MenuShrink ver 1.0 - utility for shrinking DVD motion menus to still frames

[nwg]

The software takes the full motion video of a menu and condenses to down to a single frame. The buttons are left intact so you make a hundreds of MB into a few MB.

If you have a chapter menu with motion video for theinidvidual chapters. It takes a single frame for each chapter menu screen.

It can also remove the introduction video clips which then loads a single frame menu. So, it goes straight to the single frame.

You also have the ability to keep or leave out the menu audio.

If you still picture a menu in Shrink. It shows a frame every 0.5 seconds. Which means you get black space between the frames. The buttons stay functional. It used to be a very crude way of getting smaller functional menus in the past.

If you still image a menu. You lose the menu entirely and get just a black screen. It is not recommended when you want the menu in the first place.

The only way to know what it does is it to use the software. Use any DVD with motion video for the the menu and see what happens..

[jeanl]

Originally posted by nwg

If you still picture a menu in Shrink. It shows a frame every 0.5 seconds. Which means you get black space between the frames. The buttons stay functional. It used to be a very crude way of getting smaller functional menus in the past.

ooops, my mistake! Sorry about that!
jeanl

[nwg]

Originally posted by jeanl
ooops, my mistake! Sorry about that!
jeanl

I didn't even see your post.

Still pictured menus was strange. It is like watching a slideshow one frame at a time.

I haven't done it for over a year. I just tried it to make sure it is the same and it is. No blank spaces between the frames like I remember though (maybe that was the TV).

I made the mistake of trying it out on menushrinked files and got identical menus.

[jeanl]

Originally posted by nwg

I made the mistake of trying it out on menushrinked files and got identical menus.

[blutach]

Only tried using still pix once and hated the result. Still image was worse than useless in that it took up space for no good reason.

Wonder if Recode will integrate this feature in soon (perhaps dvdshrink is lurking )?

Regards

[nwg]

I haven't used Recode for a while but I am 90% sure it used to have still pictures or still image. The option was in the configuration/profiles screen if I remember right.

[blutach]

Yes, it does have the same feature as DVD Shrink (hardly surprising is it?), but I was wondering if Nero may get to work on a MenuShrink equivalent.

That would tilt the scale a bit toward them, especially for Nero Burning ROM owners, who have this already.

Regards

[nwg]

Where is it as I can't find it now?

[blutach]

You've got to click on the menus in Recode then Disable. That brings up the options.

Regards

[nwg]

Originally posted by blutach
You've got to click on the menus in Recode then Disable. That brings up the options.

Regards

Thanks. I knew it was there somewhere. I think Recode had still image quite a while before Shrink got it.

[blutach]

Not sure, but I'd very much doubt that Nero would allow technology developed under its auspices to be integrated into a freeware product.

Regards

[nwg]

Originally posted by blutach
Not sure, but I'd very much doubt that Nero would allow technology developed under its auspices to be integrated into a freeware product.

Regards

I also think that. However, I was surprised to see still image in Shrink 3.2 at the time (it was not in 3.1 or earlier).

[jeanl]

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jeanl

[nwg]

I have those DVD's. I am going to to have to see that for msyelf. I never thought they would be that big.

I might try FOTR and ROTK at the same time.

BTW, you are getting a fair amount of visitors

I remember the counter being less than 50 when I got the first version.

[jeanl]

hehehe, give it a shot man! Note that glisoni shrunk without audio, so he's tilting the scale in his favor!
jeanl
FOTR and ROTK!!! These acronyms crack me up!