HELP PLEASE!! Adding "Play" menu to VIDEO_TS

[kinkyrican]

I have a DVD that I burned as a VHS master for a video I made. I burned the disc without any menus, but the black "lead" is too short to be able to hit record in time on the VCR.

I need to insert a main menu with just one play button (black screen, black button) so that I can start the DVD manually and I have no idea how. It is way too much work to reconstruct the original DVD and re-author the entire DVD just to insert a menu. Can anybody please help?

This is a list of files on the DVD:
VIDEO_TS.BUP
VTS_01_0.BUP
VTS_01_1.VOB
VTS_01_3.VOB
VTS_01_5.VOB
VIDEO_TS.IFO
VTS_01_0.IFO
VTS_01_2.VOB
VTS_01_4.VOB

[Vejita-sama]

DVD Video discs use a file structure, not a file format (per say) so you have to re-author the disc to add a menu. You can do some using the source VOB files (eg. TMPG Author or DVD Lab can do this).

Both programs have a 30day freeware/preview option so you might want to give them a try. IIRC DVD Lab is a little easier to use.

[kinkyrican]

but can I do that without reencoding? thanks

[jimmalenko]

No. You must re-encode (re-author).

[kinkyrican]

OK DVD Lab was actually very helpful. What it did on "compile" however was write all of the vob files but didn't write any IFOs or BUPs. Did I do something wrong?