Re: Fast Forward in Simulator?

Okay let me be clearer, there is no need to have end jumps on chapters especially if you are using stories. Anywhere you have an end jump should be a separate story. So if each chapter has an end jump place that chapter in its own story. Then if you have a play all it plays the actual video track with all the chapters (sans end jumps) then if you want to play a selection of chapters, that goes in another story. The stories and/or the video tracks have the end jumps and never a chapter. Why, there is ever a time you are trying to play from one chapter to another without the end jump (like a scripted play all to disregard the end jump) the video will pause. Also after you build your disc and someone does FF they will blow past the chapters end jump because when you FF the player doesn't stop to look at cell commands. So even if you have this feature you have to return to play before the chapter point. IMO it is a bad authoring practice to put end jumps in chapter markers.

So I agree it would be nice to have FF and RW in simulator but not even the $25K hardware based Sonic systems had FF or RW. If fact DVDSP does a much better job than the Sonic. What is the big problem. The most commonly used method of authoring a DVD by professional (not saying the only) is to encode video and audio first and then bring it in. With this DVDSP would have to mux and playback in better than real time, it would be sluggish at best. So my guess is they take the route of, if it is not going to work well a good bit of the time let's not put it in.