MicroDVD Multi Main-Videos

[Anubis]

hey guys,

i have a question concerning TV shows and MicroDVD.

I have ripped television show dvds, and have created the menus, videos, subtitles, languages... the lot, and ini files too that work a treat.

Now, i have 2 episodes per cd, which means 2 main video files per cd. They have to be main videos because i need both multiple languages/commentary and subtitles.
So, on the advise of Locutus (the programmer of MDVD), i have made 2 seperate ini files for each video. He instructed me to put them in seperate directories, thats easy enough, but this is the major problem.

I need make the cd's auto-runnable, using Method One.


This is what Locutus had to say, if it helps:

"You can use a trick to put multiple movies on one CD. Put each of them into a subdirectory, complete with their INIs, and run the player with the INI as parameter, as if the movie was on HDD. You need to set the option in config, workarounds, "set player to HDD mode if INI file is passed as param, even if the INI is on CD" for that."

"Yep you make seperate complete movies, as if you were really making several of them, put them in a subdirectory each, and pretend the CD was an HDD. :) That is necessary, cause in CD mode, the player expects the INI file in the root. In HDD mode, it can be anywhere, you give its name as a parameter to the EXE then. How you start it is left to you, you could make an own menu for example."


Now there is a short video clip and a still that has the option for both episodes, so what i really need is a command to change INI files. Is there such a command? Could i create one by adding a command line to MDVDP.INI?

SO i need to be able to swap from one INI to another at will, via this menu page (the video section only plays on starting the cd)

So to sum up my dilema: basically i need to be able to have an autorun mdvd cd, using method one, with 2 main video files, each with the capability of subtitles and languages. If there is an easier way around this, please share.


On a possibly easier subject, does anyone know of a program that will split a .sub subtitle file at a given point, instead of manually changing every number?

Thanks in advance!!

Ken

[Snike42]

The solution with the two ini files sounds very complicated and needs some kind of menu program outside the micro-dvdplayer. Suppose you find/make such a program, then the next problem is that you won;t be able to choose an other episode in micro-dvdplayer.

The easy way is to join the episodes (avi, subs, languages) together and tread it as one big movie. Define chapters for every episode. Make a nice menu where you can choose an episode (ie chapter).
You could do the joining right after ripping the vob's, that'll save a lot trouble.


Snike42

[Anubis]

yeah, i thought of all these consequences, and it was my last resort. see id prefer not to join them together because i want to be able to use the files individually, which ofcourse is no prob for ME to split them, but others may find it hard

oh well, you cant have it all

thanks for the advise, i was just looking for another alternative. i guess it makes my life a lot easier


cheers

Ken

[Snike42]

Here's another idea.

Same procedure as before with the chapters.
Join the audio and subtitles files, but leave the avi's seperate.
Define a multi-cd movie with avi1 as the first part and avi2 as the second, and possibly a third part.
Now instead of actually making separate cd's, put all the avi's in the same directory. Now you probably have to start MicroDVD in hdd mode to make this work.

Snike42