Inserting Chapters Only At Each Episode’s Starting Point Guide

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Inserting Chapters Only at each Episodes’ Starting Point

Here’s the scenario. You combined your individual episode titlesets into one titleset, renumbered VOBs, and create new IFOs in IFOedit. Now you have one movie with chapters at every cell of each episode. You want to just have a chapter at the start of each episode so that when you skip forward from chapter 1 (episode 1), the next chapter that will play next will be episode 2 instead of chapter 2 of episode 1. Here’s a way to do it.

Tools I used:
IFOedit 0.95

With assumption that your movie is Title 1 and residing in Titleset 1 (VTS_01)

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1. Go to your VTS_01_0.IFO / VTS Overview / PGC_1 (program chain). You should see this like my example DVD below. I also noted the cells that each episode begins in. You should also write down which cells that your episodes start at on your notepad for reference.

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  PGC_1 (program chain): [Title(TTN): 1]
  
  [Ch 01] [Pg 01] [Cell 01] [V/C Id: 1/ 2] Episode 1
  [Ch 02] [Pg 02] [Cell 02] [V/C Id: 2/ 1]
  [Ch 03] [Pg 03] [Cell 03] [V/C Id: 3/ 1]
  [Ch 04] [Pg 04] [Cell 04] [V/C Id: 4/ 1]
  [Ch 05] [Pg 05] [Cell 05] [V/C Id: 5/ 1] Episode 2
  [Ch 06] [Pg 06] [Cell 06] [V/C Id: 6/ 1]
  [Ch 07] [Pg 07] [Cell 07] [V/C Id: 7/ 1]
  [Ch 08] [Pg 08] [Cell 08] [V/C Id: 8/ 1]
  [Ch 09] [Pg 09] [Cell 09] [V/C Id: 9/ 1]
  [Ch 10] [Pg 10] [Cell 10] [V/C Id: 10/ 1] Episode 3
  [Ch 11] [Pg 11] [Cell 11] [V/C Id: 11/ 1]
  [Ch 12] [Pg 12] [Cell 12] [V/C Id: 12/ 1]
  [Ch 13] [Pg 13] [Cell 13] [V/C Id: 13/ 1]
  [Ch 14] [Pg 14] [Cell 14] [V/C Id: 14/ 1]
  [Ch 15] [Pg 15] [Cell 15] [V/C Id: 15/ 1]

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2. Now go to your VTS_01_0.IFO / VTS_PGCITI / PGC_VTS_1 / PGC Program Map section. We must make Ch 5 your second chapter and Chapter 10 as your third. According to step 1, Ch 5 is in cell 5 and Ch 10 is in Cell 10. For the rest, just change them to a value of zeros. Edit as follows. Below is our example’s before and after changes.

Before:

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  Program_1: Entry cell number 1
  Program_2: Entry cell number 2
  Program_3: Entry cell number 3
  Program_4: Entry cell number 4
  Program_5: Entry cell number 5
  Program_6: Entry cell number 6
  Program_7: Entry cell number 7
  Program_8: Entry cell number 8
  Program_9: Entry cell number 9
  Program_10: Entry cell number 10
  Program_11: Entry cell number 11
  Program_12: Entry cell number 12
  Program_13: Entry cell number 13
  Program_14: Entry cell number 14
  Program_15: Entry cell number 15
  

After:

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  Program_1: Entry cell number 1
  Program_2: Entry cell number 5
  Program_3: Entry cell number 10
  Program_4: Entry cell number 0
  Program_5: Entry cell number 0
  Program_6: Entry cell number 0
  Program_7: Entry cell number 0
  Program_8: Entry cell number 0
  Program_9: Entry cell number 0
  Program_10: Entry cell number 0
  Program_11: Entry cell number 0
  Program_12: Entry cell number 0
  Program_13: Entry cell number 0
  Program_14: Entry cell number 0
  Program_15: Entry cell number 0
  

Now if you go to your VTS Overview, your chapters PGC_1 Program chain will now look like example below.

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  [Ch 01] [Pg 01] [Cell 01] [V/C Id: 1/ 2]
  ................[Cell 02] [V/C Id: 2/ 1]
  ................[Cell 03] [V/C Id: 3/ 1]
  ................[Cell 04] [V/C Id: 4/ 1]
  [Ch 02] [Pg 02] [Cell 05] [V/C Id: 5/ 1]
  ................[Cell 06] [V/C Id: 6/ 1]
  ................[Cell 07] [V/C Id: 7/ 1]
  ................[Cell 08] [V/C Id: 8/ 1]
  ................[Cell 09] [V/C Id: 9/ 1]
  [Ch 03] [Pg 03] [Cell 10] [V/C Id: 10/ 1]
  ................[Cell 11] [V/C Id: 11/ 1]
  ................[Cell 12] [V/C Id: 12/ 1]
  ................[Cell 13] [V/C Id: 13/ 1]
  ................[Cell 15] [V/C Id: 15/ 1]

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3. Save VTS_01_0.IFO
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4. Go to VIDEO_TS.IFO / VMG_PTT_SRP. Go to your title that contains your movie. It should be Title 1 since you joined your episode VOBs. Edit Number of chapters (PTTs) to 3 since my example has 3 chapters. Double left click on line and enter new value.

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  OLD > Title_1: Number of chapters (PTTs)...15
  NEW > Title_1: Number of chapters (PTTs)...3

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5. Save VIDEO_TS.IFO
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6. Get VTS Sectors
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7. DVDPlay to preview and test.