I use 'mencoder' (via AcidRip) to make AVI files for watching on my Windows smartphone using Betaplayer. Betaplayer allows jumping to chapters, which is very useful. However, I cannot find any way to create these using Linux tools. On Windows, VirtualDub allows chapter markers to be imported from a text file.

Can somebody tell me how to create chapter markers in my AVI files on Linux?

Many thanks...

How does the text files look like? Can't it be done manually?

Megaman... There are 2 or 3 different recognizable formats for the input text files containing chapter information. Mostly, people would use a tool called ChapterXtractor to create these, which reads the chapter information from the DVD and can create several different file formats (all text). VirtualDub recognizes a couple of these, I think. The information is stored in the AVI file when VirtualDub merges the streams.

So, the real question is, I guess... How is that information is stored in the AVI container... I have no idea about that one, but I know it's in there!

As for doing it manually, I tried that. I wanted to set up VirtualDub to do a straight direct stream copy to produce a new AVI and merge in the chapter information. However, VirtualDub was unable to open the AVI files produced by 'mencoder'. (!) They play fine, though.

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Thanks for the explanation unzari. I wish I could help you out with that one though, but I never used chapters in a DivX/AVI before. But a similar "bookmark" function would be a nice add to mplayer. I'd suggest it to the mplayer developers, but I don't think they like me .

Good luck though mate!