S/w to put web pages and/or images in a browser window

[TBoneit]

I'm probably not clear in what I want...

I'll explain, I want to be able to take saved web pages or images and generate a menu that will run from a DVD or Cd and use a Web browser to view. IOW I want to generate a web based menu that will let me click on an thumbnail to view or just choose one and select a next/previous to navigate.

Having no knowledge of web design or HTML I 'm looking for easy to use software where I can just select the pages/images or mix thereof, drag and drop into the desired order and generate a ready to burn image.

Many thanks
Roger

[Supreme2k]

Try here first:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/

[abc-123]

EDIT: Nevermind. I assumed for some reason that you wanted this played from a dvd player. My mistake. Try the link Supreme suggested.



If what you want is a menu that simply looks and behaves as a webpage, then I suggest you use Dvdlab to achieve that illusion. It is the most flexible in terms of creativity, importing pictures, and links to sub menus.

If you're actually talking about creating a menu with dvd authoring software and then viewing said menu on an actual webpage, I don't think it can be done as far as I know, as the computer language is different between formats. And I'm not aware of any software that can convert it for you.

If you're talking about taking pages straight off the net and using them as menus (after overcoming the problem of web being in portrait orientation and dvd being in landscape) and wish to include text as well in it's original configuration, then I suggest you use MS powerpoint to import the webpage, edit, and export as an avi or mpeg file (or even a bmp). Then drop that file into your authoring software as a menu background (or several menu backgrounds that link to one another) and manually insert your links.

Remember that a webpage is several pages deep, once you factor in that all the links will link to different pages. If you set up each page as a sub menu, I don't see a reason why you couldn't achieve what you're after.

But any way you slice it, this is a complicated endeavor and you will not find something "easy to use" to accomplish this task.

[TBoneit]

Supreme2k, goimng there as I type this to look.

abc-123... I didn't think you could display web pages on a dvd player? That sounds interesting!

If I was doing that currently my process would be to use Wisdom-Soft's Screenhunter Pro to capture a web page and save as a image file, then use a slideshow program to make a VCD/DVD.

Timeconsuming... If you know of software that can load a series of saved webpages and make a DVD that'd be interesting to play around with while things are slow here at work. Things are slow right now, only two computers to work on, one's hard drive is scanning for viruses, then spyware as I type and the other one is just sitting and running to see if I found the reason it freezes up, so far it comes down to either the IDE controller or Cable.

Thanks

[jimmalenko]

If you're really keen, try this:

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1132847#1132847

It was originally designed for VCD, but it should work for any files that Media Player Clssic can play (you will probably still need the codecs on your system if it doesn't use its own).

All you really need is to customise the HTML menu - the code in the back-end for playing the files is rock-solid.

FWIW, I created a menu system application in VB6 for a computer-only project not so long ago, utilising the same background code to play the files using MPC. If you know what you're doing, you can have an image "preview" window that shows a still of the feature you're mousing over too.

[TBoneit]

I'm afraid I'm not that advanced, I had got as far as being able to take a Main web page and do a simple edit of it so that I could access locally stored pages that had been saved from the main page using IE's Files, save as web page. IOW look at a page, save any links from it locally as well as the calling page I want to view off line, edit main page, not too hard, edit other pages, tedious. If it were only images it'd be easy but it is text and becomes tedious to convert to image with a screen saver util, and saving pages with a screen saver util doesn't give the ability to scroll.

In on way it'd be easiest to find a utility that can grab web pages and has control over how far down it goes, IOW grab this url and one level lower but do not grab items from other pages such as adverts.


Thanks abc-123, i hadn't thought of powerpoint.

CHeers

[abc-123]

I was halfway through reading the second paragraph when I was thinking powerpoint... and then you thank me for suggesting it.
Kind of a creepy moment.

[Supreme2k]

Actually, you already mentioned it

If you're talking about taking pages straight off the net and using them as menus (after overcoming the problem of web being in portrait orientation and dvd being in landscape) and wish to include text as well in it's original configuration, then I suggest you use MS powerpoint to import the webpage, edit, and export as an avi or mpeg file (or even a bmp). Then drop that file into your authoring software as a menu background (or several menu backgrounds that link to one another) and manually insert your links.
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