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[Now released] Restore MKV Format Support

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
January 24, 2023
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Removing MKV Format support has a negative impact on the workflow of people that work with broadcasting software like OBS. Restore MKV support. Having native support for MKVs, even if they don't edit well without generating proxies, saves me a ton of time that I'd otherwise have to spend remuxing/transcoding files.

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David177906232504

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Yes please restore mkv format support!!
The videos I have are in mkv format.

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filmbob

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Yes please

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Jacky_folf

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That was such an idiotic thing to do. I am now spending 48hours converting all the video files to a format a tool we paid for will accept. It's completely unacceptable

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José Alfú

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MKV is a needed format in my workplace.

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Kusumas

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I totally agree with this request. I edit YouTube live-streamed content for clients and they almost all use .mkv files. It is a very long-winded process to convert to H264 / MP4.
Please bring back MKV support.

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KK____

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I have several projects made using mkv files. please bring back the support for the format

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joe6420

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Please bring back mkv support or provide a method to convert the mkv files into a supported file type. I have a lot of historic files in this format I wish to still be able to use.

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fotografk13740699

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Importing mkv is not the main thing. Exporting mkv provides ample opportunities. The lack of mkv export is sad. For example, the ability to embed stereopair tags! Sadness.

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Boofster

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It is extremely annoying that Premiere does not handle this seemingly trivial feature.

I'm not sure if it's been posted yet but there is a quick work around.

Just pull out the tracks from the MKV.

Get MKVToolNix which you should probably have anyway as it's the best MKV manager IMO:
https://mkvtoolnix.download/downloads.html
This comes with a few command line tools and one of them is MKVextract.

Either use it straight up or get the GUI for it from here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gmkvextractgui/

After running extract, you will have a video file (mp4/avc/etc) and an audio file (ac3/etc)
If the file is eac3, just rename it to ac3

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JakeSherlock

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I have been going in circles. But as of this moment, the best solution that I have found - maybe new? Maybe not? - is to use 'Remux' in OBS under the file menu. I'm not sure if it is an OBS MKV format only thing or if you could use any MKV? My issue has been importing MKV from OBS to Premiere. This is the quickest method I've found so far.

I tried the renaming method found on YouTube etc. (change extension .mkv to .avi) but maybe it's an OBS MKV only issue it didn't work.

I've been struggling with using my Canon 600D (T3i). Recording more than 12 minutes at full res or beyond a 4GB file limit is impossible (firmware/canon BS)! I installed Magic Lantern. ML works great. It can record unlimited length in MLV RAW. However, the resolution is sacrificed to compensate for the camera's slow systems (Sensor to processor to SD card bottleneck) and, of course, Premiere doesn't like MLV files. A one and a half-hour recording were 30 files totaling 118GB. BUT!

I am now using OBS to record from the camera over USB. Canon has a 'Webcam' driver for most cameras and thus OBS can record at full res, 24fps into mkv. I remux it and BAM!

I sincerely hope this helps at least one person.

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