Problem with menus DVDAuthorGUI

[mitchedo]

I have two TV shows I captured with my AIW card at 720x480 DVD compliant. I've demuxed the files (to mpa and mpv) and am trying to author them to a single DVD with DVDAuthorGUI. ...pretty nice piece of freeware, BTW.

I have three menus.

Menu 1 is where you select which show you want to watch. It works fine. It goes to the appropriate chapter menu.
Menu 2 is a chapter menu for title 1. It doesn't work.
Menu 3 is the chapter menu for title 2. It works fine.

Menu 2 has the first chapter with the button highlighted. It doesn't work, and none of the other buttons will highlight or work.

I created a jpg at 720x480 and used DVDAuthorGUI to convert to m2v format. Then I created buttons with the "add button" function of DVDAuthorGUI. I have one frame for each menu. I tried looping, but that was worse. All three menus are created the same way.

One other thing. The 720x480 jpgs are fine, but when I open the m2v files in the menu portion of DVDAuthorGUI, they're square (squished horizontally), making it hard to line up the buttons properly.

This is my first attempt at making a DVD. Any help is appreciated.

I'm eligible for student pricing, and was wondering if the Adobe products would work. I'll be working on MPEG2 captures from ATI AIW, and DV from my camcorder. I like MPEGvcr for editing commercials. Someone in another forum recommended Ulead DVD.

Any advice on software is also greatly appreciated. I'd like to be able to edit DV and MPEG2 without re-rendering. ...and author to DVD for home use. Nothing really fancy, but I do like chapters and video buttons. ...and something with an easy learning curve.

The only real graphics program I have is Paint Shop Pro 8. It serves my needs well. Photoshop Elements 2 is buggy (can't get text to work).

[liquid217]

are you using audio in these menus? Try creating the m2v with more than one frame when converting the jpeg to m2v. If that still doesn't work, email me the project (*.dva) file.

The button lineing up problem is an issue with your directshow mpeg2 decoder. Try installing one of the directshow filters mentioned on the download page.

https://www.videohelp.com/~liquid217/dvdauthorgui.pl?p=download

[mitchedo]

are you using audio in these menus? Try creating the m2v with more than one frame when converting the jpeg to m2v. If that still doesn't work, email me the project (*.dva) file.

The button lineing up problem is an issue with your directshow mpeg2 decoder. Try installing one of the directshow filters mentioned on the download page.

No sound; just video. I'll try fixing my decoder.

How many frames should I try? 10 or 100?

I am an abject noob at this. Pretty pathetic. I'm graduating in December with a BS in CS, but this stuff baffles me.

[liquid217]

I noticed you said you tried looping the menus. This is not a good thing to do since, they are still menus. after the menu times out, it immediately plays again, which is not good for a still menu.


What have you played this dvd on? Have you tried the authored dvd with a software player? I would recommend VLC, media player classic, or ifoedit.

For the frames length, try 5 seconds which would be appx 150 frames.

[mitchedo]

Yah. Looping was a Bad Thing.

I've tried PowerDVD XP. I think it was the first version for Windoze XP. I have a newer version somewhere. I haven't burned to disk yet.

[mitchedo]

A very weird thing just happened. I re-encoded my authored DVD in DVDShrink so it'd fit on a single disk. Now the menus all work swell.

Whassupwiddat? PowerDVD problem?

...and how do I go about changing my MPEG2 codec?

[liquid217]

Hmm, without more details, i realy don't know. It looks like dvdshrink fixed whatever glitch was there.

As for your mpeg2 filters, you should be able to just install dscaler, or something similar. If the old d filter is still being used, use gspot to find out what that filter is, and remove it.

[dvd3500]

A friend of mine had a similar issue. Using PVAStrumento to demux and Cuttermaran to cut fixed it.