Chapters, Tracks, Menus

[Ib]

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.

 

[Tim Wentworth]

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.

 

[Tim Wentworth]

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

 

[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.