extracting streams

[Selur]

I really have difficulties understanding why Hybrid is not as widely popular as Hand Brake for example.

Handbrake:

• is older than Hybrid
  
• is a lot better documented than Hybrid. There is no documentation for Hybrid, since I never got around to write one + it has tons of options which would require tons of documentation and backround explainations for beginner users to fully understand it.
  
• is easier to use as it only can do a fraction of the stuff Hybrid can.
  
• is aiming for a totally different crowd of users. Hybrid is mainly developed for advanced users which know what they want and use it since it offers options other tools don't.
  
• is way better suited to handle broken/damaged sources since it processes audio&video at the same time which offers more options to 'fix' things (or ignore errors).
  
• can be used through the command line which makes it more interessting for folks that want to script stuff.
  
• ...
  

There are tons of reasons I can think of why Hybrid isn't that popular, but that's okay.
When I started to develop Hybrid since I wanted a gui, which I could use on Linux&Mac&Windows to do some simple tasks using the same frontend, but that allowed me to use options which most frontends didn't.

About extracting stuff:
If you want to extract audio or video streams simply set them to 'passthrough' and use .raw as output container.
Hybrid will add the proper file extension when extracting the streams.

But since mkvextract GUI is grossly outdated (2007) there is no program that allows extraction for specific portions of the file (video, audio feeds, subtitles, fonts).

There should be tons of ffmpeg frontends which should be able to extract all the stuff you want.

=> So if you are aiming for some one-click-tool, then Hybrid simply isn't what you are looking for.

Cu Selur