mkvmerge does not recognise srt files

[sensimilla]

Binary package hint: mkvtoolnix

mkvmerge -0 file.mkv file.avi subtitles.srt

Error: The file 'subtitles.srt' has unknown type. Please have a look at the supported file types ('mkvmerge --list-types') and contact the author Moritz Bunkus <email address hidden> if your file type is supported but not recognized properly.

list-types shows srt as supported.

The packages it comes from are:
intrepid (graphics): 2.0.2-1.1
Binary Packages:
mkvtoolnix mkvtoolnix-gui

Using 8.10

It seems very likely that it is the same bug as this debian one.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=471049

and indeed If i use apt-get -b source mkvtoolnix then it works fine.

[Vincent Tschanz (fogia)]

I confirm this bug.
The same error happens when using the MMG (mkvMerge Gui).

[Vincent Tschanz (fogia)]

Ubuntu package are available here.

Could someone add them into Ubuntu repository to replace the bugged one?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package mkvtoolnix - 2.4.1-repack1-0ubuntu1

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mkvtoolnix (2.4.1-repack1-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  [ Josh Triplett ]
  * New upstream version 2.4.1 (LP: #196324, #290741)
    * Handles newer revisions of Theora.
    * Requires libboost-dev and libboost-regex-dev; add them to Build-Depends.
    * Incorporates patches/20-honor-strip and patches/30-mplayer-options;
      patches removed.
    * Incorporates part of patches/40-gcc-4.3; patch updated.
    * Remove base64tool, removed upstream.

  [ Julien Lavergne ]
  * Repack tarball to remove debian/ directory and update config.sub and
    config.guess.
  * Rebuild for API changes (LP: #303079)
  * debian/control
   - Conform to Standards 3.8.0.
   - Replace libwxgtk2.6-dev Build Depends by libwxgtk2.8-dev (LP: #125627)
  * mkvtoolnix.links
   - Link to quilt README.source to conform 3.8.0 Standards.
  * debian/copyright
   - Convert to UTF-8.
   - Add the version of the GPL.
   - Add Copyright notice.
  * debian/mkvtoolnix-gui.menu
   - Switch from Apps to Applications.
  * debian/rules
   - Don't ignore errors in clean rule.
  * debian/patches:
   - Add descriptions.
   - 10-manpage-error: Update.

 -- Julien Lavergne <email address hidden> Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:59:21 +0100

[Artur Rona (ari-tczew)]

 mkvtoolnix (2.7.0-0.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Non-maintainer upload.

   [ Josh Triplett ]
   * New upstream version (Closes: #503261)
     * Handles newer revisions of Theora. (Closes: #458024)
     * Requires libboost-dev and libboost-regex-dev; add them to Build-Depends.
     * Incorporates patches/20-honor-strip and patches/30-mplayer-options;
       patches removed.
     * Incorporates part of patches/40-gcc-4.3.patch; patch updated.
     * Remove base64tool, removed upstream.

   [ Julien Lavergne ]
   * Rebuild for API changes
    - (Closes: #426656, #437144, #471049, #476879, #481851, #483440)
   * debian/control
    - Conform to Standards 3.8.1.
    - Replace libwxgtk2.6-dev Build Depends by libwxgtk2.8-dev.
   * debian/README.source
    - Add to conform to Standards 3.8.1.
   * mkvtoolnix.links
    - Link to quilt README.source to conform 3.8.0 Standards.
   * debian/copyright
    - Convert to UTF-8.
    - Add the version of the GPL.
    - Add Copyright notice.
   * debian/mkvtoolnix-gui.menu
    - Switch from Apps to Applications.
   * debian/rules
    - Don't ignore errors in clean rule.
   * debian/patches:
    - Add descriptions.
    - 10-manpage-error.patch: Update.
   * debian/watch:
    - Update to version 3.

   [ Benjamin Drung ]
   * debian/mkvtoolnix-gui.desktop:
     - Remove deprecated value "Application" from Categories.
     - Remove deprecated Encoding key.
     - Remove extension from icon file name.
   * debian/control: Break and sort Build-Depends entry.
   * Switch to debhelper from deprecated version 4 to 7 to make lintian happy:
     - debian/control: Bump Build-Depends version of debhelper to 7.
     - debian/compat: Bump to 7.
     - debian/rules:
       - Replace dh_clean -k by dh_prep.
       - *-stamp files are now removed by dh_clean.
   * Add .patch suffix to patch files.
   * debian/rules: Remove automatically generated hidden directories and
     Makefiles.

 -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:42:00 +0200