chapterEditor(Chapter-Database Disc2mkv Matroska-Tools[Tags,Menu,Multi-MKV])+CLI

[tormento]

Originally Posted by hubblec4

qp files are supported

I am surely doing some mistake but:



whose content is:

0 I -1
2162 I -1
12718 I -1
31062 I -1
32498 I -1
32874 I -1
35057 I -1
49850 I -1
63949 I -1
65384 I -1
65766 I -1
67947 I -1
78000 I -1
96845 I -1
98281 I -1
98667 I -1
100841 I -1
115804 I -1
129742 I -1
131177 I -1
131563 I -1
133746 I -1
148540 I -1
162635 I -1
164073 I -1
164460 I -1
166643 I -1
181308 I -1
195535 I -1
196970 I -1

[hubblec4]

Ahhh yes there was a "-1" at the end which I forgot to support. Thanks for the heads up.
I will fix this.

[tormento]

Originally Posted by hubblec4

Ahhh yes there was a "-1" at the end which I forgot to support. Thanks for the heads up.
I will fix this.

While you are fixing it, please evaluate to adopt the most generic syntax.

[hubblec4]

Originally Posted by tormento

whose content is:

0 I -1
2162 I -1
12718 I -1
31062 I -1
32498 I -1
32874 I -1
35057 I -1
49850 I -1
63949 I -1
65384 I -1
65766 I -1
67947 I -1
78000 I -1
96845 I -1
98281 I -1
98667 I -1
100841 I -1
115804 I -1
129742 I -1
131177 I -1
131563 I -1
133746 I -1
148540 I -1
162635 I -1
164073 I -1
164460 I -1
166643 I -1
181308 I -1
195535 I -1
196970 I -1

When I copy the content, save to a normal text file and load in cE -> works.
Could you share with me your file?
There must be another issue, and I already support the "-1 qp" setting.

[tormento]

Originally Posted by hubblec4

When I copy the content, save to a normal text file and load in cE -> works.

I have found that the problem is the file extension. Just rename .txt to .qp and it will stop working.

I use .qp to distinguish from chapters, that usually have .txt extension.

Add .qp to the supported file types, please.

P.S: As QP list defines the I-frames and the chapter file is sometime offset by some frames, it could be nice to load both files and visually compare the differences.

Look at these two files to understand what I mean.

As you can see, QP file is huge compared to the chapter one, as it includes all the detected scene changes. I usually give a scan to the video with PySceneDetect, to have clean scene/chapters cuts.

Unfortunately I have to fix the chapter file manually.

[hubblec4]

Hi Tormento

Yes I can add the .qp file extension support.

[tormento]

Originally Posted by hubblec4

Yes I can add the .qp file extension support.

Great.

Please, when you have time, let us convert from chapters to qp too.

I tried chapters2qp with large chapters and it creates 0 byte files.

[hubblec4]

Hi tormento

Here a test version for the .qp extension support. Please let me know if all works.

[hubblec4]

Originally Posted by tormento

Great.

Please, when you have time, let us convert from chapters to qp too.

I tried chapters2qp with large chapters and it creates 0 byte files.

What is chapters2qp?

cE can convert to qp format but the extension is ".txt".
Only the file extension have to be changed.
But cE should output the file with the .qp extension, right?

[tormento]

Originally Posted by hubblec4

Please let me know if all works.

It works ok but I think there is some rounding problem in your calculations.

For the qp:

0 I -1
3605 I -1
12569 I -1
15624 I -1
27130 I -1
45463 I -1
55405 I -1
69448 I -1
79994 I -1
93141 I -1
104866 I -1
110269 I -1
122934 I -1
134232 I -1
138879 I -1
157300 I -1
165722 I -1
179996 I -1
186515 I -1
196496 I -1
208263 I -1

I get

cE ———————————— Excel —— Original chapters

00:00:00.000 0:00:00.000 00:00:00.000
00:02:30.358 0:02:30,359 00:02:30.359
00:08:44.232 0:08:44,232 00:08:44.232
00:10:51.651 0:10:51,651 00:10:51.651
00:18:51.547 0:18:51,547 00:18:51.547
00:31:36.185 0:31:36,186 00:31:36.186
00:38:30.850 0:38:30,850 00:38:30.850
00:48:16.560 0:48:16,560 00:48:16.560
00:55:36.416 0:55:36,416 00:55:36.416
01:04:44.755 1:04:44,756 01:04:44.756
01:12:53.786 1:12:53,786 01:12:53.786
01:16:39.136 1:16:39,136 01:16:39.136
01:25:27.372 1:25:27,372 01:25:27.372
01:33:18.593 1:33:18,593 01:33:18.593
01:36:32.411 1:36:32,412 01:36:32.412
01:49:20.720 1:49:20,721 01:49:20.721
01:55:11.988 1:55:11,988 01:55:11.988
02:05:07.333 2:05:07,333 02:05:07.333
02:09:39.229 2:09:39,230 02:09:39.230
02:16:35.520 2:16:35,521 02:16:35.521
02:24:46.302 2:24:46,303 02:24:46.303

Some timings are .001 second off. Much better you increase the decimal of the 24000/1001 division.

Originally Posted by hubblec4

What is chapters2qp?

It's included in DGToolsNV. It automatically creates .qp when demuxing.

Originally Posted by hubblec4

But cE should output the file with the .qp extension, right?

Not mandatory but nice not to confuse it with chapter .txt.

[hubblec4]

Thanks for the feedback, I will have a look at this.

[hubblec4]

Hi tomento

Here is a new test version.

[tormento]

Originally Posted by hubblec4

Hi tomento

Rounding problem seems to be fixed.

Thanks.

[hubblec4]

chapterEditor(cE) rev1.45 is available.
Windows
Linux


After a long time, it's time again.

"Automatic creation and saving of Matroska tags"
This is a feature of mine for myself.
As I always edit the chapters first and save them in the Matroska file, the only thing missing at the end is the tags.
There is a button that can be used to create the tags, but from there it's always a few more clicks to save the tags in the Matroska file.
So everything is now automated and when you save the chapters for the last time, you can use the CTRL key to save the tags directly.


Time stamp files for MKVToolNix (MTX)
Until now, when films consist of several segments, the tracks should/must be extracted in order to stay synchronized.

A demux tool such as eac3to or DGDemux is used for this. eac3to was the first tool that could do this and it output a message that
duplicate audio frames were removed.
However, there are no duplicate audio frames.
A user had a great idea, but it wasn't clear to me either what he wanted and how the whole thing should be implemented.
With a lot of help from the DG-Team, analyzing the problem became much easier (many thanks Rocky).
It was clear that there were no duplicate audio frames and only the time stamps didn't "match".
MTX needs a little help to append the segments because the internal append mode works differently.
With the help of the correctly specified time stamps, which MTX supports, everything can be muxed together cleanly.
cE had to be expanded to include an m2ts parser because not all information can be found in the mpls.
At this point, a special thank you to Sherman, who did a lot of preparation for me when coding.

To create the time stamp files, cE first uses a fast mode.
For this, only the corresponding frame duration of the audio track is required.
cE then assumes that there are no more audio frames after the last video frame, which should be the case according to the Blu-ray specs.

This means that no more audio frames are removed and everything remains synchronized.

Thank you @Unforgettable for this inspiration.

Change chapterEditor

added    &
fixed    *
improved #
changed  %


rev1.45 2024-10-20
// chapterEditor
& support for the file extension ".qp"

* Timestamps in the format HH:MM:SS.MS are now correctly rounded


// Matroska Chapters
& automatic creation and saving of Matroska Tags
  - only for direct saving in Matroska files with the "Save" button
  - CTRL key must be pressed for left or right click


// BD2mkv
& creation of MTX timestamp files for films or Playlists that use multiple segments (settings)
- timestamp files "must" be created only for audio tracks
- the audio tracks no longer have to be demuxed -> no more removal of audio frames

* mtxcfg file is now created correctly again if DolbyVision is present

% in the settings there is a new tab "MKV file" with the relevant settings

[Klaus1189]

Sounds very good.

[marooned2]

Is it possible to incrementally rename chapters, say, starting from 17?
Example Ch01, Ch02, Ch03... >>> Ch17,Ch18,Ch19...?

Also, not sure if it's a bug, but when I click "Copy all chapter names" nothing gets copied.

[hubblec4]

Hi marooned2

Originally Posted by marooned2

Is it possible to incrementally rename chapters, say, starting from 17?
Example Ch01, Ch02, Ch03... >>> Ch17,Ch18,Ch19...?

Yes, in the Chapter-Naming tool there is an option "Action range" -> select the 4th option " A fixed number from the selected chapter" -> and set the start number

Originally Posted by marooned2

Also, not sure if it's a bug, but when I click "Copy all chapter names" nothing gets copied.

This is not a "normal" copy like Windows copy/paste.
The content is internally handled.
After a "copy all chapter names" you can paste the names in other tabs.