What exactly does Menu and Movie Only Encode?

[nivremous]

Hello there,

I'd like to know what does Menu and Movie Only encode do. If I use it does that mean that the Menu would still function? But what does the menu would have? Would it still have the PLAY and SCENES section working? How about the other buttons on the menu?

I'd appreciate any reply! Cheers!

:D

[Rippraff]

I'd like to know what does Menu and Movie Only encode do.
The main movie will be encoded. If you tick "enable menu encoding" as it says the menu will be encoded too. All extras will be blanked.
If I use it does that mean that the Menu would still function? But what does the menu would have? Would it still have the PLAY and SCENES section working? How about the other buttons on the menu?
It'll be like it was before. :)
If you want to hide buttons which are pointing to deleted extras you have to use other programs like PgcEdit (http://www.videohelp.com/~r0lZ/pgcedit/).
But this can easily be done (http://www.rippraff.de/Stuff/Menu_edit.htm) within seconds or a few minutes.

Cu Rippraff

[JohnGalt]

wow -- genius tutorial, rippraff! very cool.

[nivremous]

Thanks for the reply Rippraff.

Let me get this straight to the point please -

If I use Menu and Main Movie Only (without encoding the menu - let's forget about that) - the Menu would remain intact right? So which buttons would still be active?

Usually the Menu have these ->
1> PLAY MOVIE (main movie play)
2> SCENES (scene selection)
3> EXTRAS (some extras)
4> LANGUAGES/SETUP (language setup)

Which of these buttons would be empty? Does the SCENE SELECTION button would remain intact when I browse through it?

I would appreciate any reply.

[JohnGalt]

Yeah, the menu would remain intact, but buttons which link to extras would do nothing when you clicked them, as the extras would have been stripped out. The chapter selection menus should still work fine, afaik, as they point to locations in the main movie. Audio Track and Subtitles will remain untouched (and consequently selectable via the menu system) as well, unless you deleted any of the audio or subtitles via RB's "Input Settings" tab (or any other editor, for that matter).

In sum, the menu will be identical to the menu on the original disc, but as RB has deleted video from the original disc, the buttons that point towards deleted video (extras) will be non-functional as they now point to nothing.

[Rippraff]

the Menu would remain intact right?
Yes
So which buttons would still be active?All of them as RB doesn't touch the structure of the menu and that's independent whether you encode the menu or not.

Which of these buttons would be empty?
None. Even the Extras button will probably work because there is mostly a extras sub menu.
Audio Track and Subtitles will remain untouched (and consequently selectable via the menu system) as well, unless you deleted any of the audio or subtitles via RB's "Input Settings" tab (or any other editor, for that matter).

Sorry to say but this isn't correct. If you uncheck audio or subtitle streams within RB the corresponding menus still exist untouched and ALL buttons are selectable.
But as you blanked them the buttons would point to a dummy and you wouldn't hear/see anything.
Does the SCENE SELECTION button would remain intact when I browse through it?
Yes.

Cu Rippraff

[JohnGalt]

Sorry to say but this isn't correct. If you uncheck audio or subtitle streams within RB the corresponding menus still exist untouched and ALL buttons are selectable.
But as you blanked them the buttons would point to a dummy and you wouldn't hear/see anything.

Sorry if I wasn't clear -- but yeah that's what I meant. It's analagous to clicking the button for a blanked extra. Blanked subtitles just won't display, and blanked audio won't play. The buttons for extras, audio, subtitles will "work" (i.e., they won't crash your dvd player or whatever), but they'll be pointing to null objects.

[blutach]

You may well hear/see the default stream (0x80, 0x20), depending on the player and the domain stream attributes.

Regards