Matroska is a new multimedia container format, based on EBML (Extensible Binary Meta Language), which is a kind of binary XML. These tools allow one to manipulate Matroska files. * mkvmerge is a tool to create Matroska files from other formats * mkvinfo allow one to get information about the tracks in a Matroska file * mkvextract can extract tracks from Matroska files to other formats

This package only provides command-line tools. For graphical tools, you should install the mkvtoolnix-gui package.