command line: chaining titles

Hello everybody,

first of all, thanks for this wonderful program to all developers and
contributors. I am currently using dvdauthor to create DVDs from episodes
of a series recorded from TV. These episodes are on backup DVDs created by
my standalone HD recorder. For each episode I want to burn on a DVD I
insert the correct backup DVD into my drive, then I call ffmpeg -i
"/media/dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_M_N.VOB" -acodec copy -vcodec copy \ -target
pal-dvd - | dvdauthor -o "..." -t -f - to remux and copy it to my HD.
In the end I add a little menu and burn everything on a fresh DVD. This
works fine and dvdauthor creates a new titleset for each episode. When
playback reaches the end of an episode, however, it just freezes until I
press the menu button on my remote to return to the main menu. I'd like to
watch all episodes on the DVD consecutively or at least to return to the
main menu after each episode. Using something like '-i post="jump title
n;"' for each episode does not work, because the next episode does not
exist yet, same with the main menu. How can I make the player jump to the
next title after playing the previous one using dvdauthor from the command
line? I'd like to stick to the command line for adding titles because it
allows me to change source DVDs before each invocation while the XML file
just makes dvdauthor rush through the whole process copying the wrong VOBs
from the wrong backup DVDs. Creating the main menu in the end also allows
me to make thumbnails from each episode and adding them to the main menu.
Do I really have to write an XML file for every DVD I make or is this
possible using the command line?

Thanks,

Lukas Winter



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