#6468: ffmpeg doesn't maintain chapters when concatenating two MP4 files using the concat demuxer -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: whereswardy | Type: defect Status: new | Priority: normal Component: | Version: undetermined | unspecified Keywords: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Reproduced by developer: 0 Analyzed by developer: 0 | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- I'm trying to concatenate two MP4 files using the concat demuxer and want to retain the chapter markers that exist in both files so that the output file contains all the chapters from both of my input files. The source files contain chapter markers according to `mediainfo` which I want to be maintained in the output, but when using the `-map_chapters` option in ffmpeg they don't appear in the output file. I'm concatenating the following two files from `streams.txt`: {{{ file 'episode2.mp4' file 'episode3.mp4' }}} which contain the following chapter/menu data (output cut down for brevity): {{{ $ mediainfo episode2.mp4 ... Menu ID : 3 Codec ID : text Duration : 22mn 25s Language : English Encoded date : UTC 2017-06-18 15:27:40 Tagged date : UTC 2017-06-18 15:27:40 Bit rate mode : CBR 00:00:00.000 : Chapter 1 00:00:59.720 : Chapter 2 ... }}} and I'm using the following ffmpeg command: {{{ ffmpeg -f concat -safe 0 -i streams.txt -map_metadata 0 -map_chapters 0 -c copy output.mp4 }}} however the output.mp4 file contains no chapter markers according to `mediainfo` and there's nothing viewable in any media player. I'm using ffmpeg 3.3.2 on Ubuntu 14.04.5: {{{ $ ffmpeg -version ffmpeg version 3.3.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2017 the FFmpeg developers built with gcc 4.8 (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.3) configuration: --extra-libs=-ldl --prefix=/opt/ffmpeg --mandir=/usr/share/man --enable-avresample --disable-debug --enable- nonfree --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --disable-decoder=amrnb --disable-decoder=amrwb --enable-libpulse --enable-libfreetype --enable-gnutls --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libfdk-aac --enable-libvorbis --enable- libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-libvpx --enable-libspeex --enable- libass --enable-avisynth --enable-libsoxr --enable-libxvid --enable- libvidstab --enable-libwavpack --enable-nvenc libavutil 55. 58.100 / 55. 58.100 libavcodec 57. 89.100 / 57. 89.100 libavformat 57. 71.100 / 57. 71.100 libavdevice 57. 6.100 / 57. 6.100 libavfilter 6. 82.100 / 6. 82.100 libavresample 3. 5. 0 / 3. 5. 0 libswscale 4. 6.100 / 4. 6.100 libswresample 2. 7.100 / 2. 7.100 libpostproc 54. 5.100 / 54. 5.100 }}} {{{ $ uname -a Linux server 3.13.0-119-generic #166-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 3 12:18:55 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux }}} -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/6468> FFmpeg <https://ffmpeg.org> FFmpeg issue tracker