Playing Video and Audio in the menu

[Angel_SWE]

Hi.
I want to have about 70 seconds of video (and audio) from my dvd to play in the main menu, its not supposed to be a link to somewhere.. I just want it to play in the background.
Im using DVDLab.

[reboot]

Add the video and audio to the main menu. Render as a motion menu.
BTW, it must link somewhere, even if it's to a movie or other menu.

[Angel_SWE]

Alright, is there any way i can just add the clip i want instead of the whole movie?.. i used vobsplitter to cut out the 70 sec i need to a vob file, but when i try to demux that small file it doesnt work
its just that its pretty hard to get the exact part i want when editing in DVDLab

[reboot]

Use ReJig to rip the small vob to mpg.
It would be easier to rip the clip you want out of the original movie, unless you ONLY have it in .vob

[Angel_SWE]

Yes, now it works!
Thanks ALOT reboot for all your help, and thanks for your guides too.. thanks to you i know my way around dvdlab now.
Im sure i will have more questions in the future
oh, A-team is on.. gotta run
thanks again

[Angel_SWE]

Ok next problem on the same issue..
Now i have the video i wanted playing in the background of my main menu, but all the text and links i put there is invisible now!
How do i make them visible?

[reboot]

Put your background in, then add your text and links, then add your audio. NOW render it as a motion menu.
Everything must be in place, the way you want it, before rendering, otherwise they're there, but invisible behind the motion.

[Angel_SWE]

ok i put the mpeg in, then i create all the links, text and stuff and then i put in the audio.. and then i render, which creates a huge avi file, what do i do with that?

[guns1inger]

I only create them one way in DVD Lab Pro, so I don't have this problem. I create the video, including all the links, in after effects or vegas (depending on requirements), encode this to an mpeg video stream, then drop this into DVD Lab Pro as a menu background. I then create the subpictures required for the links (either in DVD Lab Pro, or in photoshop), link all the assets, and compile. I use AE or Vegas because it produces better quality output than DLP's AVI files.

What has happened in your case is that DVD Lab Pro has added your menu items to the background and produced an AVI with these embedded in the image. You need to encode this as an mpeg stream, load it back into DVD Lab Pro as a background, add subpictures, link everything up and compile.

[reboot]

That huge avi is your new menu.
Encode it to mpeg-2, and load it into dvdlab.
Let it demux, then put the audio and video onto the menu.

[Angel_SWE]

ok, let me just see if i get this now..
when im done rendering, i convert the avi file to mpeg (any good software to do that?), and then when im done, do i delete the video and audio in the menu to replace it with my new file?

[reboot]

Use any encoder to do it. Tmpgenc, Canopus, Mainconcept, CCE, QueEnc, Freenc, Winavi, whatever.
Once it's done, remove the current video and audio from the menu, replace with the new one(s) you just made.
Compile and test using dummy movies/pictures (look on the Compile screen for the option).

[Angel_SWE]

Ok im having serious problems with converting the avi to mpeg2.. every software i try says the file is not supported etc

if i follow this guide: https://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?guideid=621#621
should it do what i want it to?

[reboot]

This one: https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=222898

[Angel_SWE]

hehe ok.. nothing seems to work for me now
first off, gspot tells me its something wrong with my avi file and it wont give me any info on it, next, in virtualdub, it also tells me something is wrong and that it doesnt have any audio
im sure i added the audio..

[reboot]

The avi won't have any audio. You add that separately in dvdlab, after rendering.
What exactly, does Gspot say?

[Angel_SWE]

this is what it says

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[reboot]

I have no idea. I can't reproduce the error here.

[Angel_SWE]

ok, well ill go through the guide anyway and see what happens.. i wont have to do the audio parts though right?, i mean since it doesnt have any audio

edit/ Ok, isnt there any kind of software that just allows me to browse the avi file, and then convert it to mpeg2?..

[reboot]

Tmpgenc should do it, really. I have no idea why you're getting an unsupported avi.

[Angel_SWE]

yeah.. this is what happens when i try it in tmpgenc



same thing happens if i go through the wizard

[guns1inger]

It is corrupted. Somewhere along the way, something hiccupped, and you got this. I'd try again, and if it repeats, try something different.

[Angel_SWE]

maybe im doing something wrong when rendering?

[Angel_SWE]

ok this is driving me insane.. ive tried to redo it now a couple of times but the same thing happens all the time
im starting to think that i should just let the links be invisible.. it will take away the beauty but it will atleast work :P

[guns1inger]

Have you tried rendering to an m2v file instead ? Or is this only an option with DVD Lab Pro ?

[Angel_SWE]

no i can only save it as .avi.. maybe i should get dvd lab pro then