Can you Chapterize an AVI?

[freddypunns]

After I rip a DVD and convert the Video_TS folder to an AVI, is there a way to chapterize that AVI as it would have been in the dvd? Any help would be great. Thanks.

- FP

[dvdragon]

I have been interested in learning how to do this also.

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[guns1inger]

If you encode to Divx and use the Divx player for playback, or have a Divx Ultra certified standalone player then you can have menus and chapters if you use something like TDA 3 or DivxMediaBuilder

[dvdragon]

If you encode to Divx and use the Divx player for playback, or have a Divx Ultra certified standalone player then you can have menus and chapters if you use something like TDA 3 or DivxMediaBuilder

I know about those methods in addition to various container formats such as OGM and MKV. I wanted to know if their was a way to use the indexed chapters on the DVD to go back and forth in an AVI file.

[jagabo]

The Chaptering works and it imported the chapters from the DVD.

https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?p=1646180#1646180
https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=319996

[celtic_druid]

Not possible with avi. DivX is a hack/extension of avi and that is as close as you will get.

[SCDVD]

Not possible with avi. DivX is a hack/extension of avi and that is as close as you will get.

As I understand it, .avi is just a container. Video files of various formats including Divx fit in the .avi container file.

[jagabo]

AVI is an instance of the RIFF container. RIFF uses tagged chunks to store data. Each chunck consists of a 4 character identifier, a 32 bit length, and variable length data. Proper parsing of a RIFF file consists of reading the four character identifier and the length. I you know what to do with the chunk you handle it. If you don't know what to do with the chunk you skip it and go on to the next one.

Microsoft's specification of AVI defined several specific types of chunks for storing audio and video. They did not include interlace flags, field order flags, aspect ratio flags, chapter stops, menu options, etc.

Any program can define their own chunk types and use them. But that doesn't mean any other program will know what to do with them (other than skip them).

So we are down to a symantic difference of opinion. If you want to say that "AVI" only only allows for the use the chunk types that Microsoft defined then a file that contains chunks other than those are not AVI files. If you assume that Microsoft used RIFF because new chunk types could easily be added by anyone, then those files are AVI files.

[SCDVD]

So we are down to a symantic difference of opinion. If you want to say that "AVI" only only allows for the use the chunk types that Microsoft defined then a file that contains chunks other than those are not AVI files. If you assume that Microsoft used RIFF because new chunk types could easily be added by anyone, then those files are AVI files.

So can we gather from this that if a playing application understands the file types, flags etc. that they can work in an AVI file even though this wasn't defined by Microsoft?

[jagabo]

So we are down to a symantic difference of opinion. If you want to say that "AVI" only only allows for the use the chunk types that Microsoft defined then a file that contains chunks other than those are not AVI files. If you assume that Microsoft used RIFF because new chunk types could easily be added by anyone, then those files are AVI files.

So can we gather from this that if a playing application understands the file types, flags etc. that they can work in an AVI file even though this wasn't defined by Microsoft?

As long as the application that created them and the application that's reading them agree on how to handle them, yes.