0.5 sizzle problem

[mer58]

been having problems with new version of sizzle 0.5 after using and dvd2onex and demuxing files when i start putting the m2v files into sizzle i get errors that say no video file present i have used both bbdemux and extractor it seems that dvd2onex might be doing something to the .vob's because by bypassing dvd2onex and just using elementary streams from dvdbackup all is fine but won't fit on 4.7 disc, anyone else had this problem

[terryj]

I, too am having problems with the new sizzle 0.5.
My problem is that I am going to set a Chapter menu,
apart from the main TOC. The main TOC has a button
for Play Movie and a button for Chapter Menu.
I select Title One, to create a chapter menu for it,
and I have all 14 chapters manually entered into my
Chapter menu tab. But when I go to create buttons,
it is limiting me to nine chapter buttons, and since I only have
the one title, I cannot create another chapter menu, without
it prompting me for another title?
any help would be GLADLY appreciated!

[dotpuppy]

I just wanted to chime in and say that I am having the same problem. I downloaded the newest Sizzle (v0.5.0b1) and am limited to 9 buttons in the menu.

The other problem is that there is no way to add another menu panel, only titles. I tried putting in the THX trailer as a title (because it's small), but then it won't let me jump from there to other titles

Are we just stuck then, for now?

[llee782]

If you care to try something else to make your extracted m2v files smaller, I'd recommend Transcoder - http://www.hillmanminx.net/transcoder/index.html. You have to feed it pairs of files, one for audio and one for video for each pair, but you can re-encode the batch of pairs with a single command.

Sizzle 0.5 does indeed seem to have the limitation of the number of chapter buttons for a menu. To me the more severe limitation is that you can't create titles in such a way that one title can be set to segue immediately to another during playback without exiting to a menu. Because of that, the only workaround other than to divide a title into fewer chapters that I can see is to divide the title into two titles, put a button for selecting the 2nd title's menu in the first title's menu or main menu, then selecting the 2nd title's menu when the first title stops playing, then playing content from whatever chapter buttons you've added to the 2nd title's menu.

IMO, the most severe limitation of Sizzle 0.5 is that apparently you can't start any chapter of any title from the main (contents) menu, you can only jump to a title's menu. In other words, on my standalone player and in Apple's DVD Player, the default Resume Movie button choice will not play any title from the start, only resume playback for the title after the title playback has been initiated from its own menu.