Just a quick question from a newbie...

[JhunKOF2k]

:confused:
Hello all, I _finally_ made my first succesful SVCD since getting the program five days ago (I retried about 8 times...10 hours each!). However, the movie plays automatically after showing the title picture for a few seconds. I want it so that the title screen remains until "Play" is pressed. Is there some way to do this? I tried searching for answers on the boards but I couldn't word the question correctly and didn't find any suitable posts. Thanks a lot in advance for any help!

Oh, P.S. Adding in an afterthough...the title pic was muddy compared to the original, and was horribly out of proportion (the edges were cut off). The original pic is a 800x600, 24-bit bitmap. Is there a way to make it fit and be cleaner? Once again, thanks in advance for any help!

-Jhun

[da franksta]

please describe your problem in the thread title.

a pause after the title pic: you'd have to rebuild and reauthorize yourself. Easiest way to do this (in my experience) and NOT the best way would be to use Nero: open svcd template and drag and drop both bmp file and mpeg file. I'm not saying this is and elegant way, but if you're desperate you could give it a try.

Resize the original pic before letting dvd2svcd handle it.

[gerti67]

Hi there,

I think there's another way. After DVD2SVCD has finished the whole conversion just open the "VCDXBuild_Script_1.xml" with notepad (it contains the menu entry for the title pic) and look for these lines:

<!-- chapter-00 is the titlepicture -->
<selection id="chapter-00">
<bsn>1</bsn>
<next ref="chapter-01"/>
<return ref="end"/>
<timeout ref="chapter-01"/>
<wait>5</wait>
<loop jump-timing="immediate">1</loop>
<play-item ref="segment-titlepicture"/>
<select ref="chapter-01"/>
</selection>

Now change the 5 to -1 and save the changes. Open the "dvd2svcd_log.txt" file with notepad and copy this line:

"D:\Programme\DVD2SVCD\VCDImager\VCDXBuild.exe" --verbose --cue-file="G:\Ripping\Evo\CD_Image_File_CD1.cue" --bin-file="G:\Ripping\Evo\CD_Image_File_CD1.bin" "G:\Ripping\Evo\VCDXBuild_Script_1.xml"

Open a DOS-Box or hit "Start/Run..." paste it over there and hit ENTER.

Now the first image will be re-created with the title picture playing infinite until you skip forward.

HTH,
Gerti

[da franksta]

thanks gerti,
learn something new everyday!

[JhunKOF2k]

Yes, thanks a lot! You got it right on the nose. It works perfectly now.

-Jhun