Recreate original menu structure after compression?

[JohnGalt]

Hello! I ran into a spot of trouble backing up "The King on Kong: A Fistful of Quarters" (NTSC, R1). After RB processed the disc, the "extras" menu system operates strangely: selecting almost every submenu doesn't take me to the listed submenu but rather to the "Previews" submenu. I don't know if this is really RB's fault. I use AnyDVD in "skip directly to menu" mode, so I'm technically preprocessing the disc by virtue of using this option. Though for what it's worth, AnyDVD's full rip of the DVD9 does not exhibit this behavior; only the outputted DVD5 does. Also, I should note that I have "menu compression" enabled in RB.

At any rate, the butt of my question: Does anyone know of a way that I could easily "swap" menus, using the menus from the original DVD9 rip (which work properly) for the newly compiled menus? Or would it make more sense for me to use AnyDVD in vanilla mode, re-rip the disc, turn off menu compression in RB, and try again?

I post below my INI. Thank you!

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[Adub]

Take a look at VobBlanker or Titlewriter. Both have functions (and guides) for replacing menu's.

[blutach]

DVDRB does nothing to the menu commands of a DVD. Perhaps you have inadvertently blanked something. Only an examination of the before and after projects using something like PgcEdit will tell you for sure what has happened.

Regards

[JohnGalt]

Thanks for the suggestions! Well, I did what I probably should have done before posting: I re-ripped the disc with AnyDVD's "skip directly to menu" feature disabled, and then I re-encoded the disc with RB's "menu compression" disabled. The menu works as expected this time. So one of those options must have been the source of the trouble unless some other weird thing happened. Though as I mentioned before, the uncompressed first rip ("jump to menu" enabled) played fine, and it was only after RB's encode that I ran into problems. At any rate, sorry to bother everyone; chalk this up to further evidence that one shouldn't touch disc structure at all before sending the disc to RB.

Still, I should note for those who might now be wary of using AnyDVD and RB together: I've backed up dozens of films using this combo (and with "jump to menu" enabled in AnyDVD), and this particular film represents that only problem that I've seen.

[blutach]

Solution: Do not use J2M in your ripper - after you have encoded, use PgcEdit's Jump to PGC macro (much more versatile than a ripper as you can select the PGC you want).

Regards

[JohnGalt]

I'll give that a go. Thanks, blutach!