Playing AVI Movies as data files with menus

[shans]

Hi,
I have so many movies/video clips with AVI-xvid format mostly downloaded and converted. They are of various sizes and resolutions. As the source is not that good, I don't want to convert them to DVD but want to view them in standalone dvd player burnt as data files.
Is it possible to have a menu like thumbnails / buttons so that I can choose and view them. If yes,
Please let me know the procedure and links.
Thanks..

[jagabo]

Make sure your DVD player is Divx Ultra certified. Then look at something like TMpgEnc Authoring Works.

[shans]

Thank you jagabo. I already have a dvd player which is capable of playing divx/xvid files. I burn these files using Imgburn and view them. I want to burn them with menu, if possible using any free software.

[Cornucopia]

divxmediabuilder.

Scott

[Ai Haibara]

Has anyone actually been able to create such a menu, that works on standard multiple-AVI/.divx data DVDs, in a DivX Ultra-capable player? (Just curious, mostly.) I'm still wondering if a .divx can indeed tell the player to load a different file and have it play, for example, or would the entire array of videos have to be combined into a single .divx file, with the menu pointing to each respective video (well, you get the idea...)?

[jagabo]

Thank you jagabo. I already have a dvd player which is capable of playing divx/xvid files.

A Divx/DVD player can't do Divx menus without Divx "Ultra" capabilities. Regular DVD menus will not work with Divx files.

[jagabo]

Has anyone actually been able to create such a menu, that works on standard multiple-AVI/.divx data DVDs, in a DivX Ultra-capable player?

I haven't made one but I've seen a few.

[Noahtuck]

Every program i ever tried always wanted to re-encode the xvid/divx no matter what when creating a xvid disc with menus.

So i learned real fast to live without menus

[jagabo]

Every program i ever tried always wanted to re-encode the xvid/divx no matter what when creating a xvid disc with menus.

That's what I've heard.

So i learned real fast to live without menus

I prefer the simple text menus the players generate anyway.

[shans]

Thanks cornucopia.
I will try divxmediabuilder.

[jagabo]

I just tried divxmediabuilder. It worked and didn't reencode the videos. Just muxed them all in to one big .divx file.

[Noahtuck]

I just tried divxmediabuilder. It worked and didn't reencode the videos. Just muxed them all in to one big .divx file.

Yeah i tried it also and it did the same thing.

Not sure yet how to set it up to make a menu but then i did not try the resulting file on my standalone either.

I also did not see the XML file it is supposed to create.

[jagabo]

In divxmenubuilder I did:

Tools -> Many Movies With Menu
Added 3 small Divx files, created a menu
Features -> Create Divx

That made a single divx file with the menu and the three videos. I was able to see the menu and navigate on my Philips DVP 5990.

I believe the XML file is just its way of saving/loading projects. It's not needed for playback.

[shans]

I get the error message:

Please help to overcome. Thanks Jagabo

[jagabo]

This is the first time I've used divxmenubuilder so I don't know anything about it. When did you get that error message? When starting the program? When adding divx files? When building the menu?

[shans]

I got this error message soon after hitting the "Create" button

[Cornucopia]

You might not have one of the dependencies. Divxmux, Bmptoxsub, Sub2divx, .Net (?) etc.

Scott

[Ai Haibara]

It complained about comdlg32.ocx, for me, and I didn't feel like fixing it, tonight. (Vista x64, which means I have to place it in the SysWow64 directory and register it from there, IIRC.)

I thought I'd experiment with it a little, myself; I don't usually need more than my 5990's default file menu, but I figured I'd take a few of the AVIs on my USB pen, try muxing them into a single .divx with a menu, and see what happened.

[shans]

As suggested, I installed Bmptoxsub, Sub2divx. Ensured Divxmux is already available in the folder. I have .net 1.1 and 2.0 in the system. All the files are now available in a folder in program files.
I opened file with 'New Wizard' , loaded three avi ciips under select titles, clicked 'Next', ticked 'Create title menu" only, then next clicked 'Create" tab. I get this error message:

[jagabo]

I opened file with 'New Wizard' , loaded three avi ciips under select titles, clicked 'Next', ticked 'Create title menu" only, then next clicked 'Create" tab. I get this error message:

I had a problem when I did the wizard too. It tried to create a menu that was 853x? and warned me that the size was wrong and failed. Use the procedure I outlined earlier instead -- Tools -> Many Movies With Menu. It also created an odd size menu but you can change the size by right clicking on the menu and selecting Width and Height. I used 640x480.

[shans]

I followed the method outlined by jagabo. Tools-> Many movies with menu. I saw the menu also. When I did the next step, Features-> Create Divx, it created a divx file only with the first video file i added. I don't know where I went wrong. Could I get any help.

[shans]

Tools -> Many Movies With Menu
Added 3 small Divx files, created a menu
Features -> Create Divx

When I clicked 'Create' Tab, I got a file with RGB format which doesn't open in my dvd player. Can anyone explain the procedure step by step as I am a newbie, just started gaining some knowledge thro this forum.

[jagabo]

1) Tools -> Many Movies With Menu
2) add divx files
3) Preview/Edit/Create Menu
4) you should see all the Divx files in the menu
5) make any adjustments to your menu, make sure width and height are integer multiples of 4
6) press the Create button, give your menu file a name, make sure you don't get any error messages
7) back at the main dialog select File -> Check For Errors, make sure there are no errors*
8) Features -> Create Divx

* When I made a menu there was a Main Menu link at the bottom. Since this was the main menu it wasn't linked to anything. So I just deleted the Main Menu control.

[shans]

I get the error message like this:

I repeatedly get the same message. Don't know what I lack and to eliminate this what additional programme I need to install.

[jagabo]

That's the same problem I described. Use the delete tool to delete the Main Menu control.

[shans]

At last I realized that this program is not meant for an average user like me. Anyway, thanks a lot, jagabo for sparing your time.