How can I remove the title picture off of an SVCD?

[DVantrease]

I've created all my SVCD's with DVD2SVCD, and all have a title picture and play fine on my dvd player. I have 2 friends who bought the Apex AD-1200 player, and I'd like to give them copies of my SVCD's. However, this player has a problem when there is a title picture, it throws the movie audio out-of-sync (it's well documented on this site). My question is, is there a way I can make copies of my SVCD's for them, but without the title picture? I want to keep the other features I have, such as chapters and subtitles. If I just grab the MPG file into Nero and burn as an SVCD, it works but I also lose the chapters & subtitles.

Does anyone know a way to remove the title picture while keeping everything else? (Re-encoding everything is not a good option)

[Dragonsf]

Please enlighten me: what is a "title picture" and how did it get into the SVCD in the first place.Is this title picture created with the DVD/SVCD authoring tool and if, which tool was used?Or is the title picture the menu's background picture?

[DVantrease]

The 'title picture' is basically a picture that displays for a few seconds before the actual movie begins. DVD2SVCD has a nice feature that easily grabs the movie cover/poster online and uses that as a title picture, which really looks nice and professional when played. The still picture actually gets converted to a looping mpg and I believe it gets authored as 'chapter 00' but I could be mistaken, as it's all automated.

[Dragonsf]

OK, things are getting clearer.As I have authored a lot of SVCDs, I encountered certain problems in the authoring process, which could induce errors on some players and other problems on different players.If in doubt, I'm not making fanc menus anymore.For example: my player can't play the second chapter in the first tier of a multi tier menu.In such a case I've to introduce a dummy menu entry.
In your case, I'd extract the encoded mpeg and re-uthor this video with a background picture instead of a title image.

[DVantrease]

Ok, well as far as future SVCD's go, I'm just going to make them without the title picture. That will solve that problem. What I was hoping to do was give copies of my previous SVCD's to my friends w/o the title picture. I should explain that I've always used DVD2SVCD which handles everything itself, so I do not know how to manually author an SVCD. The only other thing I've tried is pulling the MPG off the SVCD and re-burning it with Nero, but then I don't have chapters or subtitles anymore. Oh well, it's their loss haha.

[Dragonsf]

I'd give ULEAD MF a try.It's not completely automatic, but comes very close.You can do menus is a few steps: open your mpegs, choose a menu template, choose BG music or not, define chapters with frames as pictures (quite intuitive, but not very exact), test your menu and burn.