Nero VCD and Menus

[Cropper]

What exactly do menus do for you? Do they enable you to navigate through out the disc?

Thanks,
Mike

[Vejita-sama]

Depends on how you make the menu. x(S)VCDs do not support 'true menus' (like DVDs). You can however make a still or motion MPEG that sort of acts like a menu. You can assign entrypoints (which work like chapters) and use the keypad on your remote to choose said point.

However, you can't have an interactive menu where you select/highlight different choices (that's DVD only).

Take a look at some of the authoring faqs to the left for more info.

[Cropper]

Thanks for the help...things are getting clearer now.

Mike

[Discipulus]

It was real confusing to me at first too.
A menu is just a picture telling you what to do. You can't select or do anything like in a real DVD menu. it's just something that explains you what controls can be used and what there's to see.

[Treebeard]

Here is a good example of when to use Nero's VCD menus:

I ripped a blues clues (yes i have a 2 yr old) dvd with multiple episodes. Now I convert them so each episode is seperate. I can fit 3 episodes on 1 VCD so using Nero's menu creator I have 3 pictures on the main screen when it starts playing.

Then I can select which episode to play by pressing 1,2 or 3 on my remote and it will play the corresponding episode.