Looping a complete DVD

[ceedj]

Hi guys. I'm making a promo DVD - about 6 - 10 live tracks of my band. Here's what I'd like to do:

Have the enitre disc loop, so I can leave it unattended (this is for a music festival booth thing).

We have a 50 second trailer for a commercial DVD we are putting together. I'd like that to be seen every 2 songs, but I don't want to put 5 separate instances of the same video on the disc. Is there any way to set the playback to go Video 1, Video 2, Trailer, Video 3, Video 4, Trailer, etc, all the way till the end, and then loop the whole thing?

I'm using Sony DVD Architect (sp?) and have messed with IFOEdit if theres anything I need to do there.

Thanks in advance!
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[bugster]

I don't know anything about Sony DVD Architect but DVD-Lab will let you do that.

[dvd3500]

Any of the authoring (freeware) tools can do it.
You simply tell track one to go to track 2 and then the last track to go to track one...

[jeanl]

As a last resort, you can also do that in pgcedit, by putting a jump command in the postcommand area of the last track. Post again if you need more info.
Jeanl

[ceedj]

Thanks for the tips. jeanl, I'm a bit more familiar with IFOEdit. I seem to remember being able to tell if to Jump to a certain VTS file when I did some TV for mom a while back (Play All button). If I'm understanding you right, what you're saying is the same thing, correct?

But what about this?

We have a 50 second trailer for a commercial DVD we are putting together. I'd like that to be seen every 2 songs, but I don't want to put 5 separate instances of the same video on the disc. Is there any way to set the playback to go Video 1, Video 2, Trailer, Video 3, Video 4, Trailer, etc, all the way till the end, and then loop the whole thing?

I mean, if I can get more space for the video/audio by having the trailer "jump to" every two songs, that's almost 4 minutes of space saved. Is anyone aware of how I might tackle this?

[jeanl]

I'm sure there are authoring softs that will let you do that easily.
However, if you can't find one, or if you just want to modify the way your current DVD plays, that's also a job for pgcedit. Pgcedit is easier to use than ifoedit when it comes to editing commands.
Here's what I would do, assuming everything is in the same titleset.
I would put these commands at the end of video2,
[71 00 00 00 00 03 00 00] 1 Set gprm(0) =(mov) 3
[30 03 00 00 00 01 00 00] 2 (JumpVTS_TT) Jump to TTN 1 in this VTS
The first command sets register 0 (assuming it's available) to 3, which will be used to jump to video 3 after the trailer, and the second jumps to the trailer (assuming it's TTN1 in your VTS).
You'd put the same 2 commands at the end of video 5, changing the "3" to a "5", etc...
Then at the end of your trailer (postcommand area), I would put this
[00 A1 00 00 00 03 00 04] 1 if ( gprm(0) == 3 ) then { Goto line 4 }
[00 A1 00 00 00 05 00 05] 2 if ( gprm(0) == 5 ) then { Goto line 5 }
[00 A1 00 00 00 07 00 06] 3 if ( gprm(0) == 7 ) then { Goto line 6 }
[30 03 00 00 00 03 00 00] 4 (JumpVTS_TT) Jump to TTN 3 in this VTS
[30 03 00 00 00 05 00 00] 5 (JumpVTS_TT) Jump to TTN 5 in this VTS
[30 03 00 00 00 07 00 00] 6 (JumpVTS_TT) Jump to TTN 7 in this VTS
etc...
This means that playback will jump to TTN 3 5 or 7 depending on what's in register 0.

Of course, your DVD will probably be laid out differently than what I'm assuming above and you might need to use different commands than I used in this example. If the trailer and the videos are not in the same titleset, it'll have to be a bit more complicated because you can't jump from titleset to titleset, and you'll have to jump back to the VMGM and ping pong into the desired titleset...

Post back if you decide to go that route and get stuck (but if I were you, I'd try to author in a program that lets you do that kind of stuff).

Jeanl

[Safesurfer]

But what about this?

We have a 50 second trailer for a commercial DVD we are putting together. I'd like that to be seen every 2 songs, but I don't want to put 5 separate instances of the same video on the disc. Is there any way to set the playback to go Video 1, Video 2, Trailer, Video 3, Video 4, Trailer, etc, all the way till the end, and then loop the whole thing?

I mean, if I can get more space for the video/audio by having the trailer "jump to" every two songs, that's almost 4 minutes of space saved. Is anyone aware of how I might tackle this?

DVD-Lab Pro will let you accomplish this by using the Playlist feature. See http://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/Helppro/playlist.htm for details.

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[ceedj]

Thanks for all the tips. I have cut and pasted this for reference, since I'm about 3 weeks away from doing this.

PS, is anyone aware of any decent Vegas User sites for tips and tricks?

Thanks again!

[djcc]

PS, is anyone aware of any decent Vegas User sites for tips and tricks?

Thanks again!

Vegas forums:

http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/forums/default.asp

[Blazey]

Hi guys. I'm making a promo DVD - about 6 - 10 live tracks of my band. Here's what I'd like to do:

Have the enitre disc loop, so I can leave it unattended (this is for a music festival booth thing).

We have a 50 second trailer for a commercial DVD we are putting together. I'd like that to be seen every 2 songs, but I don't want to put 5 separate instances of the same video on the disc. Is there any way to set the playback to go Video 1, Video 2, Trailer, Video 3, Video 4, Trailer, etc, all the way till the end, and then loop the whole thing?

I'm using Sony DVD Architect (sp?) and have messed with IFOEdit if theres anything I need to do there.

Thanks in advance!
.

Forget it. My idea wouldn't work.

[mats.hogberg]

Using DVDAuthor, (create the bas with DVDAuthorGUI and edit the XML some by hand) it's be pretty simple (at least if you have some basic programming skills) . Just set a register to "clip ID" just playing, if a certain clip, jump to trailer, jump from trailer to "clip ID" +1.

/Mats