GUI for muxman - unable to JumpSS

[michcio]

hi!
I have been using GUI for muxman for a veery long time now and have done many complicated DVD menus with subtitles-, chapter- and other menus...Resently I have done a project where I got 4 different buttons on my "movie menu" PLAY, SUBTITLES, CHAPTERS and now I have added SPECIAL FEATURES as well...the problem is the SPECIAL FEATURES button jump to a menu where the user should be abel to open a movie clip...(by jumping to the TITELSET2MENU where the clip automaticly starts playing)...SO I need to jump FROM a TS1SUBMENU6 TO (for example) TITELSET2MENU...while I make a button in the TS1SUBMENU6 and write the command : "JumpSS vts_2, vts_ttn_1 : RootMenu" I got an erro while "creating DVD" ...In the log there is written: Syntax error in JumpSS target...why am I not abel to jump from the TS1SUBMENU6 to TITELSET2MENU?????? PLease help!!!!

always thankfull for answers

michcio

[Alex_ander]

...why am I not abel to jump from the TS1SUBMENU6 to TITELSET2MENU?

If you are trying to write a direct command for going from a menu in one VTS to a menu in another VTS, that's impossible. You can only go to videomanager menu PGC# and then use another command from it to go to a menu in different VTS.

[borax]

@michcio

Understood or more help necessary

[michcio]

omg I have checked this forum long time and thought I didn't get any answer at all and then it showed up that I was never loged in :P...but anyway

thank you for your answers alex_ander and borax ...hm what is the PGC# menu? the main menu or?...and why is GUI for dvd author programmed so it's not abel to jump from one VTS menu to another VTS?

cheers

michcio

P.S. will be logged in all the time now...sry for late responce once again
m.

[tinker]

GUI for DVD Author will make a menu in VMG domain from which you can go to all VTS.
If you made a menu in VTS domain, you will have to make a PGC in VMG Menu(language) domain through which you can go from one VTS to other.
Second PGC need to be there also to come back once other VTS finish play or use registry entry, if you want to use same PGC to come back.

[michcio]

thanks for answering but now how do I make this PGC menu?!

cheers

michcio

[tinker]

You do not need to create any new menu, just use PgcEdit (free) or DVD Remake Pro (not free, but easier), load your DVD files in, create two new PGC in VMG menu domain and adjust the button commands in your existing menu and post command of title two.
I believe Muxman Pro also has an option to set commands to DVD.

[borax]

@michcio
...why is GUI for dvd author programmed so it's not abel to jump from one VTS menu to another VTS?

That's not anything in the GfD programming, but in the DVD spec (limits of the VM).
The most easy solution is to add a submenu on the MainMenu, hide the correspondent button (on the MainMenu) and set a pre command for the new MainSubmenu to jump to the Titleset2Menu (JumpSS vts_2, vts_ttn_1 : RootMenu). On the TS1SUBMENU6 create a button and use the button command 'JumpSS MainSubMenu1' to jump to the new MainSubmenu which directly links to your Titleset2Menu.

[michcio]

@ borax

thanks!! It works just fine with creation of the submenus...that I didn't figured this out by my self! :P...anywayI got a new problem now :

I have made a "TV-show DVD" where I want to have some episodes (about 10) now in the main menu I want to have 3 different buttons (Episode Selection, Extras and Setup) but now how do I create a "Setup" - menu where the user can choose which language (subtitles on every episode) he wants???

thanks for all your answers!!

michcio

[borax]

This is more complicated... You will need to deal with some scripting with VM commands and use a register (like GPRM5) to hold the information about the chosen language. This register has to be checked in the pre command section of each title and then used to set the correspondent subtitle stream.

For the setup menu (which is a submenu of the main menu) use button commands like
Mov GPRM5, 1 ; LinkPGCN MainMenu

or
Mov GPRM5, 2 ; LinkPGCN MainMenu
...

For the pre command in each title use something like:
SetSTN subpicture=5:OFF
Mov GPRM4, 1
if ( GPRM4 == GPRM5 ) SetSTN subpicture=1:ON
Mov GPRM4, 2
if ( GPRM4 == GPRM5 ) SetSTN subpicture=2:ON

(depends on the number of subpicture streams)

[michcio]

THANK you very much for your answer borax

ok so I have made a submenu on my main menu where I made 4 buttons for selection of all my subtitles (the fourth sets GPRM5 to 4 to turn the subtitles off =))...(for example a button with this action: Mov GPRM5, 1 ; LinkPGCN MainMenu as you have written)...then in my Episode selection - menu I made my first clip (called it Episode 1) and then dubbelklicked on it to open the "Film - menu" (TitelSet5Menu). In that menu I left clicked and selected "Menu Propeties" and later "Advanced Pre/Post Command Editor" and in the Pre Command window I have written:

SetSTN subpicture=5:OFF
Mov GPRM4, 1
if ( GPRM4 == GPRM5 ) SetSTN subpicture=1:ON; 
Mov GPRM4, 2
if ( GPRM4 == GPRM5 ) SetSTN subpicture=2:ON; 
Mov GPRM4, 3
if ( GPRM4 == GPRM5 ) SetSTN subpicture=3:ON;
Mov GPRM4, 4
if ( GPRM4 == GPRM5 ) SetSTN subpicture=4:ON;

but when I now create my DVD, SHOW it (in Media Player Classic) and select (for example) subs 1 in the SETUP (I set GPRM5 to 1) then there is no subtitles shown when I later play the clip...but when I click Navigate->subtitle language in Media Player Classic I can see that subtitles nr .1 (Swedish) are selected ... but the "Enable" button isn't selected why is that happening? please help have we forget a command to enable the subtitles?

EDITET: SORRY after checking one more time if the subtitles really get checked when selectiong and that only the Enable button isn't selected it showed up that whatever I choose there was just subtitles nr.1 selected ...then I have really made this wrong...please help me to fix that

PS. I don't quite understand why I have to SetSTN subpicture=5:OFF in the beginning of my script?? and why do you make a Mov GPRM4 variable when finding out what GPRM5 is...can't GPRM (mov) variables be compared to simple int? (what I mean is why can't you write if(GPRM5==1) instead?))
happy if you can answer this "P.S.-questions" as well

thank you once again for responsing
really glad for futher answers


michcio 8)

[borax]

1. ...SetSTN subpicture=5:OFF
This is just to turn off subtitles if there is no valid value for the GPRM5 register yet.
2. ...why can't you write if(GPRM5==1) instead
Limits of the VM 'language'
3. It would be possible to use 'SetSTN subpicture=GPRM5', but then I can't use the :ON to activate the subtitle.
4. The script should be placed in the pre command of the title itself, not the menu (open the Video + Audio files dialog for the correspondent film and click on the 'Edit Pre/Post Command' button right above the Ok button).

[michcio]

thank you once again borax! It works just fine with the subtitle menu ...but I still got a last question :/:

In my extras menu I want to return to the extras while my clip in this menu is gone to the end. First i use JumpSS vts_6, vts_ttn_1 to play my clip...but how do I return to the same menu then? (After the clips end the prrogram always jumps to MainMenu :S

cheers

michcio

[borax]

In my extras menu I want to return to the extras while my clip in this menu is gone to the end

Sorry, I don't understand... Could you please be a little bit more precise?
...after the clips ends...
Where should it jump to? Is this a 'fixed' menu or dependent on where you started the clip? Are you using a play all button?

[michcio]

Sorry, I don't understand... Could you please be a little bit more precise?
...after the clips ends...
Where should it jump to? Is this a 'fixed' menu or dependent on where you started the clip? Are you using a play all button?

ok sry for not describing my problem so you could understand it here comes a more precise explanation =):

In my main menu I have done a submenu called ("Extras") MainSubMenu2 (I got a button on my menu that jumps to my submenu and the action of this button is "LinkPGCN MainSubMenu2" ) now on the MainSubMenu2 I have insert a few clips...when the user click on a button to play the clip, for exaple I got one clip with the action (this action has been automaticly created when I insert my clip) "JumpSS vts_6, vts_ttn_1 : RootMenu"...and when the clip ends then the project jumps to my MainMenu (where I got my MainSubMenu2 button)... why is it called RootMenu ?

What I want is; when the clip ends to return to the same "Extras" (MainSubMenu2) menu where the user choose to play it


JumpSS vts_6, vts_ttn_1 must mean jump to video 6 title 1 or?


I have tested with commands like:
JumpSS vts_6, vts_ttn_1: MainSubMenu2
JumpSS vts_6, vts_ttn_1: LinkPGCN MainSubMenu2
JumpSS vts_6, vts_ttn_1: RSM
and more...

but there is none that jumps to my MainSubMenu2 after the clip ends

what is that comand?

thanks!

michcio

[tinker]

From end of Title,you can go back to only few designated menus, like Root, Audio, Chapters, Sub-Pic and few other.
In PgcEdit under Set menu type.
Otherwise it will always return to Root of same VTS.
From there you can use "Link" to PGC where your menu is.
If you do not use any designated menu except Root, you can assign any other PGC to designated menu, than you can use Jump to that menu from end of the title, otherwise you will have to set GPRM value in post command of the title and in Root Pre command use that value for Link function.

[michcio]

thanks for responding tinker

ok then I think I will choose (I got more then just one submenu) to set GPRM value and then read it in teh Root Pre command...
I have now written in my title post command:

Mov GPRM15, 1

and in the roots pre command:

Mov GPRM0, 1
if (GPRM0 == GPRM15) LinkPGCN MainSubMenu2

but while trying to create a DVD I got a syntax:

"PGC "MainMenu" Pre command, line 2: Syntax error in IF clause"

what have I done wrong now?

thankfull for answers

michcio

[borax]

I just tried it and cannot reproduce the problem (no syntax error...)?!

BUT:
Which version of GfD are you using? Because since version 1.06 this is the 'default behavior': If you add the clips on MainSubMenu2, the clips should return to the MainSubMenu2 after playing...

[tinker]

I do not know how you put the command in, but this is what I get using editor.

Set GPRM0 =move1
if(GPRM0 == GPRM15) than {link PGCN PGC#}

where # is a number of PGC in Menu(language unit) domain of your menu you want to go to
To check it, click on IF command and PGC you want to go to will highlight.

[michcio]

thank you for your answers guys!!

I just tried it and cannot reproduce the problem (no syntax error...)?!

BUT:
Which version of GfD are you using? Because since version 1.06 this is the 'default behavior': If you add the clips on MainSubMenu2, the clips should return to the MainSubMenu2 after playing...

ah! I'm using 1.04 will download 1.06 (the latest) now

Set GPRM0 =move1
if(GPRM0 == GPRM15) than {link PGCN PGC#}

hm I get mine code using the "editor" as well ...maybe our commands are dfferent because of the older version I'm using...but as said will update and then write how it went

cheers

michcio

[michcio]

well ok so I have downloaded GfD 1.07 now =)...I have now erased all the Pre/Post commands I have done to get to the MainSubMenu2 while a clip ends...but now when the clip ends it just freezes at the end and the DVD doesn't move anywhere :S so I'll now try to take with all my commands

I have now tried to have my commands as well but the DVD still doesn't work...I do successfully create it without any errors but then when I go to my "Extras" (MainSubMenu2) and play my clip it freezes again :S

why does it freez ... please help me out guys!

all answers really apprieciated =)

regards

michcio

[tinker]

Can you post a snap shot of PgcEdit window to see how is your DVD set up.
Please mark where (MainSubMenu2) is.
Each end of the clip (title) has to have a Post Command of a some kind to tell the player what to do next, unless all the clips are in one Title, than you start to work with cells.
There is also a trace function in PgcEdit to see what is going on.

P.S.
I just realized, that you are working with Gui for DVD Author and I am talking about PgcEdit, so lets make it one software, but I do not know much about DVD Author's command editor or that software for that matter.

[michcio]

Can you post a snap shot of PgcEdit window to see how is your DVD set up.
Please mark where (MainSubMenu2) is.
Each end of the clip (title) has to have a Post Command of a some kind to tell the player what to do next, unless all the clips are in one Title, than you srtart to work with cells.
There is also a trace function in PgcEdit to see what is going on.

Sry I have never used PgcEdit (now I understand what you mean that ur "editor" was showing you...I thought you mean the Pre/Post Command Editor ) ... but will download it now and test send you a picture

ok I have now downloaded PgcEdit and after a long searching I found my MainSubMenu2:


(the read marked manu is my MainSubMenu2.

but a weird thing that happend was that one menu "couldn't load" when I opened my DVD-project here's how it looked like when I open it in PgcEdit:





please help

michcio =)

[tinker]

OK
You have many VTS and working with VMG.
That one has only one menu and that is a Title Menu.
To go from one VTS title to any PGC in VMG menu domain, you use Call command as a post of the clip to call that PGC.
I usualy go to Root of the same VTS and from there to PGC in VMG menu domain. That way if you push Root(Menu) button on the remount while playing that clip, it will return to the menu you want. But it is not necessary.

In any case. Learn this software, it is very useful to edit any DVD you have. You can rearrange the DVD to play the way you like.

Do not worry about the way it open it always check for DVD structure, normal.

[michcio]

thanks for responding once again tinker

ok so I have erased all my GPRM settings...but now how do I write the "call" command in the titles (Movies: Video+Audio files right?) Pre/Post Command Editor (Btw whats the differens if I place my script in Pre or Post?)...I have written "CallSS RSM=1, MainSubMenu2" ...I'm testing now if that will work =) but I don't think so because I still got my RootMenu jumper in thte action of the button to the title where I have written : "JumpSS vts_6, vts_ttn_1 : RootMenu" (for the 6th video on my "extras" menu)...I'll maybe erase the :RootMenu and test again

ah now my project is finished "Creating the DVD" and finally it returns to my MainSubMenu2

THANK YOU all for ALL your help

cheers!!

michcio

P.S. Still I'll be really happy if you can answer on the Pre/Post different question

m.

[michcio]

yay I have tried to create a DVD without the RootMenu at the end of my button-action-command and that worked just fine

but one wierd thing is why do my VMGM LU 1, (eng),2 that play the 5th movie clip (jumps to VTST5) do return to the VMGM LU1, (eng), 2 while the clip ends :S

shouldn't I be forced to make a "Call" comand on that menu as well :/?

[tinker]

Pre command is executed before the clip (Title) start to play.
Usually to set language, Subtitles, sometime chapters.
Post Command is executed at the end of the clip play, usualy for to set next step.

[tinker]

but one wierd thing is why do my VMGM LU 1, (eng),2 that play the 5th movie clip (jumps to VTST5) do return to the VMGM LU1, (eng), 2 while the clip ends :S

shouldn't I be forced to make a "Call" comand on that menu as well :/?

Check what command is there already.

[michcio]

Pre command is executed before the clip (Title) start to play.
Usually to set language, Subtitles, sometime chapters.
Post Command is executed at the end of the clip play, usualy for to set next step.

ah cool! thanks now I understand it much better!!

Check what command is there already.

The only thing that is different from the MainSubMenu2 is my script that I have added to this title before in titles Pre command to turn subtitles on

SetSTN subpicture=5:OFF
Mov GPRM4, 1
if ( GPRM4 == GPRM5 ) SetSTN subpicture=1:ON
Mov GPRM4, 2
if ( GPRM4 == GPRM5 ) SetSTN subpicture=2:ON
Mov GPRM4, 3
if ( GPRM4 == GPRM5 ) SetSTN subpicture=3:ON
Mov GPRM4, 4
if ( GPRM4 == GPRM5 ) SetSTN subpicture=4

otherwise the titel buttons action is:
JumpSS vts_5, vts_ttn_1 : RootMenu

there are no post command

and the Film5's back buttons action is: JumpSS MainSubMenu1 as the back button in my clip at MainSubMenu2

so what could be the big difference between this two ?

[tinker]

Sorry
I cannot answer that one as I do not know much how DVD Author sets its command structure.
May be borax can answer that, if he come back on.
I know one thing, that all these DVD authoring softwares use their own preprogramed structure which is written as you create DVD.
Some of them are more flexible than others, but all similar.
Editing software like PgcEdit (one of them), can restructure DVD by using pure DVD commands, but cannot do what authoring software can.
To realy see what is going on run it through PgcEdit.