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MovieChaptersPLS

no more chapter-less media!

Usage:

moviechapterspls 00000.mpls
mkvmerge "00000.m2ts" --chapters "00000.m2ts.xml" -o "00000.mkv"

moviechapterspls -F 00000.mpls
ffmpeg -i 00000.m2ts -i 00000.m2ts.ff -map 0:v -map_metadata 1 -c copy 00000.mkv

  • -X for XML chapters

  • -F for FFmetadata chapters

  • --merge to specify a range of m2ts ID's that will be used to create a merged chapter file

    • -m 0 2 -> chapters from 00000.m2ts, 00001.m2ts and 00002.m2ts appended to one XML file.
    • Why: Some Blu-rays split episodes into multiple files.
    • This will only work if your last m2ts has at least one chapter.

  • --only to get only chapters from a given range, normalized to a starting position of 0.

    • -o 01:05:48.485 02:03:00.4561 -> chapters from the first to the second timestamp appended to the XML (starting from time 0)
    • Why: Some Blu-rays/DVDs have truncated episodes in one file.
    • This will only work if the MPLS file has one file ID with the specified chapters (aka.: incompatible with --merge)
    • Note: Maybe run moviechapterspls first, to extract the correct timestamps.

  • --output-dir to specify the output folder

This script reads the binary data from your .mpls file and creates chapter files for every media file (e.g. 00000.m2ts), that has at least one chapter assigned.

  • Chapter names are numbered like so: Chapter 1.

  • Calculations done by the script are frame-precise (at least with 24000/1001 fps).

For the confused individuals:

Importing .mpls chapters and splitting them for multiple files is a very manual task, something that this script tries to automate. It also helps a lot determining to which file, chapters are supposed to go to.