without chapters

[sidar]

hello all,

i read the forum and guides, but couldnt find any info about this.

if I dont want chapters, and author my dvd without chapters, wont it play in a DVD player? i dont have a dvd player by now, i can not test this.

chapters is not important for me, i mean i never use "next chapter" button in a dvd player, i just scan it forward.

if they work w/o chapters, what is the disadvantage of making dvd's without chapters?

thanks...

[slk001]

For every video you put on a DVD, there is always a "Chapter 1" (but it may be called something else, like Chapter 00:00:00). This is just the video entry point. Any extra chapters that you put in are only for your convenience.

So, if you don't want to put in chapters, then don't do it (and don't worry about it).

[sidar]

thx,

i wont worry from now on, but do I have to put a chapter in CCE ecl file, and than Maestro? i mean a zero chapter indicate word or something.

[HomerJ]

I use CCE & Spruce Up.

After encoding with CCE, I import the audio and video into Spruce Up.

I end up with 1 chapter only, and there is no need to specify this, it does it on its' own.

I think there is always a mimimum of 1 chapter.

Hope that helps.

HomerJ :)

[sidar]

thanks homer,

i dont use spruceup because dont support subtitles!

but ill try it with maestro, with no chapter importing.

the hard thing is in my country dvdr are 5-10 dollars each, so testing is a harm :)

[old-hack]

For DVD Maestro, you will have to drop Chapter 1 into the First Play field to ensure your authored DVD begins playing after inserting it into your set top DVD player. I've been extracting chapters from the VOBs using chapter extractor and importing them into DVD Maestro. However, I only connect chapter 1 to the first play field. After the DVD is authored and burned, I can still skip ahead chapter by chapter if I want to. Without any chapters in your authored DVD, you will have to fast forward through your entire movie to get the to next point you want to view if you want to resume viewing the DVD from the last point you were at.

[old-hack]

Of course, this applies to if you remove the DVD from your player and want to pick up the movie from the point you were last viewing. If you pause the movie and come back, I believe it will allow you to continue from where you paused.

Doesn't your country sell rewriteable DVD's? (i.e. DVD-RW or DVD+RW).

[sidar]

firstly thanks,

they are like 20$, yeah i know i should buy one.

so for the first point, i should connect one chapter, and set play cursor to 0:00:00, than it will be play fine on dvd player.

thanks for info, ill try this. since 2 weeks i cant do a dvdr from series, so i will try when I make it :)

thx