Help how make chapter vcd whit videopack 5.1

[ftb32]

Hi friends:
Ineed help how make chapter VcD (no SvcD) whit roxio video pack 5.1...........:confused:

[poopity poop]

you can not. Neither can you have subtitles. Video pack 5 does not take ANY mpg as its input. It encodes all the video's that you want while it makes the image. It stinks trust me. If you want to author an SVCD get TSCV. You can add chapters menu's intro video etc etc

[adam]

What are you talking about poopity poop? Video pack 5 does support entry point chapters for both vcds and svcds and he is making vcds which only support hard encoded subs anyway, so any vcd authoring program can produce subbed vcds. I actually think vid pack 5 is a great authoring program for both vcds and svcds, though I still prefer I-Author.

ftb32 have you read the help docs because they explain how to use entry points pretty clearly? Basically you just create a video track node for each chapter that you will need and use the same video source for each node. Then you connect the next and previous links accordingly...node 1 next goes to node 2 and node 2 previous links back to node 1 etc.. If you look at the properties of each node there is a point to enter an entrypoint time. It even lets you scroll through frame by frame and select the desired chapter point. Just set your chapter times for each node here.

Follow this guide if you get lost...
http://www.coyote01.freeserve.co.uk/video_pack_5.htm

BTW, I found this guide in less than 5 secs on google.

[poopity poop]

I stand corrected.
I don't think you can make an mpeg-2 stream via tmpeg or CCESP and use that specifically in as your video can you? I guess that's the main issue I have with it, it wants to do all its own encoding. and TSCV works very well and has every option an SVCD image can support

[adam]

Sure you can, as long as your mpg is compliant vid pack will accept it fine. This is always been my experience with both vid pack 4 and 5.

My problem with TSCV is all the bugs it has with its menu authoring, ex: end item non-functional, deleting item results in errors during image creation, etc... Last time I checked these bugs and more were all still present in the latest TSCV release. Even if it were completely stable it still has horribly unintuitive menu design. The svcds I author all have at least 30 still pictures in them and TSCV names them all menu00, menu01 etc...(something like that I don't remember.) With that many still pictures it is impossible to keep them all straight when they basically all have the same names. I find it much easier to just author in XML by hand, or for that matter to use Vid pack 5.1 or I-Author.

[poopity poop]

that reminds me:
What is XML?
I assume its basically a script that acts like an ifo for a DVD. If I wanted to make my own SVCD images I would need all the folders scaninfo.dat and where and how would I put the XML and what other things would I need?

[adam]

The XML script language really has nothing to do with svcds or vcds, it is just the language that vcdimager uses. The commands in the XML script dictate how vcdimager creates the files and folders that make up your (s)vcd. I think hrv (author of vcdimager) could have picked any number of programming languages such as Java or C++. Basically what I'm saying is that you can't just author a svcd in XML, you need a program to interpret your XML script.

[poopity poop]

right I see what you are saying you can write all the lines of code you want but until you compile it, it won't do a darn thing..gothca, is there any site that explains making XML scripts?

[adam]

The vcdimager manual gives a brief overview. You can find more detailed explanations and examples on http://www.vcdimager.org/ and there are also some links to xml guides on there.