Divx 6 Menus - Need Guidance on Creating

[dvd-dude]

Hey everyone,

I recently purchased a Divx Ultra compatible DVD player. I've been playing with various video quality settings and I think I've found my personal preference. However, I'm having a hard time finding any resources that describe making the menu features that Divx 6 offers. From what I can gather so far it sounds like xml is involved. Can someone please point me toward some tutorials/articles that explain how they work and/or how to make them?

I will have Avi files encoded with Xvid (looked the best at my bit rate setting and had the smallest file size). Being new to the Divx world I assume that there is a difference between Xvid and Divx. All I know is my new DVD player supports the Xvid and it looks better so I went with that. However, I'm unsure if the Divx 6 menu system supports Xvid or not.

Thank you for your help! I'm really excited about the possibilities! I have many backlogged VHS tapes that I rarely watch and I'm thrilled at the idea of encoding these files to a format that looks very good but allows me to fit 6 hours on one DVD. If I can't have a menu it's not the end of the world as I can simply pick the files from the player's built-in file menu, but I'd love to be able to create custom menus for those special discs.

-DVD-Dude

[mats.hogberg]

All I know is that there's a tool named DivX Media Builder involved in this.

/Mats

[guns1inger]

You could also look at this : http://labs.divx.com/DivXMediaTool

[republicOfunk]

1: DivX Media Builder is high end tech with a no noob sign hanging from it.
We need a some what simple IDE for making menus. DivX Media Builder will probably be that IDE, but it has a looonnngg way to go till it's more like the other simple end user kind of menu making software we are all use to.

2: http://labs.divx.com/DivXMediaTool is the web app for the IDE though I'm still not sure why you need to use it as the IDE can do it all with the MUX and other software like vdud or dr.div

The one I just found under my nose was the divX converter. If you look in the "View list files to encode" menu you'll see a text field below stating that if you have multiple files all at the same frame rate and resolution it will make a single divx file with a menu.

So what I can make of the hole menu making thing is there is two main parts to it the xml which is the file for all the time markers and the video it's self which is rendered in to one large file.

I think the hole making one file thing is what is missing me up. I'm used to see in other dvd software where the menu is a file that points to other files which is the video, thus multiple files for every video and menu.

[brigstar]

For a guide on how to use DivX Media Builder and a short video tutorial go here: http://labs.divx.com/node/262.

For a user friendly application that produces advanced feature files check out the DivX Author Application that was launched at CES. A trail version can be found here:

http://www.divx.com/divx/windows/author/