MuxMan + Chapter Import

[EpheMeroN]

I ripped chapter information from a dvd to the "DVDMaestro" format using DVD Decrypter since that format uses timecodes, and I wanted to import them into MuxMan.

However, upon doing so MuxMan says there are only 2 chapter points when there are really 29.

Did I do something wrong? I changed the .chp extension to .txt and also deleted that $ISpruce first line so the file contained nothing but timecodes.

Here's what the file looks like:
------------------------------
00:00:00:00
00:03:15:05
00:08:03:05
00:12:14:09
00:16:35:21
00:22:40:08
00:24:24:05
00:29:40:20
00:32:11:16
00:34:58:16
00:37:03:03
00:42:32:14
00:44:46:17
00:47:05:05
00:50:06:07
00:53:52:04
00:56:57:01
00:59:37:20
01:03:04:18
01:04:29:09
01:08:12:05
01:12:48:21
01:15:56:08
01:19:26:21
01:22:38:09
01:25:10:20
01:28:23:06
01:31:28:16
01:34:27:06

[Zeul]

remove the first line 00:00:00:00

[mpucoder]

The currently available versions of MuxMan accept only frame numbers, not timecodes. Having frame 0 in the list causes no harm, but if the last frame number is the length of the movie (as in the celltimes.txt file produced by IfoEdit) you will get an error later in the compilation as no cell can begin at that point.

[EpheMeroN]

I re-ripped the chapter info to IFOEdit format, and removed the last line as you said it would generate an error.

Now, with the video I did a 25 > 29.97 pulldown on because it is PAL and I'm in NTSC land.

Will I have to modify the frame numbers at all to adjust to the pulldown or will I be fine as is?

[Zeul]

The currently available versions of MuxMan accept only frame numbers, not timecodes.

oops forgot that

[EpheMeroN]

Another ?? that I have about chapters in MuxMan:

If I import 20 video files, will each file become a chapter point?

Also, what if I wanted all 20 files to each be a chapter, so there'd be 20 chapters to start with, but on the last video file, I'd want to divide that into 8 more chapters?

[mpucoder]

The chapter points are the displayed frame number, so if you add displayed frames by way of pulldown, the frame numbers need to be adjusted.
Additional video files do not become chapters, that has to be done by importing a chapter file, by mxp script, or in the newer version, by the spreadsheet. All the files become concatenated, so frame numbers or time values are along a continuous time line.

[EpheMeroN]

Would it be difficult to implement each added video as a new chapter in MuxMan?

I would have no way of knowing when to make chapter points if all the video files I add become joined.