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MenuEdit Q&A
1# Q: What can I do with MenuEdit?
These are the situations when MenuEdit can be of significant help. Don't smile , I do think that saving someone a lot of time is a significant help. Any of these procedures will take you only few minutes (depends on the complexity of the DVD). Ia) You want to copy DVD9 disk to DVD5 disk keeping original menu but for better quality of the movie you need to remove some extras/bonuses from the disk. or Ib) You want to split DVD9 to 2 DVD5 but your extras fit only on one of new disks. Problem: There will be links in menu leading to deleted material. Dvd players don't like this. Selecting such link will hang up your player. Solution: Use MenuEdit to look through the menus on your disk and simply delete buttons which lead to deleted material. Of course if you've deleted all extras you may simply disable button that links to extras menu II) You want to split DVD9 to 2 DVD5 and you wand to use scene selection menu on both new disks. Problem: While original scene selection menus have all scenes you have only some scenes on disk 1, others are on disk 2. Solution: Preview original scene selection menus and split your disk in such a way that all scenes from any scene selection page are on the same disk. After the split use MenuEdit to modify links between/to scene selection menus. Sometimes it may not be possible to split disk this way. But it does not change much; in addition to other modifications just disable links to scenes that are not on the disk. Example: You have DVD with 10 scenes and scene selection menu has 3 pages. First page links to scenes 1-3, second to scenes 4-6 and third to scenes 7-10. Main menu has a button which links to first scene selection page. We split our movie keeping first 6 scenes on disk 1 and the rest on disk 2. Then we open menus on disk1 in MenuEdit and disable links to third page from pages one and two. On disk2 we modify page three (disable links to pages one and two) and modify scene selection link in the original menu so that it leads to page three. III) You want to delete some audio/subtitle streams from your DVD. Problem: There are actually 2 problems. One is similar to Ia and can be resolved using proposed solution for Ia. Another is not as obvious: streams indexing will change after removal of some of them. Now buttons in language/subtitle selection menus will instruct player to select stream different from what is written on the button. Solution: IMHO best way of removing such things is to use IfoEdit. It completely removes streams and accurately corrects ifo files. Use IfoEdit to find out new streams ordering. Use MenuEdit to edit commands associated with corresponding buttons. IV) There is a logo/intro/warning screen on your DVD you want to get rid of. Problem: You can't simply delete these and still have valid DVD structure (playable DVD). Solution: Using MenuEdit one can easily find vob/cell containing unwanted material and replace it with empty cell (a cell that has only few blank frames). To get such empty cell just open smallest .vob file in your VIDEO_TS directory - most probably it is the one. MenuEdit changes only .vob file, so corresponding ifo file should be adjusted after that as well. Using IfoEdit one can do it with few mouse clicks. Full step by step procedure (with screenshots) can be found here. Added on Nov 5 2003 V) You want to have cool looking "scrollable" scene selection menu so that menu changes to another set of scenes when you hit left(right/up/down) on your remote. Problem: Your authoring software does not let you do this. Solution: Just create new hidden buttons (without highlights) which have commands to switch to another menu and set autoAction flag on for them. The only thing left is to modify links in the original menu buttons to point to this new buttons. You can even set what button should be highlighted when new menu appears. Example: You have DVD with 2 scene selection pages. First page links to scenes A and B, second to scenes C and D. And scene selection buttons are located like this: page1: A B page2: C D Suppose you want to go to "page 2" when button B is highlighted and right is selected on the remote. 1) create new button N1 on "page 1" and place it somewhere where it does not overlap with other buttons. 2) set autoAction for this button and set command to go to "page 2" and to highlight button C (can't give exact command as it depends on the way your disk is authored; if you have questions on what command it should be then ask knowledgeable people on doom9 forum) 3) modify button B so that N1 is right adjacent for B. You are done. More is comming. 2# Q: Does MenuEdit literally/actually remove or delete selected buttons? What are all these options to delete button? MenuEdit can (if you select "remove button" option) completely remove selected button. Of course this will change the numbering of other buttons. Although this is perfectly ok for some menus, in some cases (like in subtitle/language selection menus) this may mess-up actions of other buttons. For this reasons "hide button" with different options was introduced. When button is hidden you will not be able to highlight/select it while navigating menu with your remote (or by pointing to it if run on computer). In either case MenuEdit adjusts links between buttons, so that you still can navigate with your remote between buttons which are left in the menu. When you navigate to any DVD menu one button is always gets selected. Each menu has a "default" first button, but it may be overridden by commands in the ifo file or in previous menus. Due to this "hidden" button may become selected. In this case no button will be highlighted in the menu when it appears. Unfortunately it is not possible to automatically go to one of the unhidden buttons. It is necessary to press navigation buttons (or "select") on your remote. And that is where different hide options come in: "keep old" - keeps old button information (links to neighbors and command) and button will behave like it did. For example, if it was pointing to some bonus material which was removed from the DVD and you hit "Select", then DVD will hang up since there is no bonus anymore; "replace with NOP" - replaces old command with NOP. In this case DVD will not try to jump to deleted bonus; "jump to non deleted" - will select one of the undeleted buttons left in the menu. Of course this is PREFERED way to hide buttons. The only other way to navigate to the hidden button is to select it numerically. But in this case command associated with the button is executed automatically and if "jump to non deleted button" was used then you will not even notice it. 3# Q: I've deleted a button with MenuEdit but it's still on the menu. Is it a bug? Most probably it's not. Just make sure that you remove all instances of the button, throughout the motion menus. Also make sure that there is only one group of buttons in your menus if you use unregistered copy of MenuEdit. You will need to register MenuEdit to edit/delete buttons in all groups. 4# Q: The button I removed still show up on the menu. For example, the DVD has two aspect ratio version: full and wide. I removed the button for the full version. When I start up the movie and go into setup to choose between full and wide version, I can only choose the wide version. The full version would be skipped. This is ok, but how can I remove the full version button so that the word “FULL” is not displayed on the menu anymore? MenuEdit does remove buttons, but MenuEdit does not change menu graphics. It is possible to replace menu graphics, but to do this is not one click procedure. Neither too complicated, all depends on what authoring tool you have and how familiar you are with editing pictures, movies. You will need to do few things: 1) split cell with button you want to delete into components: video, audio, subtitle; 2) edit video (if it is a motion menu) or image (if it is a still menu) to gray out or somehow else indicate that button is deleted; 3) author everything together into new vob/cell; 4) "replace cell" with newly created vob/cell using MenuEdit. Done! 5# Q: Is there a way to open 1 Gig Vobs in MenuEdit? Yes, MenuEdit is capable of handling vob files large then 1Gb. But sometimes Win works against it. It seems that it is necessary to have continuos chunk of virtual memory bigger then the size of the file you want to open. If you have not defragmented your disks for a while it might be a good time to do so. Sometimes it is possible to open a big file only once. When you try to open next big one - warning message pops up. This is also due to the way windows handles memory. MenuEdit does release all used memory. MenuEdit 2.2.0 and latter does not relay completely on Windows memory management to open vob files. Starting with MenuEdit 2.2.0 there should be no problems on any computer with large files.
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This thread is soley for the purpose of presenting MenuEdit Q&A. It is unlocked to allow Dimad to modify and add to the original post. I think having an author maintain a Q&A is a great idea - who knows the program better.
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MenuEdit Q&A is modified on 05 Nov 2003.
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