is this possible ?

[oxide]

i want to create menus so i select which video clip (mpeg1) i want to view, but the thing is i know it can be played back on a computer but what about on a DVD player ? whats the best and most easiest program to use to these create menus?
thanx for any help given

[Vejita-sama]

You're asking two different questions. What's the best? and What's the easiest?

I would suggest TSCV, which is a GUI for VCDImager.

http://www.ttool.org

D/load the newest beta and ver of VCDImager, read the guides, and give it a try. You can make still menu, motion menus, add seamless chapters, multi-level menus (up to 9), etc. etc.

The basica functions work well, but as your try to make more advanced stuff work you might have problems, there's a forumn on the site to help you out.

The default is to make PAL/MPEG2 streams. To make MPEG1, you'll need to copy certain CDI files into the TSVC dir (these can be d/loaded or copied from your Nero dir).

[oxide]

ok, thanx for the help, but last question, does this menu stuff work on a dvd player or just on the computer ? i have 187 (Samuel L Jackson film) that i bought ages ago, and it has this menus like dvds.

[Vejita-sama]

These menus are for DVD only! I'm told that winDVD and/or PowerDVD can play SVCD menus but I've never gotten it to work. On my standalone (Apex AD600A) everything works fine.

[adam]

Menu's should work just as well on the pc. All of my menu'd vcds and svcds work perfect in winDvd and most work in powerdvd but I use I-Author for svcds and Video pack 4.0 for vcds. Pc's actually work better with menu's because they support cdi features whereas a dvd player wont. So that means you can have actual menu buttons that are clickable or that you can scroll through just like a dvd, whereas on a dvd player you have to assign the button to a # key.

[vitualis]

Agreed.

Every S/VCD capable program I have can play S/VCD menus just fine (VCDImager created).

The misconception that software VCD/DVD player can't play back menus only came around with Nero5.5 which botches the job for still menus -- making them inaccessible on many/most software players.

Regards.