Removing menu items?

[MDesigner]

I'm currently using DVDShrink and very happy with the results. I find it does a much better job than other instant copy solutions, even ones that are commercial.

However, I dislike the method in which you remove special features. The Doom9 guide suggests setting the compression to "still pictures" and removing all audio.. because if you just flat out remove the title, then it will cause problems when a viewer clicks the menu item leading to that title.

That's understandable. I'd just rather remove the menu items if possible. I did a search on this forum and it seems MenuEdit is a good solution for what I want to do. Will it do what I want? I don't care about reorganizing menus.. heck, it doesn't even matter if the menu item still shows up but is unselectable (but it would be nice if it were hidden).

Thanks!

[jippiejajee]

yep, menuEdit can do this for you, I use it all the time, disbling buttons in Menus leading to (partly)removed extras etc, they are still visible in the menu but you just can not select them anymore.
Very handy tool this menuEdit, and much less time consuming then trying to remove/change menus by stripping them out with for example ifoedit. At the end the menus only take up little space in general so its easier to leave them and only disbling the not needed buttons

BTW i tried with menuedit also to change some commands link to buttuns, found that this is extremely complicated and leading to weird behaviour, seems there is no good guide on the net to find out what the a commands linked to a button exactly mean and which one to choose for a certain actions, names are confusing and not self explaining. Furthermore there are two groups for each button, one seems to work for UDF file structure based DVD players the other for ISO based players... confusing as I said

[MDesigner]

OK, but MenuEdit will not hide the actual menu item, right? maybe if you pay for the full version it will? And which comes after DVD Decrypter, MenuEdit or DVDShrink?

[Arianos]

OK, but MenuEdit will not hide the actual menu item, right? maybe if you pay for the full version it will? And which comes after DVD Decrypter, MenuEdit or DVDShrink?

Menuedit CAN replace actual menu items, and then you have to manually update the ifo(s) using ifoedit. Of course, in order to do that, you have to have the registered Version.(2.3 out now, $16.50)
Alternatively, you can use DVDStripper, which does it automatically, and which also you must have registered.(0.1.0 out now, $17).Then you have to edit the buttons with Menuedit. Registered version allows you to see all VOBIDs -> buttons, plus it allows you to use the 'jumb to next button', which IMHO works a lot better than the plain 'delete' option of the freeware version.
In the end, one has to have them both, to do a perfect job.
Good luck

[MDesigner]

I bought MenuEdit (full version), since the free one wouldn't display the cell.

I don't really care about replacing buttons with something else or editing what they do.. I'd just like the ability to either disable the menu item (it still is visible but the user cannot select it), OR to disable AND hide it (even better).

[jippiejajee]

on the website of menuedit there are some limted tutorials (guides), the rest speaks for itself, except, as I mentioned in my previous post, the process to change commands linked to buttons. That's a real adventure, always a surprise what comes out. I also could not find a good guide for that. You would expect if you pay for the software that at least you can get some sort of description of the main features. Dimad ???

By the way the latest MenuEdit version seems to have the feature to replace cells in vob's, this could be a handy tool to get rid of railers and other annoying stuf sometimes present in menus. Of course you can also strip them out with Ifoedit but for some case like a a vob with multiple PGC's with each only one vob ID it becomes complicated. Repalcing the cell with a blank video of 1 or 2 frames, solves the problem quick and easy and in playback you won't notice it. I never tried it so far as I do not have the latest version of menuedit. Does it work properly ?

[Dimad]

Repalcing the cell with a blank video of 1 or 2 frames, solves the problem quick and easy and in playback you won't notice it. I never tried it so far as I do not have the latest version of menuedit. Does it work properly ?
Not only the latest version does this. It is been awailable for almost half a year now. There was only one complain so far - I guess just not following instructions carefuly.

... as I mentioned in my previous post, the process to change commands linked to buttons. That's a real adventure, always a surprise what comes out. I also could not find a good guide for that. You would expect if you pay for the software that at least you can get some sort of description of the main features. Dimad ???
Here it comes, description of the main feature: You can change button command to whatever you find necessary. :) MenuEdit will even take some care not to let you use commands not applicable for menus.

MPUCoder site (http://www.mpucoder.com/DVD) is a greate source of knowledge! All comands are explained (among other things). Just look into "virtual machine coding" section.

[jippiejajee]

thanks for reply Dimad, but its to my opinion not fare to give a link to another page to get a description on how to use the software and even more a page on which you have to pay to get it. Why do you not offer this documentation free of charge with your excellent software ? What is the big deal to supply a list of command's with a description what they mean, it probably will only boost your sales as more people will want to use it. :D