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MKVToolnix is a set of tools to create, alter and inspect Matroska
-(and WebM) files. With these tools one can:
+(and WebM) files. With these tools, you can
-MKVToolnix requires wxGTK or wxPython. It comes with internal versions
-of libembl and libmatroska, and it will use the internal versions if they
-are not installed on the system.
+* Get information about Matroska files (mkvinfo)
+* Extract tracks/data from Matroska files (mkvextract)
+* Create Matroska files from other media files (mkvmerge)
+* Modify properties of existing Matroska files (mkvpropedit)
-Interested parties can build a QT GUI by passing QTGUI=yes to the script.
+MKVToolnix requires wxGTK/wxPython all of which are available on
+Slackbuilds.org and it comes with internal versions of libembl and
+libmatroska. Configure will use the internal versions if it fails
+to find system ones.
+
+Interested parties can build QT version of GUI by passing QTGUI=yes