Only first chapter

[greta723]

I have a dvd, made from old super 8 movies. It contains 32 chapters. When I try to handbrake it, I only get the first chapter. Do i have to run them, each separately, is there no way to get all chapters ripped at the same time?? Since it's a movie made of sper8 movies it contains no "master" file. The roll down menus for chosing chapters has no other options than one to one. Can anyone please help me??

[rollin_eng]

Could you please post your logs, instructions can be found here:

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=31236

[greta723]

Well I suppose I can't get any help then. I can't figure out how to find a url from pastebin.

[rollin_eng]

Post the log here if its not too big.

[mduell]

url from tastebin.

Mmm, tastebin.

[greta723]

http://pastebin.com/embed_js/jAtD2ZFw

[Woodstock]

It appears that your source was ripped as individual MKV files for each chapter, rather than one MKV file with a chapters track. With a custom-made DVD, it is quite possible it was recorded as one file per reel, and there is a menu on the DVD to play them all.

If this is the case, you would need to take the individual titleNN.mkv files and merge them into one, then process that.

That still won't construct a chapter track, though...

[greta723]

That's because I've read somewhere that making a MKV could solve my problem. This is the log when I used the dvd as source.


http://pastebin.com/embed_js/WfDaqw0L

[Woodstock]

Generally speaking, ripping to MKV first does work out best.

However, in this case, it appears that the video isn't "one file with chapters", but "32 files with a play-all menu".

If you get a copy of the mkvtoolnix utilities for your operating system (search for "mkvtoolnix" in your favorite search engine), there is a tool in there (mkvmerge) to combine multiple individual MKV files into one file, which handbrake can then process. You would be "appending" the files together. There is a graphic user interface available for it, but I don't remember its name.

But the resulting file will not have chapters in it, because your source doesn't have chapters.

[greta723]

Thank you so much for the help. i've tried to merge the mkv-siles and then I got the message "mkvmerge finished with a return code of 1. There were warnings". Is that a problem or not? This is the log file from mkvmerge http://pastebin.com/embed_js/xGUJbMLC

[Woodstock]

Did you use "merge" or "append" when doing this? You want to append the files together. The errors shown look like you weren't using the append option. Most of the errors were about the tracks having the same number as a previously-loaded file.

[greta723]

I suppose I have to forget all about this. I have no idea how to append files. I have tried but it doesn't work. Since all sites that describes how to do is in very complicated english I don't understand what to do. Thank you for trying to help such an idiot as I am.

[Woodstock]

If you are using the graphic interface for mkvmerge, there's an "Append" button that you can click and add each subsequent file.

[Smithcraft]

I didn’t have anything to do decent image editing in Windows, but the Append button is (or was) in the upper right corner of the mkvmerge GUI.



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ps - I guess since Image Shack deleted one of my images, I’ll see about making better ones.

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[greta723]

When I have used MKV on my files, I get a list of 32 MKV-files, I can't choose a folder as it seems as you have done in the picture. Is that what causes all my troubles?

[Smithcraft]

How do you mean to choose a folder?

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[greta723]

i would show you how it looks on my computer if I had any idea how to post a picture....

[greta723]

All the 32 MKV-files appear in the field for input files. In you picture it seems to be only one.