Understanding chapters...following Sefys newbie guide

[jonnyboy]

Hi this is my first post and its regarding my first rip so go easy on me :D

I've been following "Sefy's classical newbie" guide which I must say has been 100% ecellent - cheers M8. I've just hit problems on the "import chapters" step on VCD easy. The main problem is I dont understand what chapters are. When converting the original rip I split the movie into 2, exactly 1 hour on the 1st part and the remainder on the other. Basically I dont understand how the chapters relate to this or why they are important in ripping. Any info would be appreciated.

Cheers!

[Sefy]

Thank you for compliments, they are very much appriciated!

Regarding your quesitions, first, Chapters is NOT a must, it's an option, for those who want to have Chapters in their movies.

If you don't want, you can skip both steps for Chapter-X-Tractor and VCDEasy regarding the chapters.

Secondly, if you do want it, the guide covers on how to set the chapters for a two part movie, notice the movie in the guide is also a two parter

[vitualis]

If you want to know what chapters are for VCDs:
http://www.geocities.com/medinotes/vcd/chapters.html
http://www.vcdimager.org/guides/chapters.html (mirror)

Regards.

[jonnyboy]

cheers for that info...

I noticed when playing the VCD back using I-ON VCD player that you could not fast forward the file (you could only move around using the chapters) am I right in thinking that you either have chapters OR the ability to FF/RW?

[Sefy]

I don't think that should be the case, but to test your theory, I used PowerDVD and I was able to use FF/RW on my VCD, and when I pressed the next it skipped to the next chapter, so I think it's upto the program more then the VCD itself.