VideoSlimmer is a utility to remove unwanted audio and subtitles from Matroska (mkv extension) container formatted files. This can help reduce the size of your media collection whilst maintaining the audio and subtitles that you need.
- Install Python 2.6.0 or greater (not version 3.x)
- Install MKVToolnix 6.5.0 or greater
- Run from terminal/command prompt, syntax and examples below
VideoSlimmer.py --mkvmerge <path> --media <path> --lang <code> [--edit-title yes] [--delete-title yes] [--dry-run no] [--log <level>] [--keep-all-subtitles] [--version]
Language codes can be found here
Linux platform
python2 VideoSlimmer.py --mkvmerge /opt/mkvtoolnix/mkvmerge --media /media/movies --lang eng --dry-run no
Windows platform
VideoSlimmer.py --mkvmerge "c:\Program Files\mkvtoolnix\mkvmerge.exe" --media D:\media\movies --lang eng --dry-run no --edit-title yes
or specifying UNC path
VideoSlimmer.py --mkvmerge "c:\Program Files\mkvtoolnix\mkvmerge.exe" --media \\medaserver\media\movies --lang eng --dry-run no --delete-title yes
- VideoSlimmer will NOT remove audio or subtitles unless there is a match for the specified preferred language.
- VideoSlimmer IS recursive, thus all files/folders will be processed from the root defined media folder.
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