How to make a menu for streaming HD content?

[Handyandy]

I am a newbie on this forum and I am not sure where to post: I am a middle-aged woman with blond (grey) hair (shit happens) BUT I have been 'playing around' with computers since 1977. I have been editing video and audio since the 90's and mainly as a hobby I have made 100+ productions for f.i. tourist boards on DVD and BD. But now I am stuck: I know I am making some sort of mistake in thinking and I am asking you to help me to sleep again at night!

I have been uploading all my productions to a NAS and want to be able to show them every now and then, not the whole video but by chapter. With the DVD's that is no problem: the menu's stay as they are but with the BD it is a different story. My media players (Mede8er and Eminent) do not play the menu's but start the playback at the largest .mts, because they are not able (money wise) to communicate with JAVA.

I am looking for software that will make it possible to create (simple) menu's for HD content . I still have alle the original content and the software to make all kind of formats, both on PC and Mac, but I can not find anything on the net to help me !!! And of course I want to keep the HD quality! The only thing I have managed so far is making chapters with MKVtoolnix, but that is not to my liking.

There must be something I am overlooking: Apple is skipping all optical disks in favor of HDD's, but I can not imagine that there is no possibility to create some sort of menu structure?
Any help will be appreciated!

[Baldrick]

You are basicly limited to blu-ray menus.

MKV has some menu support and I think you can do some basic matroska menus with chaptereditor. BUt I don't think it's supported by any media players.

[Handyandy]

Thanks for your quick reply, Baldrick! I know this chapter editor but I am looking for something for the media players, I can not imagine that there is nothing? Am I the only one with this problem?

[Baldrick]

Nope. There is nothing simple.

You might be able to make an app for the media player(coding skills required) or a web solution with html menus and html5/flash video(media player must support that).

[Handyandy]

Mede8er supports BDlite menu but so far no results; adobe encore has WEBdvd with a small menu, I will look into that.