Pioneer 520 DVD Recorder Menu Start Problem...

[TIVOROCKS]

I bought myself a Pioneer 520 for Xmas (haha) to burn video from my HDTivo to DVD. I am very satisfied with the machine and it's great frame accurate editing features with one exception...

Before finalizing on the 520 it allows you to insert a Title Menu for your disc...great...but after finalizing the disc it always boots to the beginning of the title and not to the Title Menu. However, a push of the "MENU" button on the player's remote gets you to the Title Menu you created.

I believe that the Panasonic DVD Recorders give you an option prior to finalizing of a "boot to Menu" OR "boot to Title". Unfortunately this option is not available for my Pioneer 520.

I'm thinking I could burn my discs on the 520 to DVD-RW and then use IFOEdit on the pc to change the disc's navigation to a Title Menu start at boot then burn the edited version back to DVD-R.

I been trying but I can't seem to figure out where and how to change the VIDEO_TS.IFO file to get the disc to boot to the Title Menu on startup using IFOEdit.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks,
ted

[rhegedus]

I've had a 520 for over a year now and have rarely used the menu dvd options. If you're going to mess around on the PC with the video you might as well just burn in VR mode in half the time and edit it all on PC.

[Epicurus8a]

Hi,

I have a couple of Pioneers (great machines) and here's what I do to get custom menus:

1. Rip the finalzed disc to my hard drive with DVD Decrypter (IFO mode/no file splitting). Then I have one large VOB.

2. (OPTIONAL) If I want to create transitions and such in the program, I use Womble MPEG VIDEO WIZARD. (WIZARD works directly with VOB files, but outputs standard MPEG2 files.)

3. Re-author the VOB (or MPEG2) usually with TMPGEnc DVD AUTHOR or Ulead Workshop 2.

There are trial versions of all available. Good Luck!

[TIVOROCKS]

Thanks for the responses...however I'm am satisfied with the Menu creator and all editing features already on the Pioneer 520.

I want the final disc to have the MENU as the "first start". Presently, the "first start" is the video title set.

I'm am sure there is a one line, single byte value change of the VIDEO_TS.IFO file in IFOEdit that will change the "first start" to the MENU and not the TITLE...I just haven't been able to figure it out.

ted

[Captain Satellite]

Die hard Panny man here. I own two Panny recorders and unless I'm missing something, I've never seen a boot-to-menu option. When the disc is inserted it DOES boot to the menu by default.

[TIVOROCKS]

Captain...

It appears Pioneer missed the boat on this one. Have anybody ever watched a commercial store bought/rented DVD that started with the movie and NOT the menu? I bet not...very stupid.

Glad your Panny got it right though!

ted

[jeanl]

Thanks for the responses...however I'm am satisfied with the Menu creator and all editing features already on the Pioneer 520.

I want the final disc to have the MENU as the "first start". Presently, the "first start" is the video title set.

I'm am sure there is a one line, single byte value change of the VIDEO_TS.IFO file in IFOEdit that will change the "first start" to the MENU and not the TITLE...I just haven't been able to figure it out.

ted

TIVOROCKS, there's a solution. Use PgcEdit (far easier to use that IFOEdit, and has a lot of the functionalities, plus more). Load up your DVD in PgcEdit, identify where your "menu" is (that should be easy, since you'll have only 1 menu I'm guessing, and you can use the "preview" - hit the '`' key). If your menu isn't the "root" menu (it should show "root" next to it), make it so by right clicking on the PGC and selecting "set menu type". Then in the first play PGC, you can insert the following command:
[30 06 00 01 01 83 00 00] 1 (JumpSS) Jump to VTSM 1, Root menu (TTN 1)
(assuming your menu is in VTSM1).

That should do the trick, assuming your DVDs have a very simple authoring structure. If that does not work (that's possible, on many commercial DVDs, it wouldn't work because a lot of register initializations would be skipped), then post back, or see my guide (in my sig.) for a fool-proof way to do that...

Jeanl

[TIVOROCKS]

Jeanl...

Thanks a bunch...that's exactly what I was looking for.
I'll post back when I can try it out.

ted

[TIVOROCKS]

Jeanl...

Works perfectly...the MENU is now the "first start" and it took about a minute.

I can't thank you enough...

ted

[jeanl]

Great! you just barely scratched the surface of how cool pgcedit reallyl is!
jeanl

[rhegedus]

Great! you just barely scratched the surface of how cool pgcedit reallyl is!
jeanl

Cough, couch, force subtitles, cough

[jeanl]

Great! you just barely scratched the surface of how cool pgcedit reallyl is!
jeanl

Cough, couch, force subtitles, cough

??? I'm missing the pun! Darn!
Jeanl