Can I make SVCD chapters progress as I watch the movie?

[hartzpad]

I've been burning my SVCD's with chapters every 3 minutes with VCDEASY. But if I watch an SVCD and then hit "Next" to go to the next chapter, it only goes to chapter 2 because it hasn't progressed through the chapters as I watch it. Is there any way to do this? Thanks.

[adam]

I don't really think so, this is just the downside to entrypoint chapters. With I-Author you can set both entry and exit points and they work exactly as you how you want, however after about the first 3 chapters the times are way off and I don't know why. Also there is no guarantee that there wont be a pause between chapters as well.

As far as I know the only way to do what your asking is to actually use separate mpgs for each chapter and that really is no kind of solution.

[Digifreak]

Perhaps I'm confused about what you're asking. I author SVCD with VCDEasy with 5 min chapters and chapterxtractor. I don't use the "NEXT" button to advance chapters, I hit the large navigation arrow (< or >) button on my Apex remote to advance a chapter. I can hit it in quick succession and it advances however many chapters I click it. The only time it doesn't advance is if I have played through the chapter for awhile, in that case it jumps to the beginning of the chapter that was playing then I can rapid advance with > button.

[adam]

The next and prev keys are the > and < keys. Like you said, if you jump from one to the next immediately then they work fine. but since you can only specify a start point, it will jump to the next or prev chapter regardless of where you actually are in the movie.

So if you jump to ch 3 and let it play up to where chapter 9 is, and you hit next then you will jump to ch 4. As far as I know there is no way to avoid this using entrypoint chapters.

[hartzpad]

Thanks guys, that's too bad though, oh well, it's not a big annoyance. How many times do you really have to advance chapters while already in to a movie anyways? Almost never. Btw, I have an Apex 1500. I assume you have either the 1200 or the 1500.