Chapter points in MSP

[Peter B]

Is it possible to create chapter type points in a MPEG1 file that windows media player will recognise?

In a non-vcd compliant MPEG destined for PC playback not VCD player - ie cannot be exported to the DVD Plug In.

I'm not really after a menu system just if you hit the forward button it jumps to a pre defined point?

[Dr Mordrid]

Chapter points are not implemented in MPEG files and are only available in VideoCD's or DVD disks created by authoring programs.

Navigation within MPEG content itself should arrive with MPEG 7.

Dr. Mordrid

[wkulecz]

For PC playback, create one mpeg file per "chapter". You might have success with TMPGEnc file splitter, or you may have to re-encode.

Now create a "playlist" with a text editor or mp3 type application of type *.m3u containing the names of your mpg files. Drop this file on media player and your sequence of videos will play and the "chapter" buttons will skip back and forth between files.

I've made CD-Rs with the autoplay.inf containing the command to launch Mplayer2 with the playlist.m3u as the play item pointing to the files on the CD-R using a relative path.

This works great on win9x and 2000 if autoplay is enabled for recent versions of media player. Don't know if MP7 or XP has broke it -- don't care as I don't use either.

--wally.

[Peter B]

Excellent that is exactly what I was after. I had planned to create an autorun file for CD so this is perfect. It may help to encode smaller files as well as MSP seems to keep falling over for me, for some reason while encoding?

Thanks

[wkulecz]

In case this helps here is one of my autorun.inf files:


[autorun]

open=C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\mplayer2.exe /Play Middleweights.m3u

The open command is all one line.
Often I add the /Fullscreen option after /Play and before the target file.


Here's the m3u file:

Middleweight\Prelim\DeadBlow-Kegger.VCD.mpg
Middleweight\Prelim\BadAttitude-Sabatage.VCD.mpg
Middleweight\Prelim\BuddyLee-Turbo.mpg
Middleweight\Prelim\BladeRunner-ScrapDaddyMW110.VCD.mpg
Middleweight\Prelim\TheMaster-SubjectToChange.VCD.mpg
Middleweight\Prelim\CompleteControl-SuperChiabot.mpg
Middleweight\Prelim\ElDiablo-AnkleBiter.VCD.mpg
Middleweight\QuarterFinalMiddleweight.mpg
Middleweight\BadAttitude-DeadBlow.VCD.mpg
Middleweight\Spaz-BuddyLee.VCD.mpg
Middleweight\TheMaster-BladeRunner.VCD.mpg
Middleweight\ElDiablo-CompleteControl.VCD.mpg
Middleweight\SemiFinalMiddleweight.mpg
Middleweight\Spaz-BadAttitude.VCD.mpg
Middleweight\Spaz-ElDiablo.VCD.mpg
Middleweight\MiddleweightAward.VCD.mpg
Middleweight\MiddleweightSummary.mpg
Middleweight\MiddleweightGrandRumble.VCD.mpg

Middleweight is a directory burned on the root of the CD-R.

--wally

[Peter B]

Hi Wally

can you be a little more specific about how to start Mplayer2 is it just
open=*.m3u
or do you have to specify the application and the file.

Also how do I create a "relative path" in the text file. Can I just leave all the files in the CD root directory or does Mplayer2 need to know where they are, if so what is a typical line for a relative path command.

Thanks

[Peter B]

Well you can't be very more specific than that! Thanks very much. We must have been typing at the same time!