Syden
26th July 2003, 17:24
Hi all,
I don't know if there is a tool already available to do this, but I ended up writing one in java anyway, and just thought someone else might find it useful, if there is any interest I'll post it, but basically....
I have been using Gordian Knot to encode a lot of my old damaged DVD's onto 2 CD's and have been using Chapter-X-tractor to get the chapter times out of the source dvd. I got chapter-x-tractor to format the chapters correctly for ZoomPlayer (my DivX player of choice) but this chapter file was for the complete movie, rather than it being split onto two cd's so.. I wrote a tool that allows the user to select the "WHATEVER_ChapterX8.txt" (from Robot4rip) and then the "WHATEVER_GKnot.log" and takes the number of frames from the first cd, turns that into a time in seconds and splits the "WHATEVER_ChapterX8.txt" file into two "WHATEVER_part1.chp" and "WHATEVER_part2.chp" files using that cut time, which are then automatically read into ZoomPlayer when someone opens "WHATEVER_part1.avi"
Anyways, I just thought someone else might find this useful, so if anyone would, then give me a sign, lol, and I'll post it up.
Also a bit of a question, does anyone know whether there is a service similar to cddb but for DVD chapter names? as that would be the next thing I would like to sort out.
One last thing, I'll just say this again in case you missed it at the top, the tool is written in Java, unfortunately I can't quite get to grips with C++, but I might try a C# version if there is any interest.
Thanks for reading :)
Steven Mileham
I don't know if there is a tool already available to do this, but I ended up writing one in java anyway, and just thought someone else might find it useful, if there is any interest I'll post it, but basically....
I have been using Gordian Knot to encode a lot of my old damaged DVD's onto 2 CD's and have been using Chapter-X-tractor to get the chapter times out of the source dvd. I got chapter-x-tractor to format the chapters correctly for ZoomPlayer (my DivX player of choice) but this chapter file was for the complete movie, rather than it being split onto two cd's so.. I wrote a tool that allows the user to select the "WHATEVER_ChapterX8.txt" (from Robot4rip) and then the "WHATEVER_GKnot.log" and takes the number of frames from the first cd, turns that into a time in seconds and splits the "WHATEVER_ChapterX8.txt" file into two "WHATEVER_part1.chp" and "WHATEVER_part2.chp" files using that cut time, which are then automatically read into ZoomPlayer when someone opens "WHATEVER_part1.avi"
Anyways, I just thought someone else might find this useful, so if anyone would, then give me a sign, lol, and I'll post it up.
Also a bit of a question, does anyone know whether there is a service similar to cddb but for DVD chapter names? as that would be the next thing I would like to sort out.
One last thing, I'll just say this again in case you missed it at the top, the tool is written in Java, unfortunately I can't quite get to grips with C++, but I might try a C# version if there is any interest.
Thanks for reading :)
Steven Mileham