14 DAY TRIAL // MKVToolNix creator Moritz Bunkus proudly announced the release of MKVToolNix 9.4.0, the latest stable and most advanced build of the open-source and free MKV (Matroska) manipulation software for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows OSes.
Dubbed Knurl, MKVToolNix 9.4.0 is not a major release, and there aren't many improvements added to its core components. Instead, this maintenance update tries to polish existing functionality and address a few of the issues reported by users since last month's MKVToolNix 9.3.1. Also, it comes with a warning for package maintainers who reported issues when compiling the app against libEBML 1.3.4 and libMatroska 1.4.5.
"MKVToolNix v9.3.1 and newer use features newly introduced in libMatroska v1.4.4. This means that you cannot compile MKVToolNix v1.4.5 and try to run it against v1.4.4 — that’ll fail with symbol lookup errors from ld," says Moritz Bunkus. "I’ve received multiple reports of MKVToolNix v9.3.x packages that could be installed with libMatroska v1.4.4. This won’t work. Please make the dependency on v1.4.5+ explicit."
What's new in MKVToolNix 9.4.0
If you're curious to know what's new in MKVToolNix 9.4.0, we can tell you that there are fixes for VP8 in Ogg issues with the mkvmerge component, various enhancements to MKVToolNix GUI's merge tool, job queue, and chapter editor functionalities, a fix for a problem with the mkvpropedit component, and another DTS bug fix in mkvmerge, which also received support for reading Apple ProRes video from MOV and MP4 files.
To see what exactly has been changed since MKVToolNix 9.3.1, we recommend studying the full changelog attached below. In the meantime, you can download the binaries for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems, along with the source, right now via our website.