Want to manually add chapters in IFOEdit... will this work?

[torchlight]

Hello... I am using IFOEdit to author simple DVDs. These DVDs just use 1 m2v and 1 AC3 file. They do not have menus or subtitles. Very simple.

I would, however, like to add chapter points every 5 minutes. The footage is not film, it is NTSC.

Doing some reasearch, I have found that I should make a text file named CellTimes.txt. If my m2v is 82001 frames, for example, to have chapter points every 5 minutes, my CellTimes.txt should look like this, right....

0
8991
17982
26973
35964
44955
53946
62937
71928

? This gives me a difference of 8991 frames between each chapter. I assume this is 5 minutes because 5minutes X 60seconds X 29.97frames is 8991.

Am I correct so far? Now, how do I get IFOEdit to use this CellTimes.txt to make chapters when I author the DVD?

Thanks for any help, folks. It is appreciated great.y

[Dave82]

Just click on DVD Author ---> Author new DVD and a new window will appear where you can specify the path for your A/V streams and also for your CellTimes.txt.
BTW keep in mind that chapters can coincide only with I - frames, and probably most of the frames you wrote aren't I - frames. So I think there will be a kind of approximation, and your chapters will be on the following I - frames they can "find". However, since you just want to put chapters every five minutes and not on particular scenes, it will be precise enough for you and you won't probably even notice the difference ;)