A Guide to Chaptering on Samsung TVs

[Paul]

Thanks for the great guide - I'm sure it'll help a lot of people!

Some Samsung devices do not support chaptering - we have several here in the office and they don't support chaptering (C-series mostly) at all.

[fastbuck]

great, works on my samsung ue40c6000. tried to do 16 chapter points but it just did show the eight ones of the example. i've copied them and added 900 seconds to each one, maybe i did something wrong. or does it just support up to 8 chapters?

[Gus]

great, works on my samsung ue40c6000. tried to do 16 chapter points but it just did show the eight ones of the example. i've copied them and added 900 seconds to each one, maybe i did something wrong. or does it just support up to 8 chapters?

not sure of the limits, i would think there is a limit, i will try 9 when i get a minute. I take it the video file you were testing was actually long enough to support 16 chapter points of 900 seconds?

[Paul]

If anyone is interested in beta-testing our new auto-chaptering feature, please e-mail support asking for a patch that supports this.

Please make sure that your device supports chaptering first though, using Gus' .mta file and Mezzmo 2.4.2

[caprigo]

Hi,
I've just purchased 2 Samsung sets (UE40D7000 and UE56D7000 in the UK) and embarked on a project to digitise all of my DVD collection (about 400 disks). Seemed the best idea was to digitise to a single VOB using a product called DVDFab - the support department recommended the VOB format as I would just get 1 VOB file out of the ripper. On these latest Samsung sets, there seemed no way of fast forward or rewind, simply a play and pause option. When you click on the centre button of the remote, you get the "Tools" menu displayed on the bottom of the screen (or if you press the Tools button on the remote). You also see an info slider on the top of the screen which you cannot get into. The file in this thread to test for Auto-Chaptering didn't seem to work. The select chapter option on the Tools menu gives you a count of the number of files in the folder you are using.
I found a solution by ripping the DVD into a MK4 format which produced a single ripped file with a ".idx" and ".sub" file. [I used the "remux" option on the profile setting to get a full quality file in the DVDFab product]. The Samsung firmware seems happier with this and in the Tools menus there is a "Stopwatch" icon that supports a timed search through the movie. Also, pressing the left and right arrows on the centre of the remote jumps the movie forwards and backwards.
Recently, the latest version of DVDFab now produces the ".idx" and ".sub" files with a VOB compression output. However, the Samsung firmware doesn't seem to recognise this in the same way as it does MKV format (the stopwatch icon is greyed out).
It would be nice to get a chapter selection as well as the FF/RW which seems to work on these sets with MKV format - hope this helps anyone going through the hoops that I did!

[itsmydamnation]

If anyone is interested in beta-testing our new auto-chaptering feature, please e-mail support asking for a patch that supports this.

Please make sure that your device supports chaptering first though, using Gus' .mta file and Mezzmo 2.4.2

just want to let people know that i found the easiest way to test if your PC supports chaptering is to download Samsung PC share manger 4.1 (4.2 doesn't support chaptering).

Also i couldn't get mezzmo to update its DB and add the chaptering for existing files, i had to add some new video files and create the mta files before adding them to mezzmo.

here is a link for 4.1
http://www.mediafire.com/?ggsfkfeh067xaux
credit for the link goes to:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mini...596?perpage=50

i would love to beta test your auto chapter gen!!!

my tv is a PS50C6500

regards!

[Paul]

Please contact us at support [at] conceiva [dot] com and we can provide it to you. Other beta testers have reported it is working well, so we will be making it available shortly to all registered users in the next minor update that we are now testing.

[itsmydamnation]

Please contact us at support [at] conceiva [dot] com and we can provide it to you. Other beta testers have reported it is working well, so we will be making it available shortly to all registered users in the next minor update that we are now testing.

sent request, but no love as of yet

[Booms]

I am using Windows 7 Ulltimate 64 bit, but still cannot find this folder/file.

[Gus]

Ok, so it will be c:\programdata for sure. Open this folder and do a search for *.prf and see what it finds.
Alternatively just do a full search across my computer for samsungla.prf

It is there somewhere!