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Editing Properties in an MKV file


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I have been using MKV Merge for a while now and it's great for editing properties of one or maybe two files, but I now have around 150 that I've converted from DVD.

All of the video files have the subtitles enabled as dafault and I simply want to turn them off by default. I've been dragging and dropping them into MKV Merge one by one and changing the subtitles property to "No", then simply re-saving them - very time consuming. Is there such a way that I can do this by bulk?

I was reading on the site which says:

Batch processing of header editing is just as easy. For example, if you want to set the title field for a couple of files to the base file name then you can do the following with bash/zsh:

for file in *.mkv ; do

mkvpropedit "$file" --set title="${file%.mkv}"

done

Now this sounds like the right sort of idea that I would need to do, but what is bash or zsh?

This command would also be helpful to give all the files a nice title rather than it just using the file name for the title.

I'm using Windows so anything Linux-like is a bit out of the question.

Thanks

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The best method I can come up with is.

1. Drag & Drop File into MKV Merge

2. Change subtitles property to "No"

3. Click Add to job queue

4. CTRAL+N

Repeat Step 1-4

And after you are done with all 150 of your shi... I mean MKV Video file CTRL+J. And click Start at the bottom. Done! Grab a beer or soft drink if you are still underage. While you wait for your computer to remux all of your video files for you.

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^ Yeah, I ended up doing that. I just didn't know if there was an easier way.

It's a shame MKV Merge doesn't have a feature to drag and drop 100 files into it for processing at once, rather you have to do each one at a time, then process after. I did speed things up by selecting various options though.

I'll take a look at the links above though, thanks :)

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