Ordered Chapters and You
One of the most interesting features of the Matroska container is Ordered Chapters. Admitedly until recently I wasn’t such a big fan of it, due to lack of support for them in linux, or anything other than Haali’s splitter really. I understood the point and found them to be clever and useful (although after using them I disabled it due to not wanting to have to watch the OP of a series at the time) however I never really thought much about how good they are. Recently Kovensky and elenril patched the mplayer PKGBUILD for Ophion, it now has support for ordered chapters.
Ordered chapters are a function of matroska that allows segments of a file to be externally linked. Think of the video file as a php web page for example. Obviously the site looks like 1 big page, but on the server end its a series of php includes to ‘mux’ a bigger file out of. With ordered chapters, segments are linked to allow clips from other files to be included in the main file without it being seen by the viewer. Take for example the DVD rip of Shigofumi I am watching at the moment. The episodes themselves contain the opening scene, the main episode, the ending, and the next episode preview, but no opening theme song. The OP is a separate file, but with ordered chapters in my mplayer, smplayer reads it like one file, along with timestamps and subtitles.
It took a bit of tweaking to get subtitles using the ssa/ass library to work (-correct-pts in mplayer options will fix it) however I’m pretty happy with it now. I haven’t commited the new package to the repository yet, considering making a testing repository, but it all seems fairly solid and stable so far. If anyone would like to try it out, the package can ge found here.
For more information, read what TheFluff has written over on Walls of TL;DR
Speaking of fail…
Also, xvid in matroska, upscaling, streamrip, fail ivtc, and a whole host of other problems. Please don’t watch this, for your eyes sake. Also mkvmerge used is 3 major versions out of date.
#Ophion
[09:23:50] <rofflwaffls> mkfifo + wget + mplayer = instant streaming :D
[09:26:09] <Kovensky> uhh…
[09:26:15] <Kovensky> why not just mplayer? :V
[09:26:22] <Kovensky> mplayer can open http:// and ftp://
[09:26:32] <rofflwaffls> uhhh
[09:26:36] * rofflwaffls facepalms
[09:26:43] <rofflwaffls> how did i not think of that
That’s my lulz for today. In other news we moved Ophion to git, I split the 64-bit repo into stable and sandpit on the actual repository, and added a few things, like sx264, a nice little Qt based x264 GUI. 32-bit is not yet updated, so keep that in mind. For 64-bit users, the new syntax is as follows:
[ophion-stable]
Server = http://emess.developersatlarge.com/packages/x86_64/stable[ophion-sandpit]
Server = http://emess.developersatlarge.com/packages/x86_64/sandpit
This should really go on the Ophion development blog but currently it’s not active. Any complaints about gitweb being down can go to rofflwaffls as well, as I didn’t break it.
I made a post, hoorah!
This is mostly to take all the tl;dr eye cancer away from my LiveJournal. Most people on that probably don’t care about the latest x264 or Ophion commits, then again, why should you?