel

aspect ratio from Theora video tracks.
* Released v2.4.1.
* Build system: bug fix: Configure does not use "uname -m" for the
detection of the Boost libraries anymore but configure's "$target"
environment variable. This fixes the Boost detection for cross
compilation builds. Fix for bug 311. Patch by Dominik Mierzejewski
(see AUTHORS).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: PCM audio tracks bigger than approximately 8

GB were cut off after approximately 8 GB.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: mkvmerge recognizes SRT subtitle files with

timecodes that contain spaces between the colons and the digits
and timecodes whose numbers are not exactly two or three digits
long.
* mmg: bug fix: mmg processes window events much more often during
muxing.
* all: Updated the language code list from the offical ISO 639-2
standard.
* mmg: bug fix: Split timecodes with more than three decimals were
not allowed even though the docs say that they are. They are now,
as mkvmerge supports such timecodes.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Changed the way mkvmerge calculates the

timecodes when appending files. Should result in better
audio/video synchronization.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for reading SRT and SSA/ASS
subtitles from AVI files (fix for bug 64).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: mkvmerge's LZO compressor would segfault if

mkvmerge was compiled against v2 of the LZO library and the v1 LZO
headers were not present.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: SRT subtitle files are also handled correctly
if the timecode lines do not have spaces around the arrow between
the start and end timecodes.
* mkvextract: bug fix: Matroska elements with binary data were

output as garbage in XML files.
* Released v2.4.0.
* mmg: bug fix: The chapter editor's function "save to Matroska

file" was corrupting the target file in some cases. Fix for bug
307.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: mkvmerge was only writing one reference block
for real B frames. Patch by Daniel Glckner. Fix for bug 306.
* all: bug fix: The Windows uninstaller was not removing all start
menu entries during uninstallation on Windows Vista. The installer
now creates the start menu entries for all users instead of the
current user only. Fix for bug 305.
* mmg: bug fix: The "language" drop down box contained some
entries twice or more. Fix for bug 304.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Incorrect usage of the iconv library caused

some conversions to omit the last character of each converted
entry (e.g. for the conversion from Hebrew to UTF-8). Fix for bug
302.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: mkvmerge will use the timecodes provided

by the MPEG program stream source file for VC1 video tracks.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Reading EVOBs with multiple VC1 video tracks
was broken (all packets where put into a single video track).
* mkvextract: new feature: Added support for handling SimpleBlocks

for timecode extraction.

* mkvmerge: bug fix: Reading raw (E)AC3 files bigger than 2 GB was
broken.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for Dirac video tracks.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Improved the detection of MPEG-1/-2 and

AVC/h.264 video tracks in MPEG program streams (VOBs/EVOBs).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed reading DTS audio tracks from MPEG
program streams (VOBs/EVOBs).
* mmg: enhancement: Added the extensions "evo", "evob" and "vob"

to mmg's "add file" dialog.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for muxing VC1 video tracks
read from MPEG program streams (EVOBs) or raw VC1 elementary
streams (e.g. as produced by EVODemux).
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for 7.1 channel EAC3

* mkvmerge: bug fix: Revision 3831 (the change to the "--delay"

and "--sync" options) caused mkvmerge to no longer respect the
delay caused by garbage at the beginning of MP3 and AC3 audio
tracks in AVI files. The timecodes of such tracks are now delayed
appropriately again. Fix for bug 300.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Unknown stream types in Ogg files

(e.g. skeleton tracks) don't cause mkvmerge to abort
anymore. They're simply ignored. Fix for bug 299.
* mkvextract: new feature: Added support for extracting Theora

video tracks into Ogg files. Fix for bug 298.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed the frame type (key or non-key frame)
detection for Theora tracks.
* mkvmerge: all: On Unix/Linux rpath linker flags have been

removed again (they were actually removed before the release of
v2.3.0).
* Released v2.3.0.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: improved the timecode calculation for MP3

tracks read from MP4 files. Another part of the fix for bug 165.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: mkvmerge honors the timecode offsets of all

streams in a MPEG program stream (e.g. VOB file) fixing
audio/video desynchronization. Fix for bug 295.
* mkvmerge: Switched from the PCRE regular expression library to

Boost's RegEx library.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: DTS-in-WAV handling (14 to 16 bit expansion)

was flawed. Fix for bug 288.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for Vorbis in AVI (format

tag 0x566f). Fix for bug 271.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for PCM tracks with

floating point numbers (CodecID A_PCM/FLOAT/IEEE). Patch by
Aurelien Jacobs (see AUTHORS).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The fix to the timecode handling for AVC
tracks in MP4 files from 2008-04-16 caused certain other MP4 files
to not be read correctly. The video tracks were found, but no
frames were read. Fix for bug 294.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for Ogg Kate

subtitles. Patch by ogg.k.ogg.k@googlemail.com.
* mkvmerge, mmg: The option "--delay" was removed. The option

"--sync" now only modifies the timecodes of a given
track. mkvmerge does not pad audio tracks with silence. "--sync"
works with all track types now, but using a stretch factor other
than 1 with audio tracks might not work too well during
playback. mmg's inputs for "Delay" and "Stretch by" can be used
with all track types. Fix for bug 287.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: mmg outputs a more informative error

message for known but unsupported input file types (e.g. ASF, FLV,
MPEG TS) instead of the cryptic "file identification failed".
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The VobSub reader would sometimes read too
many bytes for a single SPU packet. Part of a fix for bug 245.

* mkvmerge: bug fix: Using BZIP2 compression resulted in broken
streams. Patch by Aurelien Jacobs (see AUTHORS).
* mkvmerge: new feature: Improved support for WAV files bigger

than 4 GB which only contain a single DATA chunk and a wrong
length field for this DATA chunk (e.g. eac3to creates such files).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Certain Matroska files with dis-continuous

streams (e.g. subtitles) caused huge memory consumption. Fix for
bug 281.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: mkvmerge will output a proper error message

if it is called with ASF/WMV files instead of detecting other
kinds of streams (e.g. AVC ES streams). Fix for bug 280.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed an assertion in the OGM reader occuring

for OGM files with embedded chapters. Fix for bug 279.
* mkvmerge: all: On Unix/Linux rpath linker flags are added for

library paths given in LDFLAGS and configure's "--with-extra-libs"
options.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed wrong timecodes for MP4 files that
contain video tracks with B frames and edit lists. Fix for bug
277. Patch by Damiano Galassi (see AUTHORS).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: mkvmerge will not strip leading spaces in

SRT subtitles anymore.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Tuned the file type detection for MPEG ES
streams. Fix for bug 265.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed writing to UNC paths on Windows. Fix

for bug 275.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for skipping ID3 tags in

AAC and AC3 files. Fix for bug 204.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for DTS-HD (both "master

audio" and "high resolution").

* Released v2.2.0.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for handling AC3 in WAV in

ACM mode.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for reading AC3 from

QuickTime/MP4 files. Fix for bug 254.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for handling AC3 in WAV in

IEC 61937 compatible streams (aka SPDIF mode).
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for WAV files with multiple
data chunks.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed a cause for the error message "no data
chunk found" by fixing the skipping of 'fmt ' chunks.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for AAC-in-AVI with CodecID

0x706d as created by mencoder. Fix for bug 266.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Rewrote the OGM reader code. Another part of
a fix for bug 267.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Rewrote the timecode application

code. Additionally force the "previous cluster timecodes" that
libmatroska uses to the current timecode. This seems to get rid of
libmatroska's assertions about the local timecode being to
small/big to fit into an int16. It also seems to get rid of some
of mkvmerge's errors about the packet queue not being empty, and
it fixes a couple of crashes with file splitting.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: OGM files with non-Theora video tracks caused
mkvmerge to fail since 2.1.0, or the resulting file was
unplayable. Fix for bug 267.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Accept other Theora header versions than

3.2.0 as long as the major version is 3 and the minor 2. Fix for
bug 262.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: MPEG PS reader: Fixed the resyncing mechanism

during normal reads. Another fix for bug 259.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: MPEG PS reader: mkvmerge tries to resync to

the next MPEG start code in case of error during stream
detection. Fix for bug 259.
* mkvmerge: SVQ1 video tracks read from QuickTime files are output
as V_MS/VFW/FOURCC tracks and not as V_QUICKTIME tracks. Fix for
bug 257.
* avilib: bug fix: Fixed a segmentation fault if reading the first

part of an index failed but a second/other index part is
present. Fix for bug 256.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: SRT files that contain coordinates in the

timecode line are supported. The coordinates are discarded
automatically (as S_TEXT/SRT doesn't support them), and a warning
is shown.
* Released v2.1.0.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: Added support for reading MP2 audio

tracks from OGM files. Patch by Mihail Zenkov (see AUTHORS).
* mkvextract: enhancement: Added support for extracting Dolby

Digital Plus (EAC3) tracks.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: SPS and PPS NALUs are no longer removed from
AVC/h.264 streams. Hopefully a fix for bug 231.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: Fixed SSA/ASS detection for files

produced by Aegis Sub which doesn't include a line with '[script
info]' in the file.
* mmg: enhancement: Added another option how mmg choses the

directory if automatic output filename creation is on. Implements
all suggestions as listed in bug 248.
* mmg: enhancement: Moved the complete 'settings' tab to its own

dialog accessible via the 'Settings' option in the 'File' menu.

* mmg: new feature: Added a buton 'remove all' which removes all
input files and tracks leaving all other options as they are. Fix
for bug 248.
* mmg: new feature: Added an option for setting the default output
directory if the automatic setting of the output file name is
turned on. Fix for bug 248.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: DTS code: Some tools (e.g. Surcode) can

create DTS files which are padded with zero bytes after each DTS
frame. These zero bytes are now skipped without printing a
warning.
* mmg: enhancement: mmg can now be called with any file name as an
argument. If it ends with 'mmg' then the file will be loaded as a
'mmg settings file'. Otherwise mmg will 'add' it. Fix for bug 243.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The OGM reader uses the OGM's timestamps for
video tracks. Before it would just use the current frame number
multiplied by the FPS.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: The OGM reader now uses the AVC/h.264

video packetizer for AVC/h.264 tracks so that the aspect ratio can
be extracted from it.
* mkvmerge: bug fixes: Fixed a couple of memory leaks.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added better checks if two tracks can be

appended to the passthrough packetizer so that tracks that are
otherwise not known to mkvmerge can still be appended
(e.g. V_VC1). Fix for bug 244.
* mmg: The NALU size length can now be chosen for all AVC tracks,
not only for those that are handled by the 'AVC ES packetizer'.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The 'default track' flag was set to 'yes' for
tracks read from Matroska files even if 'no' was specified on the
command line.
* mkvextract: new feature: Added support for the 'header removal'

encoding scheme.
* mkvmerge: new feature: The NALU size length of an AVC/h.264

track can now be changed even if the source is not an elementary
stream (e.g. for MP4 and Matroska files).
* mkvmerge: enhancement: Added support for RealAudio v3 in

RealMedia files. Patch by Aurelian Jacobs. Fix for bug 246.
* mmg: Moved the command line to a separate dialog and reduced the
main window's height.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Another bug fix for handling various AC3 and
E-AC3 files in MPEG program streams.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Added support for handling SEI NALUs in

AVC/h.264 elementary streams so that "key frames" can be detected
even if no IDR slices are present.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed the VobSub reader so that "delay:"

lines with negative timecodes are accepted. Fix for bug 241.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Improved the file type detection code for
MPEG transport streams.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed a problem reading normal AC3 tracks

from MPEG program streams.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed an issue with negative/huge timecodes

after splitting AVC/h.264 video.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: The SRT reader allows "." as the decimal

separator as well as ",".
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed a problem with concatenating more than

two subtitle files.
* mkvmerge: The MPEG program stream reader will now sort the
tracks it finds first by their type (video > audio > subs) and
then by their stream ID.
* mkvmerge: Disabled the support for DTS tracks in MPEG program

streams because DTS HD is not supported yet.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: Implemented a major speed-up for reading

MPEG-1/2 and AVC/h.264 tracks from MPEG program streams.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: Fixed the MPEG PS reader so that it will

just skip blocks whose headers it cannot parse instead of
aborting.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for handling AVC/h.264

tracks in MPEG program streams.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for EAC3 tracks in MPEG

program streams.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for EAC3/DD+ (Dolby Digital

Plus) files and tracks (raw EAC3 files or inside Matroska with
CodecID A_EAC3).
* Released v2.0.2.
* mkvmerge: Reintroduced the "--engage allow_avc_in_vfw_mode"

hack.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed suppoert for DTS-in-WAV files which

are encoded with 14 bits per word.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: Added support for DTS files which use

only 14 out of every 16 bits and which are not stored inside a WAV
file.
* mkvmerge, mmg: Changed the default for the "NALU size length" to
"4" and added a warning if "3" is used.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: File type detection for Qt/MP4 files which
start with a "wide" atom has been fixed.
* mmg: bug fix: The "NALU size length" drop down box is now also
enabled for h.264 tracks read from AVIs and for h.264 tracks
stored in "VfW compatibility mode" in Matroska files.
* mkvmerge, mmg: new feature: Extended the option

"--default-track" so that it can be forced to "off" allowing the
user to create a file for which no track has its "default" flag
set. Fix for bug #224.

* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed the wrong "default duration" if the
user used "--default-duration ...23.976fps".
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The AVC/h.264 ES reader was losing frames if

the file size was an exact multiple of 1048576 bytes.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The AVC/h.264 ES packetizer produced invalid

CodecPrivate data if the AVCC did not contain the aspect ratio
information. Fix for Bugzilla bug #225.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The Matroska reader passes the correct track
number down to the AVC/h.264 ES packetizer in the case of "AVC
in Matroska stored in VfW mode".
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed a crash (segmentation fault) in the

AVC/h.264 ES handling code.
* mkvmerge, mkvextract, mkvinfo: new feature: Added support for

using CodecState for signaling changes to CodecPrivate. It is used
for MPEG-1/-2 video if it is turned on with "--engage
use_codec_state".
* Released v2.0.0.
* mmg: new feature: Added another tab for each track in which the
user can add arbitrary track options.
* mkvextract: enhancement: mkvextract will now also print which

container format it uses for each track.
* mkvextract: new feature: Added support for extracting MPEG-1/2

video to MPEG-1/2 program streams.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed the file type detection for MPEG-1/2 ES
files with a single frame inside.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: MPEG-1/2 video: The sequence and GOP headers
are not removed from the bitstream anymore. This should fix the
blockiness if the sequence headers change mid-stream. Fix for
Bugzilla bug #167.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: mkvmerge now handles the first frames in

AVC/h.264 ES streams properly, especially for files for which it
did not find a key frame at the beginning in earlier versions.

* mkvmerge: enhancement: Improved the detection of AVC/h.264 ES
streams with garbage at the beginning.
* mmg: enhancements to the job management dialog: There's a

minimum width for the columns. The "up" and "down" buttons are
disabled if all entries are selected. Pressing "Ctrl-A" selects
all entries.
* mmg: enhancements: "File -> New" will also focus the "input"
tab.
* mmg: enhancements: The job manager can be opened with

"Ctrl-J". The last directory from which a file is added is saved
even if the file identification failed. The automatically
generated output file name uses the extension ".mka" if no video
track is found and ".mks" if neither a video nor an audio track is
found in the first file.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed the aspect ratio extraction for raw
AVC/h.264 ES tracks.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: If a raw AVC/h.264 ES file does not start

with a key frame then all the frames before the first key frame
are skipped, and mkvmerge does not abort anymore.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: AVC/h.264 ES parser: Fixed wrong NALU size

length information in the AVCC.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: AVC/h.264 ES parser: Fixed the decision if a

NALU belongs to a previous frame or starts a new one.
* mmg: enhancement: Added an input for the new "NALU size length"
parameter.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The NALU size length can be overridden for
AVC/h.264 elementary streams. It defaults to 2 which might not be
enough for larger frames/slices.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Support for AVC/h.264 elementary streams with

short markers (0x00 0x00 0x01 instead of 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x01).
* mkvmerge: Removed the "--engage allow_avc_in_vfw_mode" hack.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: Added "x264" to the list of recognized

FourCCs for AVC/h.264 video in AVI and Matroska files.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for proper muxing of

AVC/h.264 tracks in Matroska files that were stored in the MS
compatibility mode (CodecID V_MS/VFW/FOURCC instead of
V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed invalid memory access in the AVC ES
parser.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for proper muxing of

AVC/h.264 tracks in AVI files.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for reading AVC/h.264

elementary streams.
* mmg: enhancement: All inputs and controls are cleared and

deactivated if the user select "File -> New".
* mmg: enhancement: The user can switch between the "generic" and
"format specific options" pages even if no track is selected.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: mkvmerge would not write frame durations if

"--engage use_simpleblock" was used resulting in unplayable and
unextractable subtitle tracks.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Added a workaround for RealAudio tracks for

which the key frame flag is never set.
* mmg: bug fix: Fixed a segfault that occured if the user had a
track selected and its the file the track was read from is
removed.
* mmg: bug fix: Fixed the behaviour of a couple of ComboBoxes on

Windows after selecting "File -> New". E.g. if the user selected
"700M" in the "split after this size" ComboBox, selected "File ->
New" and selected "700M" again, then it would not show up in the
command line window until he selected another option and returned
to the "700M" afterwards.
* Released v1.8.1.
* mmg: bug fix: Some input controls (like "subtitle charset")

where disabled for appended tracks even though the user can and
sometimes has to change those settings. Fixes Anthill bug 216.
* configure: new feature: Allow the user to tell configure which

"wx-config" executable to use ("--with-wx-config=...").
* mmg: bug fix: The "aspect ratio" box was losing its input when
the user switched tracks.
* mkvmerge/mmg: new feature: If ATDS AAC tracks are added to mmg

and the AAC track's sample rate is <= 24000 Hz then mkvmerge and
mmg assume that the AAC is a SBR track and mmg will check the "AAC
is SBR" checkbox automatically.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Quicktime/MP4 files with AVC video tracks and
missing CTTS atoms caused mkvmerge to crash after the recent
changes to the Quicktime/MP4 timecode handling.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed a segfault if the file specified with

"--attach-file" does not exist. Bugfix for Anthill bug 213 and
Debian bug 393984.
* mmg: bug fix: Fixed a crash on loading XML chapters after having
saved XML chapters.
* mmg: new feature: Made the "set the delay input field from the
file name" feature disengageable.
* Released v1.8.0.
* mkvmerge: Changed the CodecID for AAC audio tracks to "A_AAC" by

default. The CodecPrivate contains the same initialization data
that are stored in the ESDS in MP4 files for AAC tracks. The old
CodecIDs (e.g. "A_AAC/MPEG4/SBR") can be turned on again with
"--engage old_aac_codecid".
* mmg: Reworked the "input tab" and split track options into two
sub-pages. Also added an input for the "stereo mode" parameter for
video tracks.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for the "stereo mode"

flag for video tracks.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: For MP4 files with certain CTTS contents
mkvmerge would use negative timecodes for a couple of
frames. Those frames were dropped and mkvmerge often ended up
eating huge amounts of memory and crashing afterwards.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: AAC-in-MP4 with the LC profile was sometimes

misdetected as having a SBR extension and an output sampling
frequency of 96000 Hz. Fixes Anthill bug 210.
* mkvmerge: Added support for API changes in the upcoming FLAC

library v1.1.3. Patch by Josh Coalson (see AUTHORS).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed the random number generation on

Windows. On Windows 9x/ME mkvmerge would simply hang. On newer
versions the function was accessing invalid memory and was
generally buggy.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: SSA/ASS subtitles with comments before the

"[script info]" line were not identified.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Made the checks for SRT timecodes a bit less
strict (e.g. allow fewer than three digits after the comma).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Comments in OGM files were not handled if

mkvmerge was called in identification mode. One obvious result was
that neither the track language nor the file title was imported
into mmg.
* mmg: bug fix: The "stretch" input box was not accepting the same
syntax that mkvmerge's "--sync" parameter accepts.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: PCM audio data with 4 bits per Sample caused
mkvmerge to allocate all available memory. Patch by Robert Millan
(see AUTHORS).
* mmg: bug fix: Mixed up two tool tips on the "settings" tab.
* Build system: bug fix: Moved some @...@ style variables from
configure.in to Makefile.in where they belong (very recent
autoconf versions were choking on those).
* mmg: new feature: Added an option for always using simple

blocks.
* mmg: new feature: Pre-set the "delay" input field for audio
tracks if the file name contains something like "DELAY XX" where
XX is a number.
* mmg: enchancement: After adding files with drag&drop the next

"open file" dialog will start in the directory the last file came
from.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: mkvmerge will no longer create empty files

(meaning neither input files nor things like chapters etc have
been added).
* Released v1.7.0.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: Added support for MIME type detection via

libmagic (patch by Robert Millan with heavy modifications by
myself).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Theora headers were not handled correctly.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The WavPack reader was broken on 64bit

systems (e.g. AMD64).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The Theora timecode handling was broken, and
Ogg/Theora files were not identified correctly (they showed up as
"unknown" in mmg).
* mmg: enhancement: The 'adjust timecodes' function accepts

timecodes like 'XXXXXunit' with 'unit' being 'ms', 'us', 'ns' or
's'.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: mkvmerge will no longer refuse to

concatenate files with differing Codec Private contents and only
issue a warning in such cases.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Quicktime/MP4 reader: Added support for

version 1 media headers ('mdhd' atom) with 64bit fields. Fixed the
duration of the last packet passed downstream. Fixed overflow
issues during re-scaling from the Quicktime/MP4's time scale to
nano seconds used by mkvmerge.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Muxing wasn't working Windows 9x/ME because

mkvmerge was trying to use Unicode file access functions when
determining which directories to create. Fixes Anthill bug #177.

* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for the "Delay:" feature
and for negative timecodes in VobSub IDX files.
* mmg: new feature: If mmg is set to automatically fill in the

output file name then it will clear the output file name once all
input files have been removed.
* mmg: bug fix: Fixed a crash that occured if the user removed an
attachment and clicked somewhere in the empty space in the
attachment list. Occured only on Windows.
* mmg: bug fix: Re-added Chinese to the list of popular languages

(those are listed first in the language drop down boxes).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The last change to the ISO 639 language
handling broke the VobSub reader so that it reported the wrong
language codes. This also caused mmg to not display the correct
language after adding a VobSub file.
* Released v1.6.5.
* source: bug fix: Changed the list of ISO 639 languages so that
the terminology versions are converted into the bibliography
versions of the 639-2 codes (e.g. use "ger" instead of "deu" for
the German language). Converted almost all pieces of mkvmerge and
mmg to accept ISO 639-1, 639-2 codes (both bibliography and
terminology versions) and the languages' English names. Those will
always be converted to the 639-2 code. Fixes Anthill bug #171.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The country code used in XML chapter files
was checked against the list of ISO 639-1 codes and not against
the list of ccTLDs. Partial bugfix for Anthill bug #171.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: When appending tracks and using timecodes the
timecodes were only used for the first track in a chain of
tracks. This has been changed so that you must specify only one
timecode file in such cases (e.g. "mkvmerge ... --timecodes
0:my_timecodes.txt part1.avi +part2.avi"). mmg has already been
working like this. Fixes Anthill bug #162.
* source: new feature: Added support for linking against liblzo2

(same compression algorithm, just a new library version). Patch by
Diego Petten (see AUTHORS).
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added a workaround for files created by

Gabest's DirectShow Matroska muxer with slightly broken frame
references. Fixes Anthill bug #172.
* mkvextract: new feature: attachment extraction mode: Made the

output file name optional. If it is missing (e.g. "mkvextract
attachments source.mkv 92385: 124981:") then the name of the
attachment inside the Matroska file is chosen instead. Patch by
Sergey Hakobyan (see AUTHORS).
* mkvmerge: new feature: If an output file name contains

directories that don't exist then they're created. Patch by Sergey
Hakobyan (see AUTHORS) with modifications by myself.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Don't abort reading a Matroska if the next

element is not a cluster. This is the case for e.g. files produced
by Haali's muxer which writes the segment tracks element in
intervals. Fixes Anthill bug #169.
* mmg: bug fix: Fixed a problem with the selection of language

codes for chapters in the chapter editor.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: If at least or more attachments were present

and the user used --attachment-name for each of them (as mmg does)
then mkvmerge was wrongly outputting a warning about multiple uses
of --attachment-name for a single attachment.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added limited support for edit lists in

MP4/QuickTime files. Fixes Anthill bug #151.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: MP4/QuickTime files which contain another

atom before the 'avcC' atom in the video track headers weren't
correctly remuxed.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: mkvmerge will now refuse to append AVC/h.264

video tracks whose codec initialization data blocks do not
match. Invalidates Anthill bug #163.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed a crash If the granulepos (the

timecodes) reset in the middle of an Ogg/OGM file. Fixes Anthill
bug #166.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed a division-by-zero error in the

RealMedia demuxer. Fixes Anthill bug #161.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed a couple of potential (and actual)

segmentation faults by accessing invalid memory addresses. Initial
patch for the VobSub reader by Issa on Doom9's forum.
* mkvmerge, mmg: new feature: The names of attached files can be

set with a new option --attachment-name or on mmg's "Attachments"
page.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed another bug when appending AVC/h.264

tracks that would mkvmerge cause to die with "bref_packet ==
NULL". Fixes Anthill bug #160.
* mmg: bug fix: When the user saved the muxing output in a log
file that file didn't use Windows line endings (CR LF) on
Windows.
* mmg: bug fix: Appending tracks was broken because the track
numbers in the command line were incorrect. Fixes Anthill bug
#160.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for Ogg/Theora.
* mkvmerge: Changed the CodecID for AAC audio tracks to "A_AAC" by

default The CodecPrivate contains the same initialization data
that are stored in the ESDS in MP4 files for AAC tracks. The old
CodecIDs (e.g. "A_AAC/MPEG4/SBR") can be turned on again with
"--engage old_aac_codecid".
* mkvinfo: new feature: The sub elements of the EBML head are
now shown.
* mkvinfo: new feature: Added support for the new SimpleBlock.
* mkvextract: new feature: Added support for the new SimpleBlock.
* mkvmerge, mmg: new feature: Added support for the new

SimpleBlock instead of BlockGroups (only available via "--engage
use_simpleblock" for now). Patch by Steve Lhomme (see AUTHORS)
with fixes by myself.
* Released v1.6.0.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Implemented the new header removal

compression: compression for native MPEG-4 part 2, decompression
for all types (don't use it yet, folks!).
* mkvextract: bug fix: Extra codec data wasn't written to AVI

files if it was present (e.g. for the HuffYuv codec). Fixes bug
157.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: mkvmerge was choking on AVIs with a single

frame inside. Fixes bug 156.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Changed how AVC video frames are

referenced. This is not ideal yet, but at least references are
kept intact when reading AVC from Matroska files. Should fix bug
154.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Appending AVC video tracks was broken if they
contained aspect ratio information that the user overwrote on the
command line.
* mmg: bug fix: If a video track was selected that was appended to
another track then the aspect ratio drop down box was still
active.
* mkvmerge: new feature: MPEG-4 part 2 streams are searched for

the pixel width/height values. Those are taken if they differ from
those values in the source container. This is a work-around for
buggy muxers, e.g. broken video camera firmwares writing bad MP4
files. Fixes bug 149.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Appending files with RealVideo was

broken.
* mkvmerge, mkvextract: bug fix: ASS files sometimes use a column

called 'Actor' instead of 'Name', but both should be mapped to the
'name' column in a Matroska file.
* Released v1.5.6.
* mmg: bug fix: If the user selected an aspect ratio for a video
track, then chose "File -> new", added a file, selected another
video track and chose the same aspect ratio as before then it
wasn't added to the command line. Fixes Anthill bugs 132 and 146.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Support Qt/MP4 files with 64bit offset tables
('co64' atom instead of 'stco' atom).

* mkvmerge: new feature: mkvmerge will remove the aspect ratio
information from a AVC/h.264 video track bitstream and put it into
the display dimensions (until now the AR information was kept on
the bitstream level). The reason is that in Matroska the container
AR is supposed to take precedence over bitstream AR, but some
decoder programmers ignore the container AR in favour of bitstream
AR.
* mkvinfo: bug fix: The GUI couldn't open files with non-ASCII
chars in the file name.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Display dimensions were reported for all

tracks, even if they weren't present. In that case they allegedly
were "0x0" which caused mmg to add "--display-dimensions ...:0x0"
for each track read from a Matroska file, even if the tracks were
not video tracks.
* mkvextract: bug fix: The extracted timecodes were wrong for

blocks with laced frames.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: If a Matroska file with a MPEG-4 part 2 video

track was muxed into a Matroska file and the source file did not
contain the display width/height elements for that track then the
aspect ratio was extracted from the video data itself which
clashes with the Matroska specs which say that display
width/height default to the pixel width/height if they're not
present.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Native MPEG-4 ASP storage was still bugged:
timecodes were assigned twice, frames referenced themselves.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Embedded fonts and pictures in a SSA/ASS file

are not discarded any longer. They are converted to Matroska
attachments instead. Other sections that were discarded are added
to the CodecPrivate data as are "Comment:" lines in the "[Events]"
section. Those comment lines still lose their association for
which "Dialogue:" line they were meant, but that cannot be
changed.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: --delay was not working at all.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Single digit numbers followed by 's' were not
recognized as valid numbers with a unit (e.g. in '--delay 0:9s').
* Released v1.5.5.
* mkvtoolnix: Disabled storing AVC/h.264 video tracks in VfW mode.
* mkvtoolnix: bug fix: On Windows the command line output was

terminated with CR CR NL instead of just CR NL.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The Quicktime/MP4 reader wasn't skipping

unknown elements correctly.
* mkvextract: new feature: Added a new extraction mode for

outputting timecodes in a timecode v2 format file. It is called
"timecode_v2" and takes the same arguments as the "tracks"
extraction mode.
* mkvinfo: new feature: Added a command line switch

"--output-charset" which sets the charset that strings read from
Matroska files are output in (e.g. if you want the output in UTF-8
and not your system's local charset).
* mkvinfo: new feature: Added a command line switch "-o" for

redirecting the output to a file (for systems which re-interpret
stdout).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The combination of using external timecode

files and video tracks with B frames was not working as
intended. The user had to order the timecodes in the timecode file
just like the frames were ordered (meaning the timecodes for a
IPBBP sequence with 25 FPS had to be "0", "120", "40,
"80"...). This has been fixed. They have to be ascending again and
mkvmerge will assign them properly.
* mkvextract: new feature: Added support for extracting h.264 /

AVC tracks into proper h.264 ES streams supported by
e.g. MP4Box. Patch by Matt Rice (see AUTHORS).
* mkvinfo: bug fix: Files with non-ASCII chars weren't opened

because conversion to UTF-8 was done before the charset routines
were initialized.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed a crash if a track in a MP4/QuickTime

file did not contain a STCO atom (chunk table) but a STSC atom
(chunk map table).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Very large values were not kept correctly for
a lot of elements (meaning they were truncated to 16 or 32 bits).
* mkvinfo: bug fix: Very large values were not displayed correctly
for a lot of elements (meaning they were truncated to 16 or 32
bits prior to displaying).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: AVC/H.264 references were wrong, and muxing

of AVC from Matroska files with proper references resulted in
unplayable files.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed support for USF subtitles stored in

UTF-16 and UTF-32. Added support for USF subtitles stored in UTF-8
without a BOM.
* Released v1.5.0.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The track language read from old Matroska
files was wrongfully set to "und" if it was not written although
the specs say that "eng" is the default value.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: USF subtitles: If identical tags were nested

(e.g. "font") and both were closed right after each other then the
result looked like "</font/>".
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Native MPEG-4 was not working if read from
OGM files.
* mmg: new feature: Added an input box for mkvmerge's new "split
after these timecodes" feature.
* mkvmerge: bug fixes: Improved the native MPEG-4 generation a lot

(thanks to Haali for testing and pushing me). The codec version
string inside the MPEG-4 initialization data is now checked if it
indicates "DivX packed bitstream" and changed to not indicate it
anymore.
* mmg: bug fix: If mmg was minimized when it was closed (e.g. with
Windows' "Show desktop" function) then it didn't show up after a
restart and could only be shown by maximizing it.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: If a OGM style chapter file contains empty

chapter names ('CHAPTER01NAME=' without something after the '=')
then this chapter's timecode is used as the name instead of
aborting.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added splitting after specific

timecodes.
* mkvmerge, mkvinfo, mkvextract: bug fix: Inifite sized segments

were not handled correctly.
* mmg: bug fix: On Windows mmg could be crashed by adding a file

and clicking into the empty space in the "track" selection
box. Fixes Anthill bug 133.
* mkvextract: new feature: Implemented the extraction of USF

subtitles.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Implemented the muxing of USF subtitles.
* mkvextract: bug fix: The MPEG packets are now padded to 2048
byte boundaries as some programs require them to be. Patch by
Mike Matsnev (see AUTHORS).
* mkvinfo: bug fix: Removed the restriction of max. ten levels of

nested elements.
* mmg: bug fix: If splitting was enabled and "splitting by time"

selected and the user chose "new" from the "File" menu then
"splitting by time" was not selectable anymore. This happened
only on Windows. Fixes Anthill bug 131.
* mkvextract: bug fix: Use the native newline style when

extracting text subtitles (\r\n on Windows and \n on all other
systems).
* mkvextract: bug fix: SSA/ASS text was missing in the output if

the "Format=" line contained newlines at the end of the
CodecPrivate data (e.g. our old Mew Mew sample file).
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for the ChapterSegmentUID

element.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Support WAV files that use other RIFF chunks
than the usual "fmt " followed by "data".
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Remuxing MPEG1/2 tracks resulted in a failing

"assert(0)".

* Released v1.4.2.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: In rare occasions involving B frames mkvmerge

freed data too early. In such a case it was eating more and more
memory finally exiting with a message about not finding a packet
for a "bref".
* all: bug fix: My output functions did not work on AMD64

systems. Fixes Anthill bug 120.
* mkvextract: new feature: Added the extraction of the raw

data with the "--raw" and "--fullraw" flags. Patch by Steve Lhomme
(see AUTHORS).
* mkvextract: bug fix: WAVPACK extraction did not update the

"number of samples" header field. Patch by Steve Lhomme (see
AUTHORS).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: RealMedia files contain a "FPS" field in

their track headers. Unfortunately this field does not always
contain the actual FPS of a video track but the maximum number of
FPS that the encoder has output or should output. Therefore
mkvmerge does not use a "default duration" element for RealVideo
tracks anymore. Fixes Anthill bug 113.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Failing calls to posix_fadvise upon adding a

file to mmg caused mmg to think that the file identification
failed. Now warnings for posix_fadvise are not output anymore, and
posix_fadvise is silently switched off for that file. Fixes
Anthill bug 123.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Appending files that were created with

mkvmerge's "--link" option was broken. The timecodes for both the
chapters and the actual media data blocks were not adjusted
correctly. Fixes Anthill bugs 115 and 116.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: If chapters are present in several appended

files and there were atoms who shared the same UID then those
entries were present multiple times in the output files. Now such
entries are merged into one chapter entry. Fixes the second part
of Anthill bug 122.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: If chapters were present and splitting was

enabled then mkvmerge would not treat chapters correctly that
spanned across several files. Now the spanning chapters are kept
in all files, and their start timecodes are adjusted accordingly.
Fixes the first part of Anthill bug 122.
* mkvinfo: bug fix: On Windows mkvinfo was linked without the

console subsystem resulting in no output at all if run without the
GUI (-g). Fixes Anthill Bug 118.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Due to the compiler doing some strange number
conversion mkvextract seemed to hang on Windows with certain
files.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Appending VobSubs with more than one track in
a .idx file and video files at the same time was broken resulting
in parts of some of the VobSub tracks not ending up in the
resulting Matroska file. Fixes Anthill bug 114.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The track numbers were assigned wrongly when
appending tracks (this is more or less cosmetic).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Splitting by time was broken for audio-only

files. Fixes Anthill bug 112.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The --fourcc switch was not working.
* mmg: bug fix: Tracks that were not selected on saving the
settings file were selected after loading a settings file.
* Released v1.4.1.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: AC3 detection was broken in rare cases.
* mmg: bug fix: If the TEMP environment variable contains spaces

then the calls to mkvmerge when adding files failed.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Extracting the FPS from some AVC MP4 files
did not work.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Appending + splitting was segfaulting if used

together and at least one split occured after a track has been
appended.
* mkvmerge: Added more descriptive error messages if two tracks

cannot be concatenated because "their parameters do not match".

* mkvmerge: bug fix: A failing call to posix_fadvise will only
turn its usage off for that one file and not abort mkvmerge
completely.
* mmg: bug fix: When "appending" a file all tracks where added to
the end of the track list making it unnecessarily difficult to
concatenate similar structured files. Now the tracks from the
"appended" files are inserted into the track list after their
counterparts from the file this new one is appended to.
* mmg: bug fix: An "appended" file could not be removed if there

were two tracks that we not separated by a track from another file
in the track list box.
* mmg: bug fix: The check whether or not a file might be

overwritten while splitting is active has been fixed.
* mmg: bug fix: Improved the word wrapping of the tooltips on

Windows.
* mmg: bug fix: It was possible to select a file for appending

even though no file was added first.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: mkvmerge was wrongly outputting large numbers

of warnings when Remuxing AVC/h.264 video from a Matroska file.
* mmg: bug fix: The job queue was not loaded on startup on Windows
Unicode builds (another wxWidgets 2.5.3 problem).
* mmg: bug fix: The job status in the job runner dialog was broken
on Unicode builds on all systems.
* mmg: bug fix: "Splitting by time" was not selectable on Windows

Unicode builds (problem with wxWidgets 2.5.3).
* mmg: bug fix: mkvmerge's output during muxing was not converted
from UTF-8.
* mmg: bug fix: The default extension added when the user doesn't
give one is different in wxWidgets 2.4.x and 2.5.x. It should
always be .mkv and not .mka.
* Released v1.4.0.
* mmg: new feature: The "default track" checkboxes are set

properly when a Matroska file is added.
* mmg: new feature: Added a warning right before the muxing starts
if the chapter editor contains entries but no chapter file has
been selected (can be turned off).

* mkvextract: new feature: Added VobSub extraction based on Mike
Matsnev's code.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Track names could not be set to be empty.
* Released v1.0.2.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Use the posix_fadvise function on *nix

systems. This results in a considerable speed up for the whole
muxing process. As the function call seems to be buggy on at least
Linux kernels 2.4.x it can be disabled completely during
configure. It will only be used on Linux with a kernel from the
2.6.x series or newer.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Empty video frames in AVIs right at the

beginning were breaking the MPEG-4 aspect ratio extraction and
caused problems in other parts, too.
* mmg: bug fix: It was possible to create chapter entries with

invalid or even empty language entries. Not only are those
invalid, such XML files can also not be loaded by mmg.
* mmg: bug fix: Overwriting a chapter file did not erase the
previous file. So if the previous file was bigger than the current
chapters then garbage remained at the end of the file.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: mkvmerge did not accept XML chapter files
created with older mkvtoolnix versions due to deprecated chapter
elements. Such elements are now skipped.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added some more possible formats for

binary data in XML files besides Base64 encoded data: hex encoded
and ASCII "encoded".
* mmg: bug fix: The "stretch" input box tooltip was wrong. The
resulting command line was broken, too.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Hex values accept more formats (like

optional white space between numbers or the "0x" prefix).
* mkvmerge: Changed the AVC/h.264 timecode handling to include the

timecode offsets from the CTTS atom.
* mmg: Reformatted the HTML guide and updated the screenshots. It

should be more readable for those whose desktop is not 1200 pixels
wide.
* mmg: new feature: Made the mkvmerge GUI guide available by

pressing F1 or selecting "Help" from the "Help" menu.
* mkvextract: bug fix: ASS/SSA extraction was broken in some rare

cases.
* mmg: new feature: Added support for mkvmerge's new "appending

tracks" feature.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for reading the pixel

aspect ratio from AVC/h264 video data.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added AVC/h264 muxing from MP4.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added a MPEG PS demuxer.
* mkvinfo: new feature: Added a couple new elements (silent

tracks). Patch by Steve Lhomme (see AUTHORS).
* mkvextract: new feature: Added WAVPACK4 extraction. Patch by

Steve Lhomme (see AUTHORS).
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added WAVPACK4 muxing. Patch by Steve

Lhomme (see AUTHORS).
* mmg: bug fix: Again the window handling. Hopefully this is

better than the other attempts.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added VobButton muxing. Patch by Steve

Lhomme (see AUTHORS).
* mmg: bug fix: One was able to crash mmg by pressing 'ok' in the
muxing dialog right after muxing finished, especially if the
'abort' button was hit before. This mostly happened on Linux.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed negative audio displacement for a

couple of formats.
* Released v1.0.1.
* mmg: Fixed some layout issues with wxWidgets 2.5.3 and newer.
* mmg: new feature: The window position is saved and restored when
mmg is started the next time.
* mmg: bug fix: Fixed a crash/memory corruption showing weird

characters in the input boxes. This happened when the user removed
a file from mmg while mmg was updating the command line.
* mmg: bug fix: mmg now has an icon associated with it while it is
running instead of the generic Windows application icon (Windows
only).
* mmg: bug fix: The main window is now minimized during

muxing. This allows to hide both of the windows while muxing is
running and restoring them later, even if they were iconized when
muxing finished (Windows only).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The first packet of an AAC track read from
Real containers might not start at the timecode 0. This offset was
ignored by mkvmerge.
* mmg: bug fix: Made the muxing dialog ("mkvmerge is running")

modal all the time. This prevents the user from hitting the main
window's minimize button. On Windows this makes mmg stuck in
iconized mode if it was iconized when muxing finished.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed a buffer overflow in the UTF-8 file

reading routines.
* mkvmerge: Implemented concatenating files with chapters.
* mkvmerge: Changed the "progress" output. It's now correct for

file concatenation, too.

* Released v1.0.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Concatenating/appending files is now

possible. A lot of things aren't tested, and others simply don't
work yet (chapter merging, duplicate tag elimination, proper
progress report, support in mmg just to name a few), but the basic
functionality seems to work.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The Matroska reader doesn't insist on having

a default duration ( = FPS) for video tracks in the "AVI
compatibility mode" ( = with the CodecID "V_MS/VFW/FOURCC"). This
enables re-muxing of Matroska files created from MP4 files.
* mmg: bug fix: File names with non-ASCII characters were not
working if mmg was compiled against a Unicode enabled wxWidgets.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added reading DTS from AVIs and from
Matroska files.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: A variable initialization was missing which

very recent gcc versions (3.4.2) did not like very much. Also
fixed a small compilation bug.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The handling of external timecode files was

still not correct but should be OK now.
* mmg: Added an error message if the user selects 'mmg' as the

'mkvmerge executable' because that would lead to an infinite
number of 'mmg's being spawned.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: If LFE is on for DTS then the number of

channels is one more than what the DTS frame header says.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Timecodes for Vorbis were wrong on rare

occasions (when reading laced Vorbis from a Matroska file and
changing the lacing, e.g. when splitting for the second and all
following files).
* mkvmerge/mkvinfo/mkvextract: bug fix: The chapter and tag

element tables were not always intialized correctly depending on
the compiler and the optimization flags used.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The OGM reader was broken if at least one
track was not to be copied from the file (happened between 0.9.5
and 0.9.6).
* mmg: bug fix: After loading saved mmg settings the track input
box listed the tracks always coming from the last input file and
not from the one they really came from.
* mmg: enhancement: Made mmg's main window properly resizable.
* mkvmerge: Rewrote the code for the external timecode files. This
also fixes bug 99: The durations for the individual tracks were
not correct for those tracks for which --timecodes was used.
* mmg: bug fix: Crash when saving chapters from the chapter
editor. Same as the mkvinfo issue below but on all OS.
* mkvinfo: bug fix: The chapter and tag element tables were not
initialized on Windows resulting in a crash when one of those
elements was encountered.
* Released v0.9.6.
* mkvextract: bug fix: The track extraction was creating the

output file twice if the Matroska file contained a copy of the
track headers. This resulted in the first extracted file being
overwritten at the end of extraction.
* mmg: bug fix: If the file title is read from an input file, not
modified by the user and that input file is removed again then the
file title will be unset.
* mkvmerge: enhancement: Converted the raw FLAC reader to use

another interface to the FLAC libraries. This results in a speedup
of up to 50%. Thanks to Josh Coalson for telling me about its
existence.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added two warnings. One about invalid

track IDs that were used on the command line but that don't
correspond to an available track in a file and one if no track
will be copied from a source file. Both warnings hint at bad
command line arguments.
* mkvmerge: Only write the segment duration as a 64bit float if

there is no video track present. This way users won't have to
update their DirectShow filter/apps for most files. Only
audio-only files need this precision anyway.
* mkvmerge: Changed the Ogg/OGM reader to use the stream number

and not its serial number as the track ID (meaning the track IDs
will be 0, 1, 2... etc. instead of the random numbers oggenc uses
as the serial numbers).
* mkvmerge: new feature: The CUE sheet parser now accepts INDEX
lines with indices from 00 up to 99 and implements the Red Book
specification for audio CDs that way. Patch by Vegard Pettersen
<vegard_p at broadpark adot no>.
* mkvmerge, mkvextract: bug fix: ASS was handled like SSA which is
not correct in each case, especially when extracting it.
* mkvextract: bug fix: The WAV writer was not endian safe.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The charset was not set correctly on Solaris.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: mkvmerge crashed when reading Matroska files

that contain an empty tag list.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Some Matroska files that e.g. have had their
timecodes offset with the Matroska Stream Editor or other means
may contain timecodes that caused mkvmerge to print a warning
about "timecode < last_timecode". A new fix implements a
workaround and a warning message with a proper explanation for
this case.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Older Matroska files containing chapters

caused mkvmerge to abort muxing.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: mkvmerge was only copying the last tag of a
list of tags applying to a track from a Matroska file.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: mkvmerge will show a nice warning if the

entries in a SRT have non-continuous timestamps. It'll also sort
the entries by their start timestamp instead of throwing the
generic "timecode < previous timecode" warning.
* mmg: bug fix: The 'Matroska file analysis' window that occurs
when reading chapters from a Matroska file did not disappear if it
was minimized when the process finished.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added a new parameter

--aspect-ratio-factor.
* mkvinfo: bug fix: Strings from chapters and tags were shown in
UTF-8 instead of the local charset. This bug was introduced around
2004-08-28.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Not all chapter elements were copied

correctly from a source Matroska file.
* mkvextract: Sped up the extraction of attachments, chapters,

cuesheets and tags by using the seek head information and not
parsing the full file each time.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The Matroska reader was not handling very big
cluster timecodes correctly. Those can occur when the timecode
scale factor is very small.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Empty clusters in Matroska files no longer

make mkvmerge think that file has been read completely.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for MP2 (and maybe MP3)
audio in MP4 containers.
* mkvmerge: new feature: The chapter and tag parsers accept XML
element attributes instead of sub-elements for those sub-elements
that only contain data. Example for a "simple tag":
<Simple Name="ARTIST" String="Tori Amos"/>
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The automatic MIME type detection based on

the file name extension was using the file name extension as the
MIME type.
* mkvmerge, mkvinfo: new feature: Added the four new PixelCrop

elements.
* mkvmerge, mkvextract, mkvinfo: new feature: Added

'TargetTypeValue' as a supported tagging element.
* mkvmerge, mkvextract, mkvinfo: Complete rewrite of the chapter

and tag parsing and output functions. Additions will be much
easier now.
* mkvmerge, mkvextract, mkvinfo: feature removed: Dropped support

for the very old and deprecated tagging system. No one used it
anyway.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Allow the use of two-letter ISO639-1

country codes in for the '--language' parameter. Those will be
converted to the corresponding ISO639-2 language code
automatically.
* mkvmerge, mkvinfo, mkvextract: new feature: Added support for

the 'TargetType' tag element (which I meant to add before the
0.9.5 release...).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The MP3 handling was broken on weird and rare
occasions when reading MP3 from a Matroska file.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Removed a bogus warning about an attachment's

MIME type having been given more than once.
* Released v0.9.5.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: WAV files which contained a 'PAD ' chunk
before the 'data' chunk were not processed at all.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Use 'setjmp' and 'longjmp' Instead of

throwing a C++ exception during the chapter parsing
stage. Otherwise libexpat will abort with a non-descriptive error
message on Windows.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: SSA/ASS subs with the old codec ID 'S_SSA'
and 'S_ASS' were accepted, but their codec ID was kept. It is now
correctly changed to 'S_TEXT/SSA' and 'S_TEXT/ASS'.
* mkvmerge, mkvinfo, mkvextract: new feature: Added support for

the new 'EditionFlagHidden', 'EditionFlagDefault' and
'EditionManaged' elements.
* mkvmerge: Added 'EditionUID' to valid elements below '<Targets>'

in XML tags. Fixed the creation of the 'Targets' with
--global-tags and --tags.
* mkvmerge, mkvinfo, mkvextract: Added support for the new tag

elements ('tag language' and 'default/original language').
* mkvmerge: new feature: If there was no MIME type given for an

attachment then mkvmerge will try to guess it based on the file's
extension just like mmg.
* mkvmerge, mkvextract, mmg: Changes to the chapter

handling. EditionUIDs are always created. mkvextract outputs
EditionUIDs and ChapterUIDs normally. mkvmerge tries to keep
EditionUIDs and ChapterUIDs but replaces them if they aren't
unique.

* mmg: bug fix: The 'down' button on the 'input' tab was not
working correctly in all cases.
* mkvinfo, mmg: bug fix: Fixed compilation with Unicode enabled

versions of wxWidgets.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Try to guess whether tags read from OGM
files (for automatic language tag setting and for copying chapter
information) are already in UTF-8 or not. If not try to convert
them from the current system's charset.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: use the same UID for the EditionUID in the
chapters and in the tag targets when parsing a CUE sheet.
* mkvmerge/mkvextract: new feature: Use the new EditionUID entries

when convert CUE sheets to chapters and tracks. This is in
preparation for 'multiple CDs to single Matroska file'
conversions.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Abort muxing if the output file name is

the same as the name of one of the input files.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Implemented sample-precision for

timestamps and durations on audio only files.
* mkvextract: bug fix: The CUE extraction wrote UTF-8 characters

but no UTF-8 BOM (byte order marker) at the beginning.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Handle TTA files with ID3 tags correctly ( =
skip the ID3 tags).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: There was an illegal free() in the OGM

reader.
* mkvextract: bug fix: The subtitle track extraction used the wrong
duration in 0.9.4.
* mkvextract: new feature: Limited support for extracting chapters

as CUE sheets that haven't been created by using a CUE sheet with
mkvmerge's "--chapters" option.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Block durations with 0s length (e.g. entries

in a SSA file) were not written.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The FLAC packetizer gets the duration
from the FLAC packet itself.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The word 'TAG' occuring in e.g. SRT subs
caused the ID3/MP3 frame detection to be stuck n an endless loop.
* Released v0.9.4.
* mkvextract: new feature: Added support for extracting TTA tracks

to TTA files.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: SRT file recognition failed if the file

contained spaces at the end of the first line.
* mkvextract: new feature: Implemented the extraction of chapter

information and tags as a CUE sheet which is the reverse operation
to using a CUE sheet with mkvmerge's '--chapters' parameter.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Broken VobSub .idx files which contain

timestamps going backwards no longer crash mkvmerge. A warning
will be printed for such inconsistencies.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The Matroska reader contained a nice little

illegal memory access (introduced in 0.9.3 with the fixes to the
'default track' handling).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The SSA reader was segfaulting if a line

contained an empty text field.
* mmg: new feature: Added support for the two flags 'hidden' and
'enabled' in the chapter editor.
* mkvmerge: new feature: The pregap from a CUE sheet is converted

into two sub-chapters (one for "INDEX 00", one for "INDEX
01"). These sub-chapters have their 'hidden' flag set.
* mkvinfo: bug fix: Fixed compilation for MATROSKA_VERSION = 2.
* mkvinfo: bug fix: Fixed compilation with gcc 3.2.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The CUE sheet parser interpreted a timestamp

as HH:MM:SS (hours, minutes, seconds). The correct spec is
HH:MM:FF (hours, minutes, frames with 1 frame = 1/75 second).
* Released v0.9.3.
* mmg: bug fix: The 'default track' checkbox was broken.

* mkvmerge: bug fix: Using '--cues ...:all' was broken for audio
tracks that use lacing.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The latest OpenDML AVI files generated by

mencoder were not read correctly. Only the first RIFF chunk was
processed.
* mkvmerge: If the user does not specify a --language for a track

'und' ('undefined') will now be used instead of 'eng'. The
user can use the new option '--default-language' to change that.
* mkvmerge: new feature: When using a CUE sheet as a chapter file

mkvmerge will automatically convert some of the entries to tags.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The default track feature did not work
correctly with the new --track-order.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for TTA lossless audio

files.
* Released v0.9.2.
* mmg: Updated the mkvmerge GUI guide to reflect changes and

additions.
* mmg: new feature: Added 'minimize' buttons to the two 'mkvmerge

is running' dialogs.
* mmg: new feature: Added an option for automatically calling

'File -> new' after a job has been added to the job queue.
* mkvextract: bug fix: Video extraction was not working correctly

on big endian systems.
* mmg: bug fix: The job manager did not always catch all of
mkvmerge's output, especially if a job failed.
* mkvmerge, mmg: new feature: --track-order now controls the track

creation order globally, meaning that it isn't used for each file
but only once. This allows the tracks to be created in ANY order
(before it was first ordered by file, then by track). For mmg this
means that the track list contains all available tracks and that
there are no 'up' and 'down' buttons in the file list anymore.
* mmg: new feature: Line wrap the tooltips on Windows.
* mmg: new feature: Suggest a name for a new job based on the
output file name.
* mmg: new feature: Temporarily disaable 'always on top' if the

muxing or the job dialog are visible.
* mmg: new feature: Ask for confirmation before adding a job if

there's already an old job with the same description.
* mkvmerge: new feature: You can specifiy the time after which to
split with ms precision.
* mmg: bug fix: The functions 'move up', 'move down' and 'delete'
in the 'job' dialog were not working correctly on Windows.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed more of that 'garbage at the beginning

of MP3 streams' issue.
* mmg: bug fix: The 'always on top' option was ignored when
starting mmg.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Reading of broken / unfinished AVI files was

broken on Windows.
* Released v0.9.1.
* mkvmerge: Dropped supoprt for 'aviclasses' (one of the two

libraries for accessing AVI files). This mostly affects the
Windows users as I've used aviclasses and not avilib on Windows so
far. The 0.9.0-pre-builds so far haven't shown any problems,
though, so I hope this doesn't break anything.
* mmg: bug fix: The job manager did not handle the conversion
of non-ASCII characters correctly.
* mmg: new feature: The action 'delete job' in the job manager
will also delete the file in the 'jobs' subdirectory.
* mmg: new feature: Added an option to make mmg stay always on

top (only on Windows).
* mkvmerge: new feature: mmg will set the 'display dimensions'

automatically for AVI files whose video track is MPEG4 and has the
pixel aspect ratio stored in the bitstream.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The improved MP3 garbage detection was broken
resulting in an error message from mkvmerge in some weird
situations.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Matroska tracks can use lacing (several

frames inside one Matroska block with only one timecode for the
whole block). mkvmerge did not recreate the timecodes for the
frames 1..n in the lacing correctly.
* mkvmerge: feature removed: Dropped support for 'time

slices'. They were not used, didn't offer the player any
additional value and caused massive increase in overhead.
* mmg: new feature: Added a dialog for adding arbitrary command

line options which includes a list of advanced options to chose
from.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The OGM fix in 0.9.0 broke handling for
non-broken OGM files a bit.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for the audio/video

synchronization method used by NanDub (garbage at the beginning of
audio tracks inside an AVI) for AC3 and MPEG audio tracks. In
other words: If an AVI is read and an audio track contains garbage
right at the beginning then the corresponding audio delay is
calculated and used instead of simply discarding the garbage.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Enabled reading MPEG4 video from MP4

files (nope, they're not stored in Matroska's native mode yet).
* Released v0.9.0.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Improved handling for OGM files. Streams that
are lacking the comment packet are handled better.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Some MP3 streams are padded in the front with
trash (mostly those in AVI files). This trash might contain valid
MP3 headers which do not match the remaining headers for the
actual track. Both the MP3 reader and the MP3 packetizer can now
skip up to one of those bogus headers in the trash.

* mmg: bug fix: On some occasions the chapter editor thought there
was no language associated with a chapter name and complained
about that.
* mmg: Removed the 'advanced' tab. Those options shouldn't be used

anyway.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The OGM reader was not endian safe.
* mkvmerge: Rewrite of the VobSub handling code.
* mmg: bug fix: The chapter editor did not honor the values
selected for 'country' and 'language'.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Audio sync for Vorbis was partially broken
for positive offsets.
* mmg: Fix for compilation with wxWindows < 2.4.2.
* Released v0.8.9.
* mmg: new feature: mmg will ask for confirmation before

overwriting a file. This can be turned off on the settings tab.
* mmg: new feature: Implement drag'n'drop of files onto the input,

attachment and chapter tabs. For the input and attachment tabs it
works like pressing the 'add' button. On the chapters tab it works
like calling 'Chapter Editor -> Open'.
* mkvinfo/mmg: Enabled compilation with wxWidgets 2.5 and Unicode

enabled builds of wxWidgets.
* all: Increased the precision for timecodes in chapter files to

nanoseconds (optionally, you can still use fewer digits after the
'.').
* mkvmerge: Fixes for compilation with gcc 3.4.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Some strings read from RealMedia files were
not zero-terminated resulting in broken track recognition for some
files.
* Released v0.8.8.
* mkvtoolnix now depends on libebml 0.7.0 and libmatroska 0.7.0.
* mkvinfo: bug fix: mkvinfo was forcing libmatroska not to handle

unknown elements and crashed on those.
* mmg: new feature: When adding Matroska files the video track's
display dimensions are displayed as well.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Implemented reading AAC from AVIs.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The Flac packetizer was accessing

uninitialized memory resulting in a crash on Windows.
* avilib: bug fix: Fixed compilation on big endian systems.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed the handling of RealMedia files with

'multirate' tracks (again).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: On some rare occasions chapters were not

written correctly when splitting was active.
* mmg: bug fix: On non-Windows systems some combinations of

wxWindows and GTK caused continuous 100% CPU usage after a special
call to wxExecute.
* Released v0.8.7.
* mkvinfo: new feature: Added a terse output format via '-s'.
* mkvmerge: new feature: If using MPEG4 video and no aspect

ratio or display dimensions are given mkvmerge will extract the
aspect ratio information from the stream and automatically set the
display dimensions accordingly.

* mkvmerge: bug fix: Using audio sync on AC3 tracks read from
Matroska files did not work.
* mkvextract: new feature: Added extraction of RealAudio and

RealVideo tracks to RealMedia files.
* mmg: new feature: Added a 'job queue'. The current settings can
be added as a new job, and all pending jobs can be started for
batch processing without user interaction.
* Released v0.8.6.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: OGMs created by Cyrius OGMuxer are missing

comment packets for some streams which mkvmerge choked on.
* mkvmerge/mmg: bug fix: The LANGUAGE and TITLE comments from OGM
files were not set in the GUI when adding such files.
* mmg: bug fix: If the FourCC was set for one track it had been
used for each track you selected as well.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Tags are being kept when reading Matroska
files.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Large values for --sync (over 2100) would
cause an integer overflow resulting in no sync being done at all.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The VobSub handling was broken if the .idx
file contains an entry for a track ("id: en") but no "timestamp:"
entries for such a track.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The segment UID was not generated if

splitting was off.
* mmg: new feature: Automatically set the output file name when
the first file is added to the same name but with a '.mkv'
extension if it hasn't been set yet. Can be disabled on the
'settings' page.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: More of the non-ASCII character fixes (in

--tags and --chapters this time).
* mkvmerge/mmg: new feature: Made the process priority selectable

on the 'settings' page and default to 'normal' again (was 'lower'
before).
* mmg: new feature: mmg will ask for confirmation before

overwriting an existing output file.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: No memory was allocated for the

--attachment-description resulting in weird descriptions or
mkvmerge aborting with 'invalid UTF-8 characters'.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: More of the non-ASCII characters fixes.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: File names with non-ASCII characters like

Umlaute are handled correctly.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Some RealMedia files contain several tracks

for multirate stuff which are now ignored. Only tracks with known
MIME types (audio/x-pn-realaudio and video/x-pn-realvideo) are
used.
* mmg: Added a list of 'popular' languages on top of all language

drop down boxes.
* Released v0.8.5.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: segfault in the RealMedia reader.
* mmg: bug fix: When adding a Matroska file that contains a track
name or a title with non-ASCII characters those would be displayed
as UTF-8 in the appropriate input boxes. This has been changed,
but obviously it won't work if you add files with Japanese
characters on a system with a different locale. For full Unicode
support you'll have to wait quite a bit longer.
* mmg: bug fix: For some 'browse file' buttons the default
directory was not set to the last directory a file was selected
from.
* mmg: new feature: Added a function for adjusting the chapter

timecodes by a fixed amount.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Splitting by size would sometimes abort

directly after opening the second file.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Splitting by time was broken.

* all: A couple of changes that allow compilation on MacOS X.
* avilib: synchronized with transcode's current CVS version.
* Released v0.8.4.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: When reading Matroska files the durations

attached to blocks were lost (e.g. for subtitle tracks).
* Released v0.8.3.
* mkvmerge: new feature: The LANGUAGE, TITLE tags and chapters are
being kept when reading OGM files.
* mkvmerge: Changed the meaning of '--global-tags'. They now apply

to the complete file.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: VobSub durations were not converted from ms

to ns precision resulting in VERY short packets :)
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The change from ms to ns precision broke

subtitle handling from OGM.
* mkvmerge: Made "do not link files when splitting" the default,
just like in mmg.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Enabled reading of AAC from OGMs.
* mkvmerge: The VobSub reader will not discard packets that exceed
a certain size (64KB) anymore.
* mkvmerge: Improved some internal memory freeing decisions. This

should help with files/sections in which are only few keyframes.
* mkvmerge: Changed the two-pass splitting into a one-pass

splitting. The resulting files will always be a little bit larger
than the desired size/length, but this shouldn't matter.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Segfault when using external timecode v1

files.
* mmg: Rewrote the chapter editor. It now makes a lot more sense:
You can have multiple names for one chapter entry, and for each
name there's only one language/country association.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The AAC-in-Real stuff again.
* mkvmerge: Changed the complete timecode handling from ms

precision to ns precision. Expect some things to be broken by
this change.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed a couple of memory leaks, especially in

the QuickTime/MP4 parser.
* mmg: Added some more extensions for RealMedia files.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Proper handling for AAC read from RealMedia
files (sample rate/output sample rate were not assigned
correctly).
* Released v0.8.2.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The PCM handling was broken resulting in

packets that did not end on sample boundaries.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: AVIs with uncompressed sound were leading to

buffer overflows.
* mkvmerge/mmg: allow the track names to be empty so that you can

remove them when muxing Matroska files. Same for the file title.
* mkvmerge: new feature: The track headers will be rendered

completely including the elements that are set to their default
values. Causes less confusion and allows the setting of e.g. the
track language without having to remux the file completely.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: If remuxing a file that contains frames with

a reference to the same timecode those references were lost
turning such P frames into I frames. This was the case for some
RealAudio stuff.
* mmg: new feature: Automatically pre-set the attachment's MIME

type if the file has a known extension (e.g. 'text/plain' for
'.txt').
* mkvmerge: new feature: Unknown/unsupported track types can be
copied 1:1 from Matroska input files.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added proper support for

AAC-inside-RealMedia files.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Write cues for audio-only files as well

(not more than one cue entry during a two seconds period).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The default track flags could not be

overriden on the command line when reading Matroska files.
* Windows binaries after v0.8.1 require a new runtime DLL

archive. Please download it from
http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/ Thanks.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added the two new chapter flags 'hidden'
and 'enabled'.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added a new format for the external

timecode files.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The VobSub handling was on occasion putting

SPU packets for the wrong MPEG stream into the current stream
resulting in that particular entity not being displayed.
* Released v0.8.1.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The I/O classes were not initialized

correctly on Windows resulting in spontaneous strange error
messages, especially when muxing VobSubs.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: For some special atom sizes in Quicktime and
MP4 files the size was not read correctly. This affected
e.g. files created by Nero Digital.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Segfault when muxing some video formats due
to unchecked data (includes RealVideo).
* Released v0.8.0.
* mmg: bug fix: Fixed the "write chapters to Matroska file"

feature.
* mmg: bug fix: Made mmg not abort but only display an error
message when malformed XML chapter files should be loaded.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The timescodes for Vorbis were calculated one
packet too early (meaning that the first packet did not start at
0).
* mmg: Made "don't link" ON by default because some players might

have problems with the second and all following files if they
don't expect them not to start at 0.
* mkvmerge, mkvextract, mkvinfo: Added support for the new tagging

system.
* mmg: bug fix: The default values for the chapter language and
chapter country are now applied when loading simple (OGM) style
chapter files as well.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The VobSub packetizer will assume MPEG2 if no

MPEG version identifier was found ("Unsupported MPEG version:
0x00...").
* mkvmerge: There are MP4 files that actually contain HE-AAC but
don't have the 5 byte identifier. mkvmerge will also assume SBR if
there's only the 2 byte identifier with a sampling frequency <
44100Hz.
* mkvextract: bug fix: Wrong display output and illegal memory

access when extracting FLAC files.
* mmg: bug fix: If one added a Matroska file and the track name or
language of a track consisted of only blanks then mmg would
segfault.
* mmg: The input box will automatically select the first track
when a file is selected. Upon track selection the input focus is
set to the track name input box.
* mmg: The chapter editor automatically focuses the chapter name

input box whenever a chapter entry is selected.
* mmg: bug fix: The chapter editor did not properly escape the
chapter names resulting in invalid XML files if the special
characters &, < or > were used.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: If splitting was active then a wrong CodecID

was written to the second and all following files for MP2 tracks.
* Released v0.7.9.
* mkvmerge: Set the thread priority to BELOW_NORMAL on Windows

(mkvmerge was already nice(2)'d on Unix systems).
* mmg: bug fix: Removed the Ctrl-v and Ctrl-c accelerators that I
used for mmg functions which overrode the usual 'paste' and 'copy'
functionality.
* mmg: Command line arguments are put into an option file which is
then handed over to mkvmerge. This allows really long command
lines, even on Windows.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Negative track IDs in Ogg files were reported
incorrectly for mkvmerge -i (which affected the GUI).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Internal changes had messed up the --language

and --track-name functionality.
* mmg: new feature: Added "up" and "down" buttons for the tracks,
too.
* mmg: new feature: Added a menu option, 'set output file', that
can be used as an alternative to the "browse" button at the bottom
(for those poor users with nothing more than 800x600 ;)).
* mkvmerge: new feature: The user can alter the order in which the
tracks for an input file are put into the output file with the new
"--track-order" option.
* mmg: bug fix: The "AAC is SBR" check box was grayed out for AAC
inside MP4 files.
* mmg: bug fix: The "load settings" function did not load all
settings, and some strings were not allocated at all resulting in
a crash when a track was removed after loading these settings.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The AAC packetizer was not working if packets
were being read from a raw AAC file (it worked fine from MP4 and
Matroska files).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Avoid deadlocks when parsing broken SPU

packets from VobSubs.
* mmg: new feature: Added buttons for moving input files up and
down in the input file box.
* Released v0.7.8.
* mmg: new feature: You can set the values for the language and/or
country codes for a chapter and all its children with the push of
one button (the new "Set values" button).
* mmg: new feature: You can set default values for the language
and the country codes in the chapter editor (Chapter menu -> Set
default values).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Display dimensions were sometimes off by one,

e.g. 640x479 instead of 640x480. This should not happen anymore
for sane pixel dimensions.
* mkvmerge: Changed the options '--fourcc' and

'--aspect-ratio'. They now take a track ID just like all the other
track specific options.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added an option '--display-dimensions'

which allows the direct setting of the display dimensions. It is
mutually exclusive with '--aspect-ratio', of course.
* mmg: bug fix: The language combo box was not correctly set on
Windows.
* mkvmerge: Added an option for dumpig all split points including

file size and timestamp information after the first splitting
pass.
* mmg: bug fix: Quotes were missing if the timecode file's name
contained spaces.
* mkvmerge: Rewrote the SPU packet parsing code. It should not

abort anymore.
* everything: Committed a lot of cross-OS compatibility fixes

(thanks to Haali and thedj).
* Released v0.7.7.
* mkvextract: Added extraction of FLAC to raw FLAC or OggFLAC

files.
* mkvmerge: Added full support for FLAC (both raw FLAC and OggFLAC
are supported, even though raw FLAC is very slow).
* mmg: Added an input field for the 'CUE sheet to chapter name'
conversion format.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Reworked the audio sychronization which did

not work correctly for Matroska source files.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Increased the size of the space reserved for
the first meta seek element (see mkvmerge.1 for an
explanation). In some situations (with tags, chapters,
attachements and very big file) it might not have been enough in
order to contain all elements.
* mmg: Added an input field for the 'timecodes' file to the track
options.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: When reading MP3 audio tracks from a Matroska
file with the A_MS/ACM CodecID (MS compatibility mode) the layer
was not identified correctly.
* mkvmerge: Improved the file type detection for AC3 and AAC files
a bit.
* mkvmerge: Implemented a lot of fixes for big endian systems and

processors that don't allow non-aligned memory access for word or
bigger sized objects.
* mmg: Made mmg accept return codes of 1 when 'mkvmerge -i' is run
when an input file is added. This way mmg won't reject mkvmerge's
output if mkvmerge only printed some warnings which will result in
a return code of 1 instead of 0.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: If running in identification mode (-i, used

by mmg a lot) then don't output any warnings or mmg will not
accept this file.
* mkvmerge: new feature: CUE sheets can be used for chapters.
* mkvmerge: Added support for --sync for VobSub tracks.
* mkvtoolnix: Re-worked the configure script. Removed all the lib

specific --with-...-include and --with-...-lib options. The
--with-extra-includes and --with-extra-libs options can be used
instead.

* mmg: When a file is being added then some information from it
(languages, track names, file title) are kept, and the appropriate
input boxes are pre-set with these values. Works only for formats
that support such information (Matroska, VobSub).
* mkvmerge: Sped up the reading of VobSub .idx files.
* Released v0.7.5.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The VobSub .idx parser was dividing by 0 if

a track only contained one entry.
* mkvmerge: Fixed the timecode reader code and made it a bit more
flexible. Added more documentation for this feature along with an
example file (examples/example-timecodes.txt).
* mmg: bug fix: When 'default track' is selected then all other
tracks of the same type will have their 'default track' flag
cleared.
* mkvmerge: SPU packets belonging to the same timecode are grouped

together, and the duration is extracted directly from the SPU
stream.
* mkvmerge: The VobSubs are now stripped of the MPEG program

stream, and only the SPU packets are kept.
* mkvmerge, mkvextract: The Matroska reader and the OGM reader

(mkvmerge) as well as mkvextract will discard empty or 'cleaning
only' subtitle packets as they are appear in OGMs in order to mark
the end of an entry.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added the ability to read timecodes from

text files which override the timecodes mkvmerge calculates
normally.
* mkvextract: bug fix: Add all the mandatory elements when

extracting chapters so that the resulting XML can always be used
directly with mkvmerge again without having to manually add
e.g. ChapterLanguage.
* mkvmerge: bug fix; Handle audio tracks from Matroska files with
the CodecID A_MS/ACM correctly.
* mkvmerge: Changes to use libmatroska's new lacing code.

* mkvmerge: bug fix: The VobSub .idx parser was mis-calculating
the subtitle entry frame sizes.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The Vorbis packetizer was miscalculating the

number of samples to add/remove when using audio sync.
* mmg: new feature: Added a new menu entry "File -> new" which
will clear all the current muxing settings.
* mmg: Added support for VobSub subtitles including their

compression options. Added the .m4a extension to the 'add file'
dialog.
* mmg: bug fix: Made the input boxes for file names (tags and
chapters) editable so that their contents can be deleted.
* mkvmerge: Adjusted the compression handling to the final content

encoding specs.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Implemented generic support for frame

compression (mostly useful for VobSub subtitles but could also be
used for others) and the complete framework for handling content
encodings in the Matroska reader.
* mkvinfo: new feature: Dump unknown elements recursively.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Made the SRT reader more tolerant regarding
empty lines.
* Released v0.7.2.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: If 'no linking' and splitting was active

mkvmerge would abort on the start of the second output file due to
timecodes that were calculated incorrectly.
* mkvmerge: Implemented some speedups for a couple of container

formats and track types (mainly AVI reader, MP3/AC3/AAC
packetizers). Especially noticeable when splitting is active as
well.
* mkvextract: bug fix: Support for extracting SBR AAC (previous

'fix' did not actually fix this).
* mkvextract: bug fix: All extracted subtitles where written to

the first output file given, not to the one they were supposed to
be written to.
* mmg: bug fix: The 'abort' button was doing nothing under
Windows.
* mmg: bug fix: Audio, video and subtitle track selection was
translated into the wrong command line options.
* mkvmerge: Replaced the avilib based AVI reading functions with

AVI classes from Cyrius.
* Released v0.7.1.
* Added a guide for mmg including some pictures.
* mkvmerge: Changed the lacing strategy again. New defaults are

NOT to write duration elements for all blocks, NOT to use time
slices and to USE lacing for most audio tracks. This will save
some space. The downside is that the laced frames 'lose' their
precise timecode information. Current demuxers don't care and will
work nevertheless. More sophisticated applications that make use
of these advanced information (duration elements, time slices) are
not available at the moment. All these options can be toggled by
the user with the new/modified options --disable-lacing,
--enable-durations and --enable-timeslices.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Attachments are kept when reading

Matroska files.
* mmg: new feature: Added a (nearly) full-featured chapter editor.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: XML chapters were not parsed correctly.
* mkvmerge: bug fix/new feature: Rewrote the complete MP3

handling. Now files with ID3 tags (both v1 and v2) are handled
correctly. All MPEG-1 audio files (all layers) should be handled
correctly now.
* mkvextract: new feature: Support for extract HE-AAC tracks to

.aac files. Bug fix: Missing elements (default values) are handled
correctly for audio tracks.
* mkvmerge: bugfix: If attachments were given with path components

then the path component wasn't discarded for the attachment's
description on Windows (normally only the file name should be used
as the attachment's name).
* mmg: Fixed wrong order of the options --chapters,

--chapter-language and --chapter-charset.
* mmg: Added a lot of checks on the data given by the user so that
invalid data is reported by mmg and not by mkvmerge.
* mmg: Made the app a GUI app which gets rid of the "DOS box" on
Windows.
* mmg: bugfix: Moved the aspect ratio and FourCC input fields from
the global tab to the input tab where they belong to.
* mkvmerge: new feature: RealAudio can be read from Matroska

files.
* mkvmerge: bugfix: RealVideo was not read correctly from Matroska

files.
* mkvmerge: bugfix: The SRT reader would abort if there was more
than one empty line between subtitle entries line.
* mkvextract: bugfix: Proper BOMs are written according to the

desired charset when extracting text subtitles.
* Released v0.7.0.
* mkvextract: Add an UTF-8 BOM to extracted SSA/ASS and SRT

subtitle files. Print warnings for missing durations for text
subtitle tracks.
* Added a complete GUI for mkvmerge, mkvmergeGUI (mmg) based on

the work of Florian Wagner.
* mkvmerge: Support for setting the track names.
* mkvmerge: For Matroska source files: If the source contains

chapters then these are kept unless the user specified chapters
with --chapters.
* mkvmerge: Implemented an experimental VobSub reader and

packetizer. No specs exist for these yet, though.
* mkvmerge: Improved the support for Matroska files with tracks
with big gaps between entries, e.g. subtitle tracks whose entries
are a minute or more apart.
* mkvmerge: When splitting is active and the source is a Matroska

file then splitpoints were borked, and the first pass was slow as
your average mole.
* mkvmerge: The track UIDs are kept when reading Matroska files
even when splitting is active.
* mkvmerge: Added a QuickTime/MP4 reader. Can handle several

QuickTime video and QuickTime audio formats as well as AAC (both
'normal' AAC and SBR AAC).
* mkvmerge: DisplayWidth and DisplayHeight are kept intact when

reading from a Matroska file but can be overridden with
--aspect-ratio.
* Wrote documentation, XML examples and the DTD for the XML
chapter files.
* mkvinfo: Rewrote mkvinfo to use libebml's Read() function

instead of manually reading each and every element.
* mkvmerge: Added support for XML based chapter files.
* Released v0.6.5.
* mkvmerge: On Windows the 'isspace()' function used to trim

leading and trailing white spaces from tags considered some parts
of valid UTF-8 character sequences to be white spaces as
well. Fixed by replacing 'isspace()' with 'isblank()'. Reported
by Liisachan.
* mkvmerge: Support for chosing the charset and language used in

simple chapter files. Suggestion by Liisachan.
* Rewrote the UTF-8 conversion routines. They should now handle

U+8000 characters correctly. Reported by Liisachan.
* mkvmerge: Real reader: For RV40 the actual dimensions were also
used for the aspect ratio/display dimensions. This has been fixed:
the actual dimensions are used for PixelWidth/PixelHeight, the
dimensions stored in the RM container are used for the aspect
ratio/DisplayWidth & DisplayHeight. Reported by Karl Lillevold.

* Released v0.6.4.
* mkvextract: Support for re-creating dropped frames when

extracting video to an AVI. Works only well if the frame durations
in the source file are multiples of the frame rate, of course.
* mkvmerge: The MP3 packetizer did not start at 0 with its

timecodes. It does now. Reported by alexnoe.
* mkvmerge: Proper support for dropped frames when reading AVI

files. Reported by alley_cat, Horvth Istvn.
* mkvmerge: Fixed some missing default values in the Matroska

reader (e.g. mono audio files). Reported by Liisachan.
* mkvmerge: Improved all command line parsing error messages.
* mkvmerge: Improved the error message for the XML tag file parser
if an invalid &-sequence is found.
* mkvextract: Strings are postprocessed so that the special

characters &, <, >, " are replaced by their HTML equivalents
&, &lt, > and ".
* mkvmerge: Disabled lacing by default and renamed --no-lacing to

--enable-lacing. With all the proper info about the laced frames
lacing is actually producing larger files than without lacing.
* mkvmerge: Meta seek element is split into two elements. The

first's located at the start of the file containing only a small
number of level 1 elements. The clusters are referenced in a
second meta seek element located at the end of the file. Removed
the options "--meta-seek-size" and "--no-meta-seek". Added the
option to disable that second meta seek entry,
"--no-clusters-in-meta-seek".
* mkvextract: Backwards compatibility: Accepts S_SSA and S_ASS as

valid CodecIDs (new CodecIDs are S_TEXT/SSA and S_TEXT/ASS).
* mkvmerge: Bugfix: If a subtitle packet was the last packet in a

cluster then its duration was not written resulting in a broken file.
* mkvinfo: Added support for the following elements:

KaxPrevFilename, KaxNextFilename, KaxTrackFlagEnabled,
KaxTrackName, KaxCodecName, KaxCodecSettings, KaxCodecInfoURL,
KaxCodecDownloadURL, KaxCodecDecodeAll, KaxTrackOverlay,
KaxAudioPosition, KaxAudioOutputSamplingFreq, KaxVideoDisplayUnit,
KaxVideoColourSpace, KaxVideoGamma, KaxVideoFlagInterlaced,
KaxVideoStereoMode, KaxVideoAspectRatio, KaxClusterPosition,
KaxClusterPrevSize, KaxBlockVirtual, KaxBlockAdditions,
KaxBlockMore, KaxBlockAddID, KaxBlockAdditional,
KaxReferenceVirtual, KaxSliceBlockAddID, KaxChapters,
KaxEditionEntry, KaxChapterAtom, KaxChapterUID,
KaxChapterTimeStart, KaxChapterTimeEnd, KaxChapterTrack,
KaxChapterTrackNumber, KaxChapterDisplay, KaxChapterString,
KaxChapterLanguage, KaxChapterCountry
* Released v0.6.3.
* mkvmerge: The Real reader accepts incomplete video packets and

tries to re-assemble them instead of aborting with 'die: len !=
total'.
* mkvmerge: Implemented a switch that has to be used for SBR AAC /

AAC+ / HE-AAC if the source file is an AAC file and the AAC file
contains SBR AAC data (no automatic detection possible in this case!).
* mkvmerge: Low bitrate AC3 tracks from Real's DNET are identified
as A_AC3/BSID9 or A_AC3/BSID10.
* mkvmerge: The RealMedia reader takes the number of packets into

account when reading which results in better end-of-file detection.
* Windows versions: Fixed a bug with files bigger than 2GB not
being recognized. The accompanying error message was "File NAME
has unknown type. Please have a look at the supported file
types..."
* all tools: Fixed a bug which would only allow Matroska files up
to 4GB to be read. The accompanying error message was "No segment
found" or something similar.
* mkvinfo: Unknown elements are properly skipped now.
* mkvmerge: For RV40 (RealVideo 9) the actual video dimensions are

decoded from the first video frame.
* Released v0.6.2.
* mkvmerge: Video aspect ratio was set wrong if the user did not
specify any.
* Released v0.6.1.
* mkvmerge: RealVideo: Support for all kinds of frames including

"short" and "merged" frames (results are identical to Gabest's
output).

* mkvmerge: The aspect ratio setting will only cause upscaling of
the current video dimensions which are then put into
KaxVideoDisplayWidth and KaxVideoDisplayHeight.
* mkvextract: Changed how the global elements are handled by

taking the parent's size into account. This re-enables processing
of files produced with the latest VirtualDubMod.
* mkvmerge: Changed how the Matroska reader handles global

elements by taking the parent's size into account. This re-enables
processing of files produced with the latest VirtualDubMod.
* mkvinfo: Changed how mkvinfo handles global elements by taking

the parent's size into account. Hopefully this is now correct.
* mkvextract: Support for MultiComment tags.
* mkvmerge: Fixed support for reading MultiComment tags from

XML tag files.
* mkvmerge: Allow some slightly broken Matroska files to be

processed correctly if the reference blocks are off by at most 1ms.
* mkvmerge: MP3: Better support for other MPEG versions and layers
(number of samples per packet).
* mkvinfo: Added Adler32 calculation and display for frame

contents with the -c option.
* mkvmerge: RealAudio: "dnet" is actually byte-swapped AC3 and is

being treated as such (re-swapped and output as AC3).
* mkvmerge: Fixed a bug with chapters and splitting which would

crash mkvmerge if no chapter belonged into the output file.
* Changes for compilation with gcc 2.95.
* Released v0.6.0.
* base64tool: Added a tool for Base64 encoding/decoding needed for

binary elements in the tags.
* mkvextract: Support for extracting chapter information.
* mkvmerge: Added support for simple chapter files (CHAPTER01=...,

CHAPTER01NAME=Hello World etc).

* mkvmerge: Added support tags based on XML files.
* mkvextract: Rewrote the command line syntax. Added extracting

attachments and tags as new options.
* mkvmerge: Fixed a bug in the SRT reader which would not always
handle Unix/DOS style new line cases correctly.
* mkvmerge: Added support for the "SegmentTitle" (general title of

the file written).
* mkvmerge: Added support for UTF-8 and UTF-16 encoded text files
for the SRT and SSA/ASS readers.
* mkvmerge: The SSA/ASS reader ignored the --sub-charset option

and always used the current charset to recode the subtitles.
* mkvmerge: Added support for attaching files to the output

file(s).
* mkvinfo: Support for the elements dealing with attachments

(KaxAttachments, KaxAttached, KaxFileDescription, KaxFileName,
KaxMimeType, KaxFileData).
* mkvmerge: Changed the RealVideo packaging method: Subpackets are

assembled into complete packets so the demuxer does not have to do
that anymore.
* mkvmerge: DisplayWidth and DisplayHeight, which form the display

aspect ratio, are now always written to ease changing them later
without having to completely remux the file.
* mkvmerge: Fixed some infinite-reading-from-a-file bug that

occured on Windows when reading SSA/ASS files.
* mkvmerge: Fixed a bug which would mostly appear with subtitles

that have very long ( > 60s) gaps between entries. Here the
cluster would not been rendered properly leaving mkvmerge either
comatose ( = endless loop) or just plain dead ( = crashing).
* mkvinfo: Added support for the rest of the tags:

KaxTagMultiComment, KaxTagMultiCommentName,
KaxTagMultiCommentComments and KaxTagMultiCommentLanguage. Almost
all tags have been successfully tested.
* Added a RealMedia demuxer that can handle both RealVideo and

RealAudio (all codecs).
* mkvinfo: Added support for allmost all tags (totally untested):

KaxTag KaxTagArchivalLocation KaxTagAudioEncryption
KaxTagAudioGain KaxTagAudioGenre KaxTagAudioPeak
KaxTagAudioSpecific KaxTagBibliography KaxTagBPM KaxTagCaptureDPI
KaxTagCaptureLightness KaxTagCapturePaletteSetting
KaxTagCaptureSharpness KaxTagChapterUID KaxTagCommercial
KaxTagCropped KaxTagDate KaxTagDiscTrack KaxTagEncoder
KaxTagEncodeSettings KaxTagEntity KaxTagEqualisation KaxTagFile
KaxTagGeneral KaxTagGenres KaxTagIdentifier KaxTagImageSpecific
KaxTagInitialKey KaxTagKeywords KaxTagLanguage KaxTagLegal
KaxTagMood KaxTagMultiCommercial KaxTagMultiCommercialAddress
KaxTagMultiCommercialEmail KaxTagMultiCommercialType
KaxTagMultiCommercialURL KaxTagMultiDate KaxTagMultiDateDateBegin
KaxTagMultiDateDateEnd KaxTagMultiDateType KaxTagMultiEntity
KaxTagMultiEntityAddress KaxTagMultiEntityEmail
KaxTagMultiEntityName KaxTagMultiEntityType KaxTagMultiEntityURL
KaxTagMultiIdentifier KaxTagMultiIdentifierBinary
KaxTagMultiIdentifierString KaxTagMultiIdentifierType
KaxTagMultiLegal KaxTagMultiLegalAddress KaxTagMultiLegalType
KaxTagMultiLegalURL KaxTagMultiPrice KaxTagMultiPriceAmount
KaxTagMultiPriceCurrency KaxTagMultiPricePriceDate
KaxTagMultiTitle KaxTagMultiTitleAddress KaxTagMultiTitleEdition
KaxTagMultiTitleEmail KaxTagMultiTitleLanguage
KaxTagMultiTitleName KaxTagMultiTitleSubTitle KaxTagMultiTitleType
KaxTagMultiTitleURL KaxTagOfficialAudioFileURL
KaxTagOfficialAudioSourceURL KaxTagOriginalDimensions
KaxTagOriginalMediaType KaxTagPlayCounter KaxTagPopularimeter
KaxTagProduct KaxTagRating KaxTagRecordLocation KaxTags
KaxTagSetPart KaxTagSource KaxTagSourceForm KaxTagSubGenre
KaxTagSubject KaxTagTargets KaxTagTitle KaxTagTrackUID
KaxTagVideoGenre
* mkvmerge: Support for handling native video tracks (e.g. B

frames) when reading Matroska files.
* mkvmerge: Implemented time slice durations , default block

duration and block durations for slices where necessary.
* mkvinfo: Support for KaxSegmentFilename, KaxTitle, KaxSlices,

KaxTimeSlice, KaxSliceLaceNumber, KaxSliceFrameNumber,
KaxSliceDelay and KaxSliceDuration.
* Released v0.5.0.
* Added 'ReferencePriority' element to the known elements for

mkvinfo.
* Removed "(mkvinfo) " from mkvinfo's output in order to improve
readability and save space.
* --sub-charset now also needs a track ID.
* Modified the verbosity levels for mkvinfo: The seek head subentries
and cue subentries will only be shown at level 2 to make the
output easier to read.
* The language and default track settings are now kept again if
not overridden when reading from Matroska files.
* Added mkvextract which can extract tracks from a Matroska file

into other files.
* Switched from cygwin to MinGW32 for the Windows binaries.
* Fixed a double free() on cleanup (after writing the cues) which

resulted in a segfault sometimes.
* Added a SSA/ASS reader.
* Support for reading text subtitles from Matroska files.
* Made the AAC reader automatically recognize if a MPEG4 AAC file

contains the emphasis header (deprecated) or not (current standard).
* Released v0.4.4.
* Several options now need an explicity track ID to specify

which tracks of an input file the option should be applied
to. These options include --atracks, --vtracks, --stracks, --sync,
--default-track, --cues and --language.
* The Matroska reader now handles track selection correctly.
* Added an option for identifying input files and their track types.
* Released v0.4.3.
* Support for proper linking of segments via the segment UIDs. The
first and last files created can be manually linked to given UIDs.

* Added support for splitting output files by size or by time and
limiting the number of output files.
* Added support for the segment UID/next segment UID/previous

segment UID.
* A lot of changes to comply with libmatroska/libebml 0.4.4.
* Implemented stricter content based file type identification for

MP3 and AC3 files so that those won't be mis-identified.
* Some improvements to the mkvinfo GUI (thanks to jcsston for the

patch/the ideas).
* Released v0.4.2.
* Support for some more tags in both mkvmerge and mkvinfo.
* Fixed a segfault in the Matroska reader.
* Removed the '--sub-type' switch as all text subtitles will be

stored in UTF-8 format. Made iconv mandatory in the configure
checks for this very reason.
* Added a GUI to mkvinfo.
* Released v0.4.1.
* A lot of changes regarding file I/O. Files bigger than 2GB

should now be handled correctly on both Linux and Windows.
* Added checks for MP4/Quicktime files which will abort mkvmerge.
* Support for reading AAC tracks from Matroska files.
* Released v0.4.0.
* Some internal changes and enhancements. Code requires libebml

and libmatroska 0.4.3 now.
* ADTS headers are stripped from the AAC streams. This is what I'd
call 'proper AAC support'.
* Better support for DTS streams in general and for DTS-in-WAV in

particular (patch by Peter Niemayer <niemayer AT isg.de>).
* Renamed '--no-utf8-subs' to '--sub-type utf8'. Polished the man

page regarding subtitle handling.
* Fixed a bug with mono MP3 files.
* Added support for AAC files (only those with ADTS headers at the
moment).
* Released v0.3.3.
* If an error occurs while writing to the destination file the

error is reported and mkvmerge aborts with a non-zero exit code.
* The OGM reader reported I frames as P frames and vice versa

round making seeking not really nice ;)
* Fixed a bug with the AC3 timecode calculation (patch by Peter

Niemayer <niemayer AT isg.de>).
* Support for reading DTS files & putting them into Matroska
(main patch by Peter Niemayer <niemayer AT isg.de>, a few things
by me).
* Released v0.3.2.
* Fixed the huge memory need if reading from AVI files (introduced
on 2003-05-06 with the internal changes).
* Proper handling of the 'default track' flag and the language for
the Matroska reader.
* Proper handling of the 'default track' flag for all the packetizers.
* Made mkvtoolnix compile under cygwin.
* Added support for aspect ratio.
* Subtitle charsets can be specified with --sub-charset and do not

rely on the current locale anymore.
* For the last packet of each track its duration is now stored.
* A lot of internal changes - I hope nothing has broken... (See

ChangeLog.cvs for details.)
* The matroska reader calculated wrong header lengths for Vorbis

tracks.
* mkvinfo reports the FourCC for video tracks with a

CodecID of V_MS/VFW/FOURCC and the format tag for audio tracks
with a CodecID of A_MS/ACM.
* Released v0.3.1.
* Tracks read from a Matroska file will keep their UID if it

hasn't been used yet.
* Support for reading text subtitle streams from OGM files.
* Added support for EbmlVoid everywhere to mkvinfo.
* Support for KaxTrackLanguage and ISO639 languages.
* First public release.

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2012-01-02 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.

2011-12-29 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>

* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed certain DTS files being mis-detected as

2011-12-28 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>

* build system: Added an option "--without-gettext" that allows

* build system: Added an option "--without-curl" that allows for

* all: bug fix: Fixed compilation if gettext/libintl is not

2011-12-27 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>

* mkvmerge: enhancement: Removed the posix_fadvise() code. The

2011-12-25 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>

* mkvmerge: bug fix: If an MP4 file contains chapters encoded in a

* mkvmerge: bug fix: MPEG program streams in which a track

2011-12-24 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>

2011-12-21 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>

* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fix compilation if FLAC is not available. Fix

2011-12-18 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>

* mkvmerge, mmg: bug fix: Automatic MIME type recognition for

2011-12-14 Andriy Bilous'ko <arestarh@ukr.net>

* documentation: enhancement: Added a Ukrainian translation for

2011-12-13 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>

* mkvinfo: bug fix: Various elements used to have a space between

2011-12-12 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>

2011-12-11 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>

* mkvmerge: bug fix: Changed how mkvmerge assigns IDs to tracks in

2011-12-07 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>

* mkvmerge: enhancement: The VP8 output module will always

* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed a rare audio type mis-detection of

2011-12-04 Nils Maier <maierman@web.de>

* mkvmerge, mkvextract: enhancement: Implemented input file

2011-12-03 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>

* mmg, mkvinfo's GUI: enhancement: Added new icons based on the

2011-11-28 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>

* mkvmerge: bug fix: mkvmerge will no longer create folders on

2011-11-26 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>

* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed bogus huge timecodes sometimes

2011-11-24 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>

* all: enhancement: Made all EXEs declare their required access

* mmg: enhancement: Made mmg DPI-aware on Windows (tested up to

2011-11-09 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>

2011-11-06 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>

* mkvinfo: bug fix: Improved skipping broken data on all operating

* mkvmerge, mkvextract: bug fix: Skipping broken data in Matroska

2011-11-04 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>

* examples: Added XSLT 2.0 stylesheets in the

2011-10-30 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>

* mmg: enhancement: Added "ogv" to the list of known file

* mmg: bug fix: A utility function for breaking a line into

2011-10-23 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>

* build system: Boost's "Range" library is now required.

* build system: Boost v1.46.0 or newer is now required. As a

2011-10-22 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>

* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed reading MPEG transport streams on big

* mkvmerge: enhancement: Added support for reading AAC tracks from

2011-10-17 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>

* mkvmerge: bug fix: Relaxed the compatibility checks when

2011-10-16 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>

* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed PCM audio in WAV sometimes being

* mkvmerge: enhancement: The verbose identification mode will add

2011-10-13 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>

* Packaging: In v5.0.1 mmg's guide was accidentally moved into the

2011-10-11 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>

* mkvmerge: enhancement: "Castilan" has been merged with "Spanish"

2011-10-09 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>