Extracting DVD menu and re-using them?

[zhiwei1710]

Hi all, i am relatively new to this forum, please pardon me for any reposts.

i have a dvd which i want to extract and reuse the starting video, continued by the moving video with the DVD menu infront of it. then editing the thumbnails for each episode to other pictures.

then i would like to convert several AVI files to dvd-video playable format that are linked to each different thumbnails.


how do i go about that? please advise, thanks !

[manono]

Hi-

how do i go about that?

My advice is "don't". You're biting off more than you can chew. However, getting just the menus is fairly easy. Open the complete DVD in VobBlanker, blank out all the PGCs (except for the opening video you said you want to keep), and then process it. That will leave you with just the opening video, the menus, and a bunch of empty PGCs. You can then replace those empty PGCs later on with the videos you plan on converting from AVI. But that part can be pretty difficult.

My suggestion is to extract the opening video and the video portion of the menus (stills or moving video), edit them to replace the thumbnails if you like (even that's pretty tricky unless you've had a lot of video encoding experience) and then use them in an authoring program, freeware (like DVDAuthorGUI or GUIForDVDAuthor) or commercial (DVDLab or TDA), when you're creating fresh menus. I have a guide about extracting and replacing edited menus which you may find somewhat useful, but it doesn't really address what you want to do:

https://forum.videohelp.com/topic313743.html#1606732

[zhiwei1710]

hi, thanks for your advice, will follow your tutorial and try to go about it. had a little experience on encoding, hope to gain more from this. =)