Custom movie scanner to get chapters

Extract embedded chapter marks from movie files
Hello everybody,

since Plex doesn't currently support embedded chapter marks in video files, I was thinking that maybe I would try to make a custom scanner to do that.

I have a thread about this subject [here](http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/54058-support-for-embedded-chapters-in-mp4mkv-files/page__view__findpost__p__326701).

Do you think this is a good way to do it, a new scanner?

I'm a software engineer and in my current project at work I've been using Python so I'm quite familiar with the language. I just don't know the format of MKV/MP4 files so I have no clue yet how to extract the information from video files.

Does anybody happen to know by chance where chapter marks are present in video files (MP4, MKV)?

That's the first step for me: write a python script that takes a file name as input and parses it to extract and return the list of chapters embedded in the file. If I manage to do that, that will be a very good start.
:P

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