Generic menu?

[jmr2004]

I have little experience with authoring software so be nice.

Every once in awhile I like to put (up to 4) 30 minute TV shows on a DVD
and would like to have a simple main menu that would let me choose the shows.

Either with customized text or simply 1-2-3-4

I tried Tmpgenc to do this but it (seemingly) needs the ripped video files first and adds another 30 minutes to the process....which is something I don't want.

Is there any way I can create (or download something ready made??) a simple generic menu that is a seperate entity that I "just add to the mix" with my video ts files before I burn with Nero?

Thanks for any help with this....it's a problem I really need to solve.

[Supreme2k]

No.

In order to create a menu, you have to author it that way.

[jmr2004]

Ok.

That's unfortunate.

You'd think that it would be possible....after all, the shows must have some sort of indentifying marker that could be used to "point to".

I mean it all ends up as binary data so I don't know why someone hasn't done this....the first data on the disc is a main menu that simply loops and does a "GOTO" when the appropriate title is clicked on.

Do these menu creation programs (DVD menu?) need to do some lengthy processing with the video files as well?