Adding a menu to already made DVD

[blutach]

DRF - I dunno how (or with what) you made this menu, but you will never see any highlights for the simple fact that there are no subpic packs in the menu VOB (these define the shape of the button and along with the colour scheme, the highlight).

Also, the buttons will not work as they are in the VMGM domain (you cant have the command you wish to execute from this domain). This menu should be VTSM 1,1 (root menu). This is easy to do. Simply create a root menu in PgcEdit and Import Menu from the same VOB (when it is fixed). Then blank out the VIDEO_TS.VOB (PgcEdit can do this easy).

Also, your buttons are "stuck" - they have no movement between them. PgcEdit's button editor can help here to define adjacent buttons.

But easiest of all is to use DVD Styler to make it. You have your background so it is very simple.

Also, your title is badly muxed - I suspect you used Nero Vision or TMPGEnc. DVD Author. There will be little pauses almost every chapter (like a layer break) as the STC discontinuity rears its ugly head. This will be quite annoying for you I am afraid.

I will close by saying - you will need it.

Regards

[drfsupercenter]

Wow, never knew it was that bad! I used DivX2DVD to make the disc, and it worked fine, except for the menu. See, the thing is, DVD Styler does NOT let you keep the chapters, and you gotta use VOBMerge to make it one "file" as it opens the VOB's, not the titles. Am I doing that wrong? Also, when I DID merge the VOB's, it crashed when trying to make the DVD.

And what do you mean "stuck"? I made the buttons in PgcEdit... what else would I have to do? I just kept hitting "new button" over and over and placing the buttons accordingly.

[blutach]

IIRC, DVD styler just asks for the titleset to import and does little, if anything, to it. "Stuck" means you can't move between buttons.

Regards

[drfsupercenter]

hmmm... Just tried DVDstyler and it crashed when encoding. That program does not work. And, it makes you put the VOB's as a file, you cannot import titles. Also, it re-makes the chapters, so they aren't in the right place.

Is there another alternative?

[blutach]

Just use it to make a basic menu. For the title, import a blank and replace the title with VobBlanker!

Then replace the menu page also with VobBlanker (new to version 2.1.0.0)

Regards

[drfsupercenter]

I fixed my problem using Nero. I just added the title, put the chapters in the right places, and made the menu. I then put the files in a folder, and used PgcEdit to import the men, and I then fixed up the commands and burned the disc to a RW disc. I will test it later.

[blutach]

Well done drf. Persistence is surely the key.

Regards

[drfsupercenter]

Indeed

Oh yeah, and for those of you (ahem) that hate Nero (for reasons of it not putting the 32k gaps), I just found that in the newest version of Nero 6 UE, which is the one I own, you can set a folder to write the files to... instead of just an ISO. This will do the same thing that TDA does, and you can then build the ISO in PgcEdit, adding the 32k gaps. Just thought I'd clear all that hatred up. Also, Nero 6 UE does DVD-ROM booktypes by default on +R's too.