A DVDBuilder project with chapters for individual video files
If you want to create a DVD project that switches between video files as chapters, the following snippet should work in DVDBuilder:
<titleSet>
<titles>
<title id="1" chapters="00:00:00; 00:01:00; 00:02:00;">
<videoObject file="1.mpg" />
<videoObject file="2.mpg" />
<videoObject file="3.mpg" />
</title>
</titles>
</titleSet>
Please note that the videoObject
tags end with />
If the 1.mpg
and 2.mpg
are 60 seconds long, the chapters
time should be defined as:
- Chapter 1: 00:00:00 – first chapter must start at 0 time
- Chapter 2: (length of 1.mpg) rounded up to a whole second
- Chapter 3: (length of 1.mpg + length of 2.mpg) rounded up to a whole second, etc.
For example:
1.mpg = 60 seconds; 2.mpg = 60 seconds;
- Chapter 1: 00:00:00
- Chapter 2: 60 sec = 00:01:00
- Chapter 3: 60 sec + 60 sec = 00:02:00
<title id="1" chapters="00:00:00; 00:01:00; 00:02:00;">
But if:
1.mpg = 60.4 seconds; 2.mpg = 60.7 seconds;
- Chapter 1: 00:00:00
- Chapter 2: 60.4 sec = 00:01:01
- Chapter 3: 60.4 sec + 60.7 sec = 121.1 = 00:02:02
<title id="1" chapters="00:00:00; 00:01:01; 00:02:02;">
Although there is not a perfect match between chapters and video files, that is the recommended way for defining chapters when using DVDBuilder.