Changing image in Menu's

[berrick]

Hi all,

I have been struggling to understand and get a simple way to change still images in menus.....

For now i'm not interseted in menus with movies just still's and how I can 'import' my own images and then setup buttons. For example the main menu is a still picture with multiple language selections.

I have stripped all but 3 languages (and the still image is crap) i want to be able to import my own image and then setup buttons and code them with the relevant info. For now i just want a simple way to do the image part (why run when i cant walk :) ).

I have searched for guides but am using the wrong search words cuse i just dont get newhere stuff i have read is missing bits that make it impossible to follow

Lookin fwd to ur reply

[jsoto]

I've done it in a hard and manual way..., sure there are other using different SW, but...

This is what I've done:
- Isolate the Menu Cell (using VobEdit or VobBlanker)
- Generate a BMP with DVD2AVI from my still menu.
- Modify the BMP file with a graphic editor (like MS photo editor)
- Encode the BMP to a MPEG-2 frame with CCE+avisynth (using Avisynth BMP Loader.dll, bundled in DVD2SVCD)
- Authoring of a VOB with IFOEdit (dvdauthor)
- Using VobEdit & CutFile, cut the navpack of the original Cell and cut the mpeg video packs from my new authored cell.
- join the Nav pack with my new video packs with a MS-DOS command "copy filea+fileb filec"
- Substitution of the Cell
- IFOEdit's Mock strip

And it worked!. I have a modified menu with the same buttons than the original.

jsoto

[2COOL]

Originally posted by jsoto
I've done it in a hard and manual way..., sure there are other using different SW, but...

This is what I've done:
- Isolate the Menu Cell (using VobEdit or VobBlanker)
- Generate a BMP with DVD2AVI from my still menu.
- Modify the BMP file with a graphic editor (like MS photo editor)
- Encode the BMP to a MPEG-2 frame with CCE+avisynth (using Avisynth BMP Loader.dll, bundled in DVD2SVCD)
- Authoring of a VOB with IFOEdit (dvdauthor)
I'm not at my home computer right now but I did this before and it's totally free.

1. Use DVD Remake Pro Demo to save background (I know you can't export our DVD but there are some things you "can" still do);) I hope I'm right.

2. Generate a blank VOB with BlankVOB and use IfoEdit to create new IFOs for this.

3. Open up these files in DVD Shrink and replace Title with still image.

Now you have a still-image menu VOB (buttonless)

Hmmm...what did I do next. Oh well, I find out when I get home but in the meantime, this post is just food for thoughts. :)

[FilipeAmadeuO]

I use :
MenuEdit - To save a bmp of the menu that i want to change
Corel Photo Phaint - To change the picture
Scenarist - To create a VOB of the picture
VobEdit - to remove M2V of the VOB created
VobEdit - to remux to the old vobID and keep subpictures and audio
Menuedit - To replace old VOB by the new one
Ifoedit - To fix sectors


It would be great if only program could do it.

[berrick]

way Kool,

two peeps i respect in these forums.... and thnxs too FilipeAmadeuO just read ur post!

the bullet pionts are great but i'm having a hard time with some of the points :)

i can get a still image and convert to mpg2 ( i used TMPGEnc to convert the still to mpg... hope i did it right)

BUT see i lose it with jsoto at the authoring stage. and would appreciate a little clarification from that point on

but the reply are much appreciated.

PS keep up the good work 2cool/jsoto

[jsoto]

You can use TMPGEnc, for sure... (easier, but be careful with the resolution)
For authoring I use IFOEdit (DVDauthor button). You will need an audio file (I use an ac3 generated with silence.exe, see my sig). After the authoring, without closing IFOEdit, strip streams and delete the audio stream. You will get a still image inside the VOB.
Check the VOB with VOBedit:
- A Nav pack should be at the begining
- Only video packs and with only one "I" frame should be after the Nav.

Ah!. FilipeAmadeuO is right. You also have to remux the subs (I remember now I also did it ), to keep the buttons working..


jsoto

[berrick]

LOL,

I'm loosing it! It tried all ways to get the author new dvd button un greyed in IFOedit and failed just tried again and it works. Gues i need a rest :)

didnt think about having to add audio as well...

How long should the audio be? could i not demux that from the original vob?

[berrick]

soka i answered my own question re the lenght of silence

[Msc_Alex]

Originally posted by berrick
Hi all,

I have been struggling to understand and get a simple way to change still images in menus.....

For now i'm not interseted in menus with movies just still's and how I can 'import' my own images and then setup buttons. For example the main menu is a still picture with multiple language selections.

I have stripped all but 3 languages (and the still image is crap) i want to be able to import my own image and then setup buttons and code them with the relevant info. For now i just want a simple way to do the image part (why run when i cant walk :) ).

I have searched for guides but am using the wrong search words cuse i just dont get newhere stuff i have read is missing bits that make it impossible to follow

Lookin fwd to ur reply

Have you tryed this (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&postid=555936&highlight=alien+menu#post555936) ?

[berrick]

Guys......

U wanna check this out!! the link to the guide Msc_Alex has done on this topic works a treat.

I now have what i want. Just gotta work out how to use menuedit now LOL, but thats another post ;).

thanks for all the help from u all, jsoto i followed ur and FilipeAmadeuO but got stuck again due to lack of knowledge.

[2COOL]

if you had followed FilipeAmadeuO's method, you would've got lack of money. Scenarist isn't cheap. :(

[berrick]

nope i didnt use Scenarist.... i used the most egg cell lent guide that Msc_Alex did and all those really cool utils found here :D

and knowledge gained from 2cools guides, thought i still have a long ways to go b4 i consider myself knowledgable in this subject