Original Dvd menu recreation

[gooberguy]

was wondering if its its possible to get a store bought dvd and copy the same exact menus on the dvd and use it on a dvd-r. If so what program is best for doing so? Thanks in advance

[guns1inger]

You want just the menus ? or the whole thing ?

For the whole thing, look at the DVD-DVD guides (DVD Shrink is one of the easiest programs, along with DVD Decrypter)

If you want the menus only to put on your own DVD, then you are in for hard work. IFOEDit and other tools will be required, as well as a good knowledge of how DVDs are structured and built.

[MackemX]

DVDShrink destroys the menu data within the VOB's when you use the reauthor so it makes them useless

you can use something like DVDLAB to recreate the menu's by demuxing the original into separate streams but you may lose the original 'feel' and highlights

DVDRemake would allow you to pinch the original menu's and then use them in your own project. PGCEdit may also allow this but I'm not 100% on that as I don't use it

[BobK]

Actually when I want my menus to get some recreation I just send them out to play in the sand box for a while. Unless it's raining, then I let them watch other DVDs and play checkers.

[Garibaldi]

I would go with DVD Shrink also. DVD Decryptor is good too but alot of commercial DVDs are larger than DVD+/-rs, so in that way DVD Shrink really helps.