Multilingual Menu Option

[Alper]

Hi all,

I think this is the best place to discuss my problem. As you see in the sample picture I'm trying to author a multilingual menu option for a DVD.

I've linked two root menus(English,German) to the main title in VMG and all I want to do is to link the movie in VTS_2 to the proper root menu (German or English) after displaying. I mean if the movie starts from the English root Menu goes back to the same English root menu after displaying and if it starts from the German root menu goes back to this German root menu again.

I really do appreciate if anyone explains how to do this.

Thanks in advance.

Alper

[digitalvideo]

What software are you using ?

Are selecting the language when you start the dvd or have you make two language in titlemenu and vtsmenu ?

Do you want to use the user choice in is dvd player ?

[Alper]

I've used Scenarist v2.6 here.

First PGC Pre is linked to the title menu which includes two buttons of English and German options, after selecting one of them, I want to navigate to the root menu of the selected language. This is OK so far. But I cannot return back to the root menu of the selected language after displaying the movie. I could only link to one of these root menus. There should be a variable, but which or what?

[digitalvideo]

Ok, I not see your picture before.

Solution one, modify your project like this :

Import one picture and call it dummy
make a still show track with this picture

and make like this ...

this may solve your problem. see the attached file.

[Alper]

Thanks a lot. Great information, great favour.
Haven't studied yet. Now it's time to work.

Alper

[tomeczek]

I downloaded digitalvideo's Scenarist project. It's realy good. I had the same problem, couldn't figure out how to do multilingual menu and eventually gave up.
I put together composite picture, which will help to understand the concept without getting into Scenarist. I'm not sure if we need both dummies though...
I hope my picture will show up here:

[digitalvideo]

The dummy are only use to put pre command.

As you can, we don't user the player languge to choose the version but a choice made by the user.

the first dummy is to by-pass the title button of the telecomand.
the second is just to change the value of the gprm that is tested to choose the good menu.

[digitalvideo]

I don't see your picture !!!

[tomeczek]

Yeah, it takes about a day for the picture to appear. It's probably screened by forum's moderators. But it's there now.

digitalvideo,
Thanks for your respond! I put together that picture, so that I don't have to open Scenarist to see the scenario. Looking at it in this form is easy to understand the logic - at least for me. I attached it do my documents for future reference.
I plan to create another DVD from my daughter's wedding, which took place in Europe. I need it to be understandable in both English and Polish - I will implement digitalvideo's idea in it.

[Alper]

Ok, there's another issue about this multilingual menu option. I've noticed that some DVDs display the proper language menus according to the setup language of DVD player. I wonder how to accomplish this.

Probably it is the matter of some kind of communication depends of the presets between DVD player and DVD.

Digitalvideo, have you got any ideas?

Thanks in advance, for your reply.

Regards,
Alper

[digitalvideo]

yes, I can solve your problem. let me find time to make a scenario for you.

[Alper]

Thanks a lot. I'm impatiently waiting to see.

[digitalvideo]

hello,

I'm not have time to make a scenario to you but I try to explain to all of you how it works.

You have to choose a menu language in you player for example french.

In scenarist you use language in the Title and in each VTS/
menu. You can have différent value for each one. You have to know that the first one you place in each one is the défault one for example :

TITLE

French (défault)
English

VTS 1

English (défault)
French

VTS 2

Faroese (default)
French

If your player is in french, it find a french menu for each one.
If your player is in english, it use faroese for VTS2 and english for the over.
If your player is in german, it always use the default one.

One interesting thing, it if you use the same track for all the language and have a différent sub in it for each language. You just have to make the link for the first language and scenarist make it for the other one.

Any question ?

[Alper]

Hello again,

Thanks digitalvideo this information is as precious as an scenario file.