MKVINFO

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
VERBOSITY LEVELS
AUTHOR
SEE ALSO
WWW

NAME

mkvinfo − Print information about tracks in Matroska files

SYNOPSIS

mkvinfo [options] inname

DESCRIPTION

This program lists all tracks contained in a Matroska file including information about the codecs used.

inname

Use ’inname’ as the source.

−g, −−gui

Start the GUI. This option is only available if mkvinfo was compiled with GUI support.

−v, −−verbose

Be verbose and show all Matroska elements. See the section ´VERBOSITY LEVELS’ for details.

−h, −−help

Show usage information.

−V, −−version

Show version information.

VERBOSITY LEVELS

The -v option can be used to increase mkvinfo’s verbosity level and print more information about the current file.

level 0

will print only the track headers it finds and their types. mkvinfo will exit as soon as the headers are parsed completely (more technical: as soon as the first cluster is encountered).

level 1

will also print all Matroska elements ancountered for the complete file.

level 2

will also print the file position at which each Matroska element can be found at.

AUTHOR

mkvinfo was written by Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>.

SEE ALSO

mkvmerge(1)

WWW

The newest version can always be found at <http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/>