encoding menus?

[Tantabootsy]

Hi,
I read a guide on how to encode menus with VobEdit. It's been written in January '03 and the author says that although it's a good beginning that menu-encoding thing still doesn't work really proberly. How`s it today? Because I`ve got a menu which is 1 gb large and would like to save more space for the main movie to get best quality. Or isn't it worth the effort?
Thanks,
TB

[Tantabootsy]

Okay, it seems to be possible, as DVDShrink can do it (don`t know about other one-klick-solutions). But the author of that prog did it, I don`t know how.
But I was successul to combine my own Scenarist-project with the main-menu encoded by DVDShrink.
I just took in IfoUpdate as original .ifo the one encoded by DVDShrink and as authored one the Scenarist-made .ifo. And it seems to work.. chapter-navigation, linking..
But I have to say that it was a still menu, didn't try it with a video-stream, yet. And it's a complicated way as DVDShrink "produces" the .ifo in the end of encoding, so you would have to wait for the hole encoding-process since you can`t encode just the files you need..
Maybe I'm on the completly wrong track, but I'll give it a try once again, because no "pro" here in doom9 answered questions about menu-encoding the recent days/ weeks..
So if there`s an easier way to do this, please say it to me/us!!
Or maybe DVDShrink, you could just say, how you did it...;-)
Bye,
TB