TMPGEnc Menu Audio?

[born2rn]

Hello all,

I've read numerous posts on whether TDA will allow menus to play a sound file. Some people say it will...others say it will not.

If anyone has been successful with placing an audio file on a menu using TDA can you please let me know the file format you used? I'm trying to create a motion menu with sound and everything works swimmingly except the sound on the menus.

You'd think pegasys would address this issue since it would appear to be a hot topic among their product users.

Thanks,
Mike

[Vandorsolyom]

hi

I had the same problem, but I managed to solve that. It is easy. You have to give an mpg file as background, and the sound part of the mpg file will be played as the background audio. (enable it in motion menu). To create such mpg file, you should use Tmpgenc and give a bmp file as video source, and the music in wav format as audio source. Thus your video file will be a still picture and the audio as background, and the lenght? The length of the audio file will be. Of course, you have to set up tmpgenc correctly, so according to your region, set it to dvd pal or NTSC (720*xxx).
I think it's needless to say, that you can as well give an avi as video source and at the end, you will have a real motion menu. But be careful, this can really be frustrating sometimes, I think.

And a useful hint from me: Adjust brightess in tmpgenc before starting encoding. Give a little more birghtess to your picutre/avi. It will suit the better in that form.

But the thing what I miss in TMPGENC DVD Autior is that it cannot handle multi audio tracks and subpicutres. IF it had so, It would be the best in its category, which is (besides) the easisest and fastest to work with.

Greetings from Hungary

[fritzi93]

This might be a little OT, but you asked about file format. I use dvdauthorGUI for authoring (freeware), but have not tried TDA.

The procedure is: Create jpeg image in, for instance, Paint, at proper resolution for PAL or NTSC. Convert jpeg to m2v still in dvdauthor. Alternatively, prepare an m2v clip to use in a (motion) menu. Take the desired audio file and convert to mp2 (48k) in ffmpegGUI. Those are the formats that dvdauthor will accept.