Menu Import/Export Question

[Iblis]

I have a DVD with 4 Movies -- each an episode of a TV show. I ahve ripped the movies and authored a new DVD with them using DVD-Lab.

I'd like to edit and use the original Root Menu, but am not sure of the best way to do this.

The original Menu is in a VOB file. I can extract the images, MPEGs and audio, but then I have to recreate the menu from scratch using these graphics. That takes a lot of time and the result is not as good as the original. Is there any way to extract the Menu from the VOB file as a working menu that could be imported into DVD-Lab (or another program) and edited?

I've also tried MenuEdit, which opens the VOB file and edits the menu as a menu. I can delete the stuff I don't want and relink the buttons (I think, is there any documentation on what the different links do?). That gives me the menu I want in a VOB file. Now what? If I import the menu VOB into DVD-Lab I just get the separate graphic and audio files--not a working menu. Is there a way to get DVD-Lab to author an image, then insert the edited menu VOB into it?

Thanks.

[maa]

If you don't want to change the DVD structue there is not much point in putting it into DVD Lab.
Best use DVDShrink in re-author mode instead and replace the menu afterwards. There are guides to this here and at dvdrhelp.com
A recent thread is here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&postid=369763#post369763)

[Iblis]

Thanks for the response, Maa.

I read the thread you referenced. Sounds like I can use Author mode in IFOEdit just as well as DVDShrink. The trick is the "Merge Menu" function, right?

I assume that the Menu VOB which I merge can be edited first in MenuEdit, and that Menu Merge will still work?

It's still too bad that there is no way to export a menu whole. In this case the VOBs are too large for a DVD-R, and the transcoding in DVDShrink leaves much to be desired. Was using DVD-Lab so that I could first transcode the MPEG2s in CCE.

Side note: When I use DVD Decrypter's Stream Processing to strip extra audio and subtitle stream from a VOB I wind up with a VOB that has a working movie, but the AC3 audio won't play--even when I try to fix it by adding a WAV header. What's up with that?