DVD Architect 5.0 ignoring in point

[Rob Strobbe]

Technically, that bit you quote from the manual doesn’t claim to trim the media without re-encoding. It says it will trim the media. Period. The statement is incomplete, but it certainly doesn’t make any false promises either.

As for other programs being able to do it, and how easy it would be for Sony to change it…well, I’ve never worked on the code for DVDA, so I couldn’t really tell you what would be involved in making it behave the same. Vegas can do it, but only under perfect conditions.

Rob

[Jeremiah Brown]

“Technically, that bit you quote from the manual doesn’t claim to trim the media without re-encoding. It says it will trim the media.”

But it won’t. If it’s a DVD compliant mpeg it will do no such thing as splitting the file and re-encode. All you get is an error message.
And here’s where I would put my Period, because that’s what the post was about. The manual doesn’t state that the option is not available for correctly prepared DVD media as mpg and ac3, which is a major confinement and hence important to mention in order to not let users run into this dead end. When a feature implies that a certain route for your work is possible, then prerequisites and limitations need to be stated.

jeremy