"Play All" type button? Or link one clip to next?

MusicTECH wrote on 3/5/2003, 12:27 PM
When using DVD Workshop, you could add a "Play All" button that would play all the clips in the order that you added them to the project. You could select each clip you loaded and define what happens when that clip ends (go to next clip, return to previous menu, or go to top menu).

Does DVDA offer any of these features? I was looking for a way to play all the clips in a row, even though they all show up as seperate objects on the menu.

Thanks.

Steve

Comments

bcbarnes wrote on 3/5/2003, 12:44 PM
The current version of DVDA doesn't support clip "end action". Hopefully this will be added in the next version, as many have requested it.
stg wrote on 3/5/2003, 1:10 PM
On my projects I use V4 to link my clips into one file. You can then create menus in DVD-A that can play the entire file or specific portions of the file using 'in points' and 'out points' on the timeline.
MusicTECH wrote on 3/5/2003, 2:43 PM
Thanks for the replies.

I'd rather not drag all my clips into V4 and re-render them all as one file, so I guess I'll wait to see if this is part of a future update. It's a nice feature to have, but something I can live without for now (or use DVD Workshop instead).

Steve
john-beale wrote on 3/5/2003, 3:57 PM
I'd really like this feature too. If you need it, I suspect it is possible to create the project without linked clips normally in DVD-A, and then go into the finished VIDEO_TS directory and use IfoEdit to manually enable this.

For example, if you have three separate video files in your project (video title sets or VTS, in DVD parlance), then open your VIDEO_TS folder and you will see something like
VTS_01_0.IFO
VTS_02_0.IFO
VTS_03_0.IFO

...or perhaps more if any single video is longer than the max single VOB filesize. (In my example I had only two short videos, but I put in a "First Play" still frame, which DVD-A encodes as a video title also, I think it is VTS_01.)

I'd like VTS_02 to end and automatically start VTS_03. I open VTS_02_0.IFO in IfoEdit and click to expand VTS_PGCITI (Video Title Set Program Chain Information Table). Scrolling down the data page I see that the PGC command table has 1 "post command" which is Call VMG PGC: 2 [Resume Cell: 1]

At this point my knowlege of DVD formats gets fuzzy, but if you open a similar project made in Ulead DVD-Workshop you can probably see how the "post command" at the end of the video title is adjusted to pass control (playback) to the next title, rather than back to the original menu.

The DVD IFO files can be very confusing to navigate. It doesn't help that DVD-A actually uses more "virtual" menus behind the scenes than appear as actual menus when playing the disc. These extra menus which you will see in IfoEdit have something to do with the disc navigation structure but exactly what, I'm not sure.
richard-courtney wrote on 3/13/2003, 11:16 PM
You can go to this webpage for the entire process.....
http://davetong.tripod.com/PlayAll/