MovieChaptersPLS

no more chapter-less media!

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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

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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).

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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.