2016-04-13, 15:56
Hi.
I like to introduce you a tool I've developed. It's called "MKV Buddy" . The main goal of MKV Buddy is to simplify and speed up daily work with video files. The basic use is pretty simple. You choose what you want to do, select the folder to work on and let MKV Buddy do the rest without further interaction.
The new MKV-Buddy V2 brings you wizards for any kind of video rework. The program can decide if a video needs to be recoded, remuxed or only be renamed and enriched with fanart and metadata with a single mouse click.
Aside this all options known from MKV-Buddý V1 are available too, most of them are enhanced or completely redone. As example the option to generate fanart for videos without online sources. Here you now can use templates for cover, backdrop and even borders (easy to create, add and remove by yourself). And you can select how many stills are used for cover and backdrop as you like. Options are 1 or 2 stills for poster and 2 to 6 stills for backdrops...
MKV Buddy is fully localized. English (default), French, Russian and German language files are delivered. The French and Russian translations are only at about 80% done. I need help from someone who can speak and write French or Russian to complete this. All language files are plain text files (language.lng) so it's pretty easy to translate it to your own language... Simply copy English.lng to "MyLanguage.lng" and translate the terms after the "=" in every line. If you've done a translation I would love to add it to the next release of MKV Buddy.
MKV Buddy is written in AutoIt3 and published under GPL licence
MKV Buddy needs a System running Windows XP or higher, x86 and x64 are good to go. Function under Windows 10 is not guaranteed as AutoIt itself is not fully Windows 10 compatible atm. But normally MKV-Buddy is working without issues on Win 10. There are separated 32 and 64 bit versions. Please download the version fitting to your OS.
MKV Buddy is using (pretty well known) external programs to handle different tasks. Those programs are all command-line tools, powerful but not that easy to use. Here is where MKV Buddy jumps in. Under the clean hood of MKV Buddy those tools doing their work invisible and without any needed action from the user. Those tools are:
a) ffmpeg - https://www.ffmpeg.org/
FFMpeg is used to remux videos to MKV. And it's used to extract still pictures from the video files used to generate missing fan-art.
b) mkvextract and mkvpropedit - https://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/
Mkvpropedit is needed for tagging and for attaching the fan-art to the MKV files and Mkvextract is used to extract tracks.
c) HandbrakeCLI - https://handbrake.fr/
HandBrakeCLI is the command-line version of the well known video transcoding tool Handbrake. HandbrakeCLI is used to recode videos to h264 and MKV.
d) nfo4mp - http://htpc-tools.de
This tool is written by @lightshock especially for MKV Buddy. It is used to grab meta-data and fan-art and to rename video files.
e) ImageMagick - http://www.imagemagick.org/
This program, especially one part of it, is used to generate fanart from still pictures.
f) meteorite.exe
This program is based on the original Meteorite program - http://www.mkvrepair.com/ - but was modified for MKV Buddy needs by @hwahrmann
MKV Buddy comes with a comfortable installer package containing all needed external programs in a 32 bit or 64 bit version.
Recent version is 2.0.1.5
You can download it at Softpedia:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/...uddy.shtml
or (in German language) from MKV-Buddy homepage:
https://htpc-tools.de/mkv-buddy/
I like to introduce you a tool I've developed. It's called "MKV Buddy" . The main goal of MKV Buddy is to simplify and speed up daily work with video files. The basic use is pretty simple. You choose what you want to do, select the folder to work on and let MKV Buddy do the rest without further interaction.
The new MKV-Buddy V2 brings you wizards for any kind of video rework. The program can decide if a video needs to be recoded, remuxed or only be renamed and enriched with fanart and metadata with a single mouse click.
Aside this all options known from MKV-Buddý V1 are available too, most of them are enhanced or completely redone. As example the option to generate fanart for videos without online sources. Here you now can use templates for cover, backdrop and even borders (easy to create, add and remove by yourself). And you can select how many stills are used for cover and backdrop as you like. Options are 1 or 2 stills for poster and 2 to 6 stills for backdrops...
MKV Buddy is fully localized. English (default), French, Russian and German language files are delivered. The French and Russian translations are only at about 80% done. I need help from someone who can speak and write French or Russian to complete this. All language files are plain text files (language.lng) so it's pretty easy to translate it to your own language... Simply copy English.lng to "MyLanguage.lng" and translate the terms after the "=" in every line. If you've done a translation I would love to add it to the next release of MKV Buddy.
MKV Buddy is written in AutoIt3 and published under GPL licence
MKV Buddy needs a System running Windows XP or higher, x86 and x64 are good to go. Function under Windows 10 is not guaranteed as AutoIt itself is not fully Windows 10 compatible atm. But normally MKV-Buddy is working without issues on Win 10. There are separated 32 and 64 bit versions. Please download the version fitting to your OS.
MKV Buddy is using (pretty well known) external programs to handle different tasks. Those programs are all command-line tools, powerful but not that easy to use. Here is where MKV Buddy jumps in. Under the clean hood of MKV Buddy those tools doing their work invisible and without any needed action from the user. Those tools are:
a) ffmpeg - https://www.ffmpeg.org/
FFMpeg is used to remux videos to MKV. And it's used to extract still pictures from the video files used to generate missing fan-art.
b) mkvextract and mkvpropedit - https://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/
Mkvpropedit is needed for tagging and for attaching the fan-art to the MKV files and Mkvextract is used to extract tracks.
c) HandbrakeCLI - https://handbrake.fr/
HandBrakeCLI is the command-line version of the well known video transcoding tool Handbrake. HandbrakeCLI is used to recode videos to h264 and MKV.
d) nfo4mp - http://htpc-tools.de
This tool is written by @lightshock especially for MKV Buddy. It is used to grab meta-data and fan-art and to rename video files.
e) ImageMagick - http://www.imagemagick.org/
This program, especially one part of it, is used to generate fanart from still pictures.
f) meteorite.exe
This program is based on the original Meteorite program - http://www.mkvrepair.com/ - but was modified for MKV Buddy needs by @hwahrmann
MKV Buddy comes with a comfortable installer package containing all needed external programs in a 32 bit or 64 bit version.
Recent version is 2.0.1.5
You can download it at Softpedia:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/...uddy.shtml
or (in German language) from MKV-Buddy homepage:
https://htpc-tools.de/mkv-buddy/
