Chapter Points decision

[thedman]

Hi guys,

Quick question... I am looking to buy a DVD authoring tool, but I *need* more than 99 chapter points per project. From what I know, Encore can do this, but apparently DVD-lab, DVD architect ect cannot...
Is this correct? Which authoring tool would best suit me?

Thanks!

[petar]

The max number of chapter points per VTS is 255. I haven't tried every authoring tool out there but I would have thought they should all allow this. DVD-Lab does (never used DVD architect).

99 is the max number of titles per VTS. Single VTS tools obviously can only author 99 titles in this case. Maybe that's what you refer to?

[thedman]

From what I've seen, no, not all authoring tools allow tons of chapter points.
DVD-lab: quote from their site "You can have 99 titles on your DVD."
I think I am confused now... what do they mean by title? Are they refering to a single DVD project? How many titles can you have in a DVD project?
And how many chapter points can you have in a title?

[petar]

Can't speak for all authoring tools but DVD-Lab does allow 255 chapters per VTS. And I think most (if not all) do.
Chapters are parts of title (literally, that's what they are called - PTTs).

Here you have a detailed explanation of what's a title:
http://www.dvd-replica.com/DVD/title.php

[thedman]

Hey, thank you for the great info! I'll go read up on it some more