Is "Playback Time" correct for a still menu in PgcEdit?

[woodnbaskets]

OVERVIEW: I added chapters and a still menu to a home movie in DVDAuthorGUI. Since I don't want to play a couple of the chapters, I opened the DVD in PgcEdit so I could edit the what happens after the chapter has played.

Based on what I have read in the forums, (and with help from BJS users guide), I don't think the Playback Time is correct for the still menu. My Playback Time is 00:00.01 and I believe the standard for a still menu is 00:00.12.

The other thing I don't understand is why my 2 buttons are appearing in the Root Menu vs. on a line of their own. I have authored a similar DVD prior to this and the buttons were NOT in the Root Menu.

Any help you can give me to correct these errors(?) is appreciated. This is really bugging me and I don't know what I'm doing wrong. The process I'm using seems pretty straight forward and is not complicated, so I'm not sure if one of the programs is causing this or if it's my authoring.

Thanks in advance.

[woodnbaskets]

Sorry, I forgot to upload the second file.

[r0lZ]

Based on what I have read in the forums, (and with help from BJS users guide), I don't think the Playback Time is correct for the still menu. My Playback Time is 00:00.01 and I believe the standard for a still menu is 00:00.12.

That's right. There is obviously a little problem here. But honestly I think it doesn't matter too much. Most players will play it without problem.

I don't know why your menu is a Root menu in VTS 1 rather than a Title menu in the VMGM, but that's not an error per se. It is often easier to put the menu in the same titleset than the main movie, especially if you need to jump to specific chapters. But it is easier to put it in the VMGM if you have to jump to several titles that are authored in several different titlesets. Anyway, the only important difference is the button to press on the remote: Root menu button in the first case, Title menu otherwise.
If you want to be able to call the menu also with the Title menu button, just create a new dummy Title menu with PgcEdit, and change the first pre-command to

[30 06 00 01 01 83 00 00]   1  (JumpSS) Jump to VTSM 1, Root menu (TTN 1)

Anyway, the location of the menu is probably controlled by an option of DVDAuthorGUI. But since I don't use it, I can't help much more. My advice: if your menu works as expected, don't worry, and leave it as it is.

[Bjs]

1:

Button's dont need to be directly in "root" , but they can be handy .

Your previous project may have included a "first menu item" , which you did not place button's on , this is why they dont appear here in previous project .

2:

Cell time can be 1 second length , and be set to 255 (infinite pause) ... not a good idea for plasma / rear projection set's ... use looped motion instead .... as used in robots ... pretty cool .

If audio exist's , then the time length will be equal to the audio stream time length ... if not , there was a problem during authoring .
You can loop it , just incase user has gone to answer the phone ... most commercial dvd's do this .

Alway's make a "dvdauthorgui project backup" ... just incase of stuffup ... you can then track the problem down .

In pgcedit , use save dvd function , and watch for any notice's that may popup ...
Close pgcedit , and reopen the project again , and recheck time ...

3:

To swap menu around ...
Move title vob to new folder with it's ifo's ...
Open this in pgcedit ...
Right click on "vmg , first-play pgc" ...
Choose "import menu" ...
Locate menu choice .

Other menu's can be brought in for each title ...
Then it's a matter of editing the navigational command's to perform the required user function during playback .

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From what I can see of your project , the only issue is that "cell still time" ... and it really depend's on what it is .

I wouldn't set it for more than 10 second's if it's a plain image with no button's , set pre to 20 04 00 00 00 00 00 02 ... after that ... you have lost my full attention , and I am off to get pizza , coffee , and a cig ... or blow something up ...

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[r0lZ]

I disagree.

The cell playback time is 0:00:00.01 (0.01 second) and that's definitively illegal, since it must be at least 0:00:00.12 (approx 1/2 second). But, as I said, I suppose it doesn't hurt.

The cell still time is 255 (infinite), and that's perfectly legal. Furthermore, it's the standard way to author a still frame menu without audio.
Making the menu loop is not a good idea if it's a still frame. The image will not change on screen anyway, but the menu button highlight will disapear from time to time. I cannot see any advantage of using this techinque instead of the classic infinite still time used here, even for plasma displays, since the displayed image is identical in both cases. The display cannot know the difference.

[woodnbaskets]

OK, I'm a little overwhelmed at this point. I'll ask my questions one at a time so I don't confuse myself!

Alway's make a "dvdauthorgui project backup" ... just incase of stuffup ... you can then track the problem down

I have a DVDAuthorGUI Project and have posted the log file below. Will you please look at it to see if there is anything that stands out? At this point I'd be interested in what sets the Playback Time for the still menu (no audio). I can't find anything in DVDAuthorGUI which does this, but then I'm no expert!

Again, thanks in advance for everyone's help.

DVDAuthorGUI 1.008b - 1/14/2006
Send problems with DVDAuthorGUI to liquid_217@hotmail.com
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INFO: [???] Audio bd: buf= 16384 frame=000000 sector=00000000
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INFO: [???] MUX STATUS: no under-runs detected.
*multiplexing title: 2.....
INFO: [???] mplex version 2.0.0 (2.2.3 $Date: 2004/01/13 20:45:26 $)
INFO: [???] File E:\Network User Files\Video Files\Kids From Burlington\Step 2 - Demultiplexed Original Video (DGIndex & ReStream)\Demultiplexed Slide Show Video.demuxed.m2v looks like an MPEG Video stream.
INFO: [???] File E:\Network User Files\Video Files\Kids From Burlington\Step 2 - Demultiplexed Original Video (DGIndex & ReStream)\Demultiplexed Slide Show Video.ac3 looks like an AC3 Audio stream.
INFO: [???] Video stream 0: profile 8 selected - ignoring non-standard options!
INFO: [???] Found 1 audio streams and 1 video streams
INFO: [???] Selecting dvdauthor DVD output profile
INFO: [???] Multiplexing video program stream!
INFO: [???] Scanning for header info: Video stream e0 (E:\Network User Files\Video Files\Kids From Burlington\Step 2 - Demultiplexed Original Video (DGIndex & ReStream)\Demultiplexed Slide Show Video.demuxed.m2v)
INFO: [???] VIDEO STREAM: e0
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INFO: [???] Aspect ratio : 4:3 display
INFO: [???] Picture rate : 29.970 frames/sec
INFO: [???] Bit rate : 8286000 bits/sec
INFO: [???] Vbv buffer size : 229376 bytes
INFO: [???] CSPF : 0
INFO: [???] Scanning for header info: AC3 Audio stream 00 (E:\Network User Files\Video Files\Kids From Burlington\Step 2 - Demultiplexed Original Video (DGIndex & ReStream)\Demultiplexed Slide Show Video.ac3)
INFO: [???] AC3 frame size = 768

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INFO: [???] Frequency : 48000 Hz
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INFO: [???] Setting specified specified data rate: 10080000
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INFO: [???] New sequence commences...
INFO: [???] Video e0: buf= 237568 frame=000000 sector=00000000
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INFO: [???] STREAM bd completed @ frame 5524.
INFO: [???] STREAM e0 completed @ frame 5298.
INFO: [???] Multiplex completion at SCR=15896429.
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INFO: [???] MUX STATUS: no under-runs detected.
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*generating highlight button 1 for menu 1
*generating highlight button 2 for menu 1
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*generating select button 2 for menu 1
*multiplexing menu 1.....
INFO: [???] mplex version 2.0.0 (2.2.3 $Date: 2004/01/13 20:45:26 $)
INFO: [???] File E:\Network User Files\Video Files\Kids From Burlington\Step 0 - Pictures Used For Menu\Group Picture.m2v looks like an MPEG Video stream.
INFO: [???] Video stream 0: profile 8 selected - ignoring non-standard options!
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INFO: [???] Selecting dvdauthor DVD output profile
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INFO: [???] Peak bit-rate : 0 bits/sec
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INFO: [???] MUX STATUS: no under-runs detected.
DVDAuthor:pumux, version 0.6.12-alpha-2907.
Build options: gnugetopt iconv freetype
Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@lists.sourceforge.net>

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WARN: Read 0, expected 4
INFO: 1 subtitles added, 0 subtitles skipped, stream: 32, offset: 0.18

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erase "E:\Network User Files\Video Files\Kids From Burlington\Step 3 - Author DVD (DVDAuthorGUI & PgcEdit)\menu1.mpg"

echo *authoring title(s).....
*authoring title(s).....
"C:\Program Files\DVDAuthorGUI\bin\dvdauthor.exe" -x "C:\Program Files\DVDAuthorGUI\config.xml"
DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.12-alpha-2907.
Build options: gnugetopt iconv freetype
Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@lists.sourceforge.net>

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STAT: Picking VTS 01

STAT: Processing E:\Network User Files\Video Files\Kids From Burlington\Step 3 - Author DVD (DVDAuthorGUI & PgcEdit)\menusub1.mpg...

INFO: Video pts = 0.176 .. 0.209
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STAT: VOBU 1 at 0MB, 1 PGCS
INFO: Generating VTSM with the following video attributes:
INFO: MPEG version: mpeg2
INFO: TV standard: ntsc
INFO: Aspect ratio: 4:3
INFO: Resolution: 720x480

STAT: Processing E:\Network User Files\Video Files\Kids From Burlington\Step 3 - Author DVD (DVDAuthorGUI & PgcEdit)\title1.mpg...
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STAT: Processing E:\Network User Files\Video Files\Kids From Burlington\Step 3 - Author DVD (DVDAuthorGUI & PgcEdit)\title2.mpg...
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INFO: TV standard: ntsc
INFO: Aspect ratio: 4:3
INFO: Resolution: 352x480
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INFO: dvdauthor creating table of contents
INFO: Scanning E:\Network User Files\Video Files\Kids From Burlington\Step 3 - Author DVD (DVDAuthorGUI & PgcEdit)/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.IFO
erase "E:\Network User Files\Video Files\Kids From Burlington\Step 3 - Author DVD (DVDAuthorGUI & PgcEdit)\*.mpg"
echo *process complete
*process complete

[woodnbaskets]

The cell still time is 255 (infinite), and that's perfectly legal. Furthermore, it's the standard way to author a still frame menu without audio.

OK, I'm not going to change the cell still time. I try and leave things like that alone anyway. If a program sets something like cell still time to 255 (for example), I'm assuming that the program's author knows WAY more than I do and that this is the correct setting.

Which is why the two problems I mentioned above bother me. Ok, I admit to being anal about this, but if I do not change or set the playback time, why isn't it defaulting to 00:00.12? And, if it isn't defaulting to 00:00.12 is this because of something that happens in DVDAuthorGUI? I'm hoping someone who is an expert at this will be able to pick up on something that is posted in the above log.

[r0lZ]

if I do not change or set the playback time, why isn't it defaulting to 00:00.12? And, if it isn't defaulting to 00:00.12 is this because of something that happens in DVDAuthorGUI?

A still frame menu, as its name implies, is composed of only one frame, therefore the timing seems logical. However, the DVD-Video standard imposes that the shortest cell duration is 12 frames. So, yes, there is something wrong here, and yes, it's probably a bug in DVDAuthorGUI.
It is possible to change the cell time (and the total PGC time) with IfoEdit, unfortunately, that's not sufficient. The nav pack in the VOB file must also be modified, and that's not so easy. So, if you really want to get rid of this little problem, you have to recreate your menu, probably with another tool.

The fact that the root menu was used instead of the title menu is not related to this problem, and is not an authoring error. It's probably due to an "human error", though, in my point of view, it's not an error at all.

The third "problem", mentioned by Bjs, is that the still time is 255 (infinite). That's definitively not a problem at all, as it's the standard way to author a still frame menu.

I hope everything is crystal clear now.

[woodnbaskets]

It is possible to change the cell time (and the total PGC time) with IfoEdit, unfortunately, that's not sufficient. The nav pack in the VOB file must also be modified, and that's not so easy.

That's not something I want to play with, unless it causes problems with playback, I'll leave it as is.

The fact that the root menu was used instead of the title menu is not related to this problem, and is not an authoring error. It's probably due to an "human error", though, in my point of view, it's not an error at all.

I think that there is a guide that shows how to create a title menu using PgcEdit, if I decide to change it.

I hope everything is crystal clear now.

I'm not sure about 'crystal' clear, but your explaination has helped me understand the whole process a lot better. Thank you for all of the time you have spent helping me. I really appreciate it and I hope this post will help others in the future. Also, thanks for writing such a great program and for sharing it it with all of us.