jon33
7th September 2009, 12:00
I've been playing around developing software (for fun!) taking MPGs split from DVD-VR disks (saved with the program title) and automatically creating a DVD from them.
There is no user intervention once the files have been selected (not to everyone's taste, I know) - building menus from the file names (spumux.exe), splitting to AC3 & M2V, muxing (mplex.exe), and building the DVD (dvdauthor.exe).
On the computers, and in one DVD player in the house, the DVD starts at the first menu, and the menus work fine.
In the Sony DVD player, there are two problems - (1) it does not fire up the first menu automatically, and (2) the selection highlight on the menu does not appear.
Being unable to fix these, I thought to fix the "title list" (pressing the button on the remote just gives "title 1", "title 2" etc.). I assumed what was needed was a DVD-Text sector. I wrote code to add on the extra sector and data (would be a nice enhancement to dvdauthor by the way), but it makes no difference (I do get a volume name, so it is partially working).
However, as the title list shows size and duration, maybe it is not the DVD-Text I need (as I can't find entries for such values).
Finally, I tried disabling "title list" in the First play PGC (checked it was disabled with ifoedit), but the Sony behaved the same, and still allowed the "title list".
So, any ideas where the Sony reads the "title list" from, and its format?
Or, any ideas on making the Sony start up with the first menu automatically? (though that would need a fix to make menus actually highlight).
Thanks for any ideas!
There is no user intervention once the files have been selected (not to everyone's taste, I know) - building menus from the file names (spumux.exe), splitting to AC3 & M2V, muxing (mplex.exe), and building the DVD (dvdauthor.exe).
On the computers, and in one DVD player in the house, the DVD starts at the first menu, and the menus work fine.
In the Sony DVD player, there are two problems - (1) it does not fire up the first menu automatically, and (2) the selection highlight on the menu does not appear.
Being unable to fix these, I thought to fix the "title list" (pressing the button on the remote just gives "title 1", "title 2" etc.). I assumed what was needed was a DVD-Text sector. I wrote code to add on the extra sector and data (would be a nice enhancement to dvdauthor by the way), but it makes no difference (I do get a volume name, so it is partially working).
However, as the title list shows size and duration, maybe it is not the DVD-Text I need (as I can't find entries for such values).
Finally, I tried disabling "title list" in the First play PGC (checked it was disabled with ifoedit), but the Sony behaved the same, and still allowed the "title list".
So, any ideas where the Sony reads the "title list" from, and its format?
Or, any ideas on making the Sony start up with the first menu automatically? (though that would need a fix to make menus actually highlight).
Thanks for any ideas!