mp4 file chapterisation

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Thu, 2013-02-07 at 01:45 +0000, Romeo Chahine wrote:

Hi Romeo,

> I'm currently muxing a video source (h264) and a audio source (aac)
> into a single mp4 file with mp4mux element (somekind of recording type
> feature) . I would like to add chapters (tracks) info into the mix so
> at a later time when playing a long one hour mp4 file you could skip to
> different location in the player.  First of all can this be done with
> in a single MP4 file or do I have to create multiple mp4 files? Any
> suggestions would be greatly helpful.

I think it could be done, but it's not implemented at the moment.

I think it would require someone adding support for chapters via the
GstToc interface to qtmux/mp4mux.

The corresponding demuxer bug is this:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=540887

Cheers
 -Tim