Mkvtoolnix

Not sure what you are trying to do exactly, but if my mix your movies, you mean transcode from one format to another and/or to strip out unwanted stuff and shrink the files down, have a look a fileflows. I’ve been using it for several years to automatically do this for every file that gets put in the directories it watches.

FileFlows

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Alternately there are other options like tdarr and unmanic, but of the 3 of those, I found fileflows the easiest to get working the way I wanted.

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No samples for mkvtoolnix, unfortunatelly

The readme in the github link you shared actually has an example. You can refer to the compose files for Jellyfin and qBittorrent, and add the necessary environment options from github to the mkvtoolnix compose file. Similarly, you will need to modify the appropriate volumes.

like:

Original compose file is:

services:
  mkvtoolnix:
    image: jlesage/mkvtoolnix
    ports:
      - "5800:5800"
    volumes:
      - "/docker/appdata/mkvtoolnix:/config:rw"
      - "/home/user:/storage:rw"

Add environment variable options:

services:
  mkvtoolnix:
    image: jlesage/mkvtoolnix
    environment:
      - USER_ID=1000
      - GROUP_ID=100
    ports:
      - "5800:5800"
    volumes:
      - "/docker/appdata/mkvtoolnix:/config:rw"
      - "/home/user:/storage:rw"

Please make sure to modify the volumes to fit your folder locations.

Quote from Stasys

Did that already)

I have my compose configured and running there qbittorrent and jellyfin. Installed them from samples. No samples for mkvtoolnix, unfortunatelly(

Thanks! Will take a look. I need mkvtoolnix to add subtitles and change some audio files inside mkv. Nor sure that fileflow will do that, but I see other use for my needs.

Fileflows can add and remove audio and subtitles as required. It is best used as an automated process, not something that required user intervention on a file by file basis. I have mine configured to remove all unwanted streams (foreign language audio and subs) and transcode into an mp4 container with bitrates and frame sizes I determined to be acceptable for my needs, in order to to make the file more universally compatible.

It theoretically could probably also add external subs automatically if you need it as long as you adhere to a naming convention where the subs have the same name as the video and sits next to the video on the drive, so that variable can be used to pick up the file for embedding. This is not something I have tried though and can’t tell you exactly how to structure a workflow for it.