2 Sided DVD - How to combine chapters?

In case anyone finds this post in a search I did find a solution that worked for me. I used ifoedit to find the entire length of side A. I then used Excel to change the time from the format h:mm:ss:ms into milliseconds using the following formula: total ms = ms + ss*1000 + mm*60*1000 + h*60*60*1000 I opened up chapterxtractor and set the offset in ms to whatever the total ms turned out to be above. I then opened the ifo in side B with chapterextractor and the chapters opened with the offset applied to them. Under format I chose ogm and saved to disk. The only thing left to do was combine the chapters from SideA and the offsetted chapters from SideB. I then renamed the sideB chapters to start from where the SideA chapter numbers ended. You get the idea...

If you want, I wrote a perl script to do this task for you. It isn't an impressive program, but it works. I could post it if anyone wants. You would need to have perl installed though, I don't have a perl compiler. :( TelemachusMH

my solution to that problem was to encode the first part with the timecode start of 1hr, the 2nd part i encoded it with the timecode start of 10hr. then the first chapters i incremented by a clean hour, the 2nd chapters i incremented by a clean 10 hrs. and the same for the subtitles. Enf...