nudebomb 0.3.5

Strip unused languages from mkv files en mass

Nudebomb

The Nudebomb recursively strips matroska media files of unwanted audio and subtitle tracks.

News

You may find user focused nudebomb changes in the NEWS file.

Requirements

• MKVToolNix
• Python3

Install

pip install

Usage

Posix

nudebomb -rl eng,fre /mnt/movies

Windows

nudebomb -b C:\\Program/ Files\MKVToolNix\mkvmerge.exe -rl eng,jap \\nas\movies

Config

You may configure Nudebomb options via the command, a yaml config file and environment variables.

Environment variable format

Prefix environment variables with NUDEBOMB_NUDEBOMB__ and enumerate lists elements:

NUDEBOMB_NUDEBOMB__RECURSE=True
NUDEBOMB_NUDEBOMB__LANGUAGES__0=und
NUDEBOMB_NUDEBOMB__LANGUAGES__1=eng

Lang Files

While you may have a primary language, you probably want videos from other countries to keep their native language as well. Lang files let you do this.

Lang files are persistent files on disk that nudebomb parses to keep to all languages in them in the mkvs in the current directory and all mkvs in sub directories.

Valid lang file names are: 'lang', 'langs', '.lang', or '.langs' They include comma separated list of languages to keep like the -l option.

e.g. You may have an entire collecttion of different TV shows with a root lang file containing the eng language. Under that directory you may have a specific TV show directory with lang file containing jpn. All mkvs in season directories under that would then keep both the eng and jpn languages, while other TV shows would keep only eng languages.

For each mkv file, nudebomb looks up the directory tree for each parent lang file and uses the union of all languages found to determine what languages to keep.

APIs

Langfiles would be obsolete if nudebomb could deterimining native languages for mkv files by polling and caching results from major online media databases. It's the right thing to do, but I don't care to implement it. Patches or forks welcome.

Inspiration

Nudebomb is a radical fork of mkvstrip. It adds recursion, lang files, timestamps and more configuration to mkvstrip and fixes some minor bugs.