New challenge: Menu with music in the background?Is it possi

[crucial12be]

I'm new at this....I now am learning to make chapters and menus. I don't even have a movie fully insync with sound. This site is just wonderfull! I'm learning fast but i want to blow away my friends by making a svcd with chapters and motion menus (u know the whole nine yards!!) And I was wondering if you can ad music (wav file) to the menu? Just a thought. I still would like a step to step guide from making a avi (divx) file all the way to a SVCD with motion menus and chapters? It would be great for all the newbies (i'm guessing there are many like me?) THANKS guys SVCD 4ever...this is just the greatest hobby! Need to spend some time with my girld though (nah just kidding)

[sunmiztres]

yes it is possible and i do it quite often. i use Tscv, this proggie is the best thing going in my opinion.
If i were you i would read up on it.

[energy80s]

I am also new at this whole VCD thing and have been looking at ways of making menus, etc. However everything I've read on TSCV has said that it's a pretty poor program that rarely works (without a lot of "effort&quot. You only have to read the posts on here! Is there anything else that is very simple and will allow basic creation of menus / intro sequences for VCD's??

[sunmiztres]

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I am also new at this whole VCD thing and have been looking at ways of making menus, etc. However everything I've read on TSCV has said that it's a pretty poor program that rarely works (without a lot of "effort". You only have to read the posts on here! Is there anything else that is very simple and will allow basic creation of menus / intro sequences for VCD's??
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I would have to differ with that. I never made menus or seemless chapters before tscv and yes i did have problems but it most of the stuff was little things. Tscv is the best thing going and it is free. there are also alot of people here and at TTool's site that help when there is a problem.

If you want something that does everything for you and that has no problems what so ever then keep looking because i have never found anything.

People who don't have problems with Tscv don't post because they are to busy creating cool menus.

As far as it being a poor program, that is the farthest thing from the truth there is no program that can do what TSCV can do and if there is you are going to be paying big bucks for it and i can promise you you will run into problems, everything has problems.


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[mpack]

This thread made me finally register as a member

I'm sure TSCV works for some people, but for the life of me I can't get it to do anything: edit fields in dialogs refuse to accept text, the MPEG in the chapter menu displays the first frame only, no matter where I put the slider - buttons (like "put chapter here&quot seem to do nothing, etc etc.

It may be that I have mismatched versions of TSCV and Vcdimager. Also, I'm using the latest TSCV beta (0.73 rel 1), and that may have been the wrong choice...

So far I've not been able to produce even the simplest of SVCDs with TSCV.

[martymizah]

ok...first off...you just have some things to work out

tscv is the best for chatpers and menus..hands down

TSCV .73 is not the lastest release..there is .74 that is available for download off of some FTP servers on http://www.ttool.de

if you want menus...just follow the guides....
look at the counters...over a thousand people per guide...they work...follow every step to tha T and you cant go wrong

http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/r/d/rdm186/

i made em...i know they work

they are soo easy as soon as you get the first one outta the way...i make my menus and chapters in a matter of 10 minutes now

greatest addition to any VCD!!

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marty

[Vejita-sama]

I've been using TSCV since beta0.2 and I love it. It's not so much that it's not user friendly (which it isn't) but that you need to have some understanding of the XML file structure.

If you read all the guides at http://www.ttool.org and read the guide linked here:
http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/r/d/rdm186/

and play around a bit it's fairly easy. For eg, a lot of people have problems making still menus w/ TSCV but most of the time that's because they didn't patch their MPG file from 0xE0 to 0xE1, ie. they didn't read/follow the guides.

The program also has bugs, for linking muliple MPEGs, entrypoints, and looping. You can fix these, if you know XML, otherwise I can see how you'll get stuck

But before try to play with the program some before giving up on it. Truth is that there's nothing better (for the money) out there.

[energy80s]

What's "XML"??

[Vejita-sama]

XML is a script language take a look at:

http://vcdimager.hvrlab.org/pub/vcdimager/examples/xml/