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Riot_Inc · tired. always. Joined: 01 Feb 2001

this is an old topic, but, the site doesn't work baldrick. do you know of any others?

Baldrick · Administrator Joined: 09 Aug 2000 Location: Sweden

http://www.geocities.com/bug2kbug/helper/iauthor.htm

vitualis · Moderator Joined: 01 Oct 2000 Location: Australia

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On 2000-09-02 12:15:00, tonymehroke wrote:
i like to make intractive menu's or indexes such as a dvd. I like to make clickable buttons so that one can use dvd remote to navigate through on dvd player. I think videopak does it but i don't have it. Maybe someone can tell me where to download it, a demo or warez so i can try it.
i curently use ezcd creator but it sucks.
any kind of help would be helpfull. (any other programs i can download)

Although selectable hotspots are possible on VCDs and SVCDs, I don't think that it is a standard "required" feature for the hardware player. Indeed, very few hardware support this at all (CD-i players do though).

The only buttons supported by S/VCDs is "next", "prev", "return", "default", and numerical key presses.

However, if you're clever at authoring, you can still get most of the interactivity from a DVD onto a standard VCD.

As you've mentioned, VideoPack4 will do the job. There is no demo available. CDMotion can do some menuing as well. Again, there is no demo.

For SVCDs, I-Author is the only proggy available (with a GUI).

Nero can do very simple menus for both VCDs and SVCD (but it is not without issues).

GNU VCDImager 0.7.x can create very complex menus and other PBC functions for both VCDs and SVCD. However, there isn't a GUI and you will have to get used to using the command console and manually editing the XML file with a text editor. VCDImager is open source freeware. If you go to the official site, you'll be able to download the proggy, as well as the manual and some sample XML files. Although there is a learning curve with VCDImager, it is very rewarding once you've mastered it.

Regards.

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Riot_Inc · tired. always. Joined: 01 Feb 2001

k, now it does. thanks. (also thanks Michael)

[ This Message was edited by: Riot_Inc on 2001-07-12 07:47:54 ]