99 chapter limit

stutch wrote on 3/8/2004, 7:18 PM
Been using the music compilation in DVDA. I want to fill an entire 4.7 GB with quality audio & slides. Problem is chapter markers stop at 99 tracks, resulting in an incomplete compilation. By limiting the numbers of chapters to 99 it kinda defeats the purpose of media space as only ~800 MB gets used.

So is the 99 chapters a limitation of the DVD spec or something that DVDA cannot do?

Comments

JSWTS wrote on 3/8/2004, 7:27 PM
It is a dvd spec limit. You can have 99 chapters per title set. With DVD-A, once you reach 99, the rest will be treated as one. You can create multiple music compilations with 99 chapters a piece and fill your disc. The problem with this is that once each music compilation reaches the end of the 99th chapter, it will return to your main menu. However, with 99 songs, it's unlikely that anyone would sit and listen to a conituous compilation of songs anyway.


Jim
RBartlett wrote on 3/9/2004, 5:51 AM
The 1.4beta1 version of DVDLab Pro adds this:

(you need to provide the linkage to make some logical grouping of each of the 99 chapters within each title). I'm not sure if the DVDA prepared files count as input into DVDLab as it stands, and seeing as the Pro-beta version requires a bought version of DVDLab - you might not want to experiment....

Pro Version
- Added real VMG Menus. Now you will be able to build the full DVD hierarchy.
- Import second VTS (menus+movie(s)) directly from any previously compiled project (loading the VTS_xx_0.IFO). This is a great new way to build multiple VTS DVD by simply first building one normal single VTS project, testing it, then use the compiled result directly as a second VTS in a new project. This way will add flexibility to the whole authoring process where you won't need to touch or recompile already working part.
- Re-authoring: Import VOB files (via IFO) as whole without joining - part of the multi-VTS solution as described above. It allows you to easy directly import previously created project or whole VTS created in other authoring software so you no longer need to join vobs and recreate chapter, etc, all is imported from ifo.

- Added real VMG Menus. Now you will be able to build the full DVD hierarchy.
- Import second VTS (menus+movie(s)) directly from any previously compiled project (loading the VTS_xx_0.IFO). This is a great new way to build multiple VTS DVD by simply first building one normal single VTS project, testing it, then use the compiled result directly as a second VTS in a new project. This way will add flexibility to the whole authoring process where you won't need to touch or recompile already working part.
- Re-authoring: Import VOB files (via IFO) as whole without joining - part of the multi-VTS solution as described above. It allows you to easy directly import previously created project or whole VTS created in other authoring software so you no longer need to join vobs and recreate chapter, etc, all is imported from ifo.

http://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/history.html

stutch wrote on 3/9/2004, 10:13 PM
Beautiful. That solves my issue. Discs are going into a 300 disc player and put on random play. I expect the player can go into multi comp files, play a song and then move onto the next random disc.
thx for the quick response. Solid.