Ripping (or removing) opening chapters

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zipzaprap
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Ripping (or removing) opening chapters

Post by zipzaprap » Fri Sep 22, 2023 1:36 pm

Hi folks

I just ripped Season 1-6 of Northern Exposure. Two files in Season 4 have the first chapter as the colour bars shown here. This runs for about 2.5mins for the chapter before the show starts. All the other files were ripped fine.
Is there a way to rip and skip the first chapter? I tried to remove it via mkvtoolnix but couldn't see how.
Also tried to remove it using Handbrake which worked but it then deleted all the chapter markers so I no longer have chapters.

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Leawo BR can correctly rip these two episodes btw, without the colour bars.

Cheers

dcoke22
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Re: Ripping (or removing) opening chapters

Post by dcoke22 » Fri Sep 22, 2023 2:02 pm

There's a thread on this topic… Blu-rays with extra video in m2ts files

In that thread, user pixeluk posted some instructions on how to use MKVToolNix to remove it.

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