Ripped DVD and want to create a chapter every 8 minutes

[feelart]

Hi,

I have ripped a DVD and want to change its menu structure so that I have a chapter every 8 min in order to fast jump into the film.

How can achieve that?

Thanks

[manono]

Hi,

I have ripped a DVD and want to change its menu structure so that I have a chapter every 8 min in order to fast jump into the film.

How can achieve that?

Thanks

Demux the video, audio, subs (if any), celltimes.txt (chapters) using PGCDemux.

Open the Celltimes.txt file and redo them by frame numbers (25fps for PAL, 29.97fps for NTSC). Make sure the final frame number isn't any higher than the original last number or else you won't be able to reauthor it.

Reauthor using Muxman (adding the edited Celltimes.text in File->Import Chapters). Stick the reauthored Muxman DVD back into the original using VobBlanker.

And you have no idea how stupid I think this idea of yours is. 'Fast-jump' into the film? Just hit the 'Next' button on the remote control a few times.

[feelart]

Well, I stored them on HDD and the shift jumps by increment of only 10 sec....

[manono]

So how is redoing the chapters going to help if your player doesn't even honor the chapters already there?

And you stored what on the hard drive? The entire DVD (IFOs, BUPs, as well as VOBs), or an MPG or VOB(s )alone? And are you playing the DVD, or just the VOB(s)?

[feelart]

* All DVD is ripped (IFO, BUP, VOB)
* chapters are not ignored, they just not very interesting jump and I want to concat all VOBs into a single one.
* I'm playing the VOB through Smart TV

[manono]

I want to concat all VOBs into a single one.

The chapter information isn't in the VOBs, but in the IFOs. Joining VOBs loses the chapters (because then you no longer have a DVD). Playing VOBs loses the chapters. You have to play the DVD. There's a difference.

MKVs can store chapter information. If your player plays them and can access the chapters of an MKV, then maybe that's a solution to the problem. Anyway, I already gave you the information about how to create new chapters for DVD. I believe that for MKV it's not by frame numbers (as is true if muxing with Muxman (or IFOEdit)), but by times.