Like the title says, I have made a dvd menu, but it doesn't look very good.
I have done the following:
* Created a 720x576 (pal) jpeg image to use as background
* Created a 720x576 png "highlight" image.
* jpeg2yuv -n 25 -I p -f 25 -j menu_bg.jpg | mpeg2enc -n p -f 8 -a 2 -o menu.m2v
* mplex -f 8 -o /dev/stdout menu.m2v silent.mp2 | spumux -v 2 menu.xml > menu.mpg
There are two problems:
1. The quality of the background is low. It looks like a jpeg file that has been compressed to much. (There is not a lot of details in the image and it looks significantly worse than dvd menus usually do, so I don't think it needs to be that compressed.)
2. The highlight buttons look weird. In the png file they are single-colored boxes on a transparent background. Sharp edges, no anti-aliazing or so. But in the menu there is a thin line in another color along some of the edges.
I have read a few tutorials that are doing the same as I do, and no one mentions these problems. Have I missed something fundamental? (I made the jpeg and png images in photoshop on a windows machine instead of gimp, but I can't see why that should make a difference.)
(I have tried to make the menus in both 4:3 and 16:9 format. I would prefer to have it in 16:9, but I read somewhere that that could cause problems.)
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I have some hints for this problem, but not a 'good' solution... (see also: https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/323387-How-to-increase-resolution-in-GUI-for-dvdauthor-please )
1. Use png2yuv instead of jpeg2yuv
2. Add the bitrate to the mpeg2enc parameters -b ... (I use -f 8 -I 0 -q 1 -b 7000 -a 2 -n p ) see the man pages for mpeg2enc:
http://linux.die.net/man/1/mpeg2enc
Use can also install dvdstyler and analyze how it creates the menus...GUI for dvdauthor:
https://www.videohelp.com/~gfd/ -
Using png2yuv instead of jpeg2yuv did improve the quality, but not much. Specifying another bitrate doesn't help
So I tried something completely different:
ffmpeg -y -i infile%03d.jpg -target dvd -aspect 16:9 -pass 1 /dev/null
ffmpeg -y -i infile%03d.jpg -target dvd -aspect 16:9 -pass 2 menu.m2v
(infile001.jpg-infile025.jpg are links to the same image.)
This gives better quality, but mplex doesn't like the output (menu.m2v)
**ERROR: [mplex] Unrecogniseable file(s)... exiting.
So I'm still stuck.
EDIT: The output from ffmpeg is not the videostream, but a mpg with the videostream within. After demuxing with mpeg2demux mplex seems happy again. (Lots of tools now...I need to make a good script as soon as I have completed the test-dvd.)Last edited by Bigfoot73; 6th Sep 2010 at 15:37.
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