Help with menus in Gui for DVDAuthor

[whisper]

I'm a total newbie to dvd authoring and would appreciate any help or suggestions.

I have 2 mpegs that I transfered from VHS and would like to put them on one dvd. I would like a main menu that goes to a submenu for each mpeg that gives the option to play the mpeg, go to the chapters menu, or go back to the main menu. I created a main menu, two sub menus, two titleset menus (one for each mpeg) and two titleset submenus that I used for chapters. On the titleset menus I made menus that looked like the main menu as I would like for when you push the menu button on the dvd remote (not the top menu button) to go to the main menu like with commercial dvds. However when I create the dvd, I get an error message that says "Cannot jump to menu PGC # 3, only 2 exist." Obviously I've done something wrong, but I don't know what. Does anyone know how to do this, or if it is even possible? I've tried reading through the help files with the program, but am not having much luck. Any help and suggestions would be greatly appreaciated.

Thanks

[borax]

Obviously I've done something wrong...

Ok, I could probably tell you what exactly you have made wrong, but I would need the saved project file. You can send it to me by email (my emai address can be found in the log file).
Here is a proposal for your structure (if I have understood you correctly...)
Settings: Start action for Titlesets=Show menu; End action for Titles and Titlesets=Titleset menu; Use Titlesets=On; Advanced mode=On; Edit author.xml file before DVD creation process=On; Add comments to xml=On

MainMenu:
Just insert the movies (this will create two buttons which link to the Titleset menus)

Titleset1menu:
Insert a button (name it 'Play') and use the action: jump title 1 chapter 1;
Insert a menu (type Chapter(ptt))
Format the 'Back-Button' as you like

TS1SubMenu1 (chaptermenu)
Insert the chapterbuttons for Film 1

Titleset2menu: (quite the same as Titleset1menu)
Insert a button (name it 'Play') and use the action: jump title 1 chapter 1;
Insert a menu (type Chapter(ptt))
Format the 'Back-Button' as you like

TS2SubMenu1 (chaptermenu)
Insert the chapterbuttons for Film 2

Click on CreateDVD

In the editor window scroll down to the TitleSet1Menu section. It should look like:

<titleset>
    <menus>
       
    <video format="pal"></video>
      <pgc entry="root">
        <pre> { button=1024; } </pre>
        <vob file="...

Replace the line:
<pre> { button=1024; } </pre>
with
<pre> { if (g1 eq 0) jump vmgm menu; button=1024; } </pre>

Do the same in the TitleSet2Menu section. After editing it should look like:

    <menus>
       
    <video format="pal"></video>
      <pgc entry="root">
        <pre> { if (g1 eq 0) jump vmgm menu; button=1024; } </pre>
        <vob file="..." pause="inf"/>
        <button name="TS2B2">jump title 1 chapter 1;</button>
        <button name="TS2B1">jump menu 2;</button>
        <button name="TS2B0">jump vmgm menu;</button>
      </pgc>

Explanation:
In the titles section you should find:

       <pre> { g1=0; } </pre>
        <vob file="..." chapters="..."/>

Therefore the register g1 is always set to 0 if the film is started.
If you push the menu button on the dvd remote, it jumps to the correspondent titleset menu. There is the pre action: if (g1 eq 0) jump vmgm menu; As g1 is 0 in this case, it will go staight to the main menu. In the <pre> tag of the main menu the register g1 is set to 1 again.

[whisper]

Borax,

Thanks for the help. I'm going to go through what you've suggested and see what happens, but in the mean time I've sent you the project file and the log file (just in case). Thanks again