Can I have Menu's on a divX.avi Data Disk?

Jez Hocking · Member Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Location: United Kingdom

Hello all, I've been searching but can't find if this has already been answered:

I have divx.avi files of the following format 624x352, 349mb, 131kbps, now I can burn 12 of these at a time as a dvd data disk and view them via a divx compatible dvd player but what I would like to do is have a nice dvd style menu on the disk...... can it be done?

I have downloaded TMPGEnc3 full trial version and went through the ultra divx menus and produced a stunning menu only to be told that the programme would only output DivX projects to CD 640mb?????!!? (or am i missing something here? also could only get 6 episodes to fit to dvd size output file?)

is there anything else that will allow me to do what I want without altering the original format of the files in order two keep 24 episode series down to 2 disks?

thanks Jez
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jagabo · Member Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Location: none

Is your Divx/DVD player Divx Ultra certified?

http://www.divx.com/certification/

mgh · Member Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Location: India

AFAIK, limit is 4GB. You can try DivXMediaBuilder in wizard mode to start with. Hope you are aware that to play .divx files with menus correctly, you need a DivX Ultra certified player. On the PC, you need DivX player.

guns1inger · Member Joined: 01 Apr 2004 Location: Miskatonic U

We need to get something stickied on this. This question gets asked 10 times a week at least, and none of the posters seemed to have done a search.
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Jez Hocking · Member Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Location: United Kingdom

@ jagabo, I don't think my Kiss DP600 player is but this just streams from the original file location so thats all right my other player is Philips 5960 which i believe is Ultra certified.

@mgh thanks for info, found another answer on a different site which explained I could change the output media size on TMPGEnc3 by clicking on the output logo on the bootom left, it's set to automatic as default and this just showed a 640mb CD, I'll give this a go in a bit to see if It will let me burn to DVD if it does superb as this program produced the menu's as I wanted I just couldn't get it onto a DVD....

@guns1inger, sticky would be good with a header as per my question as I have searched a lot actually, but only managed to find answers relating to encoding to dvd files first and then producing a disk with a dvd based menu...

I presume you cannot produce a hybrid disk with a dvd menu that will access divx.avi files so you could play it on a non Ultra certified DivX standalone player?

thanks for replies, Jez
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jagabo · Member Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Location: none

Yes, the 5960 is Divx Ultra certified. I have one too and it does support menus (although I have no interest in them).

Jez Hocking · Member Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Location: United Kingdom

I'm losing interest in them now as well LOL

my other use for them was producing dvd's of our kids for relatives (from the 8 tonnes of footage collected so far) but I can't see most of them having Ultra certified players so that sounds stuffed if you can't produce some kind of hybrid disk, poo

Jez
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Jez Hocking · Member Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Location: United Kingdom

@ guns1inger - all makes sense now mate, now I understand that DivX Ultra with 'Ultra' being the important bit is the menu side of things I re-searched and found all the posts you were talking about... suprising how many didn't show up first time around because most people can't seem to spell DivX properly.........?

@ All - thanks all for advice I will await someone clever coming up with some hybrid authoring software to help all those non 'Ultra' certified bods (like the rest of my family!)
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jagabo · Member Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Location: none

Although Divx Ultra certification only guarantees support for menus, chapters, etc, you'll find that ultra certified players usually offer support for other MEPG4 features simply because they're based on newer chipsets. GMC, QPEL, high bitrates, and packed b-frames support is usually improved.

NinjaR0ach · Member Joined: 18 Nov 2002

This sticky would have been a good idea if it actually explained more about how to make a divx.avi dvd disc with menus. I'm guessing though that I need TMPGEnc DVD Author 3. Is there any how to's on this site that would help out any?
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guns1inger · Member Joined: 01 Apr 2004 Location: Miskatonic U

I haven't seen any posted, and a quick browse of the User Guides forum doesn't show much. I suspect the reasons for this are two-fold. In the first place, it was simply to difficult, as the software to do it was poor, and the techniques involved too much manual handling of xml to make it viable for any one but diehard techies. Now that there is tmpgenc DVD author to do it, it is pretty much a no brainer, so guides aren't seen as needed.

I also suspect that most people still don't have Ultra certified players and/or are happy to use the provided file list the player provides.

Perhaps this is an opportunity for you to be a pioneer and to provide the first definitive guide on the topic ?
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NinjaR0ach · Member Joined: 18 Nov 2002

Sorry about that last post. I was tired and it may have come off as a little bitchy. Anyway As much a writing a guide like that would make me feel like a superhero I have nor the technical skills or time to do something like that. (besides my bad grammar) (the funny thing is I just misspelled grammar... thank god firefox cought it) Besides... I"m just really lazy. So tmpgenc DVD author is the program I'm looking for huh? and it's pretty much a no brainer you say? well then I"ll give it a shot! I'll let you kow how it goes.
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guns1inger · Member Joined: 01 Apr 2004 Location: Miskatonic U

I haven't used this version, but looking at it, if you can create a DVD menu with TDA, you should be able to create a Divx menu.

That said, there has been a few posts in the forums that suggest that it may also do some re-encoding, but that is something you have to confirm for yourself.
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kelemvor · Member Joined: 10 Apr 2003 Location: United States

Is there anything we can do with Non-Ultra certified players? I have the original Philips DVP-640 or 642 or whatever it is.

I just am trying to compress my movies and put 3 on a disk but wanted a pretty menu to pick which one to watch instead of just a file list.

If anyone has a link to a tutorial on this topic, let me know because I couldn't find one.

Thanks.

Baldrick · Administrator Joined: 09 Aug 2000 Location: Sweden

kelemvor: Nope. If you want a menu on a non ultra divx player you have to make a standard dvd-video.

johnstede · Member Joined: 01 Apr 2009 Location: South Africa

Hi everybody

I'm using Divx Author at the moment.
The problem is that it takes so long to finalize the Divx movie with Menu's.
Sometimes it takes up to 12 hours to finalize the file.

What is it doing?
Re-incoding the avi files? I know that on the final sreen it is analizing the avi files!
This takes ages! Can you bypass this process?

Thank you
John

jagabo · Member Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Location: none

I believe Divx Author always reencodes. That is what's taking so long.

johnstede · Member Joined: 01 Apr 2009 Location: South Africa

I think it also depends on the lenght of the movie you want to do.
I'm trying to put 11 episodes (each 41 minutes long) on a dvd. Almost 8 hours of video.
Does this matter?

Does "TMPGEnc DVD Author 3 with DivX" the same, re-incoding the avi files?

It takes about 30 Minutes to compile a DVD (mpeg) disc. So this does not re-incode
any files?

Thanks

jman98 · Member Joined: 08 Oct 2004 Location: Freedonia

johnstede - Welcome to the forums, but we discourage doing exactly what you did.
1) You hijacked a thread. The original poster asked about how to create a menu on a data Divx disc. Your posts have nothing to do with that.
2) We very strongly discourage adding to old threads unless what you have to say is absolutely pertinent to the thread. For example, if someone posts asking for a region unlock code for a specific DVD player and nobody ever responded but you know what it is, yes by all means post in the thread. But generally it's just best to start a new thread for what you are asking about here. If a thread is several months old at least since the last post, you really need to ask yourself if your post is really necessary or adding new information that could be helpful to others. If not or if in doubt, just start a new thread.

johnstede · Member Joined: 01 Apr 2009 Location: South Africa

Sorry about that

Will start a new thread.

DarkPhoenix77 · Member Joined: 23 Sep 2007 Location: United States

I tried using DIVX Author but it only allows files no bigger than 4032 MB. I was hoping to burn the entire series of a show (comes to about 5300 MB) on a DL DVD with menus. Any suggestions on a program to use? Or is there a way to make DIVX Author to work with it? PLEASE HELP!

ebadillab · Member Joined: 20 Jul 2009 Location: Costa Rica

Hello all, I hope someone can help me on this, ok, I'm using TMPGEnc DVD Author 3 with DivX, and I manage to burn the 2 complete seasons of HBO's Rome on a single DVD (not that good quality, but I'm just testing), I made a quite nice menu and everything seemed to work fine, but when I tried to play the disc on my DVD player, it reads the menu fine, I can see the menu, but as soon as I select any chapter to play, it gets hung and do nothing, I have to unplug it and plug it back (power) to make it work... I don't know if it is that I'm missing a step, or that my DVD player does not work, but then, if it is my DVD player, how can it plays the menu? Any idea?
Thank you in advance