Rip DVD but maintain chapters

[indijay]

Hello All,

I was just wondering if following type of ripping is possible.

So I have a DVD with 8 major scenes (part of that video), so is it possible that I rip this otherwise 4.2GB DVD to 1.4GB or 2.1 GB Xvid and yet maintain all those scenes (markings or scene selection data) so that I can directly jump to scene I wish when I play that Xvid file?

If there is any detailed guide about this, link is most welcome.

Many thanks

[jimmalenko]

XviD doesn't support chapters AFAIK, but DivX 6.x does, with the aid of DivX Converter.

[celtic_druid]

XviD is just a video codec, so of course it doesn't support chapters. With a raw XviD stream you don't even get audio.

The .divx media format does support chapters and there is no reason why you can't store XviD in it. mkv, ogm and mp4 also support chapters. From recollection dsm does to. Not sure about nut.

Anyway, the point is that it isn't the video codec used that determines such features, it is the container.

[indijay]

XviD doesn't support chapters AFAIK, but DivX 6.x does, with the aid of DivX Converter.

I guess you are talking about http://www.divx.com/divx/converter/.

I will give a try. I read at mnay places that Xvid is better than DivX and so was running after Xvid and if this is really true (as I am not really an expert) I still would like to rip DVD in Xvid maintaining chapters.

[celtic_druid]

Well personally I prefer XviD. It just got a speed boost to if you happen to have an SMP system (dual core/cpu). Like I said though I can't really see why you can't have XviD in a .divx container. You just need to use divxmux to mux. Presumably the chapters need to be in some kind of xml format. I believe they have samples for that kind of stuff... shouldn't be too hard to figure out the format/syntax.

Like I said though, divx isn't the only container with chapter support.

[indijay]

divx isn't the only container with chapter support.

This is true but I want to play these DVDs on DVD player supporting DivX so I am left with only DivX and Xvid. Xvid being discussed as better over DivX, I chose Xvid.

Your suggestion of muxing is good but I am not really techie/expert in this so your detailed explanation or link to related stuff is most welcome.

[celtic_druid]

It is my understanding that most current DivX certified players don't support .divx chapters. Just xsubs and multiple audio streams. The one advantage of the divx format is since it is just an extension of avi; if a player doesn't support the chapters, etc. it will still play, just without them.

Never created a .divx file with chapters. Got no interest in doing it.

[indijay]

Got no interest in doing it.

Neither did I care about this, till I came across one travel guide DVD where it made sense to rip by chapters but then it was too cumbersome to have 9 different files so thought of this idea.

If anybody has done it successfully, please post or direct to the relevent guide.

[celtic_druid]

Well yes, you could wait around for someone else to do it. Could be waiting awhile.

If I wanted to add chapters, I would download an xml sample using them, alter it to suit my needs and use divxmux. Could also try the documentation and write the xml from scratch. I think samples tend to make more sense.