Playing MPEG with menu to chose episode

[huborsbeek]

I have a big HD mpeg file (+/- 10 GB). Instead of making a DVD with menu's which lowers the quality, I would like to know if there is no way to create a menu in a media player with entries who jump to the different episodes in the menu (more the same thing as you get with the DVD menus).
Which mediaplayer should I use and evt. other software.

Thank you.

[hech54]

HD Mpeg?

[guns1inger]

MultiAVCHD can author with HD mpeg-2. If it is compliant it won't re-encode.

[huborsbeek]

I have a Canon HV30 camera, which gives me a 1440 * 1080 MPEG file as output.
I would leave that file intact and not create an other file format from it as my pc is rather old (2005), capable of playback but not that good in transcoding.
I want to define the episodes in that file (from time x to time y) and have a menu (not Blu-Ray format, can be a Windows app) where I can choose the episodes I want to see. This is a sort of subtitling with jump to that subtitle.

[guns1inger]

Nope.

You need to use a recognisable structure such as DVD (with the subsequent reduction in quality) or AVCHD/BD. Otherwise you are a best limited to simple playlists defined in your player (and will have to at least split the files into episodes).