Multichapter dvd to 1 file

Handbrake will do this.

DustinT said:

Handbrake will do this.

Click to expand...

How? Can you elaborate?

MendotaMike said:

How? Can you elaborate?

Click to expand...

Well ... um ... that's just what Handbrake does. You point the app to a source (e.g., a DVD) and it outputs a single file (e.g., an MP4). Select an appropriate output preset (e.g., Apple TV) and then put the resulting file in your iTunes library. Sync, then play on the device. Hand break will even preserve chapters if that's what you want it to do.

Dokk said:

Well ... um ... that's just what Handbrake does. You point the app to a source (e.g., a DVD) and it outputs a single file (e.g., an MP4). Select an appropriate output preset (e.g., Apple TV) and then put the resulting file in your iTunes library. Sync, then play on the device. Hand break will even preserve chapters if that's what you want it to do.

Click to expand...

Well ... Um ... Maybe you've misunderstood the inquiry. Have you ever seen a DVD where the chapters are scattered across lots of little files (5-10 minutes each) instead of in a single large file? How does one get Handbrake to consolidate these sources and output a single mp4 file?

Dokk is correct. Handbrake will take a single title on the disc, then let you select start and end chapters. Movies are actually split up in to multiple files on DVDs, but since they're bound under the same title, the multiple file split is irrelevant.

I can only assume that you have videos which were encoded as different titles rather than chapters. Handbrake doesn't support this since it's so uncommon.

What you could do is output as mkv, merge with MKVmerge, demux, remux as mp4.

MendotaMike said:

Well ... Um ... Maybe you've misunderstood the inquiry. Have you ever seen a DVD where the chapters are scattered across lots of little files (5-10 minutes each) instead of in a single large file? How does one get Handbrake to consolidate these sources and output a single mp4 file?

Click to expand...

Maybe if you'd originally asked a specific question, someone could have answered. $.02

I actually haven't seen a DVD like the one you're positing. However, in the scenario you're outlining (with chapters spread over many titles), Handbrake would be partly useful. You could create one MP4 for each title-full-of-chapters from the DVD. Then you could use another app to join the MP4s you've created into one big MP4 file. See this thread for joining MP4s: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/352462/

Make sense?

Dokk said:

Make sense?

Click to expand...

Yep. I was hoping that I had just missed some multi-title functionality in Handbrake. Guess not.