Any way to make a playlist of chapters in a video, like songs in an album?

[esumsea]

I have searched but cannot find a way to do the following: I have a bunch of music video files or concert movies that have a collection of songs. I was thinking of adding chapters to those that designating the beginning of each song or feature in the file. I would like to then make a playlist or randomly shuffle through these chapters so that these snippets of videos would play like songs, sort of like a MTV playback.

Is this possible without dividing the video file into each song (which would be so laborious it is impossible)?

[LyricsLover]

Are you looking for something that is visible in the video, like in this YT example?

Unfortunately, I have no idea how these chapters are technically created and displayed as individual songs.

[ohrenkino]

Here is a thread about chapters in video files:

Adding chapter markers to audio and video files

I'm currently researching how to embed chapter information inside audio and video files, so that they still work when playing a file standalone. Can a chapter index be written to the ID3 metadata?

[LyricsLover]

The combination MKVToolnix and video files in Matroska MKV format supports chapters.

In VLC such added/modified chapters would look like this:

In the GUI for mkvtoolnix the chapter manipulation looks like this:

On the commandline you can also use external chapter files - for example in XML format:

Or if you prefer a standalone chapter creating tool, you could try:
chapterEditor

chapterEditor v1.45 (2024-10-20) in its Windows version looks like this:

[esumsea]

Thanks for the suggestions. I have a grasp of how to create chapters, I am now trying to figure out if there is a player that will play only specific chapters or a random selection of chapters. I am also trying how to make a playlist of vido chapters. I will lock at ohrenkino's suggested thread for more clues.