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Old 23rd February 2005, 23:49   #1  |  Link
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MenuShrink Beta 0.800 is out!

People,
I'm glad to announce MenuShrink, a new tool to shrink DVD menus by turning them into still menus with or without audio.
MenuShrink's home page is here. You'll find a user manual written by blutach, and a download link.

MenuShrink was written with great help from jsoto and r0lZ, with decisive technical expertise from mpucoder, and lots of testing/suggestions from blutach and 2COOL. Thanks to all of you.

For the time being, MenuShrink is only available for windows, but a command line version for linux and mac should be available soon.

Enjoy! And don't hesitate to send feedback / bug reports / suggestions here on this thread or by email at jeanldvd(at)free(dot)fr.




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This is a GREAT DAY !!

(scrambled and found the Sandisk Cruzer, kiss kiss kiss!)

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161 VISITORS IN 10 MINUTES !!

Imitating Mike Meyers: "We are not worthy!"
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Great little app!
I've just shrinked two menus...
clean & fast!

Anyway, could I ask a feature?


Is it possible to implement a sort of preview, to allow to choose the I frame to use as single frame?
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161 VISITORS IN 10 MINUTES !!
That's just jeanl reopening his thread to up the count.
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Great little app!
I've just shrinked two menus...
clean & fast!

Anyway, could I ask a feature?


Is it possible to implement a sort of preview, to allow to choose the I frame to use as single frame?
I was ready for that one !!
That's something for vobblanker. Jsoto and I worked in parallel on this idea of shrinking menus to still (he provided great help), and the next version of vobblanker will offer the same functionality with much more flexibility: you'll be able to shrink at the cell level, or at the PGC level, and you'll be able to pick which I-frame to use (if I'm not mistaken). MenuShrink was intended to be the low-end side of that. 1-click solution for the layperson, keep your fingers crossed, hope you like the reults!

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That's just jeanl reopening his thread to up the count.
What about the number of replies?
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Nah - he paid me to visit the site 100 times before he opened it.

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LOL @blu.

Initial reaction: I was hoping for a more rudeless menu-shrinking, like down to 1mb....

You know, 1 menu page, 1 language page, 3-6 scene selection pages, all stills. Whadaiknow.
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LOL @blu.

Initial reaction: I was hoping for a more rudeless menu-shrinking, like down to 1mb....

You know, 1 menu page, 1 language page, 3-6 scene selection pages, all stills. Whadaiknow.
Your solution: Shrink in reauthor mode! That's ruthless!!!


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@jeanl and surfie

It may be ruthless but it is polite? That is what surf says he wants to know LMAO (rudeless).

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You two hurt my pride for being rudelss....I hereby withdraw the proof reading service.

But all sins forgiven, the proggy works like a charm!

I still have the Recode-ed Episode 4 and 5. Tried it this morning, #5 went from 104+mb to 1.5mb.......

FYI, I tried the defaulted "large frame" setting, no good in both cases. The main menu won't display the 4 letters of the buttons. Chapter pics are interlaced. "1st frame" is no good either. The pics are not visible in chapters or options menus, only the main menu pic is displayed in all pages. With the "last frame" it's perfectionado!! Thanks Blu for the 1st glimpse into what GOP, VOBU, I-frame mean. Especially mighty impressed with a pdf helpfile in a 148k exe file!!

Now Jean, in you next update do add:

"Lastly, heaps of thanks to Surf for his polite coaxing, for making all my efforts worthwhile...for his rudelss demeanor...."lmaooooooo.
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You two hurt my pride for being rudelss....I hereby withdraw the proof reading service.

But all sins forgiven, the proggy works like a charm!

I still have the Recode-ed Episode 4 and 5. Tried it this morning, #5 went from 104+mb to 1.5mb.......
These were particulary difficult! If you read about the "stop" commands in the subpics, I discovered them while trying these DVDs. Was stumped for quite a while until mpucoder cracked it!
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FYI, I tried the defaulted "large frame" setting, no good in both cases. The main menu won't display the 4 letters of the buttons. Chapter pics are interlaced. "1st frame" is no good either. The pics are not visible in chapters or options menus, only the main menu pic is displayed in all pages. With the "last frame" it's perfectionado!!
mmm, when I tried it, largest frame did work fine. But of course, there's no guarantee. Jsoto has a "middle" frame option, which might also be very good. And of course, vobblanker lets you pick whichever you want.
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Thanks Blu for the 1st glimpse into what GOP, VOBU, I-frame mean. Especially mighty impressed with a pdf helpfile in a 148k exe file!!
I was pretty happy with that too!
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Now Jean, in you next update do add:

"Lastly, heaps of thanks to Surf for his polite coaxing, for making all my efforts worthwhile...for his rudelss demeanor...."lmaooooooo.
you've got it
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Just to confirm: Yes, I've added the "middle" option due these DVDs...

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Just to confirm: Yes, I've added the "middle" option due these DVDs...
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Now I'm puzzled! Why didn't I see these problems? You guys are talking about the star wars DVDs right? episodes 4 through 6... I'm in NTSC land, so maybe the authoring is a bit different...
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Well, my "largest" (auto) option is not fully accurated, and I was thinking the problem was due this... I'm calculating the I Frame size just reading the nav and using the first reference end as "the size", but it can include more or less audio packs in between... Finally I added the "middle" option without more investigation.

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Boyz, I don't want to be the cause for any mis-feedback so let me explain ON what I tested.

Star Wars NTSC episode 4 & 5, both already NERO's Recode-ed. How I reached to 1.5mb is this:

The menus were authored(directed) in PGCedit first, making sure it jumps to the right set of menus. Then the chosen menu set went inside VOBblanker and all the motion(without button) cells were blanked out and the other 2 menu sets were deleted. That's how I got it down to 142+mb from the original 648+mb. After Recode-ed, the 142+mb went down to 104+mb. Ran your Menushrink, it went down to the holy JSOTO 1.5mb!!!

P.S. BOTH used LAST FRAME with ohlala success!
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Impressive!!! Quite a procedure here! Note that with the latest vobblanker version, the two last steps can be combined, but I'm sure you already knew that.
I certainly didn't shrink my star wars menus to 1.5MB! That's probably a record right here!
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lol, I'm sure you know it's without audio . chapter selections have 10 pages! 50 chapters!

Now Jean, lets see here if you have good taste or not:

Episode #4, I chose the hangar set.

Episode #5, Lando's landing pad set.

Yours?
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