DVD Menu Studio --> Maestro. Messed up menu on standalone

[brentd49]

I followed THIS tutorial on exporting a menu in DVD Menu Studio for Maestro. It works fine in Power DVD, but on my Apex-1100W the menu is almost a puzzle of the orginal menu in horizontal pieces.

Can anyone explain to me what caused this?
Also how do I get the menu to loop? Now it starts the movie once the menu sound has ended.

[brentd49]

Could it be because i have 4:3 for my menu in DVD Maestro instead of 16x9? But my video seems to play fine as 4:3... any idea?

[brentd49]

or maybe it was because I repatch the headers to 480 horizontal of my SVCD. perhaps I shouldn't have repatch one of the VOB's. Has anyone had this problem before?

[ChrissyBoy]

What did you use to repatch the headers? (you shouldn't repatch the menu vob to 480)

[brentd49]

I think i did patch the menu. I'll fix that and hopefully it will be alright.

Also, can there be different resolution video on the same DVD with DVD Maestro, because I wanted to put an intro movie at 720x480 if I could? Otherwise I would have to turn it into a SVCD and patch it.

[Vejita-sama]

Supported DVD resolutions are 720x480, 352x480 and 352x240 (NTSC). 480x480 is not a supported resolution and not all players will play 480x480 header patched MPEGs. It sounds like there's a good possibility that your standalone player will not.

You can have titles with different resolutions on the same DVD.

Menus are normally 704x480 or 720x480 4:3 (do a forum search for why menus are often 4:3 even for 16:9 movies)

There's no need to encode to SVCD then patch, in fact that's asking for trouble. If you don't want to encode at D1 (720x480) then encode at 1/2 D1 (352x480). But the SVCD header patch trick DOES NOT WORK on all players, I understand that your source is SVCD (it appears) so you don't want to have to re-encode. But for all future projects it's much easier if you stick to a DVD supported resolution.

[brentd49]

Works fine now. thanks.
I must have patched the menu.