Tool for chapters?

[PaulJBis]

Hi all:

I have a SVCD-ready MPEG2 file, and I want to burn it to... well, SVCD :-). The only problem is that I can't find a tool to add chapters to it. Nero doesn't do it, and the free version of VCDEasy doesn't handle files bigger than 400Mb (while this one is 770Mb). I know that the commercial version of VCDEasy does it, but I only have this one file to burn, so I don't want to pay for a program that I'll be using just once.

What other tools are there to add chapters? Most of the free programs that I've seen, like DVD2SVCD, seem to take a "beginning to end" approach, making you rip the DVD, convert it, encode it... but I *already* have the MPEG2 file encoded and ready to be burned. I tried TSCV, but the image it created didn't have chapters when I burned it, don't know why. Anything else?

[smiller667]

You can use a different frontend for vcdimager (e.g. tscv) or use the last unlimited free version of vcdeasy. Links to both are on the doom9 software page.

And of course you can also write your own xml file in notepad :) and use vcdimager to compile the vcd image.

[skullfullomagots]

Hi
I used TSCV http://www.dvdrhelp.com/sefy/?id=chapters1.html for the purpose and it works very well. I also wanted to make the menus for my VCD. After doing al the necessary things at the MenuGen Tab of TSCV, I click on Creat Menu and after the menu's for different chapters have been created, it promts me to save the file as mpv for still menus or as mpg for motion menu's.

Here is where I get stuck. Even after saving this file, the file does not get saved at all... and I get the error on log window as Starting VCDxBuild process...

initializing libvcd 0.7.12 [cygwin/i686]

this is the UNSTABLE development branch!
use only if you know what you are doing
see http://www.hvrlab.org/~hvr/vcdimager/ for more information

front margin set smaller than recommended (0
rear margin set smaller than recommended (0
could not stat() file `C:\Documents and Settings\chaos\Desktop\chapterList.mpg': No such file or directory


VCDxBuild finished


Can you please help me figure out where I am doing wrong and what!
Skull