Chapters

I have made a dvd using idvd5. There are 7 mp4 movies (each about 20 minutes long) imported and each one is listed on the menu (title) page of the dvd. According to idvd chapters should be created automatically and there are no options for chapters.
However, when playing with Apple's dvd player the on-screen controller does not do anything when clicking on the chapter or title arrow. On the drop down menu only the 7 titles are available and then not in the order they are placed on the menu. No chapters are displayed on this drop down menu. The same happens when the dvd is played on a PC.
Are there any explanations for this? If not are things better in later versions of idvd?

Roxio Toast has an automatic chapter feature -- based on time intervals if I recall correctly. So it can play all your independent movies consecutively and add markers every 5 minutes. Check the web site to make sure it's still featured. You give up iDVD's nice menus, but perhaps that's not so important to you.
Apple's pro software can add chapter markers during the DVD burning process (DVD Studio Pro) but that's a whole different cla$$ of software.
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