[thelizards]

I have several videos I wish to add to to a single DVD using Toast 10.

The videos are in mpeg 2 format. I am adding them without re-encoding them. Using the play all items continuously I can create a DVD that plays each video one after the other.

However between each video there is a small pause of a few frames which is very distracting during play back. Especially when each video is a section from a larger video. Seems to happen with either VLC or DVD player.

Has anyone else noticed this problem? Is there a way around it, what causes it?

Thanks

This post has been edited by thelizards: 05 November 2009 - 01:52 PM

[tsantee]

That is normal, unfortunately. The DVD player seeks the location of the next title and during this time freezes the currently playing frame. It doesn't matter if the next title is the next sector on the disc. The drive is instructed to locate the next VOB title set. The only way to prevent this is to join the videos into one title so they are within the same VOB title set.

[thelizards]

That is normal, unfortunately. The DVD player seeks the location of the next title and during this time freezes the currently playing frame. It doesn't matter if the next title is the next sector on the disc. The drive is instructed to locate the next VOB title set. The only way to prevent this is to join the videos into one title so they are within the same VOB title set.

Thanks. The way round this is as you point out is to merge all the separate video files into a single VOB, presumably using chapters to access the different start points. If I try to do this using toast I take my mpeg2 files, merge them into one mpeg2 file with mpeg streamclip, then add chapters using quicktime to create a mov container with chapters and mpeg2 content. However Toast then tries to re-encode rather than remux the mov file. The chapter markers are recognised, but the chapter names are not displayed on the chapters menu. Can I do better than this, or is it asking too much of Toast?

This post has been edited by thelizards: 05 November 2009 - 10:56 PM

[tsantee]

Thanks. The way round this is as you point out is to merge all the separate video files into a single VOB, presumably using chapters to access the different start points. If I try to do this using toast I take my mpeg2 files, merge them into one mpeg2 file with mpeg streamclip, then add chapters using quicktime to create a mov container with chapters and mpeg2 content. However Toast then tries to re-encode rather than remux the mov file. The chapter markers are recognised, but the chapter names are not displayed on the chapters menu. Can I do better than this, or is it asking too much of Toast?

Toast does not put any text with its chapter menu so you are asking too much of Toast. There is a DVD authoring application called CaptyDVD 2 that lets you custom design the chapter menu including using names. It sells for $70 at pixela-1.com. They have a suite of three Capty apps for $130 that includes CaptyMPEGEdit EX which supports joining MPEG files along with frame-accurate editing (rather than keyframe editing as with MPEG Streamclip). That application may create a joined MPEG 2 video that doesn't require re-encoding in CaptyDVD.

This post has been edited by tsantee: 06 November 2009 - 08:21 AM