Onlydarksets » Handbrake http://onlydarksets.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:36:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Chapter lists for Handbrake http://onlydarksets.com/2009/02/22/chapter-lists-for-handbrake/ http://onlydarksets.com/2009/02/22/chapter-lists-for-handbrake/#comments Sun, 22 Feb 2009 05:15:53 +0000 onlydarksets http://onlydarksets.com/?p=1029 I’ve been backing up the kids’ DVDs with Handbrake, but the UI for entering chapter lists is less than friendly.  However, if you add the conversion to the queue instead of encoding immediately, you can export the command line to a batch file, which lets you then specify the text file of your choice for the chapter list.

If you are looking for a chapter list for a DVD to use with Handbrake, here are a couple of pointers:

  1. The format is [ChapterNumber].[ChapterName] (i.e., “1.Opening Credits”).
  2. If you don’t want to manually enter a chapter list, search spout.com for the movie.  Via Google, just enter “site:spout.com <movie name>” (without the quotes).  You can copy and paste the chapter list into a text editor.
  3. You can use TextPad (or any other text editor that does regex search and replace) to get rid of the timestamps (i.e., “[1:24]“) using the search criteria ” \[[0-9]*:[0-9][0-9]\]” (again, no quotes).
  4. Handbrake adds an extra chapter at the very end.  I just name this chapter “The End”.

So, here are the CSVs I’ve done so far:

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