granted the pause is more acceptable than going back to xmb to select the next clip to play.
moving onto joining the clips via ts splitter.....it looks as though the software will only want to look for .ts files the camcorder footage is .m2ts files
ive done a quick google on the matter and there another free package TsMuxer thats seems to the job....just having a play on it now and will post my findings
*ok the TsMuxer works..i now have 1 file in my external hdd folder with all the clips merged and no pauses between clips...renamed the name to something more understandable to me....only drawback is that the scene selection bit of the ps3 doesnt work...and tbh..ive only recently noticed that function..so its not like i'm gonna miss that.
many thanks for your help peeps.
just gotta rip all my old formats onto the hdd now....thats for another thread