MPG Menu File in TSCV ??? NEED HELP !!!!

[pixelfreak]

Select your mpg in the open dialogue that pops up. Then TSCV will tell you what kind of menu it has found:

How can I create a MPG File from my DVD Menu ????

Or has anybody a guide which explains to rip the dvd menu better ???

[htc10825]

U must make the (S)VCD-menu by hand(manually).
There is no program which can "convert" the DVD menu to (S)VCD-menu.
Definitely NO.

You can save much time when you just copy the dvd to dvd-r.
Pioneer dvd burnner = 320€, dvd-r=1.80€

[pixelfreak]

And how can I convert the DVD Menu (animated) to a mpg file by hand ????

[htc10825]

first encode the motion menu to (s)vcd format,
then use TSCV to make a (s)vcd motion menu.
See the Doom9´s guide for TSCV.

[pixelfreak]

and how can I convert it to svcd formt ???? in the guide the author write that the menu is on VTS_X_0.vob !!!

[Justinus]

Get a range of frames, i.e. from xxxx - yyyy, then using TMPGEnc to create a sequence of BMP and encode those BMPs into MPEG-2 (SVCD spec).

[htc10825]

The 1st thing to remember:
The menus of svcd/cvd have considerably less interactivity than the menus of dvd. For example, there is no mouse support (on PC's software player) or cursor buttons support on the remote control of your dvd player. You cann't define any events(i.e. highlight something) while mouse or cursor moving over the objects in authoring software.
The 2nd thing to remember:
The only buttons/keys accepted by the RC of your dvd player are the nummer keys(0-9) plus the "Play" and "Next"(Skip forward) and "Prev"(Skip backward). You have to make choice on every menu page using these 13 buttons directly. There is no interactivity on one menu page. You can only change to another page or direct start playing back. The amusing chapter choice menus of dvd will be much boring on SVCD: almost only with the nummber key to start a chapter or the credits.
The 3rd thing to remember:
The pictures you've seen on dvd menu are sometimes consist of several pictures stored in .VOB file, the player put them together "on-the-fly" via video overlay depending on the interactive situation. If you want to make such pages you have to montage the background and the highlight subpicture together with a software such as Photoshop.

If you still want to make svcd menus regardless the disadvantages in interactivity and much, much, much more work in Photoshop/VirtualDub:
use DVD2AVI to load VTS_1_0.VOB, VTS_2_0.VOB etc. to find out where the menus are, and create a avisynth script by hand, load it to VDub/TMPG/CCE. More about it next time.

[Justinus]

@htc10825
The menus of svcd/cvd have considerably less interactivity than the menus of dvd. For example, there is no mouse support (on PC's software player)
Read this (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24323#post126024) and this (http://www.vcdimager.org/pub/vcdimager/manuals/0.7/vcdimager.html#SEC43).
The only buttons/keys accepted by the RC of your dvd player are the nummer keys(0-9) plus the "Play" and "Next"(Skip forward) and "Prev"(Skip backward). You have to make choice on every menu page using these 13 buttons directly.
There's another button called "Return" that you can use as well. It's normally used to go back to the main menu. And, also +10 is number button. So, the total buttons is 15, not 13. These exclude those movie control button, i.e. Play, Stop, Fast Forward, Slow Motion. ;)