how do you make chapters?

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  1. cheeher

    cheeher Regular member

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    how do you make chapter for a MPEG movie?
     
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    Are you converting it to a DVD or not? cause if you are i can tell you.

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    In short:

    for a (S)VCD --> use VCDEasy
    for a DVD --> use IFOEdit.
    Chapters position is written ain a txt file named, by default, Celltimes.txt which you load with the video stream (M2V), the audio stream (AC3 or MP2) and, optionally, the subtitles (SUP).

    Each Celltimes.txt raw consists of a number which is

    framerate*position (in s)

    Therefore, if you have a PAL DVD (framerate = 25) with chapters each 5' (300 ") you have a text file made like this:

    7500
    15000
    22500
    .....

    where 7500 = 25*60*5 = 25*300 [FPS*Chapter Position (in seconds)]

    If you have the original DVD you can extract Celltimes.txt from the original DVD, opening with IFOEdit the movie's IFO and giving it the command:
    [bold] Tools ___ Save Celltimes to file [/bold]

    Almost any DVD authoring application supports Chapters, I chose IFOEdis since it's free and does not need lot of temporary HD...
     
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