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>1.2. Creating a title</A
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>1.2.1. One chapter, one source</A
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>This forms the most basic DVD. THe DVD player will start playing the movie when the disc is inserted and will stop at the end.</P
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<vmgm />
<titleset>
<titles>
<pgc>
<vob file="video.mpg" />
</pgc>
</titles>
</titleset>
</dvdauthor></PRE
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>Adding a second chapter is quite simple if it is in a separate file.</P
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<vmgm />
<titleset>
<titles>
<pgc>
<vob file="video1.mpg" />
<vob file="video2.mpg" />
</pgc>
</titles>
</titleset>
</dvdauthor></PRE
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>1.2.3. One chapter, two sources</A
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><SPAN
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>DVDAuthor</SPAN
> normally creates one
chapter per file. This can be overridden using
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>chapters="<TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>foo</I
></TT
>"</TT
>. The
parameter is a comma separated list of timestamps of the form
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>[[<TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>HH</I
></TT
>:]<TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>MM</I
></TT
>:]<TT
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><I
>SS</I
></TT
></TT
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<vmgm />
<titleset>
<titles>
<pgc>
<vob file="video1.mpg" chapters="0" />
<vob file="video2.mpg" />
</pgc>
</titles>
</titleset>
</dvdauthor></PRE
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>1.2.4. Two chapters, one source</A
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>This will create a movie with two chapters, one at the beginning (which is always required) and one five minutes into the video.</P
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><dvdauthor>
<vmgm />
<titleset>
<titles>
<pgc>
<vob file="video1.mpg" chapters="0,5:00" />
</pgc>
</titles>
</titleset>
</dvdauthor></PRE
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>1.2.5. Looping</A
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>Having <TT
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><post></TT
>commands will alter what happens when playback reaches the end of your title. You can repeat the current title by jumping to the first chapter.</P
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><dvdauthor>
<vmgm />
<titleset>
<titles>
<pgc>
<vob file="video1.mpg" />
<post>
jump chapter 1;
</post>
</pgc>
</titles>
</titleset>
</dvdauthor></PRE
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>1.2.6. Pausing</A
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>Having <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>pause="<TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>foo</I
></TT
>"</TT
>
will cause playback to pause for either the specified number of
seconds or indefinitely (<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>inf</TT
>). This can be used
either at the end of the title (by supplying it as an attribute to
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>pgc</TT
> or at the end of a particular source, as an
attribute to <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>vob</TT
>. The following will pause
indefinitely at the end of the title:</P
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<vmgm />
<titleset>
<titles>
<pgc pause="inf">
<vob file="video1.mpg" />
</pgc>
</titles>
</titleset>
</dvdauthor></PRE
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>while the following will pause for 5 seconds after the first chapter:</P
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><dvdauthor>
<vmgm />
<titleset>
<titles>
<pgc>
<vob file="video1.mpg" pause="5" />
<vob file="video2.mpg" />
</pgc>
</titles>
</titleset>
</dvdauthor></PRE
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