Can anyone help me? I am trying to figure out how I can keep my DVD/Blu-ray chapters when I rip them with MakeMKV. I had someone tell me but it does not seem to work. All they said was check the box in the options. What am I missing? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Dave B
How to keep chapters when ripping my DVD's and Blu-ray's????
Re: How to keep chapters when ripping my DVD's and Blu-ray's????
Unless you specifically tell MakeMKV to not include chapters, they will be there, if they were in the source.
Some DVD and BD disk are authored with multiple "views", some of which don't have chapters. This is often the case if you chose an m2ts file instead of a mpls play list file. But, MakeMKV will tell you how many chapters are in the source, so that should be obvious when it happens.
As for what happens after that, if your play isn't chapter-aware, having them isn't going to help.
Some DVD and BD disk are authored with multiple "views", some of which don't have chapters. This is often the case if you chose an m2ts file instead of a mpls play list file. But, MakeMKV will tell you how many chapters are in the source, so that should be obvious when it happens.
As for what happens after that, if your play isn't chapter-aware, having them isn't going to help.
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Re: How to keep chapters when ripping my DVD's and Blu-ray's????
For some odd reason no matter what I do I am not able to keep the movie chapters. What Am I doing wrong?
Dave B
Dave B
Re: How to keep chapters when ripping my DVD's and Blu-ray's????
How do you know the chapters aren't there? Some players cannot handle chapters, for various reasons.
Play the MKV file in VLC. In the Playback menu, is the Chapters item available? Does it list chapters?
Play the MKV file in VLC. In the Playback menu, is the Chapters item available? Does it list chapters?
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FAQ about BETA and PERMANENT keys.
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Re: How to keep chapters when ripping my DVD's and Blu-ray's????
I think i know what Woodstock means. Woodstock means don't change any of the preferences in makemkv and it will include all the parts/episodes on the disc. But thats not what i think DaveB is looking for, he's looking for a way to keep the chapters (mpls files) in the main movie. I'm having to same questions but i'm not trying to rip movies but High Fidelity Pure Audio discs and i would like to keep a single file and skip within that file to the next song(chapter). Yeah that's not possible with makemkv maybe it's possible with/in mkvtoolnix, handbrake or ripbot.
@DaveB read this: viewtopic.php?t=7088
@DaveB read this: viewtopic.php?t=7088
Re: How to keep chapters when ripping my DVD's and Blu-ray's????
How do you work with MakeMKV? Do you make a decrypted backup and then use the m2ts files or do you let MakeMKV create MKV files?
M2TS files do not have meta information like chapters or audio languages.
Re: How to keep chapters when ripping my DVD's and Blu-ray's????
When I rip a TV show or movie, I always saw chapters using MakeMKV. I can even go so far as to name the Episode, then even name the chapter breaks, so when you play in PLEX, VLC Player or what-not can see those clearly.
What I would like to know is.....is there anything that can be used with MakeMKV to grab the episode names and even the chapter breaks themselves? That would be a time saer and even take out a lot of guess work, when working with TV shows.
What I would like to know is.....is there anything that can be used with MakeMKV to grab the episode names and even the chapter breaks themselves? That would be a time saer and even take out a lot of guess work, when working with TV shows.
Re: How to keep chapters when ripping my DVD's and Blu-ray's????
Wow. Old thread that still hasn't been answered. Maybe people don't understand?
Again, like others are asking, how to preserve chapters when saving/ripping a BluRay.
Not the different video files in the Stream folder, but when a movie is playing, DVDs and BluRays have chapters within that whole movie. Been like that since the beginning of DVDs, and you'd be able to select a chapter from the main menu of the disk. I'm not looking to save the main menu, just to preserve the chapters where it would show as little notches in my video player. I generally use PotPlayer, but I've also tried VLC. After ripping two movies with MakeMKV, neither one has saved the chapters.
Side Note: I thought MakeMKV would actually make an MKV, not rip (back up) the disc to a folder and then have to make an MKV from that
Again, like others are asking, how to preserve chapters when saving/ripping a BluRay.
Not the different video files in the Stream folder, but when a movie is playing, DVDs and BluRays have chapters within that whole movie. Been like that since the beginning of DVDs, and you'd be able to select a chapter from the main menu of the disk. I'm not looking to save the main menu, just to preserve the chapters where it would show as little notches in my video player. I generally use PotPlayer, but I've also tried VLC. After ripping two movies with MakeMKV, neither one has saved the chapters.
Side Note: I thought MakeMKV would actually make an MKV, not rip (back up) the disc to a folder and then have to make an MKV from that
Re: How to keep chapters when ripping my DVD's and Blu-ray's????
Ripping to MKV files is the DEFAULT. That's what the big-ass button that spins when loading the disk is for.
Ripping to an ISO or similar uses a much smaller button in the top row.
As for preserving chapters, that is also the default, when ripping a track that has chapters in it. Ripping to an ISO or BD directory bypasses that.
Ripping to an ISO or similar uses a much smaller button in the top row.
As for preserving chapters, that is also the default, when ripping a track that has chapters in it. Ripping to an ISO or BD directory bypasses that.
MakeMKV Frequently Asked Questions
FAQ about BETA and PERMANENT keys.
How to aid in finding the answer to your problem: Activating Debug Logging
FAQ about BETA and PERMANENT keys.
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Re: How to keep chapters when ripping my DVD's and Blu-ray's????
I think what everyone wanted to know is this:
1. You rip the DVD, Blu-ray or UHD disc movie.
2. It puts that into a folder
3. You use that folder using MakeMKV and see usually the Title of said movie (Say The Goonies (1985)
4. Below that, you have Chapters (usually the names are generic and the same: Chapter 01, chapter 02 & so forth)
What I believe he wants is Chapter 01 to say something like Jailbreak (Credits), then chapter 02 is Last Goonies Weekend and so forth) - As far as I know, these are not found by MakeMKV automatically, but they wanted something that maybe can implement it in there by default (that would be really cool). I have found lots of chapter names: usually directly from the discs or the card inside 90% of DVD's.
5. Just below this is the audio and subtitles that we choose to keep or get rid of, depending on what you want preserved for your viewing pleasure.
If I am understanding this wrong let me know, but I found the chapterdb website has a lot of them on there, with different versions, but a lot are either misspelled or in the incorrect order. A lot of them are mixed and nothing to verify them. Now another site, which I have personally put them in there are fairly accurate (not perfect, but more accurate than the former) is https://movies.fandom.com Just type in a movie and look for home media type and if the movie exists...it may have those chapter names, but you still have to type them in manually in MakeMKV.
You can make a text file, in a certain format and those put in the name and timestamps & you use MKVToolNix and it's all automatic and quick & painless. It's all time consuming, but I've even took my UHD disc chapters & matched them with my old DVD or blu-ray versions that have the chapter names and that makes it even more time consuming, but worth it, if you like seeing those chapter names. I have around 400-600 of those text files & keeping them all, for you never know if you have to redo a movie again. If anyone needs anything I am available, but would love to collaborate with anyone, if they have some of the movies I need chapter titles for. No money involved either. Just the pure joy of having them and keep in mind. These movies have 2-3 different cuts, so I may not have them all, but....I put all versions on my NAS for PLEX and decide which ones I will view when my fancy takes me.
1. You rip the DVD, Blu-ray or UHD disc movie.
2. It puts that into a folder
3. You use that folder using MakeMKV and see usually the Title of said movie (Say The Goonies (1985)
4. Below that, you have Chapters (usually the names are generic and the same: Chapter 01, chapter 02 & so forth)
What I believe he wants is Chapter 01 to say something like Jailbreak (Credits), then chapter 02 is Last Goonies Weekend and so forth) - As far as I know, these are not found by MakeMKV automatically, but they wanted something that maybe can implement it in there by default (that would be really cool). I have found lots of chapter names: usually directly from the discs or the card inside 90% of DVD's.
5. Just below this is the audio and subtitles that we choose to keep or get rid of, depending on what you want preserved for your viewing pleasure.
If I am understanding this wrong let me know, but I found the chapterdb website has a lot of them on there, with different versions, but a lot are either misspelled or in the incorrect order. A lot of them are mixed and nothing to verify them. Now another site, which I have personally put them in there are fairly accurate (not perfect, but more accurate than the former) is https://movies.fandom.com Just type in a movie and look for home media type and if the movie exists...it may have those chapter names, but you still have to type them in manually in MakeMKV.
You can make a text file, in a certain format and those put in the name and timestamps & you use MKVToolNix and it's all automatic and quick & painless. It's all time consuming, but I've even took my UHD disc chapters & matched them with my old DVD or blu-ray versions that have the chapter names and that makes it even more time consuming, but worth it, if you like seeing those chapter names. I have around 400-600 of those text files & keeping them all, for you never know if you have to redo a movie again. If anyone needs anything I am available, but would love to collaborate with anyone, if they have some of the movies I need chapter titles for. No money involved either. Just the pure joy of having them and keep in mind. These movies have 2-3 different cuts, so I may not have them all, but....I put all versions on my NAS for PLEX and decide which ones I will view when my fancy takes me.