Chapter Access from a MKV backup Possible?

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audioguy
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Chapter Access from a MKV backup Possible?

Post by audioguy »

While I don't usually care, when ripping a movie, if I have individual chapter access, I would like to get chapter access on my BR Concert Videos. If I do a full decrypted backup, will that allow chapter access, and if so, could it be played back by Plex - or if not, by what?

Thanks
dcoke22
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Re: Chapter Access from a MKV backup Possible?

Post by dcoke22 »

Does the source have chapters?

MakeMKV will put whatever chapters are in the source into the resulting .mkv file. Media Info (https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo) will tell you what chapter information is in a .mkv file.

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username$ mediainfo ./movie/folder/Movie.mkv 
General
Unique ID                                : 345675564354765
Complete name                            : ./movie/folder/Movie.mkv
Format                                   : Matroska
Format version                           : Version 2
File size                                : 31.4 GiB
Duration                                 : 1 h 54 min
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 39.2 Mb/s
Movie name                               : Movie
Encoded date                             : UTC 2021-01-30 18:00:16
Writing application                      : MakeMKV v1.15.4 darwin(x64-release)
Writing library                          : libmakemkv v1.15.4 (1.3.10/1.5.2) darwin(x64-release)

…

Menu
00:00:00.000                             : en:Chapter 01
00:06:47.990                             : en:Chapter 02
00:11:03.162                             : en:Chapter 03
00:18:17.221                             : en:Chapter 04
00:24:15.579                             : en:Chapter 05
00:27:47.165                             : en:Chapter 06
00:32:50.009                             : en:Chapter 07
00:36:20.094                             : en:Chapter 08
00:40:46.152                             : en:Chapter 09
00:47:55.664                             : en:Chapter 10
00:53:13.481                             : en:Chapter 11
00:59:54.090                             : en:Chapter 12
01:03:32.767                             : en:Chapter 13
01:08:03.788                             : en:Chapter 14
01:10:52.289                             : en:Chapter 15
01:18:27.661                             : en:Chapter 16
01:24:28.271                             : en:Chapter 17
01:32:44.267                             : en:Chapter 18
01:42:06.245                             : en:Chapter 19
01:48:21.077                             : en:Chapter 20
Woodstock
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Re: Chapter Access from a MKV backup Possible?

Post by Woodstock »

Access to chapters on a BACKUP would depend on the play list selected. Directly accessing the transport stream files may not make them available.

MakeMKV will generally include the chapter track when going to MKV files.
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