# Delete audio track from mkv file

DevFeed: [Delete audio track from mkv file](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/delete-audio-track-from-mkv-file-27597.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://gagor.pro/2013/12/delete-audio-track-from-mkv-file/>)

Author: Tom

Published: 2013-12-16T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Tomasz Gągor](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/tomasz-gagor.md>)

Topics: [Streams](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/streams.md>), [Tool](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tool.md>), [container](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/container.md>)

Tags: [audio](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/audio.md>), [container](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/container.md>), [iso](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/iso.md>), [linux](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/linux.md>), [streams](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/streams.md>), [tool](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tool.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial on identifying and removing unwanted audio and subtitle streams from an MKV file using mkvmerge and, optionally, mkvinfo. The author notes that the selected approach avoids converting the streams.

## Source excerpt

Lately I tried to remove some streams from MKV file - I wanted: video, audio in my language and no subtitles. I achieved it with mkvtoolnix utils. Firstly I have to identify streams in file: $ mkvmerge -i input_file.mkv File 'test.mkv': container: Matroska Track ID 0: video (V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC) Track ID 1: audio (A_DTS) Track ID 2: audio (A_AC3) Track ID 3: audio (A_DTS) Track ID 4: audio (A_AC3) Track ID 5: subtitles (S_TEXT/UTF8) Track ID 6: subtitles (S_TEXT/UTF8) Chapters: 16 entries You could use more verbose tool mkvinfo for that purpose too.