Posted by Brian on 12/08/05 05:47

"Del" <derry13nospam@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

>Hi group,
>
>I have just bought a Samsung DVD recorder (model DVD-R119 - this is a new
>model)
>
>It generally works well, but the auto chapter feature sometimes doesn't work
>when I wish to record programmes from freeview. This feature is set for 5
>minutes and this often works but occasionally when I playback my recording
>there are no chapters present.
>
>I was using a DVD-RW disc in VR mode. On the same disc some of the
>recordings have chapters while others don't. Does anyone know the reason for
>this?
>
>Are the chapters created when the recording is finished and do they take up
>additional disc space? It is possible that on one of the recordings I
>switched the power off before the disc was had fully finished putting the
>chapters in
>place and once there was very little disc space left once I had finished
>recording.
>Could this have had an effect?
>
>Thanks for any help on this issue!
>
>
>
>Del
>
>
On my DVD recorder the chapters are only created automatically when
recording to a DVD-R disk in real time.
The auto chapter feature cam be turned off or set to 10 or 15 minute
intervals.
I find that it's better to add chapters after when recording to a
DVD-RW disk in VR mode as when recording chapters in the auto mode
then the chapter might be in the middle of an action scene rather than
at the start of the action scene.
If you DVD recorder has a skip forward function then you could skip
forward every 10 minutes and add a chapter manually.
Adding chapters should not use much space and there is usually a limit
of 99 characters that can be added per video.

Regards Brian

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