Removing title picture from bin/cue?

[glassvial]

Wasn't sure where to post this, so this forum looked good. Does anyone know an easy way to remove the title picture from a bin/cue file without excessive work, headaches, and/or starting over? Thanks.

[Nick]

I think this one would probably be more suited to the basic forum or event the VCD/SVCD authoring forum.

But here goes anyway.

The only thing I can think of is to use vcdeasy.

In the Tools section there is a GUI for VCDXRip which will rip the mpeg files from an SVCD image. You can then use the (s)vcd section to re-author the image file only containing the streams you require.

[glassvial]

Would that retain the chapter (entry point) information as well? And also does the same scenario apply if the disc is already burned?

[Nick]

It would not preserve it as such but you would be able to read the chapter data (given in seconds) in the xml file (if Windows doesn't know what to open it with use notepad) that it creates when it rips the disc.

You could then add those chapters manually in VCDEasy when you reauthor the file. I can't see a reason why that wouldn't work.

I should point out however that I have never done this, so I am giving "blind" advice.

[glassvial]

Ok so here's what I got in the XML file, now what?

<entry id="entry-001">0.000000</entry>
<entry id="entry-002">503.469633</entry>
<entry id="entry-003">1419.835078</entry>
<entry id="entry-004">2008.389711</entry>
<entry id="entry-005">2547.795244</entry>
<entry id="entry-006">3125.755967</entry>

I've tried a couple of different ways to get the entrypoints to line up and they just don't.

[Nick]

The entry points are in seconds so if you divide by 60

ie 0/60 = 0

503.469/60 = 8.391115mins => (0.39115*60=23.469) = 0h 8m 23.469s

Do the above calc for each entrypoint to convert to hours:mins:sec

Then load up your mpeg in vcdeasy and click the chapters tab and insert the chapters manually using the "add chapter at" (I am using vcdeasy 1.1.1 so I am assuming nothing has changed!)

then select a filename and output folder for your image files and click go!

When you have authored the image files you can then test it if you wish with Daemon Tools (googlesearch will find easy enough if you don't have). Mount your image in the virtual drive then open PowerDVD or WinDVD whatever you have and click thru the chapters to check they correspond with the original dvd.

Then Burn...

Hope this helps m8

Nick

[glassvial]

Ok, that formula worked. The ways I was trying didn't work. It would be nice if VCDEasy (perhaps in a future version?) could just plug the entrypoints right back in like they are in the xml file. Thanks :)

[Nick]

No problem!
Happy to help.

I agree it is a ballache doing everything manually and agree re. vcdeasy.

However this program is no longer freeware so any version after 1.1.5 will cost you...

[glassvial]

Actually the last freeware version was 1.15.2 (or something like that?) and you have to jump through a couple of hoops to get it, but it works just fine. I wouldn't trust the author as far as I can throw him now, even for suggestions, he seems to be so caught up in his "commercial" users. He shouldn't even have the right to have the .org domain name anymore, seeing as he's now pushing a commercial product and therefore should be on a .com domain name. Ah well I'll just have to keep doing this manually, it's really irritating that people put stupid title pictures in like that, and I've also read it can cause sync issues on some dvd players (thankfully, not mine) ... so I wish that DVD2SVCD would make that option unchecked by default instead of checked by default like it is now, and the lazy people don't catch it to turn it off, thus causing the problem :)