bartpet 2 Posted November 26, 2023 Share Posted November 26, 2023 Hello, I am adding chapters to my collection of movies and tv episodes. I made many chapter.xml files with mkvtoolnix with different movie-lengths. I want to use one chapter.xml file to add chapters to multiple mkv files with the same movie-length. I didn't find a way yet. I'm a newbie when it comes to using scripts. I have XYplorer as a file manager and using scripts with this app went smoothly. Does anyone now how i can batch-add the chapters of 1 xml file into multiple MKV Files. Thank you Greetings Bart Peters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37192 Posted November 27, 2023 Share Posted November 27, 2023 HI, maybe with makemkv or mkvtoolnix? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartpet 2 Posted November 27, 2023 Author Share Posted November 27, 2023 I tried with mkvtoolnix in chapter editor. I can load all mkv files into mkvtoolnix chapter editor. They show up as tabs. Than i can load one of my custom chapters.xml files. But to apply this chapters.xml i have to copy this "edition" to all the open tabs. The only way i can do this is one by one. I don't see the option to load chapter. xml files into makemkv. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbjtech 4314 Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 Use mkvmerge - this is a command line version of mkvtoolnix mkvmerge -o <newfile.mkv> <originalfile.mkv> --chapters <chapter file.xml> chapter file must be MKV compatible - which if you created in the GUI mkvtoolnix, it should be (.xml) Run from a command line - in windows use cmd etc If you have 100's of files, then you'll neeed a script to insert the filenames, but if you only have a few, then just manually run the above multiple times. https://mkvtoolnix.download/doc/mkvmerge.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartpet 2 Posted December 1, 2023 Author Share Posted December 1, 2023 Thanks for your reply I have several chapter.xml files made in MKVToolnix with different video-playtime-lenghts. I have several 100's of MKV files all of the same lenght. To add chapter with a chapter.xml file in MKVToolnix is no problem for me. But adding about 150 MKV files and manually append the chapter.xml to all the open MKV-file-tabs takes a long time. I think that a script would do the trick, unless i overlooked some options to do this in MKVToolnix Chapter Editor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbjtech 4314 Posted December 2, 2023 Share Posted December 2, 2023 18 hours ago, bartpet said: Thanks for your reply I have several chapter.xml files made in MKVToolnix with different video-playtime-lenghts. I have several 100's of MKV files all of the same lenght. To add chapter with a chapter.xml file in MKVToolnix is no problem for me. But adding about 150 MKV files and manually append the chapter.xml to all the open MKV-file-tabs takes a long time. I think that a script would do the trick, unless i overlooked some options to do this in MKVToolnix Chapter Editor. @echo off setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION FOR /F "delims=" %%x in ('dir /a-s /b /s *.mkv') DO ( echo Working on : %%x c:\mkvtoolnix\mkvpropedit "%%x" --chapters "chapter_file.xml" pause ) pause An EXAMPLE simple recursive script for windows is above. Save the contents of the text above to a .bat file (use notepad etc) Put the .bat file in the root folder of all the mkv files you want the chapter_file.xml added to Copy the chapter file along with the .bat file (call it chapter_file.xml) Change the c:\mkvtoolnix\mkvpropedit to where yours is stored I've added a 'pause' on every iteration (after the mkvpropedit) - once you are happy with the results - the remove the pause - and it will add them all in seconds. mkvpropedit does not need to rewrite the file (unlike mkvmerge) and thus is is very fast. I'd suggest testing on a new test folder with a few mkv's - just to make sure you are happy before running. if you do manage to get it wrong - then --chapters "" will remove any chapters from the mkv see - mkvpropedit -- Modify properties of existing Matroska files without a complete remux (mkvtoolnix.download) - mkvpropedit is very powerful ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartpet 2 Posted December 2, 2023 Author Share Posted December 2, 2023 Unfortunately every mkv file is in it's own folder. I first search for all mkv files without embedded chapter markers using a script in XYplorer. These MKV's are spread out over many directories. I didn't write the script myself but got it from a scripting expert on the XYplorer forum, because i am a not even a newbie. Than i select the MKV's that have approximately the same playing-time. Next i open MKVToolnix Chapter editor, i load a chapters.xml with the playing-time that suits the mkv files from the search. I drag and drop the MKV's from the search to mkvtoolnix. And than for my problem: I have to copy the chapters.xml (template so to speak) to all the mkv files manually. It's for this action, that a script or setting would be very usefull to do this action automatically. It would save a lot of time. When this step is completed, i only have to check the mkv files and improve if necessary, which is a rather quick process, than i save all mkv files and the job is done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbjtech 4314 Posted December 4, 2023 Share Posted December 4, 2023 On 02/12/2023 at 20:26, bartpet said: Unfortunately every mkv file is in it's own folder. I first search for all mkv files without embedded chapter markers using a script in XYplorer. These MKV's are spread out over many directories. I didn't write the script myself but got it from a scripting expert on the XYplorer forum, because i am a not even a newbie. Than i select the MKV's that have approximately the same playing-time. Next i open MKVToolnix Chapter editor, i load a chapters.xml with the playing-time that suits the mkv files from the search. I drag and drop the MKV's from the search to mkvtoolnix. And than for my problem: I have to copy the chapters.xml (template so to speak) to all the mkv files manually. It's for this action, that a script or setting would be very usefull to do this action automatically. It would save a lot of time. When this step is completed, i only have to check the mkv files and improve if necessary, which is a rather quick process, than i save all mkv files and the job is done. The above script is recursive and will find all MKV's - regardless of how many sub-folders there are. You could have replaced the *.mkv with an input file if that has suited you better. Anyway - glad you got it sorted out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartpet 2 Posted December 4, 2023 Author Share Posted December 4, 2023 Hey Rbjtech, Thank you for your input. As soon as i get home, i'm going to try it out. I will let you know the results. Greetings Bartpet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartpet 2 Posted December 4, 2023 Author Share Posted December 4, 2023 Hey Rbjtech, I can't thank you enough. This is exactly what i needed. It's really saving me so much time. Great work. Much appreciated. Greetings bartpet 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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