Chapter names on BD [Archive]

LeXXuz

13th September 2009, 09:33

Hello,

this might be a stupid question, but I was wondering if there are any chapter names stored on BD.

I worked a lot with HD DVD's lately and a lot of titles had chapter name information stored in the evo container.

On Blu-ray there seems to be no chapter information in the m2ts stream and the corresponding playlists seem to have only a chapter list but no names.

deank

13th September 2009, 21:04

I see no one's willing to answer :) so let me post:

You're right - no chapter names are available in m2ts files (nor in blu-ray mpls files). But it is possible to store chapter names in AVCHD.

I'm not sure how it will help you, but it is possible and by saying 'possible' I'm not saying that any $$$ software can/will utilize them.

What do you need it for?

rik1138

13th September 2009, 22:58

You can put chapter names in the Disc Library Metadata (in the folder BDMV/META/DL on the disc). A player could then, theoretically, access and display the names of the chapters you are currently watching. However, I don't know of a player off hand that will actually read the chapter names and display them...

LeXXuz

14th September 2009, 08:37

I'm not sure how it will help you, but it is possible and by saying 'possible' I'm not saying that any $$$ software can/will utilize them.

What do you need it for?

Thanks for your replies guys. Well I don't actually need them, it was more a question out of curiosity. Seen chapter names a couple of times on HD DVD, I was just wondering if there are any on Blu-ray as well. But I haven't seen any so far, that's why I asked. :)

deank

14th September 2009, 08:52

You can put chapter names in the Disc Library Metadata (in the folder BDMV/META/DL on the disc).

This reminds me of your post here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1266223#post1266223) and I'll include this in multiAVCHD output for Blu-ray mode.

Here is what I did... (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1325366#post1325366)

edit2: I also added chapter / title-search information in META\ES folder, so now most of the information is available in META folder when authoring Blu-ray disc with multiAVCHD.