SOLVED Re: [MEncoder-users] mplayer vs mencoder -chapter recognition

[GROG! (Jeff Howie)]

AH! Sorry about being newbie-ish & not reading the man page correctly.
IOW Since I want to split the chapters into seperate files, I need to
specify the end chapter as well as the start for each encoding (i.e.
1-1, 2-2, etc).

Got it. Thanks very much :?)

On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 01:41:16PM -0400, Giacomo Comes wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 10:59:06AM -0600, GROG! (Jeff Howie) wrote:
>> Hi all. I'm using mplayer/mencoder 1.0_rc1 on a gentoo x86.
>> 
>> I've got a problem trying to encode the chapters off of a dvd to play
>> on my handheld (a zaurus). While mplayer recognizes the chapters
>> properly, mencoder doesn't see the chapters at all.
>> 
>> For example:
>> 
>>     $ midentify dvd://1
>>     ID_DVD_TITLES=1
>>     ID_DVD_TITLE_1_CHAPTERS=11
>>     [...snip...]
>> 
>> and while:
>> 
>>     $ mplayer dvd://1 -chapter 3
>> 
>> will correctly play only chapter 3, while with:
>
>That's incorrect. MPlayer will play the whole movie starting from chapter 3.
>     $ mplayer dvd://1 -chapter 3-3
>will play only chapter 3
>
>> 
>>     $ mencoder dvd://1 -chapter 3 -ovc lavc -lavcopts qpel:vhq=2 -vop
>>             expand=320:240,pp=hb/vb/dr,eq=15,scale=320:-2,hqdn3d=8:6:12
>>             -sws 2 -ofps 15 -oac mp3lame -lameopts vbr=3:br=64:mode=3
>>             -af volume=10:1 -o chapter-3.avi
>> 
>> the resulting avi contains all chapters with no chapter information,
>
>That's normal. The avi container does not provide chapters information.
>And correct sentence should be: the resulting avi contains chapters 3 and following.
>
>> so:
>> 
>>     $ mplayer -chapter 3 chapter-3.avi
>> 
>> shows that the entire title 1 has been saved as one big chapter.
>> 
>> Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? thks
>
>You are using the wrong container if you need chapters.
>
>DVD/SVCD/VCD can have chapters, as well as the matroska container.

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