mkvtoolnix overwrite option?

[bseos]

Im trying to change the default tracks and forced flag from german to english in alot of my ripped videos.
Thing is though, they are each 1080p quality videos and it takes time to write them to disk as a copy which mkvtoolnix (mkvmerge) does by default.

Is there any way to just get it to save to the original file? Without making a new copy of the file?

[Baldrick]

Nope. Try save to another hdd drive if possible for faster copying.

[zing269]

I believe that mkvpropedit, part of the mkvtoolnix package, will do what you want.

[Baldrick]

I believe that mkvpropedit, part of the mkvtoolnix package, will do what you want.

I have missed it. Some command line examples at the bottom: http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/doc/mkvpropedit.html

[bseos]

thanks,

mkvpropedit movie.mkv --edit track:a1 --set flag-default=0 --set flag-forced=0 --edit track:a2 --set flag-default=1 --set flag-forced=1

works fine for what i want.

However id also like to set audio track 1 to track 2 and bring track 2 up to track 1.
In simpler terms, switch the order of the audio tracks.
Can be this done?

[zing269]

Not without making another copy of the file. Changing the track order requires changing the actual structure of the file, while changing which track is the default only requires editing some data in the file.

[bseos]

i was afraid of that..

Doesnt matter though, i just realised that mkvtoolnix (mkvmerge GUI) can append jobs to a queue list. Ill just go through setting the flags on each video indiviually and have em all queued up to process before i go to sleep.

Thanks for your help fellas