Non linear MKV Editor

Goal

• A GUI front-end to MKVMerge with a non linear editor-style, like dvbcut for MPEG TS.
• All tracks must be kept and copy by default, video, audio and subtitles.
• Preserve metadata.
• Thumbnails of image before black image.

Extensions

1. Remove ads: Shotdetect can detect scenes and produces a description in XML. This can be used to generate cutting points.
2. May reencode some tracks (ffmpeg -c copy -c:v ...)
3. Convert dvb subtitles to srt (OCR feature)

References

Command tool

• MKVmerge Extraction/copy des tracks à la précision d'une frame

Feature tools

• https://github.com/johmathe/Shotdetect Détecteur de scènes

Cut tool

• http://dvbcut.sourceforge.net/index.html

NL Editors

• Shotcut
• LiVES
• Kdenlive
• Avidemux
• Kino
• Openshot
• Pitivi
• Cinelerra
• Blender
• Lightworks
• Flowblade
• ...

Frameworks

• MLT Multimedia Framework -- https://www.mltframework.org/
• FFMpeg