Extracting BluRay Chapters

[x1nick]

Im re-encoding all my bluray disks to mkv format and storing them on my file server.
I have successfully done the audio and video to a standard im happy with.

But when muxing them with megui I need something to extract the chapters to an appropriate format for importing on the megui muxer.

I know with tsmuxer I can get the chapters from the m2ts file but how do I convert these to a suitable file?

[saint-francis]

Im re-encoding all my bluray disks to mkv format and storing them on my file server.
I have successfully done the audio and video to a standard im happy with.

But when muxing them with megui I need something to extract the chapters to an appropriate format for importing on the megui muxer.

I know with tsmuxer I can get the chapters from the m2ts file but how do I convert these to a suitable file?

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=125966

This will give you chapters you can work with. Frankly I'm surprised that you don't know about eac3to since it's the only tool that can properly handle seamless branching Blu Rays.

[x1nick]

Thanks. I use eac3to, but with a GUI front end to it.
Which dosen't have any options for subtitles.

Will have a go with the command line and see how I get along with it.

[saint-francis]

Which GUI? The eac3toandmoreGUI has the option to select chapter and subtitles. I don't remember if the one by the keymaker does, but that one is terminally out of date anyway. Also the new eac3to gui can also deal with subtitles and chapters.

[x1nick]

Just had a play with eac3toandmoreGUI and seems really good. I had been using the one by keymaker. But think I will be switching to this much more advanced program now.

Just got to work out how to find forced subtitles!
thanks for your help :)

[saint-francis]

Just got to work out how to find forced subtitles!
thanks for your help :)

There is now explicit way to do that yet. But, usually forced subtitles don't display as often as regular subtitles. So you extract all of the subtitles for the language that should be displayed and take the smallest file. That should be the forced subtitles. Then you need to convert them to something that you can stick inside an .mkv along with your other streams. Matroska doesn't support .sup files which are what are in the BD's. You need to use supread to convert them to HDDVD .sup's and then use subtitlecreator to convert them to vobsub format. Or alternately you can use suprip to convert them to .srt, but while you retain the original resolution of the subtitles, you loose many other things like color and placement on the screen.