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gizzin
29th December 2008, 15:35
A person relied some information to me, I'm not sure if it was to confuse me or not. But I had some suspicions that it may have been incorrect to some extent. Anyways it was in regards to how chapter points work in the dvd structure. Here's what I was told.

yes, it is just really complex and not a simple table with index

the position of a chapters need to follow some rules

about iframe, parity of the iframe

and can't break a subtitle time too

that's why the time line of the chapter can be delayed of several seconds to have a position matching these rules

Someone with more knowledge on how to dvd structure works in regards to chapter points could maybe fill me in on how true or false this is... Thanks for your time. I think im posting this in the right place :)

blutach
29th December 2008, 22:45
Chapters end on a cell boundary - that is, a chapter can't be split within a cell. Since a new cell starts always with an I-Frame, so will a new chapter. The first subtitle of the chapter will correspond to the first of the new cell - of course, subtitles will not span chapter points either.

Regards