RE: [Dvdauthor-users] Jumping between PGCs?

[Marc G. <mar...@nu...>]

 

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> Behalf Of Wolfgang Wershofen
> Sent: woensdag 11 januari 2006 23:29
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> Subject: Re: [Dvdauthor-users] Jumping between PGCs?
> 
> Am Mittwoch, 11. Januar 2006 22:12 schrieb Marc Gregoire:
> > I have the following structure for my picture DVD (see 
> below). When I 
> > press the next button on the remote on the last image from 
> the first 
> > pgc (non-title) block, the DVD jumps to the first image 
> from the next 
> > PGC. How can I make it that if you press the previous button on the 
> > remote on the first image from the last PGC, a jump is made to the 
> > last image from the previous PGC?
> 
> For what reasons do you separate the pictures into different 
> pgcs? Is this due to some technical limitation or just 
> deliberately chosen? 
> (Sorry, I don't know the maximum number of chapters allowed in a pgc)

I thought the maximum was 99 chapters.

> If there's no limitation, I'd suggest putting all of your 
> pictures into a single pgc. If this doesn't work, maybe try 
> to combine a couple of pictures into one mpeg and use 
> <cell>-Statements to define Start and Ending of each picture. 
> Never used cells myself, though, and I'm not quite sure, if 
> you can jump between cells with your remote.

I looked into cells a bit, but I'm not quite sure how to use them. The man page of dvdauthor doesn't explain them. :(

> Did you have a look at Scott Dylewski's dvd-slideshow 
> scripts? See http://dvd-slideshow.sf.net Maybe you find a 
> suitable solution for you there.

I took a look at it,but unfortunately, it generates a slideshow and not a stillshow, meaning that it generates a movie for the
duration of your slide.


Kind Regards,
Marc
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