Covers and metadata with Matroska MKV files

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How to edit and modify metadata and covers in Matroska MKV files, Puddletag and EasyTag only allows me in mp3 and mp4?

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Maybe MKVToolNix could help. It is available in the Gnome Software Store as Flatpak and APT Package:
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Sorry, MKVToolnix doesn't work for me. With this program I can add covers but I can't extract them afterwards, and I can't view the metadata that I'm interested in and use, year, artist, genre, etc.
I've currently solved it with Windows, the problem is that with Linux, I can't find the equivalent to the Windows program. EasyTag and Puddletag do work for mp3 and mp4, but not for mkv, I think the codecs are missing.
On Windows you need to install Download K-Lite Codec Pack Full Lite Codec to be able to work with MKV with the covers and metadata, but I don't know about it on Linux.

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Hmm ... Maybe Tagger could help. But the Problem ist, that I don't know if it supports MKV Files. There are supported File Types written but there stands ''and more''.

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It doesn't work. Thank you for your attention.

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I use ffmpeg for this.
Sadly, it doesn't have a GUI so you have to use the terminal.

Here are some examples

  1. View The Metadata of The File:
ffmpeg -hide_banner -i "video-name.mkv"
  1. Set/Edit Metadata:
ffmpeg -hide_banner -i "video-name.mkv" -c copy -map 0 -metadata title="Your Title" -metadata artist="Artist Name" -metadata comment="Comments go here" output.mkv
  • -metadata metaname="metavalue" (replace metaname and metavalue)
  1. Set Thumbnail/Cover:
ffmpeg -hide_banner -i "video-name.mkv" -attach "cover.jpg" -map 0 -c copy -metadata:s:t mimetype="image/jpg" -metadata:s:t:0 filename="cover.jpg" "output.mkv"
  1. Extract the Embedded Thumbnail/Cover:
ffmpeg -hide_banner -i "video-name.mkv" -map 0:v -map -0:V -c copy cover.jpg

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Note: Using ffmpeg will be pain in the eyes in the beginning due to lots of output text and scrolling :sweat_smile:.
But, it's really a good tool.

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I have installed Puddletag and Avidemux. With Avidemux I convert video files from MKV to MP4 and everything is fine.

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