How do I easily add all chapters to the queue in Handbrake on OS X and ideally autoname them as well?

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Can you not just from from chapter X to chapter Y in one go? Handbrake will automatically add chapter marks for navigation. If you're trying to make each chapter a separate file I don't think there's an easy way to do this from the Handbrake UI. – Ian C. Sep 20 '10 at 14:15
What's happening is that I put in the DVD and each of the chapters is listed in the dropdown. I have to then navigate to each chapter, change the filename and add each to the queue indivually. A bit of a pain. – Pram Sep 20 '10 at 14:41
But you can pick a start and end chapter and rip it all as one big file. There's no way to have it do auto-naming the way you're asking for AFAIK. – Ian C. Sep 20 '10 at 15:43
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To do large batches of titles without a lot of manual work, download the command line version of Handbrake and then run a script, e.g.

#!/bin/bash
for i in {2..70}
do
   echo Doing track number $i...
   ./HandBrakeCLI -t $i -i /Volumes/MX1-0N-NW1_DES --preset iPad -o X-Men_Vol1_Disk1_Title$i.mp4
done
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those are titles, not chapters in the dropdown. You can set it to append the title number after your preset filename ({source}{title}{chapters}), but I haven't figured out how to make them do all of them without pulling down each one.

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