Hi guys!

I have started to pull backups on my collection of old DV tapes. First, I used our DVD player, which have recording capacities and an internal HDD. I selected "2h/DVD" for quality, which worked fine. So, now I have my MP2/MPEG-2 copies. Oh. This (quite old) Pioneer recorder did something cool by default. Each "take" on each tape is automatically made a chapter in the DVD array. Plain awesome!

Now, I thought I'd try a computer-wise backup as well. I laid down the baseline for my project in my head. I figured I'd keep natural resolution (except for cropping 8+8px overscan to the left/right), then encode with x264 using MBAFF ('--bff') with default CRF:23. For audio I'd do FLAC, to keep PCM audio completely untouched in terms of quality.

I'm just thru with my first tape. It's really what I expected. Great quality. Neat preservation. Simply awesome. Thing is, I have one final question. Guess what? Yeah, it's about those chapters. I thought I'd 'mkvmerge' the .h264 and the .flac together, but it would be really awesome if I could use the Matroska chapter support to have each clip (between scene changes) go as a different chapter, just like it did on my standalone's DVD encoding.

I've been looking through mkvmerge CLI options, aswell as the GUI version. I can't find anything like "automatic chapter decision", so I guess there's no such native feature. Any ideas on a simple approach for me? Any neat app that produce XML-based "chapter sheets" based on scene changes? ..which I could then use more or less "as is" with mkvmerge, thus have my desired result?

Would be awesome.
I'd be thankful for every piece of idea.


Ty in adv~
Regards~