Divx Menu

[Bat21UK]

hi can anyone help is there a way to put a dvd menu on a dvd with divx films on as i have just got my divx player would love for it to have a menu ,so that i can pick what divx i would like to watch
Any help would be good
Thank all

[guns1inger]

The short answer is probably NO, for the same reason you can't create a menu for your mp3 files. The DVD standard is very strict and narrow in its purpose - to play DVD films. Players that play other formats, such as DivX, mp3 or jpg files do so at a file system level. Unless your particular player has it's own api that you can code for, there is nothing you can do.

[Bat21UK]

Just A quick thanks for that

[adam]

On a hardware Divx player, definitely not. If played on the pc it can be done by using the .asf container.

[ID3_Freak]

Ugh.. Why? That's so lame. Especially considering it only displays 11 characters of the file names...

[guns1inger]

For DVDs it is easy - there is a standard for menu structure and control and content format. For DivX there is no such thing. How each player chooses to do this is up to the manufacturer, and many still do no support it. To have the ability to have standardised menus as per DVD would require a great deal of work and agreement in developing standards for things like

Compression levels
Quantisation
Audio standards
Menu language and control
File structures
etc.

As most of the DivX players are not coming from mainstream manufacturers (yet), it is simpler to go with a file list.

[karris56]

I have the philips 642 and have played dvds burned with divx movies on them.No menu but if you hit the next button on the remote it will go to the next file or movie.I had 3 movies on a dvd and clicked next twice to get to start of my 3rd movie.

[ID3_Freak]

i guess one way to help would be to screen grab the file names on the disc and put them into a nice .jpg. if i put a .jpg in the root will it open it automatically?

[mgh]

Possible on PC-using auto.inf and a pseudo website on the disc with relative references for any number of vids/files.
Simple way of Menu for upto 14 vids/files- one can be an index.htm file-try
http://www.utdallas.edu/~jbs024000/software/cda.html
There is a nice tutorial on the site .