2020-09-26, 09:06 PM
(2020-09-26, 06:46 PM)Chewtobacca Wrote: ^ That's essentially correct, although there's an audio "frame" of overlap on each side of the join. People often report difficulty creating branching discs, outside of using high-end solutions such as Scenarist. It might be theoretically possible to encode the files in such a way as to ensure seamless playback via a playlist, but you'll have to experiment. I've thought about doing this but have never had cause to try it, so please post your findings. It will be fascinating to see if a poor man's seamless branching can be achieved, and if so, how programs such as eac3to process the results.
I don't use Scenarist but Blu Disc Studio is a similar pro level piece of software and it does offer seamless playlists so pretty sure it will work, just need to do some experimenting. I've used it before to offer end credits in a different language, but the jump wouldn't be as obvious then, better to try a mid scene jump. I'll let you know how it goes.
The biggest problem I can foresee is the splitting of video, audio and subs into different files. The video for example, I usually make the disc, add the menus, extras, audio etc and see what space I have left, then use ripbot as it has a target file size option, so my 264 encode is exactly the right size for the disc. I suppose I could encode the movie as one file, then split it afterwards, but I don't think that will work as I'll be limited to cutting at key frames.
Maybe I'll split the files at AVI stage then proportion the size. So for example if the overall video is 150,000 frames and my first segment is 15,000 frames, and my disc space is 18 gb, I'll encode the first segment with a target size of 1.8 gb and so on. The subs can be cut into segments in something like subtitle edit, and maybe the authoring program is clever enough to duplicate an audio frame either side of the jump.
I think I'll try it with something pretty basic first that only needs a couple of segments!
