VCD with VCDEasy - pausing between tracks

[yenly]

This is my very first time making a VCD from scratch. Here is the problem:

The VCD I made contains a total of 12 tracks. When I'm playing it, as track 1 ended, and before it moves onto track 2, there is like a 1 second pause. What can I do to eliminate this problem and so all 12 tracks can play continuously without pausing for like a second between each track?

In VCDEasy, I already marked "0" sec for the section where it said "time to wait after each Sequence/Segment by default". I thought this would solve the problem, but it didn't.

And oh, the reason I have a total of 12 tracks is because the file format is AVI and there is a size limit. I had to cut the films into sections to make the file size smaller.

Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thx!!!!

[sterno]

Almost all players will have a slight pause going from one track to the next, it's a limitation of the hardware. If you don't want the pause you can use tmpgenc's merge and cut tool to join all 12 MPEGs to a single movie. In the future you can frameserve through virtualdub or avisynth to get a single MPEG out of multiple source AVIs without running in to that file size problem.

[poopyhead]

(S)VCD tracks are NOT equivalent to DVD chapters. there will always be slight pause between the tracks.

if you do what sterno mentioned, you will remove those pauses. however, you will not be able to jump to any of the tracks....

if you want to make something similar to DVD chapters, where there is no pause between the chapters and you can skip to any chapter you choose, then look at this guide

https://www.videohelp.com/sefy/?id=intro.html

contains instructions to make chapters for VCD

[vitualis]

Multitrack vs. Entrypoint point chapters explained here in detail if you really wanted to know... : http://www.michaeltam.com/chapters.html

Regards.

[yenly]

Thank you all! I merge those 12 mpeg files and it solved the problem.

I have another question: since there is a file size limit with avi - is there anyway I can capture like a 35 minutes movie into one file? (Perhaps in another file format with very little or no loss in frame?).

Currently, I'm using Virtualdub to capture the movie and then use TMPGEnc to convert it to mpeg files and finally burn it via VCDEasy. I'm quite happy with the quality.

What other freeware(s) out there that I can use to capture movie with no or little loss in frame and no or larger size limit and still maintain the same quality?

[MpegEncoder]

I have another question: since there is a file size limit with avi - is there anyway I can capture like a 35 minutes movie into one file? (Perhaps in another file format with very little or no loss in frame?).

The limit is not the AVI file, it's the file system. With NTFS you can capture AVI files as large as you need. I capture 25 gig files with firewire and my camcorder.

[Vejita-sama]

It's true that FAT32 has a 4GB file limit, but you can work around this. Look to the left in the FAQ for how to enable VDubs spill system, this will spilt your capture into several smaller files (I normally set 1.9GB as the file size).