Chapters

[Barny]

Is there a way to stop the chapters being printed on the bottom of the film please.

[Romansh]

Yes, just use a video player that understands MKV chapter markers, instead of treating them as subtitles.

[fryk.]

And you can remove all chapter marks from MKV, if you want..

[Barny]

Sorry I don't understand either of those answers. Isn't there a way to turn them off in MKV? I play my MKV films through a USB pen drive using an LG Blu Ray player and the chapters are always there. I know each chapter only last a few seconds but it would be nice not to see them.

[fryk.]

Imo you can't turn them off with your player, you can only remove them completely from the MKV video file.
Your player treats the chapters as subtitles.

You can do this with MKVPropEdit from the MKVToolNix package.
It's possible to store them in an extra file on your PC before.

[Barny]

Hi could you just explain how I would do that. The link doesn't seem to take me anywhere. Found the file and downloaded it are there any tutorials on how to use it?

[Barny]

I downloaded the mkvmerge.gui added my file and managed to delete all the chapters by taking the tick out of the subtitles box. I didn't know how to use JMkvpropedit, perhaps somebody could explain for me how to use it. Is there somewhere to extract the file to perhaps? Also is there a post on how to use it to append several files together. Sorry lot of questions. I love MKV though.

[fryk.]

Yes, you did it with the GUI. But you can do it without muxing. Call a command line (<windows><R> cmd.exe) and navigate to your video folder (cd "d:\myvideos\xy").

First save the chapters in a chapter file:

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mkvextract --output-charset utf-8 chapters "myvideo.mkv" -r "mychapters.xml"

.. now you can remove the chapters (please note the inverted commas at the end of the line):

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mkvpropedit "myvideo.mkv" -c ""

And if you later want your chapters back in the video:

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mkvpropedit "myvideo.mkv" -c "mychapters.xml"

Finally you can delete "mychapters.xml", that's all.

[Barny]

Thank you fryk. I am not sure how to do any of that. I think I need pictures to explain. I am not even sure how to save chapters, let alone command lines. Is that within MKV or mkvmerge.gui? At least I copied your instructions so I can find out for myself what to do. I think I am a bit past the sell by date, but I love learning this. At least I have most of my collection as MKV files on my external hard drive to watch on my Plasma screen.

[bw001]

You don't say what OS you're using.

Here's info on how to run the command prompt in W7: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/94 ... rompt.html

Once you have a command prompt, you MAY be able to run those commands listed.

If not, you may have to change to the directory where the command is.

[Romansh]

Here's info on how to run the command prompt in W7: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/94 ... rompt.html

Use:

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[url]http://www.123.com[/url]

[bw001]

Here's info on how to run the command prompt in W7: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/94 ... rompt.html

Use:

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[url]http://www.123.com[/url]

You're correct, I edited and fixed the post but now it has to be approved.