In MKVToolNix GUI, I often see a line at the bottom of the track list that says something like “7 entries” but it’s not labeled as chapters or anything else. What exactly are these “entries”? And is there a way to view or edit these entries if needed?
Also, when merging via the command line, is it possible to exclude them, similar to how I can exclude subtitle tracks using something like:
mkvmerge.exe -o output.mkv --no-subtitles input.mkv input.srt
Is there an equivalent to --no-subtitles for these “entries”? Something like --no-entries?
Thanks in advance for any insights!
Usually there’s a “type” column that states what that thing is. You seem to have hidden the column (right-click on the column headers & you’ll get a menu where you can change which columns are shown). This type of entry is either tags or chapters.
You can view chapters by opening the file in the GUI’s chapter editor. There’s no tag editor yet; though it’s unclear if I ever find the motivation to implement one. Therefore you can probably only view tags by extracting them first.
There are CLI options for not multiplexing those: --no-chapters, --no-track-tags, --no-global-tags.
When in doubt, deactivate such things & let the GUI tell you the command-line arguments it’ll call mkvmerge with via the “Multiplexer” menu → “Show command line” option.
