---
name: "dvdxchap"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "ogmtools"
version: "1.5-12"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/dvdxchap"
---

# dvdxchap(1)

Extract chapter information from DVDs

## NAME

dvdxchap - Extract chapter information from DVDs

## SYNOPSIS

**dvdxchap** \[*options*\] *DVD-SOURCE*

## DESCRIPTION

This program extracts chapter information from a DVD and displays it in a form usable by **[ogmmerge(1)](/ogmmerge/1.md)**.

- **-t**, **--title** *num*

  Use title '*num*'. Default is 1.

- **-c**, **--chapter** *start*\[-*end*\]

  Only output the given range of chapters and adjust all timecodes so that they start at 0. The default is to output all chapters.

- **-v**

  Increase verbosity

- **-V**

  Show version information

- **-h**

  Show help

## EXAMPLES

The output generated by **dvdxchap** will have the form

CHAPTER01=00:01:35.240\
 CHAPTER01NAME=Chapter 01\
 CHAPTER02=00:03:40:300\
 CHAPTER02NAME=Chapter 02\
 etc.

You should pipe its output to a file, edit the chapter names and use the resulting file as an input for **[ogmmerge(1)](/ogmmerge/1.md)**.

## AUTHOR

*dvdxchap* was written by Moritz Bunkus \<moritz@bunkus.org\>. Some ideas were taken from Chapter-X-Tractor (\<http://christophe.paris.free.fr/main.php3\>) ⟨\<http://christophe.paris.free.fr/main.php3\>⟩ written by Christophe Paris.

## SEE ALSO

[**ogmmerge**(1)](/ogmmerge/1.md), [**ogmsplit**(1)](/ogmsplit/1.md), [**ogminfo**(1)](/ogminfo/1.md), [**ogmdemux**(1)](/ogmdemux/1.md)

## WWW

The newest version can always be found at \<http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/ogmtools/\> ⟨http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/ogmtools/⟩