Chapters in Video?
Is there any way to include chapters in a video? How about creating a DivX video with the entire menu stucture from a DVD?
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I'm trying to figure this out myself. The "DMF" divx container format supports chapters, and so does their new container 'MKV' (Matrovska.)
I converted my whole library to AVI/Xvid with Handbrake, but I'd like to get more quality (and chapters, selectable audio and selectable subtitles) so I'm trying to learn how to use similar tools to get to H.264/MKV.
Now, reading over the list on Kamiwa's "must haves" [url=http://www.kamiwa.de/en/node/3] led me to MeGui, and this guide:
[url=http://mewiki.project357.com/wiki/MeGUI/Basic_DVD_Ripping_Guide/Setup]. Note how you can 'rip' the chapters out into different formats? (I'm guessing XML.)
So, what i've learned is the VOB container has the video in it as a 'stream', and it also has the audio as a 'stream', but the chapters are in there as streams too, and so are the menus.
I think what you'll end up with is a chapter file that shows what timestamps the chapters start at (but with no label data.) I think the DVD menu is trickier, and I'm not finding any applications to handle them, it might be too hard.
So my goal for this week is to produce at least a couple of MKV/H.264 files with chapters, alternate audio and a subtitle track.
I ordered DiVX 6.8 (no upgrade yet, but I downloaded the DiVX 7 kit. I'm not sure how to use that either.) Sorry I don't know the answer already, I'm in the same boat, but I'm sure there are plenty of people here who've already trudged this road, maybe they'll suggest/correct something here.
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For DivX 7 there is a tutorial on using some of the new tools here:
http://labs.divx.com/node/6992
Once you've read through that you should have a basic understanding of using the MKVMerge command-line, which you can use to put all your video, audio, metadata, and chapter points into your final compiled MKV file.
To add chapters, take a look at:
C:\Program Files\MKVtoolnix\examples\example-chapters-1.xml
Copy this file and modify it to suit your own content. Pass it to MKVMerge on the command line using --chapters "MyChapters.xml" .
There is also a chapter editor in MKVMergeGUI, which also ships with MKVToolnix.
Elephants Dream in our DivX 7 Showcase features chapter points. Currently the chapter titles are not displayed in DivX Player, you will instead see "Chapter 1" and so on, but this will be corrected in future updates.
This DIVX tool looks good for the menus (although I don't think Connected could play them:)
[url=http://labs.divx.com/MenuRaider]
And Chapter Xtractor looks like it could do the job if you have the .ifo.
[url=http://www.videohelp.com/tools/ChapterXtractor]