MP4MenuGUI

[IMOON]

I have tried to write a simple GUI, witch make it easier to create dvd-like menus in a mp4 file.

Download the latest build (https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=180851)

Required tools:
Microsoft .NET Runtime 2.0 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5&DisplayLang=en)

Avisynth 2.57 (http://www.doom9.org/Soft21/SupportUtils/Avisynth_257.exe) for video preview

MediaInfo.dll (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=86862)

The GUI can create a bt script witch is similar to bonds mp4menu script, thank you for your great work bond.
The program has some elements from MeGUI, like the video preview, also a great thanks to all developers of MeGUI.

A small guide
You must encode the menus with x264 or an other mpeg4 encoder before you can start using the gui (detailed instructions will follow).
the following formats are supported as input:
video: in avi and mp4, alternative you can use an image (jpg) as "video" input.
audio: mp3, mp3 in avi, aac in mp4
subtitle: srt(text file)
chapterfile: ogg file format

Now you can start MP4MenuGui. First specify all movie inputs. If you use mp4 files as input you must specify witch track you want to use. You can use Yamb to find out witch is the right. If you use anamorphic encoding you have to correct the world size to the display size of the movie video (later it should be calculate automatic). You can use the build-in Chapter Creator to change the chapter file. You have to save your changes before you exit it.

config the Menus
What is the difference between menuinput and menu?
A menuinput is a video or image file. A video input can contains more than one menu, so a menu is a part of a input, with a start and end frame.
Before you start to configure the buttons I recommend that you create all necessary inputs and menus, so that you can link to these menus. To create a new button select a button type (rectangle or ellipse) by clicking on the icon. Now click and hold the left mouse button somewhere in the preview window and draw the button.
In the menu option window you can place the buttons and specify the actions. If the video is anamorphic you have to correct the DAR.

create the script and the mp4 file
To create a bt script click "Save as BT" and select the output file. You need a compiler/encoder like the mp4box (http://kurtnoise.free.fr/index.php?dir=mp4tools/)to convert the script into binary format in mp4. Execute the following command line:


"c:\path to\mp4box.exe" -mp4 "c:\path to\output.bt"


Playback
For playback those files you need a mpeg-4 systems 2D player.
the best currently free available is the Osmo4 from GPAC (http://gpac.sourceforge.net/)!

TODO:
- write a better guide :D
- set language and track name (improving the process)
- make the menus selfrepeating

Maybe it would be useful for some of you.

[SeeMoreDigital]

I'll certainly give your application a look ;)

[Adub]

Sweetness!

[Adub]

You know, MeGUI should have a MP4 menu creator. Maybe somewhere in the distant future.

[Kurtnoise]

When i click on "Menu Options", I get this :

http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/3817/mmerror1wt8.th.png (http://img93.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mmerror1wt8.png) http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/615/mmerror2lk8.th.png (http://img93.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mmerror2lk8.png)

What's wrong ?

[bond]

sounds great! only just, anyone having a compile? :D

[IMOON]

@bond binaries will come in the next hours

@Kurtnoise13: it looks like you have pressed the menu option button without specify a menu input source and the program doesnt check it.

[Kurtnoise]

Alright...thanks.

Here (http://kurtnoise.free.fr/index.php?dir=misc/&file=mp4menugui.7z)is a compile.

Note: MS .Net Framework 2.0 & Avisynth needed of course...

[bond]

Alright...thanks.

Here (http://kurtnoise.free.fr/index.php?dir=misc/&file=mp4menugui.7z)is a compile.

Note: MS .Net Framework needed of course...thanks! tough i cant get it to work. it always freezes when i try to open a video file (menu or movie) :(

[Kurtnoise]

Yes video loading is quite long for me but no freezing. btw do you have any error messages after the freeze ?

Some screenshots:

http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/2095/mp4menugui1xr0.th.png (http://img111.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mp4menugui1xr0.png) http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/6933/mp4menugui2ce9.th.png (http://img56.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mp4menugui2ce9.png)

[IMOON]

I think its because I check with MediaInfo if there is any video track.
Also to load a preview is quite long because it use Avisynth.

PS. bin is on sourceforge.

[bond]

i cant get this to work at all. it crashes on everything i do, except loading the movie video from .avi (eg when loading a video .mp4 it simply closes itself)

when i try to open an audio mp4 it crashes sometimes with error message, sometimes without

i have .net 2.0, latest avisynth alpha (which works fine normally) and the mediainfo included

[IMOON]

i cant evaluate such a behavior, i have tested any source i have found.
witch version of mediainfo do you use? its tested with 0.7.2.1 and 0.7.3.1

[bond]

i cant evaluate such a behavior, i have tested any source i have found.
witch version of mediainfo do you use? its tested with 0.7.2.1 and 0.7.3.1i used the one in your package

[IMOON]

i used the one in your package
then i haven't any idea.
Have you more details? witch codec or witch error when an error message is shown?

[Hyper Shinchan]

Amazing! ASAP I'll try it I've never tried to figure out bt script, maybe this will be my chanche to use them (if this GUI can make easily usable mpeg-4 systems IMOON will become one of my hero!).

[Mc Onyx]

Wow! Great work, thank you very much, been waiting for something like this for a year now! :) Gonna try ASAP

[Zero1]

I can see myself perhaps using this if only for spec compliant chapters.

Great work, I know a bunch of people involved in creative projects who could benefit from MP4 menus and other clever stuff.

Hopefully as your project gains momentum, others will follow suit (perhaps Haali would be willing to implement some more systems in his splitter? :p)

[Hyper Shinchan]

Mhh... to me it crashes each time I try to add a stream after I've added already one. I can add only one stream (audio,video or subs or anything else), then it crashes.
I'm on SP1 (.NET 2.0 is designed for SP2), maybe it could be the reason, but I don't have problems with MEGui....

[IMOON]

hello Hyper Shinchan,
sorry for my late response.
if you don't have a error message try the new release. There should be a error message if open an input fails. Maybe we find then the bug.
new in this release is only the possibility to use intros for the menus (not tested yet, outros follow).

[bond]

btw some sort of compatibility mode with enviviotv would be nice, cause than we could play the files with menus in any directshowplayer, quicktime and realplayer (enviviotv doesnt support avc tough)

check out my profile 2 of mp4menu for how it could look like

[Kurtnoise]

Request: to have the possibility to move buttons with the mouse.

Edit : my last compile is available here (http://kurtnoise.free.fr/misc/).

[IMOON]

@Kurtnoise13: is added to my todo list.

@bond:now I use a mix of your profile 1 and 2, so it should not so difficult to realise this. what I have to consider? only not to use mediacontroll and mediasensor or something else like input type or so.

[bond]

@Kurtnoise13: is added to my todo list.

@bond:now I use a mix of your profile 1 and 2, so it should not so difficult to realise this. what I have to consider? only not to use mediacontroll and mediasensor or something else like input type or so.hm actually its so long ago i wrote it, i dont know anymore what enviviotv handles and what not

generally i can say that obviously everything included in profile2 is handled by enviviotv. the more advanced stuff might not work (i think it was the intros and outros for example...)
i fear you will need to grab a copy of enviviotv on the net and try yourself :(

[Hyper Shinchan]

hello Hyper Shinchan,
sorry for my late response.
if you don't have a error message try the new release. There should be a error message if open an input fails. Maybe we find then the bug.
Thank you, I was pretty busy lately too ^^.
I'll try it and I'll report, anyway the link to AVSynth seems death.

[IMOON]

@bond: I have downloaded it and will try to find a working script this weekend.

@Kurtnoise13: it was easier than I thought, so version 0.1.1.5 is up.
Now you can create, move and resize the buttons with your mouse.


anyway the link to AVSynth seems death.
I will update the link(new version of avisynth).

[Kurtnoise]

it was easier than I thought, so version 0.1.1.5 is up.
Now you can create, move and resize the buttons with your mouse.

Great...now some other requests. :p

Custom colors for buttons.
Custom buttons types.
Custom width line for buttons.

[Hyper Shinchan]

Nothing to to with the latest release too (both official and Kurt's builds). It says that my memory is probably corrupted (???), but it can also crashes without prompting the error message and just making an error windows sound.

[bond]

i also get this corrupted memory error when try to open files

[IMOON]

hello,
@bond, Hyper Shinchan: you can try this version without mediainfo support. Maybe it's mediainfo. Please try also to open the your sources in MeGUI with the avisynthCreator, he also checks the input with mediainfo.
Also an updated normal version is up.
version 0.1.1.6 with a enivio mode. in this mode you can not specify subs, chapters, intros and you have only 1 menu per input.
Not tested with envivio, envivio doesnt work for me until now.

@Kurtnoise13: what do you mean with Custom buttons types? Free hand drawing?
The other things are realised.

[Kurtnoise]

what do you mean with Custom buttons types? Free hand drawing?
I mean something like Text, Shape, Line, Rectangle, Ellipse...

[pyrates]

this looks like a great program. Maybe later on we'll be able to pop in a dvd movie and this will automatically create all the menus for us and we just gotta encode it correctly in h.264. That be sweet then.

[nickolasemp]

that is not so likely to happen in the near future, pyrates...

[pyrates]

that is not so likely to happen in the near future, pyrates...

Well here's hoping it does.

[Hyper Shinchan]

hello,
@bond, Hyper Shinchan: you can try this version without mediainfo support. Maybe it's mediainfo. Please try also to open the your sources in MeGUI with the avisynthCreator, he also checks the input with mediainfo.

Sorry but I couldn't post before. Yes, it works in this version without the mediainfo dll (I wasn't able to see the menu in Osmo4, but maybe I made something wrong, I'll check it out better later).

[bond]

hello,
@bond, Hyper Shinchan: you can try this version without mediainfo support. Maybe it's mediainfo.hey it works, finally i am able to check out this tool :)

Please try also to open the your sources in MeGUI with the avisynthCreator, he also checks the input with mediainfo.crashes too

version 0.1.1.6 with a enivio mode. in this mode you can not specify subs, chapters, intros and you have only 1 menu per input.
Not tested with envivio, envivio doesnt work for me until now. any news on this?

[bond]

IMOON your tool is really great :)
i think its very straight forward and easy to use, especially the button setting!

still i had some issues:
- the buttons werent clickable in osmo4 :(
- segmentDescriptor is only written when setting two menus for the menuvideo input. if only specifying one menusegment there is no segmentdescriptor written (of course it doesnt make sense to have a menuvideo input thats bigger than the needed menu itself)
- how to change the trackid of a .mp4 input file in mp4menugui?
- the attached chapter file causes the following error:
System.NullReferenceException: Der Objektverweis wurde nicht auf eine Objektinstanz festgelegt.
bei MP4MenuGui.ProjectUtil.GetTimeCodeDuration(String timecode1, String timecode2)
bei MP4MenuGui.ProjectUtil.ExportAsBt(Project project, String path, String& error)
bei MP4MenuGui.MainForm.SaveAsBTClick(Object sender, EventArgs e)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)maybe the chapterfile has some formats that arent supported?

[IMOON]

crashes too
than it must be an configuration error on your system, I think. So I will offer a mediainfo free solution for the future releases.

any news on this?
no. No version of envivio works for, no audio or video with any mp4. But I will try it later again.

the buttons werent clickable in osmo4
have you specified the "Link To" field. If so maybe you can post your bt.

segmentDescriptor is only written when setting two menus...
I haven't think on the possibility that the only Menu is shorter than the input.:p
On my TODO list.

I will try out your chapter file but it looks like a normal ogg, so it should work.

For your trackid problem look here:)
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/1786/mp4menuguitrackidgu7.th.jpg (http://img150.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mp4menuguitrackidgu7.jpg)

[bond]

than it must be an configuration error on your system, I think. So I will offer a mediainfo free solution for the future releases.thx, what is the purpose of mediainfo?

have you specified the "Link To" field. If so maybe you can post your bt.you mean the "link type" and "link action" fields? if yes, i specified them (btw great idea how you handled this)

attached is the bt (the audio/video streams are from my mp4menu sample you propably know)

I haven't think on the possibility that the only Menu is shorter than the input.:p
On my TODO list.yeah, it doesnt make much sense i know ;)

For your trackid problem look here:) yeah i tried this, but it doesnt seem to let me set ids like "201", propably it only allows one digit ids?

[Drachir]

In the sample bond posted the dimension(pixelWidth/pixelHeight) of the scene is set to zero.

It seems that TextAppearance isn't used. Also there are no subtitle so there should no need for an AnimationStream.

There still could be other problems, if I find a nice video source I will try MP4MenuGUI too, and will do an deeper look at the created BIFStext.
To bad MP4MenuGUI doesn't run at Linux.

Will subtitle included as BIFS stream (text node) or streaming text stream(aka 3gp timed text) into the scene?
It would be nice to allow more than two audio streams.
For Audio input from AVI and subs it would be nice to be able to set the language.

You can do it this way :

ObjectDescriptor {
objectDescriptorID 20
esDescr [
ES_Descriptor {
ES_ID 4
OCR_ES_ID 1
muxInfo MuxInfo {
fileName "german.aac"
}
langDescr LanguageDescriptor {
languageCode "ger" #set languge in ISO 639-2
}
}
]
}

[bond]

i realised what caused the button to not be clickable. it was placed on a wrong place!

when i click on it, it starts the movie as it should tough

[IMOON]

thx, what is the purpose of mediainfo?
mediainfo reads out the dimensions and the playtime of the video and if there is an video/audio track.

yeah i tried this, but it doesnt seem to let me set ids like "201", propably it only allows one digit ids?
yeah I think that was probably a stupid restriction. I will fix this.

i realised what caused the button to not be clickable. it was placed on a wrong place!

It was an bug of "your" version, the menuinput/world has the dimension 0x0 so the positions was calculatet wrong. And you have to correct the world size in the project settings ("File/Project Settings") to the correct value.

In this version you can choose if you want to use mediainfo or not (under "Tools/Standard Settings")
Because I need some information of the video I use AviSyth, if mediainfo disabled, to get them and for long video it takes a lot of time. So be warned;) . Maybe I will find an other solution.

Now it use a segmentDescriptor for every input.

[bond]

thx, i will try it now

the best would be propably to fix mediainfo. i told zenitram about it here:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=914951#post914951

[IMOON]

@Drachir: I'm not so familiar with BIFS so please post errors in the created script.
How many audio streams are useful?

Is there also a way to define the track name.

@bond: yes. thanks

[bond]

ok, the button problem is fixed now :)

i set manually the world size in the project settings. i noticed that a custom dar is set automatically, why is that? when i set the dar to 1 (i think thats the default setting?) i noticed that the buttons are not placed correctly anymore (aka gone)

i will try a more complicated menu now

[Drachir]

@Drachir: I'm not so familiar with BIFS so please post errors in the created script.

I will see that I find some time to make some test too.


How many audio streams are useful?

Good question, I have some DVD which comes with about six audio language. ;)


Is there also a way to define the track name.


As far as I know there is no way to set the handler name.
May be you can ask Jean Le Feuvre to add this feature to MuxInfo http://gpac.sourceforge.net/doc_bt.php .

For the handler name you will find this in 14496-12:

name is a null-terminated string in UTF-8 characters which gives a human-readable name for the track type (for debugging and inspection purposes).
So I would say it wasn't created for the purpose it is used today from some splitters.

[bond]

fantastic! i now tried everything (including switching subs (they are done as bifs text), switching audio, chapters, chaptermenu, languagemenu, subtitlemenu, small extra menu) but excluding intros/outros and everything worked fine in latest osmo4 :)
actually i think using you gui is damn easy!

to see the result try a sample yourself:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TNU8SN6Z
note that its obviously not the full movie, therefore only chapters 1-3 should work (meaning should seek in the movie)

try latest osmo4 from here:
http://home.wildit.net.au/celticdruid/mirror/gpac/dev/

note that when playing the sample in a normal directshow player with haali the normal movie is played

next i will try intros/outros :D


IMOON:
- is it possible to make the menus selfrepeating, like in my old sample?
- dunno if its easily doable, but when copying buttons it would be great if mp4menugui would remember that the buttons have been copied before and eg call them "buttonname_copy1", "buttonname_copy2" aso... that way people wouldnt need to rename every button when its copied more than once (very likely imho with chaptermenus)
- also the option to keep the link action value when copying buttons might be useable (depends on the structure of the menu of course, eg if there are more 100% identical buttons or more different buttons at the same position)
- osmo4 still seems to have the problem to seek exactly to a specified frame sometimes (not always!). i noticed this with my sample with the chaptermenus, which are single frames. i used to fix this problem in my old sample by adding 0.01secs to the position, so osmo4 seeks this 0.01 more than actually needed for the specified frame but therefore shows the wanted frame correctly. maybe you also want to consider to include this workaround (judging from the time gone since my first sample i dont think it will be fixed in osmo4 soon ;) )?

[Zenitram]

If you have a crash with MediaInfo.dll, please contact me at zen@mediaarea.net, we will work on it together.
Zen, developper of MediaInfo

[Drachir]

fantastic! i now tried everything (including switching subs (they are done as bifs text),...

If you want use streaming text aka 3GPP timed text instead of an additional BIFS stream, you only need to remove textNode and fontNode from MuxInfo.

http://gpac.sourceforge.net/doc_bt.php
textNode, fontNode : required string identifier for SRT importing, ignored for other streams. SRT importing is done by creating a BIFS animation stream
carrying the text and fonts modifications (sample available in regression test suite).

The textNode shall be the DEF identifier of the text node to modify (it can be a proto, but then it MUST have an MFString field named "string")
The fontNode may be ignored. If set, it shall be the DEF identifier of the font node to modify (it can be a proto, but then it MUST have an SFString field named "style")



If you use 3GPP timed text you don't need this any more in the scene:

PROTO TextAppearance [
exposedField SFVec2f position 0 0
exposedField SFNode text NULL
]

and

TextAppearance {
text DEF TXT Text {
fontStyle DEF FONT FontStyle {
size 12.0
family "SANS"
style "PLAIN"
justify ["MIDDLE"]
}
}
}


The AnimationStream is still needed.

A sample can be found in the regression tests:
http://gpac.cvs.sourceforge.net/gpac/gpac/regression_tests/bifs-misc-srt-import-3gpp.bt?view=markup

You can use a ttxt file instead of a srt file.
There is a newer version of the 3GP timed text authorhing format ttxt out, to avoid problems with apostrophe.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!-- GPAC 3GPP Text Stream -->
<TextStream version="1.1">
<TextStreamHeader width="720" height="400" layer="0" translation_x="0" translation_y="0">
<TextSampleDescription horizontalJustification="center" verticalJustification="bottom" backColor="0 0 0 0" verticalText="no" fillTextRegion="no" continuousKaraoke="no" scroll="None">
<FontTable>
<FontTableEntry fontName="Sans-Serif" fontID="1"/>
</FontTable>
<TextBox top="0" left="0" bottom="395" right="720"/>
<Style styles="Normal" fontID="1" fontSize="30" color="ff ff ff ff"/>
</TextSampleDescription>
</TextStreamHeader>
<TextSample sampleTime="00:00:00.000" xml:space="preserve"></TextSample>
<TextSample sampleTime="00:00:00.914" xml:space="preserve">Studio Ghibli presents
A FILM BY MIYAZAKI HAYAO</TextSample>
<TextSample sampleTime="00:00:06.580" xml:space="preserve"></TextSample>
<TextSample sampleTime="00:00:15.262" xml:space="preserve">In ancient times the land
lay covered in forest...</TextSample>
<TextSample sampleTime="00:00:19.130" xml:space="preserve"></TextSample>
<TextSample sampleTime="00:00:19.232" xml:space="preserve">...where from ages long past
dwell the spirits of the gods.</TextSample>
<TextSample sampleTime="00:00:27.401" xml:space="preserve"></TextSample>
<TextSample sampleTime="00:01:29.569" xml:space="preserve">Yakul!</TextSample>


Is 3gp Timed Text supported by Envivio TV? How good are the included audio/video decoder?

[bond]

Is 3gp Timed Text supported by Envivio TV? How good are the included audio/video decoder?i dont think its supported. enviviotv should support asp and aac, but no avc (there used to be a h264 version on the net, but it doesnt seem to work/be compliant)

[IMOON]

i set manually the world size in the project settings. i noticed that a custom dar is set automatically, why is that?

In my understanding DAR is the ratio between width/height, so the default value is width/height of the current video. The user must only correct it, if the video is anamorphic.

is it possible to make the menus selfrepeating, like in my old sample?
it work sometimes for me if I import raw streams, don't know why.
may be it is better to make it like your old sample.

also the option to keep the link action value when copying buttons might be useable (depends on the structure of the menu of course, eg if there are more 100% identical buttons or more different buttons at the same position)
may be i can find a good place for a checkbox or so.:)

dunno if its easily doable, but when copying buttons ...
fixed

osmo4 still seems to have the problem to seek exactly to a specified frame sometimes (not always!).
I will try it

I will see that I find some time to make some test too.

:thanks:
Good question, I have some DVD which comes with about six audio language.
OK comes on my TODO list but no priority

As far as I know there is no way to set the handler name.
OK, I will post a future request

[IMOON]

Hello,

Changelog:
- Fix seeking bug in Osmo by adding 0.01secs to the start position
- Added option: keep the link action value when copying buttons of menus
- Added basic language localization function for the program (language ISO Codes)
- Added support LanguagesDiscriptor for audio and sub
- Fix: Copy Button use unique name

[bond]

when i try to store the global settings i get the following error:

System.InvalidCastException: Das Objekt des Typs MP4MenuGui.MP4MGSettings kann nicht in Typ MP4MenuGui.MP4MGGlobalSettings umgewandelt werden.
bei MP4MenuGui.MainForm.mnuToolsStandardSettings_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
bei System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem.OnClick(EventArgs e)
bei System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem.MenuItemData.Execute()
bei System.Windows.Forms.Command.Invoke()
bei System.Windows.Forms.Command.DispatchID(Int32 id)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmCommand(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

[IMOON]

when i try to store the global settings i get the following error:

known bug, fixed. Wait for a new release tomorrow :) .

[Zero1]

This is looking awesome now, and great sample bond :D

[IMOON]

Changelog:

- Bugfix save standard settings doesn't work
- Include Movie Buttons (bugy)

Can you test the Movie Buttons?
The buttons Change Audio and Subtitle work OK. The next and previous chapter buttons have a bug.
The other buttons doesn't work for me, but it seems to be an generally problem on my system with the script function. See https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1603673&forum_id=327349 for more information.

[JoeBG]

try latest osmo4 from here:
http://home.wildit.net.au/celticdruid/mirror/gpac/dev/


This DEV build does not work for me at all. It directly crashes.

When I use the "normal" build from 23´th of July I can play my xvid mp4, but all x264 directly crashes.

Does someone have an idea why this happens? thank you :)

[IMOON]

0.1.2.1
- Added: Program controls MP4Box
- Added: preview/editing of the Script
- Added: use a Log
- Added: support for Handler Names (will be modified after creation)

[IMOON]

0.1.2.2
- Change: Use up to 5 audio streams

note: this version is not compatible to project files (.xml) which was created with an earlier version. (Exception if you try to use those file and the 3.-5. audio stream.)

[bond]

any news on this great tool? where is the crowd wanting to create menus? ^^

[JoeBG]

I don´t have a software player for this ;)

[bond]

osmo4?

[IMOON]

any news on this great tool? where is the crowd wanting to create menus? ^^

I haven't post the last changes here but I have develop it. Here are the last changes.

0.1.2.4
- Some Bugfixes and improvements
- Added: now you can also rotate the buttons
- Added: Stop Button to interrupt the "Change Handler Name" Process
0.1.2.3
- Some Bugfixes and improvements
- Added: extern link (Anchor) as Hyperlinking between MPEG-4 scenes or to external web pages
- Change: now delete the tmp bt file after muxing
- Change: empty menuinputs (no video defined) will be ignored, if no one is defined the movie starts
- Change: if no main movie is defined, movie sources(audio,subs,chapter) will be ignored

[bond]

great stuff, seems i forgot to monitor the packages on sourceforge :)

[JohnV]

Nice tool. I just wish MPEG4 systems was more widely adopted. But doesn't look like it will be much supported in the near future in either hardware or software (outside Osmo4).
Some say it was made too complex, so supporting it is not cost effective.

[Drachir]

Nice tool. I just wish MPEG4 systems was more widely adopted. But doesn't look like it will be much supported in the near future in either hardware or software (outside Osmo4).
Some say it was made too complex, so supporting it is not cost effective.
MPEG 4 Systems may be more complex, than the QuickTime File Format(mov). But MPEG 4 Systems is, what makes the main difference to mov, in the MP4 File Format.
Like with everthing there are Profiles and Levels too, for the scene,OD ... .
If you are strict, than Osmo4 is one of the few MP4 Player out there.
Most Player out there which claim to be a MP4 Player are only ISO Media compatible Player.

Nero could change that ;) . If a cell phone can render a MPEG 4 Scene why not a Standalone Player?

[IMOON]

you have to update your MediaInfo.dll for best results(AR detection)

0.1.2.5
- Some Bugfixes and improvements
- Improve Aspect Ratio detection (use MediaInfo 0.7.4.4)
- Change: import process revised

I have tested the AR detection with xvid and x264 inside a mp4 container and for xvid it works perfect. For x264 it doesnt work perfect yet.

[IMOON]

0.1.2.7
- Some Bugfixes and improvements
- Change: MenuInput also use the Standard Import Form
0.1.2.6
- Change: use mp4box to get information (language, trackID, DAR...), for .mp4s, list all possible tracks

[alh84001]

Hi everyone.

I just spent last day wrestling with trying to put the menus in my mp4 file. It seemed daunting at first, but know everything is quite intuitive.

The problem is that now I can't get the file displayed properly in Osmo4 player. What happens is that the player start playing the menu stream as it was an ordinary video stream. The Play -> Stream Selection menu is greyed out but when I Select File -> File Information -> Root Scene -> Streams I get this:

MPEG-4 Profiles and Levels:
OD Profile@Level 1
Scene Profile@Level 254
Graphics Profile@Level 254
Audio Profile@Level 40
Visual Profile@Level 21
Inline Content Profiled no

** Stream ID 1 - Clock ID 1 **
Scene Description Stream - version 2
Buffer Size 5252
Average Bitrate 0 bps
Maximum Bitrate 0 bps
Stream Clock Resolution 1000

** Stream ID 2 - Clock ID 1 **
OD Stream - version 0
Buffer Size 1038
Average Bitrate 0 bps
Maximum Bitrate 0 bps
Stream Clock Resolution 1000


Seekbar seems to be calibrated for the full length of the movie....but the timer in lower left corner keeps counting even after the seeker gets to the end of the seekbar. After the last frame of the menu is played, all that is shown is a black screen for the rest of the "movie".

When I play the file through DirectShow with Haali's splitter I can see and select both the menu and the movie audio and video streams.

I use Osmo4 0.4.3 dev from Celtic Druid's site (the same thing happened with 0.4.2 also from there), and MP4MenuGUI 0.1.2.7 (I'm not sure but think the I tried with 0.1.2.5 too).

The Streams are as follows:

Movie Video Stream: h.264 encoded with x264 r623 975kbit/s
Movie Audio Stream: Nero HE-AAC 96 kbit/s
Subtitle Stream: Unicode *.srt file with some non-ANSI characters
Chapters: OGG chapter file with some non-ANSI characters
Menu Video: h.264 encoded with x264 r623 500 kbit/s
Menu Audio: Nero HE-AAC with PS 32 kbit/s

I set up all the menus but not all of the buttons on them, as I was just trying to perform a test first.

Menu audio file that I got from DGIndex is about 1 second shorter than the menu itself. It should only play during the longer menu sequences (scene selection), and not during the one frame menus that are positioned at the beginnig of the video file.


So...there it is. If you are still reading this :thanks: :D I know it's a long, boring post but I just wanted to tell all the details I thought might be peculiar for some reason. I hope someone can find out what's going on.

P.S. I would test the sample bond posted, but all I get from megaupload is "All download slots assigned to your country (Croatia) are currently in use. Please try again in a few hours or install the Megaupload Toolbar for immediate access". I'm not exactly a fan of all those crappy toolbars on my system so if someone could mirror the file on, for example, speedyshare I would be grateful. (The country in question is Croatia, and it seems to always serve that page).

P.P.S: The video preview window seemed to not display the right frame. First few frames are just one frame menus..and after second or third it repeats one frame or omitts the other. The later menus, which are all longer sequences are shifted a few frames into the "future". If I close the MP4MenuGUI and then reopen the same file it may happen that different one-frame menus are repeated or omitted. I thought it was the encoded file (since I do not know how to manually select keyframes with x264 or if it is needed at all), but when I opened it in MeGUI through AviSynths DirectShowSource the frames where shown exactly as in the original VOB.

P.P.P.S: As I said, audio part of the menu is shorter than the video part, so is there a possibility to add a function to delay the audio when muxing like in MeGUI? The audio file had the "DELAY 0ms" suffix but it was clearly shorter than the video file and not in sync.


If you got to this part I would give you my sister If I had one ;)

[Drachir]

The problem is that now I can't get the file displayed properly in Osmo4 player. What happens is that the player start playing the menu stream as it was an ordinary video stream.
Can you post the scene of your file? (MP4Box -bt yourFile.mp4)


The Play -> Stream Selection menu is greyed out...
This is allways the case if there is a scene. The stream switching have to be defined in the scene description.


Seekbar seems to be calibrated for the full length of the movie....but the timer in lower left corner keeps counting even after the seeker gets to the end of the seekbar.
The seekbar is not very accurate in files with more than one timeline. This is easily the case, in files with a more complex scene description. Normally Osmo4 disable the seekbar in such a case.

In your sample Osmo4 played probably the complete duration of the audio/video track, the time in the lower left could still be counting because the the duration of the scene isn't over or not defined. If you want a propper answer ask Jean Le Feuvre ( http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=327349 ).


After the last frame of the menu is played, all that is shown is a black screen for the rest of the "movie".

You have to loop the menu(MovieTexture), else it will stop after it played once. (You can get some information about differnet nodes with MP4Box -node nodeName.)


When I play the file through DirectShow with Haali's splitter I can see and select both the menu and the movie audio and video streams.
Halli's splitter don't support MPEG 4 Systems.

[alh84001]

Hi Drachir....and thank you for a prompt reply.


Can you post the scene of your file? (MP4Box -bt yourFile.mp4)


Here it is:

e:\Video\filmovi\Tko>mp4box.exe -bt tko-menu-video.mp4
Scene loaded - dumping 0 systems streams

The generated file reads:

InitialObjectDescriptor {
objectDescriptorID 1
audioProfileLevelIndication 255
visualProfileLevelIndication 21
sceneProfileLevelIndication 255
graphicsProfileLevelIndication 255
ODProfileLevelIndication 255
}


I can't understand that file but that doesn't feel right.


This is allways the case if there is a scene. The stream switching have to be defined in the scene description.

That seems logical....Thank you for the clarification.


In your sample Osmo4 played probably the complete duration of the audio/video track, the time in the lower left could still be counting because the the duration of the scene isn't over or not defined.

You have to loop the menu(MovieTexture), else it will stop after it played once.

Shouldn't the GUI take care of all that automagically?


Halli's splitter don't support MPEG 4 Systems.

I know. I just posted that as a comparison when I thought Osmo4 was not working right when it disabled the stream selection.

[Drachir]

The generated file reads:

InitialObjectDescriptor {
objectDescriptorID 1
audioProfileLevelIndication 255
visualProfileLevelIndication 21
sceneProfileLevelIndication 255
graphicsProfileLevelIndication 255
ODProfileLevelIndication 255
}

I can't understand that file but that doesn't feel right.

Did you dumb the BIFSText from the right MP4 file?
With this output you could get the impression that it is an video only file.
It is only an empty IOD without ObjectDescriptor for the BIFS/OD track. In this file there isn't any Elementary Stream initialized by the IOD. It is only a free-format file, not an MP4 file.


Shouldn't the GUI take care of all that automagically?

I don't know this GUI, and what you have to do to get a propper MP4 file.
Maybe some one should create a HOWTO with screenshots, how to use this GUI?

[IMOON]

The problem is that now I can't get the file displayed properly in Osmo4 player. What happens is that the player start playing the menu stream as it was an ordinary video stream.

You can try to change the file import section of the script and import raw files instead of mp4 files.
Therefor: press "Preview Script", go to the end and change the file paths (use the "Create MP4" button on this tab).

[alh84001]

Did you dumb the BIFSText from the right MP4 file?

Sorry. My mistake. That was actually only the video with the menu. I attached the output of the following command on a newly muxed file that has all the menus and buttons it should:


E:\Video\filmovi\Tko pjeva zlo ne misli>mp4box -bt Tkopjeva.mp4
MPEG-4 BIFS Scene Parsing
Scene loaded - dumping 2 systems streams/100)

[alh84001]

You can try to change the file import section of the script and import raw files instead of mp4 files.
Therefor: press "Preview Script", go to the end and change the file paths (use the "Create MP4" button on this tab).

Hi, Imoon.

First thank you on a wonderfull tool you made. Hope that I'll get it to work :)

You mention "file paths" in plural. Does that mean I should wxtract to raw the video files of both the movie and a menu....or maybe do you mean the audio and video files of menu only.....or maybe something else?

I tried it now. I extracted the audio and video of the menu to raw (aac and h264) files with YAMB and changed the appropriate extensions in the script (and deleted track suffix as well) and the menu now seems to work as it should. Well almost.

Now I got two other problems:
First, the menu picture won't switch. The buttons still work, and the highlights are changed as I browse through the menu. I suspect that has something to do with the keyframes, but as I said I don't know how to add them manually with x264.
Second, the chapter selection scenes, which are not one frame menus, but sequences about one minute long are displayed for only fraction of a second and then the player changes to the root menu. When I say displayed I also mean that only the button highlights are shown, not the picture.

Any ideas guys?

[IMOON]

You mention "file paths" in plural...


I mean all mp4 video files. You can leave the audio as mp4 file.


Now I got two other problems:...


With x264 you cant set a keyframe at a specific point. You can use VirtualDub with xvid to set keyframes. Set a zone at every key frame you need and set the option begin with keyframe. Or if you have an only oneframe menu file you can set the keyframe Interval in x264 to 1. So every frame is a keyframe.

And maybe you can :script: (bt)

[alh84001]

I mean all mp4 video files. You can leave the audio as mp4 file.

With x264 you cant set a keyframe at a specific point. You can use VirtualDub with xvid

OK. I'll try it over the weekend. A shame for the x264 though, since it's nicer at lower bitrates needed for 1CD backups.

Edit: Hmmm, but I could encode the menu in xvid and the movie in x264 right? it just hit me now :)


And maybe you can :script: (bt)

I already did :). It's the same script that I posted above in response to Drachir (only it uses mp4 files, not the raw ones).

[foxyshadis]

To set keyframes in x264, you either need to edit the stats file (be careful with that) or create a qpfile overriding the frame decisions - the best way to do that is probably to generate it out of the stats file and then rerun the first pass or go crf.

(You could probably submit a patch implementing this feature (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=120449) to make it much simpler, too.)

[IMOON]

Edit: Hmmm, but I could encode the menu in xvid and the movie in x264 right?
sure! You can also use different (supported) encodes (e.g. x264, xvid, jpeg) for the menus.

can you also post the original bt script (it's a little bit easier to read ;) ).

[IMOON]

- Some small Bugfixes and improvements
- Added: Translation (English, German)
- Added: Movie Intro
- Added: touch sensor to skip a intro
- Added: possibility to add a menu/intro in the menu option Window
- Added: possibility to change the menu/intro name in the menu option window
- Change: get information about all video/audio tracks with MediaInfo
- Change: rename of all Chapters and add a Chapter use a user pattern (#-number, ?-old Name)
- Change: use mediasensor to repeat menus

[The Colostomizer]

What players can handle all of the DVD-like menu features in MP4 besides Osmo4 (I'm under the impression that EnvivioTV is limited in this aspect)? Doesn't matter if it's free, open-source, or whatever, I just want to know what else can handle it. I have my reasons.

[bond]

enviviotv supports simpler menus and works in every directshow player, quicktime and realplayer

[fight2win]

thanks...

[The Colostomizer]

enviviotv supports simpler menus and works in every directshow player, quicktime and realplayerDoes it support intros and outros?

[IMOON]

Does it support intros and outros?

No. And the intro tab should be disabled if you use the envivioMode (ProjectSettings).

[IMOON]

Changelog:
- Change: define Button Color, Line size and HighlightMode not only per Project, standard setting for this project, but also per Button
- Change: differ between Touch sensor and Highlight area

[The Colostomizer]

I figured I'd give it a shot, and … I didn't get very far. After importing my main movie, I added a video for the menu input (x264/AAC in MP4, same as the main movie). When I clicked on Menu Options, it threw this in my face ―

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i4/gdejohn/AviSyntherror.png

Promptly followed by this ―

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i4/gdejohn/Cannotopenvideo.png

I've got ffdshow installed, as well as the latest MediaInfo.dll, AviSynth, and MP4Box. In any case, I feel like a gigantic idiot, and I'd appreciate it if any of you smarter folks would care to educate me.

[IMOON]

I figured I'd give it a shot, and … I didn't get very far. After importing my main movie, I added a video for the menu input (x264/AAC in MP4, same as the main movie). When I clicked on Menu Options, it threw this in my face ...

have you installed Haali's Media Splitter (http://haali.cs.msu.ru/mkv/)?

You can try a avs script with this line DirectShowSource("file Name",fps=25,audio=false)

if it doesn't play with zoom player or mpc, try to reinstall ffdshow and haali.

[The Colostomizer]

have you installed Haali's Media Splitter (http://haali.cs.msu.ru/mkv/)?

You can try a avs script with this line DirectShowSource("file Name",fps=25,audio=false)

if it doesn't play with zoom player or mpc, try to reinstall ffdshow and haali.I had only just installed ffdshow so I could take advantage of MP4MenuGUI (I use VLC Media Player so I don't have to bother with DirectShow), and I figured out afterwards that playback wasn't working in Windows Media Player. I did not have Haali Media Splitter, and installing that did take care of playback (the MP4 files now work fine in Windows Media Player).

I'm getting a slightly different error in MP4MenuGUI now, though. It's the same AviSynth error as above, but instead of being unable to play back the file, it says, "No such interface is supported."

[idamien]

I tried using an image (.JPG 1280x720) as the video for the menu but upon pressing menu options the video preview window opened with an exception:

See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

************** Exception Text **************
System.ArgumentException: Parameter is not valid.
at System.Drawing.Image.get_Width()
at System.Drawing.Image.get_Size()
at System.Windows.Forms.PictureBox.ImageRectangleFromSizeMode(PictureBoxSizeMode mode)
at System.Windows.Forms.PictureBox.get_ImageRectangle()
at System.Windows.Forms.PictureBox.OnPaint(PaintEventArgs pe)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.PaintWithErrorHandling(PaintEventArgs e, Int16 layer, Boolean disposeEventArgs)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmPaint(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)


************** Loaded Assemblies **************
mscorlib
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.312 (rtmLHS.050727-3100)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.50727/mscorlib.dll
----------------------------------------
MP4MenuGui
Assembly Version: 0.1.2.9
Win32 Version: 0.1.2.9
CodeBase: file:///C:/Users/Igor%20Damien/Desktop/MP4MenuGUI/MP4MenuGui.exe
----------------------------------------
System.Windows.Forms
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.312 (rtmLHS.050727-3100)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll
----------------------------------------
System
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.312 (rtmLHS.050727-3100)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll
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System.Drawing
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.312 (rtmLHS.050727-3100)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll
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System.Xml
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.312 (rtmLHS.050727-3100)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll
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System.Configuration
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.312 (rtmLHS.050727-3100)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Configuration/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Configuration.dll
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Assembly Version: 0.1.2.9
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.312 (rtmLHS.050727-3100)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll
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MediaInfoWrapper
Assembly Version: 1.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 1.0.0.0
CodeBase: file:///C:/Users/Igor%20Damien/Desktop/MP4MenuGUI/MediaInfoWrapper.DLL
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************** JIT Debugging **************
To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this
application or computer (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.

For example:

<configuration>
<system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />
</configuration>

When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer
rather than be handled by this dialog box.


Am I doing something wrong?

[IMOON]

I'm getting a slightly different error in MP4MenuGUI now, though. It's the same AviSynth error as above, but instead of being unable to play back the file, it says, "No such interface is supported."

I think you need a YV12 VfW codec, so install the Helix YV12 codec (http://www.lillevold.com/files/yuvcodecs-1.2.exe)


@idamien: which system do you use?
Have problems with all jpeg's or only with this specific one?

[idamien]

I´m using Vista Ultimate 32 Bit. The problem occurs with whatever .jpeg I use.

[IMOON]

I´m using Vista Ultimate 32 Bit. The problem occurs with whatever .jpeg I use.

I haven't tested it under Vista and I don't have the possibility to test it in the near future.
But I don't understand what's wrong in vista. sorry

[The Colostomizer]

I think you need a YV12 VfW codec, so install the Helix YV12 codec (http://www.lillevold.com/files/yuvcodecs-1.2.exe)I installed it, and I'm still getting this error ―

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i4/gdejohn/AviSyntherror2.png

[The Colostomizer]

Since I can't play around with this myself quite yet, I've got some questions. I'd like to create a DVD-like menu for a Halo 2 fragvid I'll be putting out at some point in the Fall (probably). The biggest thing I want to do is have an intro, an outro, and different transitions between pages of the menu depending on which way you're going. Are outros not quite supported at the moment? And can transitions between different parts of the menu be done currently? How extensive are the highlight options for buttons? Can I use any image for a button and then have mouse-over and click animations bring up different images? If not, consider those feature requests, pretty please. Of less importance, can I use video shorter than the audio for a given menu page and have them both loop independently?

[IMOON]

Since I can't play around with this myself quite yet, I've got some questions. I'd like to create a DVD-like menu for a Halo 2 fragvid I'll be putting out at some point in the Fall (probably). The biggest thing I want to do is have an intro, an outro, and different transitions between pages of the menu depending on which way you're going. Are outros not quite supported at the moment? And can transitions between different parts of the menu be done currently? How extensive are the highlight options for buttons? Can I use any image for a button and then have mouse-over and click animations bring up different images? If not, consider those feature requests, pretty please. Of less importance, can I use video shorter than the audio for a given menu page and have them both loop independently?

Sorry for my delay.
Outros are not supported in the Moment but is planed for the near future. Transitions are now on my TODO List ;) .
You cant use images as buttons, only as background for the whole menu. The buttons are only rectangle or ellipse witch are filled or not. At mouse-over you can show the button or not or you show the button permanently. As a new future (since 0.1.2.9) you can also highlight an other area.

Your avisynth problem seems to be a vista Directshow problem. Because also some MeGui user also post (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=125121) this error. But some solve it with a clean install.

[IMOON]

I have upload a pre version of 0.1.3.0
- Fix: speedup the video preview init process
- Added: support for Mono (tested on OpenSuse 10.2 with Mono 1.2.3)
- Added: use Avisynth 3 on Linux systems for video preview
- Change: Display MP4Box Command line in log
- Change: use a extra Debug.log file for some information (overwrite old entries)

All Linux user please test this version on your systems and report any bugs. Notice that it isn't full tested, MediaInfo wouldn't work, so disable it, and there are some smaller display bugs.
You need to install the lasted Mono (http://www.mono-project.com/Start)with libgdiplus, Avisynth 3 (http://avisynth3.unite-video.com/download.html) and gstreamer (http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/download/). I known that avisynth 3 is in an early develop stage and no filters are available but for my needs it complete enough.
You have to compile the Avisyth3Wrapper (Avisynth3Wrapper.zip in svn (http://mp4menugui.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mp4menugui/)) . Put the lib in the MP4MenuGui bin directory.
You can start MP4MenuGui with mono MP4MenuGui.exe
You can use my compiled bins from sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=180851) or use monodevelop to compile it from source.

[bond]

:thanks:
now only if i had linux ;)

[Drachir]

:thanks:
now only if i had linux ;)

That shouldn't be a problem. ;) You could try openSUSE ( ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/10.2/iso ) or an other distribution.

MP4MenuGUI himself works at SuSE 10.0 with Mono 1.2.3 from here http://www.mono-project.com/Downloads .

But didn't tried to create a BT script with it, until now. I will test it if I compiled avisynth-3.0 here and get all working.

[legoman666]

I get the following error when I try to create my mp4. It seems like its about the chapters (I didnt set any)
Muxing successfully started
Processing ended at 2:19:46 AM
Log for muxing menu

Commandline:I:\hdtv\YAMB\MP4Box.exe -mp4 "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp\menu.bt" -out "E:\doctorwho\disc1\menu.mp4"
MPEG-4 (BT) Scene Parsing
(line 909) cannot find node PlayChapter1
(line 909) Cannot resolve Route SwitchAudioRoute
(line 909) Cannot resolve Route SwitchSubtitlesRoute
Cannot load context - Bad Parameter
Error: Bad Parameter
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Error The current job contains errors.

Also, is there a way to have multiple video files or am I just missing it completely....?

[IMOON]

I get the following error when I try to create my mp4. It seems like its about the chapters (I didnt set any)
Muxing successfully started
Processing ended at 2:19:46 AM
Log for muxing menu

Commandline:I:\hdtv\YAMB\MP4Box.exe -mp4 "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp\menu.bt" -out "E:\doctorwho\disc1\menu.mp4"
MPEG-4 (BT) Scene Parsing
(line 909) cannot find node PlayChapter1
(line 909) Cannot resolve Route SwitchAudioRoute
(line 909) Cannot resolve Route SwitchSubtitlesRoute
Cannot load context - Bad Parameter
Error: Bad Parameter
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Error The current job contains errors.

Also, is there a way to have multiple video files or am I just missing it completely....?



I will fix it asap.

You can define multiple menu inputs, each menu input has a video and a audio stream, but only one main movie video stream.

[legoman666]

Can you somehow add that feature? I'm trying to make a menu for a dvd. With the quality settings im using, I can fit ~20 episodes per dvd. The problem is, dvd's have a 1gb file size limit. So with the current circumstances, it's impossible for me to create the disc the way I want to because I can only have 1 main video file with a file size limit of 1gb.

[IMOON]

Can you somehow add that feature? I'm trying to make a menu for a dvd. With the quality settings im using, I can fit ~20 episodes per dvd. The problem is, dvd's have a 1gb file size limit. So with the current circumstances, it's impossible for me to create the disc the way I want to because I can only have 1 main video file with a file size limit of 1gb.

I don't know if it fits your needs but you can also try to use extern anchors.
To use this you have to create a file per episode and a main menu file. The main menu file has no movie inputs only the menus. In this menus you can use buttons to link to a episode file. Therefore you have to choose ExtAnchor as Link Type and as Link Action you give in the relative path to the episode file.

[IMOON]

0.1.3.1
- Some small Bugfixes and improvements
- Fix: mux error if no chapters defined
- Fix: error handling at open "Menu Option" window
- Added: Outros and Transitions for Menus
- Added: VideoPreview for raw AVC/H.264, using AVCSource (dga file must exist)

[IMOON]

0.1.3.2
- Added: New button "Back to Menu" in Moviebutton Menu
- Added: New button "Abort" to kill current mux process
- Change: the behaviour for speedup and slowdown Moviebutton (to 0, 0.25, 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 8)
- Fix: Save Debug.log if normal log is empty, too
- Change: Allow button rotations with one decimal

PS: I have also updated the website (http://mp4menugui.sourceforge.net/) with a small guide in German only, for now:).

[IMOON]

- Change: New Gui to display Movie information
- Added: Drag Drop support for movie files(all types)
- Change: New Script Box with a nicer layout, like a text editor
- Change: Gui is full resizable
- Change: Don t restrict the number of audio and subtitle streams

note: this version don't work with mono, I'll work on this.

Screenshot of the new GUI on SourceForge. https://sourceforge.net/dbimage.php?id=133341

[bond]

i have to say again, this is a really f*ing great tool (i would even say one of the best tools i know) ! i wonder why not everybody is jumping on it creating tons of menus :)

[SeeMoreDigital]

.... i wonder why not everybody is jumping on it creating tons of menus :)Probably because playback support for such files in software and hardware players is close to zero :(

[IMOON]

- Added: Save some GUI settings (position, size, ...)
- Change: can save setting file and logs in "C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\<user>\Anwendungsdaten\MP4MenuGui\"
- Change: Create 3 log files(info, debug, error)

[IMOON]

0.1.3.5
- Some small Bugfixes and improvements
- Change: New Gui for Menu information
- Change: some new icons
- New: Support move, resize and delete buttons with keyboard

[pyrates]

Does mp4menu support the alpha blended menu's that hd dvd supports?

[IMOON]

Does mp4menu support the alpha blended menu's that hd dvd supports?

short answer: no

but I'll test if it is possible to do something similar and put it on the todo list.

[SeeMoreDigital]

That sounds like it would make an interesting implementation ;)

[pyrates]

short answer: no

but I'll test if it is possible to do something similar and put it on the todo list.

That would sound sweet if it did. It probably isn't in the official specs though. But they can always be changed if it is needed.

[The Colostomizer]

I was finally able to get an output, but I can't get it to play right. I've got GPAC Osmo4 0.4.2, and it doesn't work too well in that. For whatever reason, there's no sound at all in Osmo4 (that's not a problem with the output from MP4MenuGUI), and it plays the menu on top of the main video, so when I press play after 5 seconds of being in the menu, it starts playback 5 seconds into the main video (not sure if that's MP4MenuGUI or Osmo4). I'd like to get the latest, 0.4.4, but I can't find compiles anywhere, and I have no idea how to do it myself. What are you guys doing for playback?

[IMOON]

- Change: Translation also for comboboxes and Info Log
- Change: remove some unused parts of the script in some situations
- Fix: Some Gui Fixes
- Fix: Wrong script if intro of main menu is not in input 0
- Fix: script creation, movie dont start if no menu is defined
- Fix: At Drag and Drop the explorer hang
- Added: Option to disable the synchronization of Menu Video and Audio
- Added: About Window
- Added: Menu entry "Logs"
- Added: Option to change opacity of Buttons
- Added: Loading circle in ImportSettingForm

@The Colostomizer:
I use a self compiled version 0.4.4 on a Linux system and 0.4.2 on win.
If you are importing h264 video files inside a MP4 file, you can try to extract the raw video stream and define it in the script instead of the mp4 file.

[IMOON]

- Added: 'Recent Projects' list
- Change: Using MainMenuStrip instead of MainMenu
- Fix: Import of a file fails in some cases

[Adub]

Cool! Thanks for the recent projects feature. Been meaning to look at that.

[IMOON]

- Added: Buttontype Triangle
- Change: Use Toolstip in Chapter Creator

download (http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mp4menugui/MP4MenuGui_Bins_0.1.3.8.zip)

[IMOON]

- Added: MultiMovie support
- Added: Undo/Redo Function in ChapterCreator
- Added: Handler Name Config Form
- Fix: position of HighlightObject is wrong if Rotation of the button is != 0

Note: - Script creation for Multi Movies isn't finished
- this version isn't compatible with old project files

[peter100m]

Thanks IMOON for the updates, it looks very promising!

[IMOON]

- Added: support for Strg+C and Strg+V in previewWindow to copy the selected Button
- Added: support for UndoRedo in HandlerNamesConfigForm
- Added: support for UndoRedo in MenuOptionWindow for button position
- Added: in HandlerNamesConfigForm a name can be changed (doubleclick)
- Change: starttime of a new menu is the last menu + one frame
- Change: set 'System.Text.Encoding.Default' to load and save a Chapter File
- Change: new version of UndoRedoFramework, now called dejavu
- Change: new folder structure of solution
- Change: new version of MediaInfo and MediaInfoWrapper
- Change: using a clipboard to copy and paste a button
- Fix: Some GUI fixes

[FFGN]

Hi,
I am using Vista64, I alread:

- AviSynth 2.5.7 installed
- MediaInfo.dll in the same directory
- Mono v1.9.1 GTK# v2.10.4 installed
- MP4Box aimed
- Microsoft .NET Runtime 2.0 installed

And show this errors:
http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/8043/01rn1.th.jpg (http://img82.imageshack.us/my.php?image=01rn1.jpg) http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/7100/02ii3.th.jpg (http://img55.imageshack.us/my.php?image=02ii3.jpg) http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/4493/03qe1.th.jpg (http://img117.imageshack.us/my.php?image=03qe1.jpg)

[Adub]

Okay. Just looking at your first error, did you even read it?

You are using a 64 bit operating system. Avisynth is 32 bit, and I highly doubt the rest of the programs are 64 bit compatible anyways. This could probably be the main reason for most, if not all of your errors.