Play one, play all VCD "tracks"

[mats.hogberg]

I've backed up a music DVD with 15 videos. I encoded each video as one mpg. I'd like to make a menu with a still from each video, and create a menu that would play a specific video. No problem. But I'd also like to have an option to play all in sequence - and can't figure out how to do that.
To play a specific mpeg, I just go back to the main menu after it's finished, but that wont do if I want to play all in sequence...
I might add that I use VCDEasy to author...

/Mats

[Betamax]

I use VCDwizard (it's mine - i'm the author - that's why), though you should be able to do the same in VCDEasy as in VCDwizard.
You must create a selection-list that refers to each mpeg seperately via the numeric selectitem-list.
Each mpeg comes as a seperate SelectList or PlayList in the PBC.
Each mpeg should have its TimeOut-value refering to the main menu.
Then you must again create other play-/selectlists of each mpegs (or all into 1 playlist) to play all sequently.

But properly there are better ways to do so. While this might be quite complicated if you're having lots of mpegs.
You could try to contact Vitualis who's a (super-)moderator (I think) of this site. He knows how to do things like this.

[mats.hogberg]

Thanks - I was figuring it must be something along that line... As I've got 16 mpegs + menu, it sure sounds complicated. I think I better read up on the VCDImager XML. I found it easier to do the final adjustments in Notepad as it was, compared to all that pointandclicking in VCDEasys GUI.

Let me se if I get you right:
In the <pbc> section, it now starts with the
<selection 000>menu...</selection>
with "key bindings" (<select ref="Selection-0XX">) to selection 001-016
and then each video in it's own <selection (001-016)> tag. If I let each video timeout back to <selection 000>, this should take care of "Play One".
To take care of "Play All", I just repeat <selection (001-016)>, numbering them 017-033, and change prev/next, and let them timeout to (next selection), and add a <select ref="Selection-017"> to the menu make this key play all

Hm... Doesn't sound too complicated after all, if I've got it right?!?

/Mats

[Betamax]

You got it right.