Cyril Boucher

Okay I feel really silly... After you asked for the project file I figured I would send a smaller project with a short video so that the issue would be easier to understand. When I did that, the issue was gone! So I tried to replicate the steps I did when it worked with my other project and the issue would still be there. And then I remembered I was going to send you a project I had made on another computer with the latest VLC. Turns out, that was the issue, the VLC version I was using. I updated...

Hi paete9, Thanks for your reply! I think I wasn't clear enough (happens a lot, I get carried away with details that don't matter) but my issue is with the previous chapter button solely. I've already experimented a faire amount with chapters and I think I have a good grasp on how to set them up and how they behave. Maybe it wasn't clear from the videos I attached to my first post but I was trying to showcase that in the video dvdstyler_behaviour.mp4, clicking several times on the previous chapter...

Hi everyone, I really wanted to try and figure this out for myself, but after days of searching and reading the documentation available I couldn't. I have seen many topics about chapters but it seems it is always related to having a chapter menu, meaning a menu that will allow you to jump straight to a chapter. My issue on the other hand is with the simplest navigation between chapters, in other terms using the previous and next chapter button on VLC or a remote once the DVD is burned. It seems it...

Right, makes sense! I'll definitely update to make sure I have your latest fixes then :) Thanks again Manolito for your help! I see you're very active on the help forum and that's what made me think I could actually get some help posting here. So yeah, it's really nice to see someone so passionate and willing to explain in details what is going on behing the scenes! Again, thank you!

DVDStyler will only convert a 23.976 source to 25 fps if you specified PAL as your target format. If you specified NTSC as your target format DVDStyler will encode to 23.976 also (unless you ticked the "NTSC Film: Reencode by default" option). Of course 25 fps PAL is a standard DVD format. But if you live in NTSC country a lot of hardware DVD players will refuse to play PAL DVDs. Since I live in PAL country I never had such problems. Virtually all PAL DVD players can play NTSC disks just fine. So...

There is one thing I forgot to tell you about your sources. XviD supports interlaced encoding, and you absolutely need to determine if your source files are interlaced or progressive. If your sources come from a series or soap which was shot on video instead of optical film then chances are that the original clips were interlaced. Of course the person who converted the clips to XviD could have deinterlaced the clips first, but this is what you need to find out before converting to DVD. Ah thanks!...

Right! I didn't even think there was another method than burning to DVD. Makes a lot of sense! It does suck if some DVDs barely get 5 years of use, but I guess you can't know in advance... And with the price of DVDs being quite low I'll try my hand at burning some DVDs and see what I can get out of it! Thanks for your input!

Hey guys, Thanks for your insights on all of this, I really appreciate it! I can totally understand why burning to DVD is not a viable solution these days. But I wonder, DVDs are still being sold today to great amounts, so what do these big distributors used? Do they have some sort of patented DVD than we can't get our hands on? Or are they juste using the same DVDs we can get ourselves and the quality of DVDs is just worse all around? I'm really curious. Anyways, like I said, I'm fully aware there...