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MKVtools
MoKgVm2DVD is now called MKVtools to better reflect it's improved capabilities. It is an OS X application that I originally developed to provide the tools needed to prepare .ogm and .mkv files for use in DivX enabled DVD players. It's capabilites have now been expanded to include the conversion of .mkv and .ogm videos into .mp4 files with presets for iPod/iPhone. Presets for Apple TV, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 may be coming too. MKVtools, as the name sort of implies, is a graphical interface for a variety of tools useful for processing .mkv and .ogm video files.
If you're unfamiliar with the .ogm and .mkv file formats you may want to read up on them here. You also might want to look here for information on viewing internet video files on your TV if you're unfamiliar with DivX enabled DVD players.
Features
- Convert .mkv and .ogm videos to either .avi files or .mp4 files.
- Intuitively select desired video, audio and/or subtitle tracks to proces, with the ability to verify the selections using video preview.
- Use presets for one step encoding for playback on iphones/ipods (Apple TV, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 presets possible in future releases).
- Embed selected subtitle track (i.e., hard subtitles) into the video, though this requires that the video track must be re-encoded.
- Control the font, size and positioning of the embeded subtitles.
- Create a user-definable test clip to check settings (.avi only).
- Extract the selected tracks as individual video, audio and/or subtitle files.
- Add jobs to a queue either individually or in batches via drag and drop so you can process multiple files overnight (registered copies only)
System Requirements
The newest version of MKVtools has only been tested on system 10.5 though it will probably work on 10.4. Mencoder appears to have an issue with Power PC computers when trying to set the aac audio to low complexity, so mp4 encoding might not work for those users. Other functioality seems to be OK. Older versions of MoKgVm2DVD are still available and should run on sytems 10.2 throuh 10.4