[MacDV] Play-through SVCDs?

[Mark M. Florida]

Bite it and pony up the $$$ for Toast 6?

On 10/28/03 6:05 PM, David Thrasher at idave at earthlink.net wrote:

> I was wondering if anybody could tell me how to make SVCDs that will simply
> play when you press play on your stand-alone DVD player's remote?
> 
> Here's how I'm making them right now:
> 
> I export a full quality Quicktime Movie file from iMovie 2 and use Quicktime
> Pro to export an AIFF audio file from the mov file. I move these two files
> over to the OS X desktop and then reboot into OS X.
> 
> I use MissingMpegTools to create an MPV file using the mov file and a MP2 file
> from the AIFF file.
> 
> I continue under the next tab in the program to Mux the MPV and MP2 files
> together into a Mpeg-2 file. (I've already created a black still Mpeg for the
> menu.)
> 
> I use Missing Menu Generator with the Mpegs I've created to create the menu
> (the play order of the files; where it will take you if you hit previous, next
> or return; which file is the menu file that plays when you first hit play).
> This creates an XML file that is used for the final files for burning.
> 
> Back in MissingMpegTools I go to the last tab and select the XML file to go
> ahead and build the files for the SVCD.
> 
> I delete the files ending in "pregap" and "toc" and put the rest of them on
> the OS 9 desktop. (I don't have a version of Toast that runs in 10).
> 
> I reboot in 9 and run Toast and go under Other to "Multitrack CD-ROM XA" and
> then drop the files I've created into the window in numeric order (the file
> ending with 1 first, 2 second, etc.) and then burn my CD. And of course I put
> it in my DVD player and test it.
> 
> The thing I'm wondering is if the Missing Menu Generator program can set up
> the file(s) so that when you hit play on your remote that it doesn't stop on
> the first file but rather just starts playing through.
> 
> -Dave