What's new in MKV2MP4 1.5.0
Aug 29, 2022
- MKV2MP4 is now free and supported by showing our other apps
- Fully native support for Apple's new M1 (ARM) Macs
- Added hidden options to always passthrough unknown audio tracks
New in MKV2MP4 1.4.15 (Aug 29, 2022)
- IMPORTANT: The minimum system requirements have been raised to macOS 10.13
- Improved reliability and performance
New in MKV2MP4 1.4.11 (Aug 29, 2022)
- Fixed problems with app failing to launch with 'expiry' message
New in MKV2MP4 1.4.10 (Mar 19, 2019)
- Fixed possible crash related to using a 'Watchfolder'
- Add support for 'Dark Mode' on macOS 10.14 'Mojave'
- Add ability to passthrough the 'VP9' video codec to MP4 files
- Pre-select right folder when having to the open destination folder
New in MKV2MP4 1.4.9 (Apr 13, 2018)
- Added options to use variable-bitrate (VBR) when converting audio to AAC
- Improved audio quality when converting to AAC
- Fix problem with movies that contain multiple video tracks
New in MKV2MP4 1.4.8 (Mar 10, 2018)
- Fixed problems when there is not enough free disk space for conversion
- Fix very rare movies containing 'Main-profile' AAC tracks playing without sound
- Detect 'rv40' video codec which can not be converted
New in MKV2MP4 1.4.7 (Jan 8, 2018)
- Fixed rare conversion failure with "Too many packets buffered"
- Add options for custom conversion of unknown 5.1 audio-tracks
- Improve speed and quality by treating E-AC3 the same as AC3 audio
- Fixed detection of some 5.1 surround audio tracks
- Fixed problem related to parallel queue feature
New in MKV2MP4 1.4.6 (Dec 5, 2017)
- Fix issue where the fifth conversion would always fail.
New in MKV2MP4 1.4.5 (Nov 30, 2017)
- Add option to convert multiple MKVs concurrently for even more speed
- Add option to 'watch' a folder to automatically convert MKVs added there
- Allow disabling alert when MKVs have been removed before conversion
- Fixed problem with audio-track language selection on 10.12 and 10.13
New in MKV2MP4 1.4.0 (Oct 25, 2017)
- H265/HECV support for producing HEVC MP4s compatible with macOS 10.13 / iOS 11 / tvOS 11.
- Added option to convert to surround AAC audio format
- Added options to specify custom conversion of FLAC audio
- Improved reliability
New in MKV2MP4 1.3.9 (Sep 16, 2017)
- IMPORTANT: you can now buy MKV2MP4 outside the Mac App Store, using 'Paddle'
- Fixed problems converting MKVs with 2-letter language-codes
- Prevent errors when trying to convert incompatible WMV videos
- Prevent warning messages due to posters embedded into videos
New in MKV2MP4 1.3.8 (Sep 16, 2017)
- Fixed rare crash when processing some damaged files
- Accept AVIs for conversion to MP4 (unsupported and likely to fail)
- Add FAQ section about converting unsupported video files
New in MKV2MP4 1.3.7 (Apr 22, 2017)
- Fixed rare crash when having multiple entries of a broken bookmark
- Add new jobs on top by default - restore old behavior by: defaults write com.corecode.MKV2MP4 InsertJobsAtBottom -bool YES
New in MKV2MP4 1.3.6 (Dec 22, 2016)
- Fixed rare conversion problem on broken files since v1.3.4
New in MKV2MP4 1.3.5 (Nov 29, 2016)
- Fixed detection/conversion of 7.1 DTS-HD audio tracks.
New in MKV2MP4 1.3.4 (Nov 24, 2016)
- Fix for some MKVs failing to convert.
New in MKV2MP4 1.3.3 (Jun 27, 2016)
- Fix for result MP4 sometimes containing wrong language audio.
New in MKV2MP4 1.3.2 (May 6, 2016)
- Fix possible conversion problems when changing audio volume
- Added complete localization to French (thanks to Francois Riou)
- Added partial localization to Norwegian
New in MKV2MP4 1.3.1 (May 3, 2016)
- Fix problem with "additionally include 5.1 track" setting
- Fix problem with destination folder selection not being remembered
- Improved detection of surround sound tracks
New in MKV2MP4 1.3.0 (Apr 17, 2016)
- Dramatically improved performance for all conversions to AAC
- Added a "Next to" option to always create the MP4 next to the original MKV
- The minimum system requirement now is Mac OS X 10.10 "Yosemite"
- Improved reliability and stability
- Detect 'aic' video codec which can not be converted
- Fix issues when pressing 'Enter' in main window
- Fix problem with selecting default conversion destination folder
- Include a complete localization to German
- Include a comprehensive localization to Italian (thanks to Mattia Confalonieri)
- Include partial localizations to all languages supported by Mac OS X
New in MKV2MP4 1.2.12 (Mar 22, 2016)
- Improved detection of system problems (posix_spawn)
- Detect broken audio tracks which can not be converted
- Detect 'msmpeg4v3' video codec which can not be converted
New in MKV2MP4 1.2.11 (Dec 22, 2015)
- Detect files that are too damaged to convert
- Catch basic system problems (posix_spawn)
New in MKV2MP4 1.2.10 (Jul 6, 2015)
- Fix problem since 1.2.8 where wrong audio track would be used
New in MKV2MP4 1.2.9 (Jun 22, 2015)
- Allow "audio boost" up to 400%
- More informational error diagnosis reports
New in MKV2MP4 1.2.8 (May 20, 2015)
- Allow handling .TS files
- Make Finder's "Open with…" work when the app is not running
- Fixed app icon not showing up in the about window
- Fixed problem when bookmarked folders are deleted
- Fixed problem when canceling destination folder selection
New in MKV2MP4 1.2.7 (Mar 20, 2015)
- Fixed problem converting MKVs with FLAC audio with certain settings
- Added support for converting files that don't contain any audio tracks
- Faster file scanning and reduced the applications binary size
- Include our 'privacy policy' in the documentation
- Non-MKV files with compatible video tracks can now be converted
- Improved handling of files with incompatible video tracks
New in MKV2MP4 1.2.6 (Feb 2, 2015)
- Fixed conversion problem with some files
New in MKV2MP4 1.2.5 (Jan 19, 2015)
- Fixed problem ("invalid MKV") with 10.7 & 10.8 introduced in last version
- Made subtitle handling more error-resilient - restore old behavior by: defaults write com.corecode.MKV2MP4 FixSubtitleDuration -bool no
New in MKV2MP4 1.2.4 (Nov 20, 2014)
- Fixed conversion problem with some files
- Fixed problem where audio track would be missing for very long movies
- Fixed problem with subtitles in UTF-16 format
- Redesigned informational welcome-message to be less disturbing
- Add FAQ entry about converting movies for the AppleTV
New in MKV2MP4 1.2.3 (Sep 4, 2014)
- Fixed problem when converting to .m4v extension introduced in 1.2.2
New in MKV2MP4 1.2.2 (Sep 2, 2014)
- Fixed conversion problem with some files
- Made preferences window fit on small screens
New in MKV2MP4 1.2.1 (Aug 7, 2014)
- Added option to specify subtitle encoding to prevent missing subtitles
- Detect disk/network problems when saving files instead of just failing
- Added hidden option (Terminal) to produce streamable 'fast-start' files: defaults write com.corecode.MKV2MP4 ProduceStreamableFiles -bool yes
New in MKV2MP4 1.2.0 (May 29, 2014)
- Added option to control sound volume of converted audio track
- Added option to convert HE-AAC to AAC for improved compatibility
- Added recognition of subtitle files that have suffixes like '-eng' or '-forced'
- Added warning when converting files that can't be converted to MP4
- Added warning when movie to convert disappears during conversion
- Added warning when dropping Aliases onto MKV2MP4
- Improved conversion speed of files with MP3 audio track
- Improved cleanup of temporary files when conversion fails
- Fixed some conversion failures with subtitles
- Fixed long stall before conversion finish of files with 5.1 audio track
- Fixed crashes with malformed videos or videos without audio track
- Fixed rare conversion failure of files with only a 5.1 FLAC audio track
- Fixed problem where queue would not continue after a conversion failure
- Fixed problem where passthrough setting would not work for 2.0 DTS audio
- Fixed problem with files with 5.1 audio track and apostrophe in the filename
New in MKV2MP4 1.1.8 (Nov 23, 2013)
- Improved stability and reliability and performance
- Warn when converting videos which can not be viewed on the PS3
- Fixed conversion of files with damaged AAC audio tracks
- Detect when source MKV is removed before conversion starts
New in MKV2MP4 1.1.7 (Sep 20, 2013)
- Fixed detection/conversion of 6.1 DTS-ES audio tracks
New in MKV2MP4 1.1.6 (Jun 26, 2013)
- Fixed possible crash caused by system updates
- Fixed problem related to external subtitles introduced in 1.1.5
- Added support for recognizing subtitle files with language coded filename
New in MKV2MP4 1.1.5 (Jun 20, 2013)
- Fixed problem where MKV2MP4 would "freeze" converting some files
- Added support for generating surround 5.1 files compatible with AppleTV
- Added option to generate files with M4V extension instead of MP4 extension
- Added elapsed conversion time display for finished files
- Fixed "Additionally include 5.1 audio track" option for files with AAC main audio track
- Fixed problem where added files would be processed in the reverse order
- Fixed problem where language codes for audio tracks would not match the source file
New in MKV2MP4 1.1.1 (May 3, 2013)
- IMPORTANT: fix incompatibility with Mac OS X 10.7.x
- Fix rare conversion failure with FLAC5.1 audio and the "include 5.1 audio" option
New in MKV2MP4 1.1.0 (Apr 17, 2013)
- Improved subtitle support
- Fixed conversion of files with broken AAC audio tracks
- Display status icons after conversion
- Added options to rate the app on the MacAppStore or on MacUpdate
- Added option to delete original file after conversion
- Fixed rare problem where resulting file would play at a weird resolution
- Warn when user selects a read-only file destination
- Improved calculation of necessary free disk space for conversion
- Warn when conversion failed because of a full hard-disk
- Prevent system idle sleep during conversion (to prevent conversion failures)
- Ask about really quitting the application when conversion is in progress
- Fixed layout problem
- Warn on rare 10-bit videos that won't play on most devices
- Disabled subtitle conversion by default (can cause rare conversion failures)
New in MKV2MP4 1.0 (Jan 24, 2013)