MKV: how to automatically add a chapter when appending a file?

[stony8]

hi

I want to combine about 25 mkv's to one big mkv, and it would be nice if I could skip through it using chapter points.

is there a way to automatically generate a chapter at the point where a new .mkv is appended?

thanks!

[talen9]

Not exactly ... but I think you can write down the length of each of the single file and write yourself an OGM formatted chapter file, which is suitable for chapter hinting in Matroska ...

[stony8]

inserting a chapter file by hand isnt that big of a problem

but is there a way of generating the chapterfile automatically?

the MKV's come from a 25 title DVD (I need to convert several multi title DVD's) , is there a way to extract the length of the DVD titles to a file? (I probably can solve how to convert it to a proper chapter file.)

thanks

[talen9]

Hmm probably there's some tool to do that starting from the DVD, but I don't know what it should be, wait for someone else for hints about this.

The way I'do this, is extracting the info about the length directly from the MKV files (via mkvinfo, for instance). If you have access to a Linux box, or if you use Cygwin on windows, it's not so hard to implement a scripted solution for the whole mux.