You can already have 'chapters' of a sort for avi files with the use of a ComSkip file as described elsewhere in the forums. They won't have chapter titles or thumbnails (awesome if that is eventually implemented) but at least you can skip to the beginnings of chapters.
I for one love the ability to do that as I watch a lot of music DVDs as avi files and obviously the songs are split as chapters. Takes the guesswork out of finding the beginning of the next song!
I wrote a program for my own use that will create ComSkip chapter files 1) from original DVDs and 2) for already created avi files for which you don't have a DVD (you can manually input times or frames, you can set automatic chapter points at a defined interval, say every 15 minutes, and you can also just preview the video and click a button to drop chapter points). At the end you just save the text file as the same name as the avi and in the same folder and MediaPortal will read it and make the chapter points available for you to skip back and forward to.
As I wrote the program just for personal use, it's not great looking but it's functional. If you want I can tidy it up a little and post it up somewhere for you. Will take me a few days or so though as I'm very busy at the moment. |