Scenarist .scn format etc

[Dasani]

I'm writing content that is intended to be read by the authoring package Scenarist. At the moment I am outputting in the ascii (.scp) format but the parser that Scenarist uses for them crawls when the navigation structure gets complex. Therefore I would like to be able to output in Scenarist's binary (.scn) format. Does anyone know whether this format is available, or if there is a code library that builds them (and how much this will cost if it is not in the public domain)
Or am I in better off forgetting about Scenarist and instead writing out the VTS and VOB directly?

[vion11]

Or am I in better off forgetting about Scenarist
and instead writing out the VTS and VOB directly? I've reached some success with DVDAuthor (http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/doc/index.html) when project becomes
to complex for script parser. It is command line based and stable
when dealing with thousands of buttons and pgcs.

It acceptes structure as xml file and uses batches for multiplexing.

Scenarist is definetly not prepared for big projects.
The GUI lacks wizards and there seem to be a
not-more-than-700-files-constraint.

[D3s7]

there's tricks you can use when creating yoru scenarist script to speed it up..

for example is to keep the NAME= on your items short.... over a certain length, scenarist renames as it processes.. slowing it WAAAAY down.

aother is to put your assets into subfolders in screnarist... the less it needs to refresh the screen while importing.. the better off it is

unfortunatly I haven't found much tough to really spead up the importing of subtitles.. that's still slow

[Dasani]

Thank you for your advice. However I have a couple more questions:
1) Is it possible to create more than one PG on a PGC in dvdauthor, and to have a menu on each PG? This is because we have had problems with the total number of program chains allowed on a dvd.
2) While I'm at it - does anyone know for sure the maximum number of menus allowed on a DVD? Or in a VTS? Can you achieve this figure using one PGC per menu or would attaching menus to the PGC using a PG for each menu be the best way to proceed?

[vion11]

Originally posted by Dasani
Is it possible to create more than one PG on a PGC in dvdauthor, ...
...the maximum number of menus allowed on a DVD? Or in a VTS? Hmm, I ran into problems with too many titles.
Some dvd-player (ifoedit,..) don't like more
than 99 titles. Dvdauthor adds a title for
every pgc in titleset space(VTS), but didn't in
title menu space(VTSM). I've authored successfully
a dvd with 5000+ menus, and yes it's a game.
And I'm interested for what kind of application
you need a bunch of menus?

more info you'll find here:
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.multimedia.dvdauthor.user
and here:
http://www.dvd-replica.com/DVD/pgccat.php