DVD-Lab PRO question.

[N3kr0]

I have a project in DVD-lab PRO and I want a option menu
that allows to choose different audio formats and subtitles like
the DVDs that we rent or buy.
Is it possible to do? And if it is, is there a guide?

[max2k]

Where did you get DVDLab PRO from ?

The official website says that the PRO version is not yet released ...
http://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/dvdlabpro.html

From the specs on the page, it does look like the PRO version will support upto 8 audio and subtitle streams -- so me thinks there will be a way to choose between them....

Again, how/where did you get the Pro version ?

Thanks :)

[Arky]

The Beta releases have been available for quite some time.

http://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/historypro.html

h**p://www.mediachance.com/files/DVDlabProB4.exe

You could achieve selection of streams, using GPRM scripts (which DVDLab Pro does cater for)


Arky ;o)

[max2k]

Originally posted by Arky
The Beta releases have been available for quite some time.

http://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/historypro.html

h**p://www.mediachance.com/files/DVDlabProB4.exe

You could achieve selection of streams, using GPRM scripts (which DVDLab Pro does cater for)


Arky ;o)

Cool -- since the OP didn't mention "beta" explicitly, I assumed it was not the beta but some kind of a release version !!

Thanks anyways ...

[N3kr0]

You could achieve selection of streams, using GPRM scripts

Do you know any tutorial? :confused:

[auenf]

check the mediachance forums if there is going to be any specific dvdlab pro feature discussion.

if there is going to be a guide on gprms in dvdlab, i wouldnt expect to see it on their site till pro is released.

saying all that, it *should* work similar to every other dvd app.

Enf...

[Arky]

I don't use DVDlab, so I can't be too specific, but, as auenf said, it should use standard spec-level scripting (i.e. no heavy abstraction layer to confuse the issue).

Accordingly, what you wish to achieve will more than likely involve something similar to this (http://www.dvd-replica.com/DVD/setstn.php)


Arky ;o)

[auenf]

Originally posted by Arky
(i.e. no heavy abstraction layer to confuse the issue).

*cough*DVD Studio Pro 1.x scripting*cough*

Enf...

[human75]

hi.
dvdlab pro homepage is www.dvdlab.net
tutorial page is h..p://www.dvdlab.net/dvdlab/tutorial/index.html
this page have too many tutorial.for example:

-Switched Menus
Create very interesting type of menus which looks that you have spent on it some time, yet it isn't that difficult to make.
-Film Strip
-A very cool looking "animated" menu based on the Switched Menu idea..
-Simple motion menus
-There is many ways how to create Motion menus, from simple ones to a complex thumbnail menus.
-Cool Background in few clicks
-How to create that artistic background? Here is the answer.
-Put a SVCD on a DVD without recompression
-Put your SVCD movies on a DVD-R with DVD-lab.
-How to use Embedded object
-See how Real-DRAW or DVD Menu Studio can cooperate with DVD-lab.
-Frame-Indexing
-How to add chapters with the best possible accuracy the DVD allows (DVD-lab 1.2.1)
have fun?! :-)
have nice days....
Motion Thumbnails Part 1 New
How to create a real motion menu with moving thumbnails and other tricks. (DVD-lab 1.3 )

Motion Thumbnails Part 2 New
We continue with the real motion menu ...
Motion Thumbnails Part 3 New
Now you can create a scene selection motion menu even with a seamless looping...
Keypad Lock to secret menus New
Create this cool keypad lock which works like a real thing
Keypad Lock Part two New-ADVANCED
Create this cool keypad lock which works like a real thing
Creating Multiple VTS project with PRO version New-ADVANCED
This is an advanced tutorial describing the Multi-VTS feature of a PRO version

[htc10825]

None of those are made for the "pro" version. For standard version only.
All the "Pro-beta" version came out without any (online)help, spec., backgrounds, objects etc. So it is for "professional" advanced user only.

Many monthes ago I've encountered the some problem with the DVDLab Pro, and in the official forum there were only beginner-level questions. So one must rely on itself. I went to open a commercial dvd with the ifoedit + menuedit and got the hint for solution. You should also solve the problem if you do some detective work on sell-dvds. But let me give some hints for the implementation in "pro"(Audio-Menu only):

1. create one dummy VMG menu for each movie(which has >1 audio track)
2. link the audio button with VMG command, using GPRM14 and set PRGN=dummy+1
3. add precommand "jump to title 1"(for movie 1) in dummy VMG menu.
(if neccessary, add "jump to title 2" for the case movie 2)
4. add precommand "SetSTN audio=GPRM14" in each movie
5. (only for the perfectionist) add precommand to set the default audio# in GPRM14.

This example is only for the case if you want to select the audio stream in VMG menu, from which you can access every movie/root-menu/VMG-menu of your project, but with the limitation of forced strating the movie at the beginning immediately after the audio selection.

To avoid this, you can create a dedicated audio selection menu within a VTS, parallel to the VTS root menu(usally the chapter selection menu). Then you can direct link the audio button to select audio stream# by using the context-menu in DVD-Lab Pro. You have to spcify another button to return to VTS root menu and from there to start or resume the VTS movie. The limitation is you can directly access the audio menu neither from VMG menus or root menus of other VTS, nor from any movie directly via remote control... Only from its own root menu.

An alternate to above case is to define the audio menu as root menu with a button to access the chapter menu. The limitation is you can directly access the chapter menu neither from VMG menus or root menus of other VTS, nor from any movie via remote control...

So you see the board resources of the DVD-Lab Pro have too many limitations.
Perhaps later the authot will upgrade his product to "DVD-Lab Ultra" for 299,- USD with the function to create/link the audio/subtitle menu directly.
Perhaps more later the authot will upgrade his product to "DVD-Lab Enterprise" for 499,- USD with the functions to create ANY extra PGC and multi angel VTS.
(all prices are my suspicions, not from the author!)