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I have an MKV video file that has two audio tracks, a Hindi-language track and an English-language track. I guess the Hindi track is set as the default track. I have a video player that doesn't allow you to select different audio tracks, so it only plays the Hindi one.

So my question is, how can I change the default audio track to the English one? I found this tool that allows you to do it, but it's a command-line tool. Are there any GUI tools that achieve the same thing?

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its not only CLI. here you can download GUI: https://www.fosshub.com/MKVToolNix.html
and this is how you use it:

  • select tracks
  • set desired tracks as deafult
  • mux it all

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btw, you should consider to have new media player: https://potplayer.daum.net/

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  • is there a way to do it for multiple file at once
    – Hicham Bouchilkhi
    Dec 1, 2023 at 15:54
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I know this is old but for anyone that also wonders about this, there is a better GUI than mkvtoolnix to do this. JMkvpropedit lets you do all mkvtoolnix does with a better user interface.

Can be downloaded from here: JMkvpropedit's Doom9 topic

Editing subtitle tracks

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This is what the author says you can do with JMkvpropedit:

For now you can:

-Set title; default, forced, track name and language of video, audio and subtitle tracks (it was compiled for maximum of 30 tracks of each kind, I don't think it's needed, but can be changed easily on the source).

-For title and track names there's a basic numbering function, where you specify the starting number and the padding.

-You can set the path for mkvtoolnix now.

-It's possible to just get the command line instead of actually editing the files.

-You can add extra command line parameters for general and each track.

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