Q. how to load chapter markers?

[John Rofrano]

[Gilles Gagnon] “I used VASST Ultimate to recreate the marker file, named it filename.sfl, hit the load chanpters icon in DVDA… nada. What am i missing?”

It’s not “filename.sfl” it’s “filename.mpg.sfl”.

~jr

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[Gilles Gagnon]

Thanks John, tried that too… no markers loaded.
Gilles

Gilles

[Mike Kujbida]

[Gilles Gagnon] “I loaded the file in DVDA but no markers came along with it. Mind you, I had renamed the file… but… I did rename ALL the files (ac3, etc).”

Gilles, if you renamed them after the render, that’s where you went wrong.

[Gilles Gagnon]

Ahh…. this explains the mystery then, since that’s what I did.
I rendered and renamed all the files.

Any way of determining what filename it’s looking for?
at the time, the name had become convoluted with rev numbers, etc. hence renaming it.

I thought I’d be clever and do a “save markers” to create a file, then use the Vasst util to create a new markers file and use it to replace the file created in step 1.
One would think that “load markers” would use the same filename as what it creates but.. doesn’t seem to be the logic used.

Gilles

[Mike Kujbida]

Gilles, when you do an mpeg-2 render with markers, it creates the mpg file (*.mpg) as well as the marker file (*.mpg.sfl).
These two are tied to each other (internal coding) and you can’t rename one after the fact because of this.
If you forgot to include the markers in the original render, then use the method that John outlined in a previous post.

[John Rofrano]

[Gilles Gagnon] “I thought I’d be clever and do a “save markers” to create a file, then use the Vasst util to create a new markers file and use it to replace the file created in step 1.
One would think that “load markers” would use the same filename as what it creates but.. doesn’t seem to be the logic used.”

It is looking for the exact same filename as the mpg or ac3 file with the .sfl appended. So if your video is xyz123.mpg then the chapter file should be xyz123.mpg.sfl and it must be in the same folder.

~jr

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[Gilles Gagnon]

Thanks John,
I’m aware of this. That’s why it’s puzzling. I renamed all 3 files accordingly, yet, no markers.

No worries, I re-rendered as I had to make a mod and it all worked as expected.
Thanks for your help.
Gilles

Gilles

[Mark Barton]

I was able to verify this this. I rendered the mpg file with markers and was able to see them in DVDA. I then closed DVDA without saving and renamed the files and tried again. DVDA did not show the markers this time. I renamed the files back to the original names and the markers showed up in DVDA. If I open the test.mpg.sfl file with an external editor, I see the marker names and also the reference to the file name of the mpg file. So even though DVDA is looking for the same file name, the sfl file is referencing the original file name still.

[Gilles Gagnon]

Thanks Mark!
That’s what I’ll do next time i’m in this same pickle. I’ll open the sfl and “re”-rename all the files according to the name found there.

This helps.

Gilles

[Mark Barton]

Here is a screenshot of the sfl file in Notepad. I highlighted the filename.