chapters

[twistee]

Hi,

I have been trying to do the chapters for a vcd using the guide. I set up everything, pasting in the chapter times, and making the end offset at about 65 minutes. I press go and it does it thing. After it has told me it is finding the closest possible time for my chapters it comes up with an error 'image too big 487104 sectors > 449850 sectors'. It makes the xml file but then stops. I tried to manually change the xml into bin/cue but it comes up with the same error.

The movie is about 1h 45m and its in one mpg file. i add it and it says the cd will be 1100 (approx.) megs. Im not sure if im doing something wrong...

[twistee]

well, i had a look at my mpg file and the sound is waaay off (like not in sync). im going to encode it again and then ill try the chapters again.

[twistee]

ok, im back. i made the mpg again and everything is fine with it, so i tried vcdeasy and got the same message (i decided to copy the whole log file this time). I have followed the guide really closely.

here it is -

Internally computed XML generated successfully as "D:\Data\Movies\videocd.xml"

GNU VCDImager 0.7.11
initializing libvcd 0.7.11 [cygwin/i686]

this is the UNSTABLE development branch!
use only if you know what you are doing
see http://www.hvrlab.org/~hvr/vcdimager/ for more information

changed volume number to 1
changed volume count to 1
changed restriction number to 0
changing 'next volume use sequence 2' to 0
changing 'next volume use lid 2' to 0
changed volume label to `VIDEOCD'
changed publisher id to `VCDEASY_V105'
changed application id to `CDI/CDI_VCD.APP;1'
changing 'relaxed aps' to 0
adding pbc (selection-000/2)
adding pbc (selection-001/2)
adding pbc (selection-002/2)
adding pbc (selection-003/2)
adding pbc (selection-004/2)
adding pbc (selection-005/2)
adding pbc (selection-006/2)
adding pbc (selection-007/2)
adding pbc (selection-008/2)
adding pbc (selection-009/2)
adding pbc (selection-010/2)
adding pbc (selection-011/2)
adding pbc (selection-012/2)
adding pbc (selection-013/2)
adding pbc (selection-014/2)
adding pbc (selection-015/2)
adding pbc (selection-016/2)
adding pbc (selection-017/2)
adding pbc (selection-018/2)
adding pbc (selection-019/2)
adding pbc (selection-020/2)
adding pbc (selection-021/2)
adding pbc (selection-end/3)
sequence count 1
adding sequence #0, D:\Data\Movies\falling down.mpg
pts start offset 0.346711 (max pts = 6479.986711)
playing time 6479.640000
scanning mpeg sequence item #0 for scanpoints...
already scanned... not rescanning
pbc: psd size 1416 (extended psd 3736)
iso9660: highest alloced sector is 258 (using 300 as isosize)
requested entry point (id=chapter00-01) at 396.160000, closest possible entry point at 396.160000
requested entry point (id=chapter00-02) at 743.960000, closest possible entry point at 743.679989
requested entry point (id=chapter00-03) at 914.720000, closest possible entry point at 914.559989
requested entry point (id=chapter00-04) at 1032.880000, closest possible entry point at 1032.959989
requested entry point (id=chapter00-05) at 1265.040000, closest possible entry point at 1265.199989
requested entry point (id=chapter00-06) at 1397.400000, closest possible entry point at 1397.760000
requested entry point (id=chapter00-07) at 1709.080000, closest possible entry point at 1709.440000
requested entry point (id=chapter00-08) at 1884.800000, closest possible entry point at 1884.800000
requested entry point (id=chapter00-09) at 2071.240000, closest possible entry point at 2071.680000
requested entry point (id=chapter00-10) at 2236.200000, closest possible entry point at 2236.160000
requested entry point (id=chapter00-11) at 2362.800000, closest possible entry point at 2362.880000
requested entry point (id=chapter00-12) at 2634.760000, closest possible entry point at 2634.880000
requested entry point (id=chapter00-13) at 2810.000000, closest possible entry point at 2810.160000
requested entry point (id=chapter00-14) at 2990.600000, closest possible entry point at 2990.640000
requested entry point (id=chapter00-15) at 3020.240000, closest possible entry point at 3020.160000
requested entry point (id=chapter00-16) at 3168.320000, closest possible entry point at 3168.560000
requested entry point (id=chapter00-17) at 3362.080000, closest possible entry point at 3361.920000
requested entry point (id=chapter00-18) at 3500.080000, closest possible entry point at 3500.080000
requested entry point (id=chapter00-19) at 3824.120000, closest possible entry point at 3824.640000
requested entry point (id=chapter00-20) at 3976.520000, closest possible entry point at 3976.320000
requested entry point (id=chapter00-21) at 4104.040000, closest possible entry point at 4104.320000
image too big (486518 sectors > 449850 sectors)

[Infinite_stupidity]

The movie is about 1h 45m and its in one mpg file
Ummm, yea, that wwaaaayyyy too big to fit on 1 cd... even at vcd bitrates thats too big. your going to have to cut it to 2 cds...

[twistee]

i set the end offset at 1h 10 min, which is 70 minutes...cds hold 74 minutes...anyway, i also tried setting the end offset at 20 minutes and it had the same problem. I think its getting the chapters till the end offset, and then the last chapter is 60 minutes long. How do i make it so the end offset is the end of the CD, as your not meant to split it up before hand...or are you?

[Infinite_stupidity]

Yea, you need to split the mpeg file up before all that...

[twistee]

but wouldnt that stuff up the chapterxtractor stuff. as you would need to figure out all different chapter times for the extra cds.

[twistee]

i get it now....it just took a while to 'click'. normally i just sit and stare at the computer for 10 minutes if i dont understand something...this time it took a bit longer and i got worried :) thanks!

[Kb_cruncher]

if you get it can you tell me please as i am having trouble understanding how to set chapters for the second disk of my svcd's.
i can do the first disk by copy/paste chapter ex-tractor data for the first half of the chapters but the second half of the chapters start at a time half way through.do i need to work out the times between the second lot of chaters and edit them manually or do i just copy/paste second lot of chapters as is(i did this and got an error"wrong chapter point entry"in vcdeasy.

[poopity poop]

THERE'S AN EVIL MONKEY IN MY ROOM!!!!!

[twistee]

i think you need to work out the chapter points of the second cd manually...i never use proper chapter entrys now (like from the dvd), i normally just do 10 minute intervals...