I have a YouTube music concert with about 18 songs. The time stamp for when each song starts is given in the webpage but the video doesn't have chapter markers.
I want to have 18 different files for each song in the end.
Making chapters using MKVToolNix is a time consuming process so I am trying to find an easy way to make a chapter file that MKVToolNix can accept.
Any easy solution would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
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Create a text file like this:
CHAPTER01=00:00:00.000
CHAPTER01NAME=Introduction
CHAPTER02=00:02:30.000
CHAPTER02NAME=First Scene
CHAPTER03=00:05:15.500
CHAPTER03NAME=Climax
Fill in all the timestamps when a new chapter starts and then save it as a text file.
Then open MKVToolNix, upload the mp4 or mkv file, then add the text file.
Important
Then click on Multiplexer > Output
On the right pane, under chapters, click on Chapter file and add the chapters text file.
If you don't do this, the multiplexing will not work.
If you want to split the file by chapters at this stage then:
On the left pane, under Splitting,
Select Split Mode > Before chapters
Chapter numbers: Type "all"
Leave Maximum number of files: Unlimited.
Then click on Start Multiplexing
If everything went well then you should get several video files in the output.
Edit the chapters names if you want to distinguish each song from the rest. -
Here's a batch file I knocked up to make myself a quick template.
I've not used it for some time.
chaps.cmdCode:@echo off if exist chapters.txt del chapters.txt set count=0 set /p total=How many chapters? for /L %%a in (1,1,%total%) do call :process %%a echo chapters.txt | cmd exit :process set /a count=%count%+1 if %count% lss 10 set zero=0 echo CHAPTER%zero%%~1= >> chapters.txt echo CHAPTER%zero%%~1NAME= >> chapters.txt set zero= goto :eof
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Nice. Thanks.
It would help to add the times format 00:00:00.000 to the CHAPTERS as it is a real pain filling out the times.
I took the liberty to modify this line, hope that you wouldn't mind:
echo CHAPTER%zero%%~1=00:00:00.000 >> chapters.txt
Like in the example above and below:
CHAPTER01=00:00:00.000
CHAPTER01NAME=Introduction
CHAPTER02=00:02:30.000
CHAPTER02NAME=First Scene
CHAPTER03=00:05:15.500
CHAPTER03NAME=ClimaxLast edited by Subtitles; 17th Aug 2025 at 12:02.
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