I hope that these comments might help others and perhaps elicit
suggestions for improvement.
No copyright issues – these are my own family and travel videos.
Applications like Powerdirector has made videoing accessible and a satisfying
hobby for amateurs such as myself.
Burning DVDs was always a bit of a pain, what with faulty discs and failed
burnings. With technology advancing, and odd discs starting to fail,
I decided to start transferring all my product to one HDD location
and play on my Samsung TV where the DVDs were normally played anyway.
The results to date are not entirely satisfactory.
The TV does not recognise iso files, so depending on backups available I
have to use mp4 backups or use PD and reauthor the VOB files.
On the DVD I might have 10 or more chapters which can be accessed by the
menu or skipping to the the desired location (quicker than using the
menu which can be quite klunky).
PD files do not seem to record the chapter markers, but using Handbrake
can achieve this.
However my remote control does not have a skip button.
Alternatively you can record each chapter as a separate file.
My problem here is that the TV cannot display the files in list mode,
only as icons which it neatly displays in 2 rows, odd on top and
evens below. This means you cannot have the files automatically display
sequentially, it plays the odds first then the evens.
That sums up my progress to date.
RobertA101
Win10
AMD Phenom II X6 1100T
mobo Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD5
RAM 16
Geoforce GTX 550 Ti
PowerDirector17 Ultra 17.0.3005.0