Joining without reencoding

[Hudson555x]

This question comes up quite a bit.
Shotcut re-encodes the video.

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How to cut without reencoding (MKV file, on linux)

I have a 240MB MKV (h264 +mp3) video captured from vokoscreen capture program in linux (about 1 hour long), and there’s a segment in it I want to cut out, which is all good and fine from the editing aspect, but when I try to export the video again it [obviously] is reencoded and subsequently that nice compact 240MB becomes about 850MB with even 1500kbps average bit rate (h264 output). Is there a proper way to export the edited video with the segment removed and preserve the existing encoding? O…