Sorry if this is an elementary and/or already discussed topic.
I have a good chunk of media in different formats that have no embedded chapter information. I’d like to get all my media to have chapters. What is the best way to accomplish this in a way Plex will generate and display them on the client side?
Thank you!
Chapters are made during the rendering process. Plex has a feature to add chapter thumbnails but this is considering the chapters already exist.
Usual in whatever software you are using to rip the media, there is an option to add chapters manually or every 5, 10 min etc.
Mkvtoolnix.
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Xmedia Recode
https://mkvtoolnix.download/downloads.html
The Ripping of discs with MakeMKV will capture any chapters that are available - it’s just a raw rip of what’s there.
Handbrake will happily encode those markers in any media it creates - without names, of course.
If I have chapters when it gets here - it’s fairly easy to maintain them.
Adding them after the fact has varying degrees of PITA Factor to figure in, but it can be done.
I use ffmpeg
ffmpeg -i infile.mp4 -i chapters.dat -map_metadata 1 -codec copy outfile.mp4
If you have a Mac, use Subler. It can import the txt file from Chapterdb.org and can add either Apple or TMDB metadata.
edit: only if you want to extract the mp4 media from the mkv or are starting with mp4 file.
Unfortunately none of the content has markers. They are pretty bare of information and it’s a lot of media. The chapters is a nicety and in no way required. I’ll have to see if these resources will help on a larger scale.
Thank you!
I have Win10. I’m guessing this wouldn’t be an option then?
I will definitely explore this. Hopefully it will help. Thank you!
So if the content has been ripped with no additional data, there is no solution to add them afterwards? At least without getting into the XML of each item?
I use Windows 10 and have found that Drax is useful.
AFAIK it is no longer has support from the devs (last release was in Aug 2019) but for the most part it worked well for me.
No, it’s only for Mac OS.
You could probably use some third party software to add chapters. Did a quick google search on adding media chapters to file and got results.
Did you happen to find any results for doing them in mass? I’ve only found results for doing them 1 movie at a time with 1 chapter at a time. With the amount of content I have, this would most certainly be more work than it’s worth for me. Hoping to find something automated.
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