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Is there something special that I have to do? I'm playing back a MKV file with x264, AC3 6 channel audio and the chapter splits are in the file as well. I can verify that the file is working because Windows Media Player Classic (part of CCCP) allows me to skip chapters.
When I try it on the Xbox using XBMC Revision 18158 and I press the >>| button on the remote, it simply quits playback and goes back to the browser.
Any ideas?
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I'm running XBMC on Linux and basic Matroska chapter support works, in the form of using the >>| for navigation. However, there doesn't appear to be support for embedded chapter names or durations, or anything like a basic container "menu" to allow the user to know (a) whether the file even has chapters or (b) what and where they are.
Would this require a skin-based remedy or something in XBMC itself?
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Freddo
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Probably both actually, although I guess if chapters were implemented as bookmarks old skins would already have the bookmarks dialog etc included already.
ps: I'm not a dev but I'm pretty sure thats accurate.
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I've always been a fan of the idea of implementing mkv chapters as part of the bookmark dialog. My understanding, though, is that there just isn't much call for it among the devs, so it's in the "code welcome" stage.
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How can bookmarks be created for given media objects? Must it be done through the XBMC interface? Or is there a way to add this to the library directly?
If bookmarks could be defined in an .nfo, it would be trivial to write an app or script that extracted chapter info and wrote it as bookmarks.
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Do you guys know if this has been merged into the xbox build yet?
-Wes
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Are you saying that XBMC can report the name of the chapter as long as the skin asks for it? I'm not a dev so I didn't quite understand what you're saying.
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Yup that's exactly what I'm saying. In the skin if you put a label with VideoPlayer.ChapterName it will return the name of the currently playing chapter. EDIT: But only the currently playing chapter.
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I see, that makes sense. It would probably be most useful in the pause or info screen, but not much help in navigation.
Do you know anything about bookmark creation?
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mika91
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Hi,
I have more than 100 Concerts mkv, with chapters.
Because there are no Chapters Menu OSD, is it possible to convert chapters into bookmarks ?
Thanks