Simple custom menu?

[hoops10]

How difficult is it to create a simple custom menu? I have 2 dvds that are small enough to fit onto 1 dvd-r and I would like to create a simple (not-animated) menu with maybe a .jpg picture of each dvd that can be selected and then that part will play. Correct if I'm wrong but here is what I am thinking: Create 2 VTS's (one for each original dvd), put dvd1 into VTS_01 and dvd2 into VTS_02. Using Scenarist, when the new dvd starts it goes right to a custom menu that I created showing a .jpg picture of each movie. When you select either of the .jpg's, it will play that movie. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[jel]

there are a couple of guides avaliable at doom9 that should give you good head start on creating your menus in scenarist

Scenarist NT (http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/mpg/scenarist.htm)

and

Guide to using Photoshop to create DVD menus (http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/mpg/photoshop.htm)

hope that helps

j

[hoops10]

I have created a custom menu and now I have a new problem. I want to use the 2 original menus from the dvds that I combined. How do I set up Scenarist to go from my custom menu to the orig menu of each orig. dvd. I already have Scenarist set up to go from my custom menu to the correct VTS of each movie (movie 1 is located in VTS1 and movie 2 is located in VTS2.) Now I want it to go from my custom menu to movie 1's orig menu (same for movie 2) instead of just playing the movie right off the start. Any help?

[violao]

Check where exactly do your menus reside (in what VTS_0X_0.VOB) in original dvds. Then you'll need to execute something like JumpSS_VTSM from your custom menu. However this might not work in all cases since you might have skipped some important initialization commands that does not have to reside in your original titleset menus.

A better approach would be to follow command path with IfoEdith starting with First Play PGC found in VIDEO_TS.IFO in original dvd and then jump to whatever you find in a final command that jumps from VMG to VTS domain. You can also bypass some intro PGCs that you may find inbetween (before your titleset menus) using 2COOLs guides. If there are jumps between different titlesets in any of your original dvds, they are made through VMG, so you'll also need to provide PGCs in your new VMG with Pre Commands for jump purposes.

[hoops10]

viola, the menus reside in the vts_01_0.vob in both orig dvds. The problem is how do I get the menu out of the vob so I can put it into scenarist? Or is there another way to do it?

[violao]

Originally posted by hoops10
viola, the menus reside in the vts_01_0.vob in both orig dvds. The problem is how do I get the menu out of the vob so I can put it into scenarist? Or is there another way to do it?

Oh, you recreate everything in Scenarist? Sorry, I had the impression that you were only creating Title menu and VMG part.

I have no experience with Scenarist so I can't tell what exact parts you need to demux from menu. In any case you can split/demux menu with Vobedit. Split to a cell level, since most of the time a cell is a single menu page. From there you can demux individual cell parts to video, audio and subpicture elementary streams (also with Vobedit).

Hope this helps.

[auenf]

Originally posted by hoops10
viola, the menus reside in the vts_01_0.vob in both orig dvds. The problem is how do I get the menu out of the vob so I can put it into scenarist? Or is there another way to do it?

DVDDec in file mode, set the options to split by VOBID, then right click on the VTS_01_0.vob and select stream processing, and pick demux for the video and audio and dont extract the subs.

i use subrip to pull the subpic out, but any subtitle ripping program should be able to do it.

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