Installation

I’m working on the backbone to maintain the project on GitHub once is up work on easy installations for the supported operating system will be made. If you are a python user I don’t see any problems you using the application right away.

Python package

Python users can install the program using pip python dependencies will automatically install if not installed.

pip install mkvbatchmultiplex

Dependencies

The program uses:

Python packages are installed if pip is used:

natsort - natural sorting in Python https://natsort.readthedocs.io/en/master/

pymediainfo - Python MediaInfo wrapper, you can find it at https://pypi.org/project/pymediainfo/

PySide2 - GUI interface library used, https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_for_Python

MKVToolNix - The target tool from witch we get the command, https://mkvtoolnix.download/

MediaInfo library, witch you can find at https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo. The library has to be available in the PATH environment variable.

For macOS and Windows the version of pymediainfo comes with a MediaInfo Linux does not.

Binary installations

Binary packages can be found:

https://github.com/akai10tsuki/mkvbatchmultiplex/releases

Linux and macOS binaries need more testing.

All binaries are for 64 bit architecture.

Windows:

  • MKVBatchMultiplex-iss-AMD64-X.X.X.exe - Regular installation file
  • MKVBatchMultiplex-X.X.X-portable.exe - Portable executable
  • MKVBatchMultiplex-portable-dir.zip - Portable version in directory format may load faster that the standalone version
macOS:
  • MKVBatchMultiplex-X.X.X-cmp.dmg - Disk image just mount and drag application to Applications folder
Linux:
  • MKVBatchMultiplex-x86_64-X.X.X.AppImage - AppImage of the application is a portable version. Make it an executable file in order to run it. - install MediaInfo library

Known Issues

  • On macOS 10.14 Mojave:
    • dark theme in MKVToolNix prior to 30.0.0 doesn’t work.