Make my own chapters

[theo.t]

Hi

I have searched the forum but cannot find an answer to my question. Hope I have some luck here.

I have a DVD recorder that I have used to record some concerts from Digital Satellite. I would like to strip out the commercial breaks without losing the video image quality.

So far I have used DVD decrypter to copy the vobs down to my hard-disk where I then use Chopper XP to create a new set of vobs with all the commercial breaks removed. Then I use VobEdit to rejoin the vobs and finally IfoEdit to create the new .ifo files. So far so good.

I believe the next stage is to use IfoEdit to create an ISO image file that I can burn with DVD decrypter (although I do have Nero 6 which I believe will allow me to author a DVD)

My problem is that I would like to create a chapter at the start of each new song but what I actually have is a chapter at the start of each vob. Can anyone recommend some software that will let me clear these chapters and set new ones or is this going to be a complicated process of demuxing and editing etc. I have to admit from what I have read so far I find the prospect of this a bit daunting.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[killingspree]

you can actually create your chapters when authoring with ifoedit

here's doom9s guide:

www.doom9.org/mpg/ifoedit-dvdauthor.htm

quite a bit down the page you can find your info!

steVe

[theo.t]

steVe

Thanks, I have now found the section you referred to. I have demuxed the vobs using ‘demux all’ as the article recommends and I end up with one large video stream (m2v) and an audio stream (ac3).

When I tried saving cell times to file I realised these would now be no good as I want to choose new scene changes for use with 'author new DVD' but I don't know how to work out the positions in the m2v file.

Is there a tool that allows me to play back the m2v file and show the cell numbers so I can then create my own list to feed in to the box for 'scene changes/chapters' on the authoring screen?

[smiller667]

Provided your material is dvd-compliant (or has been patched to look like it), you could try tmpg dvd-author, it allows you to scan through your mpeg and pick chapter points (plus it generates thumbnails for your chapters and a basic menu).

If you want to calculate proper chapter times in ifoedit, the celltimes.txt simply contains frame numbers - use e.g. vdubmod to identify the i-frames where you want your chapters. Be sure to do a carriage return after the last line or the last chapter will be discarded. Rejig does pretty much the same, btw. (and does a better job when you have to deal with ntsc material).

Steve.

[theo.t]

Finally managed to get my chapters defined.

Thanks for your help Steve