chapterEditor(Chapter-Database Disc2mkv Matroska-Tools[Tags,Menu,Multi-MKV])+CLI

[apsen]

Looks good now.

I have noticed that the chapters are listed twice...

[hubblec4]

You mean for the normal mkv creation.
Ahh, I guess I have forgotten to ignore the chapters from the mpls input for the options.json file.
With the .mtxcfg file (create the MKV manually) the mpls-chapters are ignored(not used).

[hubblec4]

chapterEditor(cE) rev1.43 is available.
Windows (https://forum.videohelp.com/attachments/76969-1707700902/cE-W(1.43).7z)
Linux (https://forum.videohelp.com/attachments/76970-1707700902/cE-L(1.43).7z)


There is a new cE version with several improvements and a few bugs have been fixed.

DGDemux version 1.0.0.73 must now be used for BD2mkv because Rocky has made important improvements.


Change chapterEditor

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rev1.43 2024-02-12
// chapterEditor
& Support for the FFmpeg MetaData format


// Chapter Converter
& FFmpeg MetaData as output format
- Time base adjustable
- empty time base corresponds to nanoseconds

* FPS calculation now works again for the formats: Celltimes, MeGUI and x264QP


// Disc2mkv
& Multiple track selection by right-clicking to activate and deactivate the tracks
- Click on the checkbox -> all tracks
- Click on the track type -> all tracks of the same type
- Click on the language -> all tracks of the same language


// BD2mkv
& Support for specially structured mpls files
- removing duplicate m2ts files is not allowed
- for a Multi-Edition MKV this mpls must not be the first

* Multi-Edition MKV mode: external tracks are now correctly included in the .mtxcfg file again

# Multi-Edition MKV mode: better detection of whether mpls files can be merged into a Multi-Edition MKV

% Support for DGDemux 1.0.0.73 (settings)
- the switch "-sp" was replaced by "-ignorepl"
- the "-ch" switch has been removed


// Matroska Menu (Medium-Linking)
* Source is a folder: all previously loaded files are now correctly removed

[tormento]

chapterEditor(cE) rev1.43 is available.
Have tried to open multiple OGM chapters and applied rename checking the 'all tabs'. Rename is ok but when saving with middle click, it doesn't.

[hubblec4]

....saving with middle click, it doesn't.

Hmm, works fine here with local files in a folder on the desktop.

[tormento]

Hmm, works fine here with local files in a folder on the desktop.
Try with these (https://www.mediafire.com/file/175xix6i821fdrm/Dark_gathering_BDJP.7z/file).

I used it many times, it's giving me a bad headache now.

EDIT: I downloaded a fresh clean version, deleted everything. It works now. :)

[marooned2]

@hubblec4

Thanks for chapterEditor!
But, how do I save all the tabs to .xml in one go? Right now, I have to manually save each tab, one by one, and if there are dozens of them, it can be kinda boring and time-consuming.

[hubblec4]

Hi marooned2

Welcome to Doom9 forum.

With a middle click on the Save button, all tabs will be saved. You will find this info in the status bar of cE when the mouse is over the Save button.

[marooned2]

Thanks but it saves just one tab or none at all even though it says "Saving all tabs was successful".
Doesn't work even if I run chE as Admin.

[hubblec4]

OK, which chapter editor do you use? Matroska, OGG or multiAVCHD?

[marooned2]

Matroska, and I always save files to .xml (not xml + matroska files).
Can it be fixed by editing chE config file?

[hubblec4]

It works fine here.

See some posts above, tormento had the same problem.
Please try with a clean fresh install of cE.

[marooned2]

Well, no luck here even after starting chE from scratch. I even tried adding an exception in Avast but to no avail.
chE does batch-save cue files but can't save all tabs.

[hubblec4]

Very strange.
Can you try this test version (https://forum.videohelp.com/attachments/77659-1710367632/cE.7z), please?

What means "batch-save cue files"? (cE has no cue editor)

[marooned2]

The test version doesn't work either.

I meant Converter-->CueSheet.

[hubblec4]

I need more info about what you are doing.
What file do you load? Which format have the files?
Do you load a folder or multiple files?

Can you share with me some files?

[marooned2]

I load multiple files, all in txt format.
Here are the some examples in the attachment (currently pending approval)

[hubblec4]

Uploading here in this forum is not good. it takes toooooo much time for the approval.

OK, but I guess I see the issue.
You said you load .txt files:
You can only do a direct save when the files already in this format like the editor handles.

.txt files can not be saved as .xml files without an explicit new filename.

[marooned2]

So, how can I add "an explicit new filename" ?

[hubblec4]

So, how can I add "an explicit new filename" ?

A new file name is always re-entered through a save dialog.
Every program works in this way if the original format was not in the loaded file in the editor.

That's understandable because if cE simply overwrites this loaded file, the original content will be lost. In addition, the file extension is also incorrect.

Once you have loaded your file into the Matroska Chapter Editor and press the "Save" button, a save dialog will appear.
The next time you click on the “Save” button, it will be saved immediately.

The question I have is where do the chapter files come from?
Which program creates it and couldn't cE do it right away?

I also thought about it a long time ago whether it would make sense to allow/incorporate direct saving for "foreign" chapter formats.
The thing looks like this:
A new file name is needed.
We could now simply say: just swap the file extension. For your chapter files it would then be w21_02.xml.
The problem is, it can't be used that generally.
There are also chapter formats that are already stored in an XML structure, and therefore exchanging the file extension would no longer make sense.

[tormento]

Is there a way to batch remove from all tabs trivial chapters as 00:00:00.000?

Thanks.

[hubblec4]

No.
Why is this a trivial chatper?

[tormento]

No.
Why is this a trivial chatper?


What is the sense of having a chapter of a movie? [emoji854]

Anyway just my preference.

[hubblec4]

Is there only one chapter?
Is the file an MKV? -> In the main menu of the Matroska chapter editor is an entry "Remove chapters from Matroska files"

[tormento]

Is there only one chapter?
Is the file an MKV? -> In the main menu of the Matroska chapter editor is an entry "Remove chapters from Matroska files"


No, I have many with the first starting at 00:00:00.000.

If you prefer, add a function to add it, as my request comes from episodes saved as one huge m2ts, that I split with MKV to the different episodes. Unfortunately just the first one starts without 00 while the other haven’t that chapter.

[hubblec4]

Here is a test version (https://forum.videohelp.com/attachments/78778-1714613473/cE.7z).
Select an Edition and you will see a new button (right bottom corner).

Please let me know if it's fine for you.

[hubblec4]

chapterEditor(cE) rev1.44 is available.
Windows (https://forum.videohelp.com/attachments/79476-1717101016/cE-W(1.44).7z)
Linux (https://forum.videohelp.com/attachments/79477-1717101016/cE-L(1.44).7z)


Change chapterEditor

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rev1.44 2024-05-30

// chapterEditor
& GUI language: Simplified Chinese

* the scroll bar width is now determined for each OS and no unnecessary horizontal scroll bar is created anymore


// Chapter editors
& Automatic chapter names when loading simple chapter formats (settings)


// Matroska Chapters
& Delete zero-second chapters
- applies to all editions and all tabs

# Check for duplicate UIDs (editions and chapters)
- a duplicate UID is automatically replaced by a new one


// Disc2mkv
& MKVToolNix --timestampe-scale option for the magic value -1 (settings)
- gray status of the checkbox only means for Multi-Edition MKV mode


// BD2mkv
& Chapter check for a Multi-Edition MKV
- list all jumps in the MKV for each edition from the second
- change chapter times: individually, all chapters of an edition, all chapters
- the time change is always a video frame duration
- automatic playback of the MKV file when changes are checked

[tormento]

Select an Edition and you will see a new button (right bottom corner).
Sorry for the late reply.

It works fine, thank you. Is it possible to add middle click to apply to all the opened tabs?

[hubblec4]

The button works for all editions in all tabs.

[tormento]

The button works for all editions in all tabs.
I find a bit odd that to apply to all tabs I have to use right click while save all tabs uses middle click.

Could you uniform that behaviour?

[hubblec4]

Not really, the right click on the save button was first there and has a important function, and a change now will be much work.

[tormento]

Not really, the right click on the save button was first there and has a important function, and a change now will be much work.


You could change the delete same chapter button [emoji3526]

Left click, current tab, middle click all tabs.

[DreckSoft]

Could you please re-upload the CLI version? The link is dead.

[hubblec4]

Hi DreckSoft


Which link is dead?

Here is the link (https://www.videohelp.com/download/chapterEditorCLI(rev0.01).7z) from VideoHelp

[DreckSoft]

The one for the CLI version. I do have the regular version.

[hubblec4]

Yupp, it was a link to the old Forum, but there was an update.
I have renewed the link.

[rain940815]

Dear hubble,I tested again today following your suggestions, and indeed, after adding the target UID, the settings can be saved. However, both Foobar2000 and AIMP fail to recognize the tags information. If I remove the target UID, it reverts to the default value of "50". I tried adding manually edited tags using mkvtoolnix without the target UID, and both foobar2000 and AIMP can recognize the tags. Additionally, I found a new tag editor on GitHub, https://github.com/Martchus/tageditor, which works without any issues, and they also default to not adding the target UID. When I exported the added tags using gMKVExtractGUI, all tags were without the target UID. However, I noticed in the exported tags.xml that if your chapterEditor disables TargetType and target UID, then all tags lack TargetTypeValue, which doesn't happen in other apps. Could you please test this again? Thank you very much!

[tormento]

Would you please consider the capability to import/export qp files, according to a defined framerate?

I mean, drag and drop qp to create chapters and export chapters (even in batch mode) to qp.

For chapters to qp I can use the utility included with DGToolsNV but the inverse is not available.

[hubblec4]

Hi tormento

qp files are supported. Drop a file in cE, a window open with the frame rate settings.

[tormento]

Hi tormento

qp files are supported. Drop a file in cE, a window open with the frame rate settings.


Can I drop more than one using the same frame rate of the first one?

[tormento]

qp files are supported
I am surely doing some mistake but:

https://i.ibb.co/K0tVgMc/image.png

whose content is:

0 I -1
2162 I -1
12718 I -1
31062 I -1
32498 I -1
32874 I -1
35057 I -1
49850 I -1
63949 I -1
65384 I -1
65766 I -1
67947 I -1
78000 I -1
96845 I -1
98281 I -1
98667 I -1
100841 I -1
115804 I -1
129742 I -1
131177 I -1
131563 I -1
133746 I -1
148540 I -1
162635 I -1
164073 I -1
164460 I -1
166643 I -1
181308 I -1
195535 I -1
196970 I -1

[hubblec4]

Ahhh yes there was a "-1" at the end which I forgot to support. Thanks for the heads up.
I will fix this.

[tormento]

Ahhh yes there was a "-1" at the end which I forgot to support. Thanks for the heads up.
I will fix this.
While you are fixing it, please evaluate to adopt the most generic syntax (https://x265.readthedocs.io/en/master/cli.html#cmdoption-qpfile).

[hubblec4]

whose content is:

0 I -1
2162 I -1
12718 I -1
31062 I -1
32498 I -1
32874 I -1
35057 I -1
49850 I -1
63949 I -1
65384 I -1
65766 I -1
67947 I -1
78000 I -1
96845 I -1
98281 I -1
98667 I -1
100841 I -1
115804 I -1
129742 I -1
131177 I -1
131563 I -1
133746 I -1
148540 I -1
162635 I -1
164073 I -1
164460 I -1
166643 I -1
181308 I -1
195535 I -1
196970 I -1

When I copy the content, save to a normal text file and load in cE -> works.
Could you share with me your file?
There must be another issue, and I already support the "-1 qp" setting.

[tormento]

When I copy the content, save to a normal text file and load in cE -> works.
I have found that the problem is the file extension. Just rename .txt to .qp and it will stop working.

I use .qp to distinguish from chapters, that usually have .txt extension.

Add .qp to the supported file types, please.

P.S: As QP list defines the I-frames and the chapter file is sometime offset by some frames, it could be nice to load both files and visually compare the differences.

Look at these two files (https://www.mediafire.com/file/cxnwpbkwhgjrts6/S01_D1_001-006.7z/file) to understand what I mean.

As you can see, QP file is huge compared to the chapter one, as it includes all the detected scene changes. I usually give a scan to the video with PySceneDetect (https://github.com/Breakthrough/PySceneDetect), to have clean scene/chapters cuts.

Unfortunately I have to fix the chapter file manually.

[hubblec4]

Hi Tormento

Yes I can add the .qp file extension support.

[tormento]

Yes I can add the .qp file extension support.
Great.

Please, when you have time, let us convert from chapters to qp too.

I tried chapters2qp with large chapters and it creates 0 byte files.

[hubblec4]

Hi tormento

Here a test version (https://forum.videohelp.com/attachments/82634-1727986864/cE.7z) for the .qp extension support. Please let me know if all works.

[hubblec4]

Great.

Please, when you have time, let us convert from chapters to qp too.

I tried chapters2qp with large chapters and it creates 0 byte files.

What is chapters2qp?

cE can convert to qp format but the extension is ".txt".
Only the file extension have to be changed.
But cE should output the file with the .qp extension, right?

[tormento]

Please let me know if all works.
It works ok but I think there is some rounding problem in your calculations.

For the qp:

0 I -1
3605 I -1
12569 I -1
15624 I -1
27130 I -1
45463 I -1
55405 I -1
69448 I -1
79994 I -1
93141 I -1
104866 I -1
110269 I -1
122934 I -1
134232 I -1
138879 I -1
157300 I -1
165722 I -1
179996 I -1
186515 I -1
196496 I -1
208263 I -1

I get

cE ———————————— Excel —— Original chapters

00:00:00.000 0:00:00.000 00:00:00.000
00:02:30.358 0:02:30,359 00:02:30.359
00:08:44.232 0:08:44,232 00:08:44.232
00:10:51.651 0:10:51,651 00:10:51.651
00:18:51.547 0:18:51,547 00:18:51.547
00:31:36.185 0:31:36,186 00:31:36.186
00:38:30.850 0:38:30,850 00:38:30.850
00:48:16.560 0:48:16,560 00:48:16.560
00:55:36.416 0:55:36,416 00:55:36.416
01:04:44.755 1:04:44,756 01:04:44.756
01:12:53.786 1:12:53,786 01:12:53.786
01:16:39.136 1:16:39,136 01:16:39.136
01:25:27.372 1:25:27,372 01:25:27.372
01:33:18.593 1:33:18,593 01:33:18.593
01:36:32.411 1:36:32,412 01:36:32.412
01:49:20.720 1:49:20,721 01:49:20.721
01:55:11.988 1:55:11,988 01:55:11.988
02:05:07.333 2:05:07,333 02:05:07.333
02:09:39.229 2:09:39,230 02:09:39.230
02:16:35.520 2:16:35,521 02:16:35.521
02:24:46.302 2:24:46,303 02:24:46.303

Some timings are .001 second off. Much better you increase the decimal of the 24000/1001 division.

What is chapters2qp?
It's included in DGToolsNV. It automatically creates .qp when demuxing.

But cE should output the file with the .qp extension, right?
Not mandatory but nice not to confuse it with chapter .txt.