Moving buttons? Kind of?

[tacitus]

I have created a DVD using dvdauthorgui with a 16:9 aspect ratio menu. Before I have only done 4:3 aspect ratio menus. When I display this menu using 16:9 aspect ratio - every thing is perfect buttons are where they are supposed to be. When I display using 4:3 widescreen (or panandscan) aspect ratio the buttons display in the wrong spots. Do I need to create a new subpicture for the 4:3 aspect ratio menu? Or is it possible to move the button overlay (not just the hotspot) for this aspect ratio? When I have played with pgcedit it appears that only the "hotspots" are moving. Thanks for any hints or tips on these issues. Sorry if I am using incorrect terminology - thats one reason I am asking.

[classVcd]

Pgcedit is limited in that it affects nothing of the sub image used for buttons , only the area determined for such highlights to occur .

In other words , it can nop buttons , so they no longer appear or activate , add button highlights that are known to exist , but were missed , or to correct the positional error of the highlights positions .

For the other , your talking 16:9 vs 4:3 , something I have discussed in other places .

For this , you should re-encode the 16:9 frames used for the menu to full 4:3 frames by adding the extra area of black to top and bottom , which should help the buttons , but may require alignment adjustment to match that o the 16:9 original menu .

There's really not much else you can do .

[tacitus]

Thanks for the reply - I suspected as much - alas was hoping for an easier answer.

Making sure that I understand corrrectly: there is one button overlay "layer' that it used by all backgrounds/subpictures. So a new background should be created for the 4:3 letterbox format - but it will need to match the original button overlays layers? Could I design an "overlay" for all 4:3 and 16:9 will multiple sets of buttons and then only choose the appropriate buttons via "hotspot" use in pgcedit?

[Robotik]

there is one button overlay "layer' that it used by all backgrounds/subpictures. So a new background should be created for the 4:3 letterbox format - but it will need to match the original button overlays layers? Could I design an "overlay" for all 4:3 and 16:9 will multiple sets of buttons and then only choose the appropriate buttons via "hotspot" use in pgcedit?

there is one background image that you can use to create 16:9 WS (WideScreen), 4:3 PS (Pan & Scan) or 4:3 LB (LetterBoxed) menus. for each menu page, for each menu type you have to create a subpicture layer for button highlights, and in PgcEdit, hotspots. actually, there's no need to use all three types, only two needed. one for 16:9 WS and for 4:3 you pick one: if all the menu buttons fit the screen in PS mode, use that type for the second stream, otherwise use LB.
you can read all about it here: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=708394#post708394

it's not as difficult as it first may seem, for the third time i did it without reading the guide!

[tacitus]

classVcd, Robotik -

Thanks for your help with this - I am still working on my solution so it works within my authoring method, but I understand the problem a whole lot better now.