Easy way to use mkvtoolnix as batch help

[xonathan]

Hello. I have a bunch of videos and sometimes i want to switch things around and remux entire folders of videos. Mkvtoolnix is awesome but it only does one at a time. Let's say i take the first video from folder AAA and plan out what i want to do with it in the mkvtoolnix GUI. Then I copy the Command Line and i get this for the first episode:

"C:/Program Files/MKVToolNix\mkvmerge.exe" --ui-language en --output ^"C:\Users\me\Videos\AAA\AAA_(episode title)_01 ^(1^).mkv^" --audio-tracks 0 --language 0:eng --language 2:und ^"^(^" ^"C:\Users\me\Videos\AAA\AAA_(episode title)_01.mkv^" ^"^)^" --no-video --no-chapters --language 0:jpn --track-name 0:Stereo --default-track 0:yes --language 1:eng --default-track 1:yes ^"^(^" ^"C:\Users\jslutz1\Videos\BBB\BBB_(episode title)_01.mkv^" ^"^)^" --track-order 0:2,0:0,1:0,1:1

Now i want to apply the same thing for all episodes in folder AAA using also all videos from folder BBB. I want to replace the "AAA_(episode title)_01" and "BBB_(episode title)_01" filenames with a wildcard so that it sequentially does the same instructions for all episodes in the folder when i execute the command in a batch file. I've seen things like for %%a and so on but my computer language skills are weak. So how can i do this in a way i'll understand what's going on? Thanks

[Vihefo]

I'm no expert myself sadly, but this is an example of my own command line.

For mkvmerge.exe, it would look for any MKV in a folder, process them, then save the new MKV's into the DONE subfolder. No original MKV's are overwritten.

for %%Z in ("*.mkv") do mkvmerge.exe ^
  -o "%%~nZ.mkv" "%%~Z"

So if you want to not iblude the date and stat tags during the remuxing, it would look like below.

for %%Z in ("*.mkv") do mkvmerge.exe ^
  --no-date ^
  --disable-track-statistics-tags ^
  -o "%%~nZ.mkv" "%%~Z"

For mkvpropedit.exe, the pattern is like below. But you don't need to save into a subfolder or different path. Modifications could be saved directly.

Say you want to change the language to ENG.

for %%Z in ("*.mkv") do mkvpropedit.exe "%%Z" ^
  --edit track:v1 --set flag-default=1 --set language=eng ^
  --edit track:a1 --set flag-default=1 --set language=eng

Say you want to also change the language of the second audio track to FRE, the third to SPA in one run.

for %%Z in ("*.mkv") do mkvpropedit.exe "%%Z" ^
  --edit track:v1 --set flag-default=1 --set language=eng ^
  --edit track:a1 --set flag-default=1 --set language=eng ^
  --edit track:a2 --set flag-default=1 --set language=fre ^
  --edit track:a3 --set flag-default=1 --set language=spa

Just for safety's sake, copy say three MKV's into a folder as your test MKV's. Then run the batch file there.


A hint though. After you are done editing with mkvpropedit.exe, I highly suggest that you remux such modified MKV's though. Yeah, some programs have issues after such modifications, and a simple remux would fix it. Good luck.

[avinewbie]

I have found MKV BAtch great for this task.
https://www.videohelp.com/software/MKVBatch
Hope it helps

[caseyjonez]

I have found MKV BAtch great for this task.
https://www.videohelp.com/software/MKVBatch
Hope it helps

Wow exactly what I need THX!