Extract Chapter information

[Shakey Jake33]

Sorry if this is rather newbie, I'm still learning somewhat.

I have a Japanese DVD, and I've been trying to add subtitles to this using this guide http://t2.technion.ac.il/~seranmiz/dvd_guides/Adding_Subtitles_to_DVD.htm
I've got the subtitles sorted and working perfectly, that's not the issue.

The problem I have now is that there are no longer chapters on the film. This is pretty annoying, as it breaks the Chapter menu and just makes it feel rather rough to me. I am assuming I can extract the chapter information from the VIDEO_TS.IFO on my original disc and 'patch' this information to my new one... can't figure out how to do this though!

Any helps is appriciated

[Abond]

Well, I think that dvddecrypter is doing exactly this - looking for the times of chapter breaks in the ifo file.
You can give a try to ChapterXtractor, but you need to configure it to give you the frame numbers (not the time) for muxman. Then save this to a .txt file and import it in muxman at authoring stage.

[jimmalenko]

If you choose the IFOEdit Preset in ChapterXtractor it gives you the frame numbers.

[Abond]

Erhm, there isn't Ifoedit preset by default

[Presets]
Preset 1=Micro DVD Player
Format 1=%c=%f Chapter %c\n
Header 1=[CHAPTERS]\n
Footer 1=

Preset 2=SVCD (hh:mm:ss:cc)
Format 2=Chapter %c = %hh:%mm:%ss:%cc\n
Header 2=
Footer 2=

Preset 3=BSPlayer
Format 3=%c=%hh:%mm:%ss Chapter %c\n
Header 3=[ChaptersX]\n
Footer 3=

Preset 4=DVDMaestro
Format 4=%hh:%mm:%ss:%ff\n
Header 4=$Spruce_IFrame_List\n\n
Footer 4=

Preset 5=OGG
Format 5=CHAPTER%C=%hh:%mm:%ss.%ms\nCHAPTER%CNAME=Chapter %c\n
Header 5=
Footer 5=

Preset 6=BeSplit parameter
Format 6=%asf%sp      
Header 6=BeSplit -core( -input "%file" -prefix "%dir" -logfile logfile.txt -type ac3 -ending )  -split(%sp 
Footer 6=)

Preset 7=Preset 7
Format 7=Format 7
Header 7=Header 7
Footer 7=Footer 7

Preset 8=Preset 8
Format 8=Format 8
Header 8=Header 8
Footer 8=Footer 8

Preset 9=Preset 9
Format 9=Format 9
Header 9=Header 9
Footer 9=Footer 9

Preset 10=Preset 10
Format 10=Format 10
Header 10=Header 10
Footer 10=Footer 10

[Options]

[jimmalenko]

That's weird ..... I've got:

[Presets]
Preset 1=IfoEdit
Format 1=%f\n
Header 1=
Footer 1=

Preset 2=
Format 2=
Header 2=
Footer 2=

Preset 3=
Format 3=
Header 3=
Footer 3=

Preset 4=
Format 4=
Header 4=
Footer 4=

Preset 5=
Format 5=
Header 5=
Footer 5=

Preset 6=
Format 6=      
Header 6=
Footer 6=

Preset 7=
Format 7=
Header 7=
Footer 7=

Preset 8=
Format 8=
Header 8=
Footer 8=

Preset 9=
Format 9=
Header 9=
Footer 9=

Preset 10=
Format 10=
Header 10=
Footer 10=

[Options]

I am using version 0.962 (which is probably an old version) though ...

[Abond]

Where you get from your version?
I am looking at the same version 0.962, got it immediately before my post from the post link (I am not at my comp currently)

[jimmalenko]

I would have assumed that I got it from the tools section here. It would have been a while ago, though.



EDIT:

Actually, I lie. I grabbed it from an install of EazyVCD that I had. I'd say that Rob Ferguson must have customised the presets. Or I did for use with a few home programming projects ..... gosh darn it, now I'm all confused

[jimmalenko]

How's about the best of both worlds ?

chapterxtractor_ini.zip

[Presets]
Preset 1=IfoEdit
Format 1=%f\n
Header 1=
Footer 1=

Preset 2=SVCD (hh:mm:ss:cc) 
Format 2=Chapter %c = %hh:%mm:%ss:%cc\n 
Header 2= 
Footer 2= 

Preset 3=BSPlayer 
Format 3=%c=%hh:%mm:%ss Chapter %c\n 
Header 3=[ChaptersX]\n 
Footer 3= 

Preset 4=DVDMaestro 
Format 4=%hh:%mm:%ss:%ff\n 
Header 4=$Spruce_IFrame_List\n\n 
Footer 4= 

Preset 5=OGG 
Format 5=CHAPTER%C=%hh:%mm:%ss.%ms\nCHAPTER%CNAME=Chapter %c\n 
Header 5= 
Footer 5= 

Preset 6=BeSplit parameter 
Format 6=%asf%sp      
Header 6=BeSplit -core( -input "%file" -prefix "%dir" -logfile logfile.txt -type ac3 -ending )  -split(%sp 
Footer 6=) 

Preset 7=Micro DVD Player 
Format 7=%c=%f Chapter %c\n 
Header 7=[CHAPTERS]\n 
Footer 7= 

Preset 8=
Format 8=
Header 8=
Footer 8=

Preset 9=
Format 9=
Header 9=
Footer 9=

Preset 10=
Format 10=
Header 10=
Footer 10=

[Options]

[Abond]

Yeah, the only thing my preset for %f\n is called... muxman

[jimmalenko]

[DoubleShadowIce]

Current version of PgcEdit can extract cell, program, and chapter times.