Chapters, Tracks, Menus

Probably more of a Burning question than MM2. I've just burnt my videos
onto SVCD, and they play fine but...

There are 3 seperate videos on there, created from 3 seperate .avi
files. I can select and play each one from a crude menu screen. What I
really want is one video, that plays continuously, but that I can skip
forward and back to the different breaks if I want to. Rather like
tracks on an audio CD.

So I have 2 questions.

1. Is it possible to create the equivalent of 'tracks' on an audio CD
from a single avi file?

2. Is it possible to create one continuous movie from multiple avi files
(obviously this is possible in MM2, but if I can't do Q1 then I'd rather
not).

Thanks,
Ib.

It's possible to do both. You can join your mpg files using TMPGenc using
its MPEG tools. For creating "chapter" points, you can use VCDEasy,
available at www.vcdeasy.org. It's apparently not a free program anymore,
and despite its name, it's not particularly easy to use, but it can do what
you want. Note that I don't think you can create an SVCD "menu" that
references the chapter points - it's just not in the SVCD specs. For this,
you need to go to DVD.


"Ib" <tiscali@my.news.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Probably more of a Burning question than MM2. I've just burnt my videos
> onto SVCD, and they play fine but...
>
> There are 3 seperate videos on there, created from 3 seperate .avi
> files. I can select and play each one from a crude menu screen. What I
> really want is one video, that plays continuously, but that I can skip
> forward and back to the different breaks if I want to. Rather like
> tracks on an audio CD.
>
> So I have 2 questions.
>
> 1. Is it possible to create the equivalent of 'tracks' on an audio CD
> from a single avi file?
>
> 2. Is it possible to create one continuous movie from multiple avi files
> (obviously this is possible in MM2, but if I can't do Q1 then I'd rather
> not).
>
> Thanks,
> Ib.
>

Nero can do the DVD burning, but I wouldn't rely on it for converting avi to
mpeg.

"Ib" <tiscali@my.news.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Tim Wentworth wrote:
> > It's possible to do both. You can join your mpg files using TMPGenc
using
> > its MPEG tools. For creating "chapter" points, you can use VCDEasy,
> > available at www.vcdeasy.org. It's apparently not a free program
anymore,
> > and despite its name, it's not particularly easy to use, but it can do
what
> > you want. Note that I don't think you can create an SVCD "menu" that
> > references the chapter points - it's just not in the SVCD specs. For
this,
> > you need to go to DVD.
> >
> >
>
> Thanks. I've had a look at the VCDEasy site and I agree with you about
> ease of use! I have Serif DVDPlus authoring software which is very easy
> to use, but limited (or I'm not using it right). It did give me a menu
> of sorts, and let me select and play the individual movie files.
>
> As I'm sure a DVD writer purchase isn't too far away, I wouldn't mind
> buying some decent DVD software that could do the SVCD stuff for me for
> now. Could Nero do this for me?
>
> Ib.
>

>-----Original Message-----
>Nero can do the DVD burning, but I wouldn't rely on it
for converting avi to
>mpeg.
>

Sorry, when I said can Nero do this, I meant can it add
chapter points into my mpeg file, or combine multiple
mpeg files into a single movie with chapter points?

Thanks,
Ib.