EXTRACT SVCD chapters for the resulting DVD?

[nbarzgar]

Hey everybody,
I got the program, but have not yet done one complete DVD with it. I HAVE done the extraction, afterwards authoring with DVDpatcher trick and TMPGEnc DVD Author, that works for me. BUT here is my question:
Since I can extract the .bin-files and .xml etc. could I not extract the chapters from the SVCDs as well?

Either with SVCD2DVD or s.th else, like VCDEasy? I hope this forum is the right place, since everywhere else the questions for converting SVCD2DVDR seem not quite appropriate?

[Josef K]

At the moment, v1.5 and v2 beta 7 both use only fixed interval chapters. It would be nice to have the same chapter points as the original DVD but let's face it - SVCD2DVD isn't pushed as some sort of full-featured DVD authoring software. It's one of the few one-click-does-all that actually does what it's meant to - and that's its name. I'm afraid you'll need to shell some cash out to find more sophistcated chaptering capabilities.

[nbarzgar]

Quite right, in a way, but so far I searched the web rather thoroughly and can not get ANY information, which of the sophisticated (or unsophisticated) progs would do the trick... In fact there seems to be NONE, or does s.b. know anything else?? Or some trick, workaround...
Any help would be welcome! 8)

[Josef K]

but so far I searched the web rather thoroughly and can not get ANY information, which of the sophisticated (or unsophisticated) progs would do the trick... In fact there seems to be NONE

Well... Any decent authoring software can do chapters where and when you want them - you just have to do them manually. I suppose the quick and dirty way is to skip through the chapters in PowerDVD or similar and note the times of each chapter then create chapters at those points in your authoring software. Tedious, I know, but how many chapters does a typical DVD have - not that many, really, relatively speaking. It's not like you'd have to put in the same amount of work as something like custom subs.

Better still, you can export the chapters using ChapterXtractor and import directly into an app like DVD-lab.

or does s.b. know anything else??

Who is 's.b.'?

[nbarzgar]

Any decent authoring software can do chapters where and when you want them - you just have to do them manually.

Right, I know that, thank you. I just wondered, if there was not a more comfortable way to do it....

Better still, you can export the chapters using ChapterXtractor and import directly into an app like DVD-lab.

Just now, I haven't got the original with me, ChapterExtractor works - as far as I know - only with the original *.ifo... After all, we are talking about SVCD to DVD-conversion...

Thanks anyway. 8)