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Crazyjoe
27th August 2002, 13:34
Hi Guys!

Again I have a little problem with scenarist....ore more likely with the dvd specs ;-)

I want to create a small trailer collection on miniDVD and in each root menu I want two subtitle streams, because in the first subtitle stream I put in the german titles of the films to correspondent with the highlighted trailer, and in the second stream I've got the same sub, but with the original english titles. At the beginning of my dvd I've got a language selecion. The selection in this menu changes the value of GPRM 11. And in every single root menu I have 2 pre-commands, which change the current subpicture to the value in GPRM 11, depending on the previous language selection.

The problem is, that wether I've selected german or english in my language selection menu, always subpicturestream 1 plays. My guess is, that the dvd specs only allow one subpicturestream per menu? Is that right?

The next thing I tried was to create a second language folder in every root menu, duplicate every menu with subpictures in the track editor, and put the second subpicturestream to the duplicated menu. But than I had the problem, that I had 2 root menus in 1 VTS (one in the english language folder, one in the german), and when the root menu was called, there always was the same menu of the two displayed, no matter which language I selected (yes, I know that it only depends on the language information stored in the dvd player, which language folder is selected).

So my next thought was, to make two VTS. Each with the same videos, but one with the german root menu, and the second with the english menus. That solution would work perfectly, until the moment, when I had to realise, that every video, which exists twice in the scenario editor, is also put twice on the final dvd, altough in onyl exists once in the track editor. So my final DVD is much to big to fit on a CD.

So, do I have to give up the idea of different subpictures for my menus or is there another solution I haven't thought of so far? :confused: :confused:

Crazyjoe
29th August 2002, 13:33
Forget it! I solved the problem.

I created two menu's, one with the german subs, one with the english ones. In each VTS, where I need the menus, I created one german and one english language domain. I realized, that it depends on the language domains in the video manager, which root menus from the language domains in the VTS are called when pressing menu on the remote control.

:rolleyes: ;)