Is there a player that automatically skips certain mkv chapters?

[sneaker_ger]

Hi,

When watching a bunch of episodes from tv series' it's really annoying to watch the intro and outro over and over again (Or having to skip them manually..). Is there any software player for Windows that can automatically skip chapters?
For example: Skip chapter 1 and 3 of every mkv file in the playlist.
I also have some older series inside of avi containers which - of course - lack chapters. But as a workaround the player should be able to skip for example the first and last minute of a file.

Is there any player that can do this? I'm mostly using Media Player Classic - ist there any mod for it that can do this?

[joseph5]

You can modify the files using "Ordered Chapters". These feature of Matroska files enables you to define some chapters as "hidden", so the player will skip them. Search the forum for more information.

[sneaker_ger]

Thanks, I'll look into it.
Don't have that much time at the moment but from the first things I've seen it seems really complicated. (I've found this: link (http://www.uppcon.se/thefluff/hurfdurf/?p=8))
And there is no program for newbies, right? I've tried mkvmerge's chapter editor but it doesn't seem to be able to do it.

[Adub]

I am pretty sure mkvmerge's chapter editor should be able to do it. I am running a borked install right now, so I can't check, but it should be able to do ordered chapters.

Edit: I take that back. According to The Fluff, it doesn't. You may have to do it by hand with xml.

[rvm]

With mplayer you can use something like this: -chapter 2-4.
That would play from chapter 2 to 4 (inclusive).

[sneaker_ger]

Is that only possible with the cli version or can it also be done with the gui?

[rvm]

I don't know about the mplayer default gui, but smplayer and mpui allow to enter options for mplayer.

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/2673/chaptersuv5.th.png (http://img100.imageshack.us/my.php?image=chaptersuv5.png)

BTW, I realized this feature is broken in recent versions from svn, but it works for instance with mplayer svn r25873.