Successfully Created Moving VCD menus

[martymizah]

has anyone?


as soon as i get it ill make some kinda guide again....

what i need is this...

when i use the moving menu generator in TSCV 0.74 i get all these crazy things goin on....

double vision, everything outta wack.....
also, it wont pull pics from any chatpers after 6

so, i was talkin to some people (Sunmiztres) and i think im gettin somewhere

what i have is this, to correct the chapter 6 problem, i frameserved the mpg as a *.vdr using virtualdub

then, i open that *.vdr in Vfapi and attempt to create an avi out of it

so now i open that avi in windows media player to see if it works and it does...no problem

so then i load it up into tscv after i load my mpg, and try to create menus under the still tab using the menu generator

however, when i do this, the pictures in the matrix are all black, and the boxes go double vision like so...

http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/r/d/rdm186/1.jpg

so somethin gets screwed up in TSCV

i close TSCV, reopen my avi in windows media player, and BAM no more video, just audio


wtf

if ANYONE had gotten it to work sucessfully tell me

what i think it is is my Vfapi codec

IF ANYONE HAD Vfapi CODEC VERSION 103B can you please email it to me

i think that may be my problem because mine is glitchy and the new one isnt capable of *.vdr


help

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marty

[humdinger]

dunno, im having a hard time with tscv at the mo. i tried your guide which has been highly recommended by alot of ppl, tscv73r2 always crashes on my comp when i try to enter chapter tymes. i'd lke to try the latest release(tscv74) but i cant get to any of the ftp sites out through my firewall or proxy. if anyone can supply and http dld link i'd be dead grateful

[themamboman]

After being fed up at trying to get the TSCV motion menu to work under WinXP, I decided to take matters into my own hands.

Here's what I did (it sounds childishly simple):

- I used TMPGEnc to find the starting points of the thumbnail videos I wanted on my menu page (I have nine on a single screen).

- I used the source range on the advanced tab to find the start of the thumbnail and set the ending frame to the beginning frame, plus 300 (10 seconds)

- On the video tab, I set to resize to my thumbnail size (120x80) and then I went to File->Save As-> BMP sequence to it's own directory

- I had nine directories: t1 through t9, each with 300 bmps of the thumbnail clip in it.

- I made a Visual Basic app that let me pick a background image, and had nine images placed in the locations I wanted, each with a label under it. I set the program to look at the base directory that had the t1 through t9 directories and started a timer.

- This timer would go off once per second. It would go into each directory, pick the next bmp frame and load that into the small, thumbnail image boxes (which overlay the background). It does this for all 300 frames (300 seconds worth).

- I used HyperCam and an MJPEG codec to capture that window once per second and would play back at 30 fps.

- After this was over, I had an AVI file, that on playback, showed my animated menu.

- I then loaded this up into TMPGEnc, and used its cropping feature to remove the hyperionics banner and the mjpeg unregistered notices, set the frame to be centered with no aspect correction, set the final size to 480x480, vbr video and encoded.

- Then, I got a section of music, ran it through Goldwave32, caused a little fade in and out and muxed this with the video using bbMPEG 1.24b18.

- This gave me the final motion menu I wanted. The procedure sounds a little funny, but it worked even better than I had imagined. TSCV then accepted this as a valid motion menu mpeg.

- I have the option of having the background image to animate and I think it may be faster than using TSCV's internal motion menu generator.

I tested it on my DVD player this morning and it worked beautifully!

Any comments on my method?

TheMamboMan

[themamboman]

I forgot to mention that I used TMPGEnc again to compress the wav file created with Goldwave32 into a mp2 audio file before muxing with bbmpeg.

[themamboman]

I put together an early test with a babylon5 background, and six clips with no labels. This will give you a feeling for what I was onto. I have made better versions, but this is the only one on hand (and it is video only).

http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/atl/m/a/mambodav/vidtest/test.mpg

[martymizah]

ight...thanks for the feedback

ill probably try it

seems like a lot of work....i dont know if a motion menu is worth all the extra work than a still


ill try, and let you know though


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marty

[themamboman]

I certainly think it is more professional looking than the still menus I was using before.

I might make this tool of mine a bit more flexible and release it. Don't know yet.

TheMamboMan

[aramis]

Ok I try to explain How I use TSCV, sorry for my bad english.
1) I rip a dvd with FLASK---Avisinth---TMPEnc
2) I have a mpeg1 file
3) I convert to AVI with VFAPIConverter 3b
4) I open TSCV, go to menu "add a mpeg", When the mpeg file appear on window double click on it, then another window will appear, to look for VFAPI file, choose the AVI file converted before with VFAPI.
5) Now on TSCV double click on mouvie file and will open Chapter Tab, insert a chapter every 6 (or what you want) minutes or import from smartripper etc etc. so a list of chapters will appear.
6) go to generate motion menu
7) ok write thr title of menu
click on every chapter and then on the window to set it
9) choose your chapters preference
10) click on create
11) the start frame of every chapter will appear
12) Automatically at the end of process TSCV ask you to save a file .mpv
13) Automaticaly TMPEG (i use 2.0) will open and encode the menu
14) Open the file with TMPEG and join music if you want and reencode

Important: On generate menu tab insert minimum 100frame for PAL and , I guess, 120 for NTSC to have a motion of 4 sec.
On tmpeg remember to copy QTreader plugin if you want open .mpv file with it.

I hope to have been cleared.....

Good work.

Mario

[themamboman]

The problem I have with this is that the button to go to the motion menu creator is never enabled when running the program under WinXP. It does work under WinNT4, but I don't anything but blank squares where the video should be.

I think the button never being enabled is a problem with the fact that TSCV expects the mpeg to be highlighted in one tab, before jumping to the stills tab to hit the button.

Apparently, WinXP handles windows events differently and forcibly removes the highlighting from the mpeg in one tab when clicking over to the tab with the motion menu creation button.

Besides, I've found a way I can do it myself, and it may be even faster than using TSCV. I certainly have more control over what is shown on screen. I even have the option of using an animated background, whereas TSCV doesn't.

[martymizah]

for the button to be enabled, you have to open your mpg and a working vfapi-avi...you also need to have the box labled enable vfapi-avi menu work checked as well as the enable media player on chapter-tab checked

try it

see if it goes

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marty

[themamboman]

That is probably it. I'm using the mpeg-2 codecs from the MediaMatics dvd software that was installed when I installed my Dazzle DVC2 software.

I'll retry it with vfapi-avi's. The last time I tried the motion menu generator, I couldn't alter the size of the thumbnails in comparison to the background. I changed the size in the settings window, but it didn't seem to help. Any ideas?

I'll still use my other method as I still have a bit more flexibility, and I can use motion backgrounds, which TSCV doesn't currently offer.

Later,

TheMamboMan

[Harpreet]

Hi martymizah,

I am having exactly the same problem as you with TSCV. Double-vision boxes and captured pictures for the menus are all black. Did you ever resolve the issues?

[martymizah]

http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/r/d/rdm186/

its all there

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marty