TMPEGEnc DVD Author questions...

[SammyTBull]

I've tried using this program for a while and while I liked it overall, there are some things I cannot figure out, that the help doesn't seem to cover... could someone who used it answer any of these?

Does this program support custom music/sound playing in the background of the menu? It does support MPEG menus, I know, but firstly, I cannot encode a picture-to-MPEG that TMPEGEDA will accept, and secondly, I prefer using pictures since there is always some quality loss with video...

When I highlight any of the buttons, etc., that I made, the cursor is always in ugly bright yellow color. Can it be changed to something else, or can its transparency be increased? Better yet, can the shape of the cursor be somehow modified? (E.g. to a tiny arrow, as many DVD menus have...)

Can some items of the menus be permanently removed? Whenever I edit the Main or Track menu, there are always a "title", etc., boxes - I don't want these, as I already have all that in the menu picture... but even if I leave these boxes empty, they always remain on the burned disc, and I can "select" them with the remote (even though no selection is visible)

[Robert Simandl]

To get sound on your menu, you need to use TMPGenc Plus first. For video source, specify your jpeg. For audio source, specify your mp2, wav, or ac3 file. Then encode an mpeg. Once you're ready for creating your menu in TMPGenc DVD Author, specify that mpeg file as your background.

I don't know of any way to change the colors of the buttons.

I don't know of a way to really get rid of the "title" box on the menu, but you can backspace over "title" so there's nothing actually in the box, then move the resulting really tiny box to an extreme corner of the menu so it's not visible on a TV.

[SammyTBull]

Well, yes, I did try doing it by creating an MPEG still menu, but TMPEGEnc rejected any graphics file I tried to feed it with a message "invalid video source", and other programs I've tried doing it in (including encoding the picture + sound to an AVI, then to MPEG) either created ugly looking clips, or clips that TMPEDA wouldn't accept...

And the empty title boxes, etc., are invisible on screen - but when I press the cursor keys on the remote, they can be "selected" - the cursor just disappears when it switches to the place where they are. That's the point... I would like them to be completely gone, to be totally unselectable, so that the only buttons that can be selected are the ones that I made and put on screen, and that are visible.

[soundforbjt]

Well, yes, I did try doing it by creating an MPEG still menu, but TMPEGEnc rejected any graphics file I tried to feed it with a message "invalid video source", and other programs I've tried doing it in (including encoding the picture + sound to an AVI, then to MPEG) either created ugly looking clips, or clips that TMPEDA wouldn't accept...

And the empty title boxes, etc., are invisible on screen - but when I press the cursor keys on the remote, they can be "selected" - the cursor just disappears when it switches to the place where they are. That's the point... I would like them to be completely gone, to be totally unselectable, so that the only buttons that can be selected are the ones that I made and put on screen, and that are visible.

Use menuedit to remove the boxes.

[elkfir]

Here's a thread that discusses how to change the ugly yellow highlight color in TDA:

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=207873

[SammyTBull]

Thanks, now I got almost everything working, except for that music, although I also wish there was a setting to make the disc return to the track menu rather than the main one, after all clips had been played...