[FFmpeg-user] Naming chapters in Matroska video

[Paul B Mahol]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 5:19 PM John Finlay <finlay at moeraki.com> wrote:

> On 2/19/2021 8:08 AM, Paul B Mahol wrote:
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> On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 4:53 PM John Finlay <finlay at moeraki.com> <finlay at moeraki.com> wrote:
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> On 2/19/2021 2:26 AM, Paul B Mahol wrote:
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> On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 11:23 AM Ulf Zibis <Ulf.Zibis at cosoco.de> <Ulf.Zibis at cosoco.de> wrote:
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> Am 19.02.21 um 10:36 schrieb Paul B Mahol:
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> On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 7:58 AM John Finlay via ffmpeg-user <ffmpeg-user at ffmpeg.org> wrote:
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> If the documentation for Metadata is correct then there is a bug in
> ffmpeg because the example commands to extract, edit and reinsert the
> edited metadata do not work for chapter metadata.
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> Give proof, otherwise you are not different from paid mockers that
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> this list.
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> See my initioal post in this thread. It proofs the "bug".
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> Nope, it proofs PEBKAC.
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> Paul you should read the documentation and then you'd realize that Ulf
> is correct; his original attempt to replace the chapter metadata follows
> the documentation and illustrates the problem.
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> Nope. If user read documentation at all, user would notice -map_chapters
> option just below
> -map_metadata option.
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> I was talking about the Metadata documentation referenced by Jim:
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> http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-all.html#Metadata-1
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> By using the ffmetadata muxer and demuxer it is possible to extract
> metadata from an input file to an ffmetadata file, and then transcode the
> file into an output file with the edited ffmetadata file.
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> Extracting an ffmetadata file with ffmpeg goes as follows:
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> ffmpeg -i INPUT -f ffmetadata FFMETADATAFILE
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> Reinserting edited metadata information from the FFMETADATAFILE file can
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> ffmpeg -i INPUT -i FFMETADATAFILE -map_metadata 1 -codec copy OUTPUT
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And what is point of all of this?


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