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I have seen and used this in MKVmergeGUI, but I have several DVDs for TV shows where episodes are lumped together - would like to be able to split at specific or periodic chapters (every 5).

That capability kind of exists in MakeMKV's "manualdvd" mode, but only for DVDs, and it's not particularly easy to do.

Of course, without viewing the bulk file, you cannot always tell which chapters belong to which episode - it's nice when all episodes have the same number of chapters, but recent series I've done required different splits for each disk.

Once you have a MKV file with all the chapters you can une the MKVToonix tools to split it.

The problem I am running into right now is there are multiple episodes locked into a single video block (3 hours lets say). Each has blank audio at the beginning. MakeMKV is compounding the blanks and the drift grows after each episode, whereas the sync/correction needed would be minimized if split at the right points.

Will take a look at manual mode - the chapters follow a common structure for each DVD.

Woodstock wrote:That capability kind of exists in MakeMKV's "manualdvd" mode, but only for DVDs, and it's not particularly easy to do.

Of course, without viewing the bulk file, you cannot always tell which chapters belong to which episode - it's nice when all episodes have the same number of chapters, but recent series I've done required different splits for each disk.

I found that each episode was 5 chapters large, so using the code 11:1-5 11:6-10 11:11-15 11:16-20 11:21-25 11:26-30 11:31-35 in Manual Mode split them appropriately as 7 episodes/disc.

Thanks!