call menu 2 after film in DVDAuthorGUI

[awesomer]

Okay, so I have a main menu with 2 buttons: one that plays the movie from the beginning and one that goes to a chapter selection menu. At the end of the movie playing, I want it to call the chapter selection menu. I tried a post command like "call vmgm menu 2", but when playing the .iso with DAEMON Tools Lite, instead of going to a menu like it did when I had it going to the main menu ("call menu" as post command), it just stops entirely.

So, instead of burning a real disc to check if DAEMON Tools Lite is the problem, I'm asking you guys if "call vmgm menu 2" is supposed to work.

[GTRBudda]

From what I've been able to figure out, "call vmgm menu 2" doesn't work. Instead, something like DVDAuthourGui's jump table would do it - at the end of the movie, set a register and call the menu, something like

<post>g1=1; call vmgm menu;</post>

them in the 1st vmgm menu, after the ist pgc tag, a line like

<pre>if (g1==1) jump menu 2;</pre>

to get to the second menu. Also, the buttons in the menus probably should set the register as well, a "g#=#;" in the button tags, to direct where to go if the remote's menu button is pressed.

[Bjs]

Would be nice to know the playback product involved ?

Some dont perform well under mounted iso pressure

[Alex_ander]

Much depends on where that chapter menu resides:

1.If it is placed in the same VTS as the movie, it can be addressed as jump VTS 'root' or 'chapter' menu (if it has an assigned menu category 'root' or 'chapter').

2.If that chapter menu is in video manager, it can be called by VMG PGC number for that menu page with additional 'resume cell 1' setting (otherwise playback stops). Alternatively it can be addressed by VMG menu category if set (like VMG chapter menu).

That is how the commands are named in DVDRemake, they can differ in your software but general rules might be the same.

[Dreadnaught]

awesomer,

Could you provide the project file or the contents of the project file?

[awesomer]

Here you go:



DVDAuthorGUI 1.014 - 7/10/2007
C:\dvddir\transitiontomovie.m2v/C:\dvddir\transitiontomovie.ac3
C:\dvddir\mainmovie.m2v/C:\dvddir\mainmovie.ac3
C:\dvddir\authorlogo.m2v/C:\dvddir\authorlogo.ac3
C:\dvddir\firstplay.m2v/C:\dvddir\firstplay.ac3
***
00:00:00.00
00:00:00.000,00:02:01.188,00:06:25.051,00:36:12.50 4,00:38:09.954,00:53:07.885,00:55:54.051,01:11:04. 494,01:12:34.750,01:50:25.752,01:53:30.837,01:55:5 9.453
00:00:00.00
00:00:00.00
***
0
0
0
0
***
***
C:\dvddir\menu-main.m2v/C:\dvddir\menu-main.ac3
C:\dvddir\menu-sceneselection.m2v/C:\dvddir\menu-sceneselection.ac3
***
0 00:00:00.0 00:00:00.0 8 5 <loop current menu> unnamed
0 00:00:00.0 00:00:00.0 1 5 <loop current menu> unnamed
***
menu01: 172/ 254/ 209/ 283/jump title 1 chapter 1/C:\dvddir\selectionmarker.bmp/C:\dvddir\selectionmarker.bmp/0/0
menu01: 506/ 258/ 543/ 287/jump menu 2/C:\dvddir\selectionmarker.bmp/C:\dvddir\selectionmarker.bmp/0/0
menu02: 146/ 64/ 183/ 93/jump title 2 chapter 1/C:\dvddir\selectionmarker.bmp/C:\dvddir\selectionmarker.bmp/0/0
menu02: 100/ 140/ 137/ 169/jump title 2 chapter 2/C:\dvddir\selectionmarker.bmp/C:\dvddir\selectionmarker.bmp/0/0
menu02: 95/ 224/ 132/ 253/jump title 2 chapter 3/C:\dvddir\selectionmarker.bmp/C:\dvddir\selectionmarker.bmp/0/0
menu02: 137/ 296/ 174/ 325/jump title 2 chapter 4/C:\dvddir\selectionmarker.bmp/C:\dvddir\selectionmarker.bmp/0/0
menu02: 248/ 367/ 285/ 396/jump title 2 chapter 5/C:\dvddir\selectionmarker.bmp/C:\dvddir\selectionmarker.bmp/0/0
menu02: 362/ 365/ 399/ 394/jump title 2 chapter 6/C:\dvddir\selectionmarker.bmp/C:\dvddir\selectionmarker.bmp/0/0
menu02: 490/ 304/ 527/ 333/jump title 2 chapter 7/C:\dvddir\selectionmarker.bmp/C:\dvddir\selectionmarker.bmp/0/0
menu02: 575/ 212/ 612/ 241/jump title 2 chapter 8/C:\dvddir\selectionmarker.bmp/C:\dvddir\selectionmarker.bmp/0/0
menu02: 555/ 140/ 592/ 169/jump title 2 chapter 9/C:\dvddir\selectionmarker.bmp/C:\dvddir\selectionmarker.bmp/0/0
menu02: 491/ 59/ 528/ 88/jump title 2 chapter 10/C:\dvddir\selectionmarker.bmp/C:\dvddir\selectionmarker.bmp/0/0
menu02: 378/ 35/ 415/ 64/jump title 2 chapter 11/C:\dvddir\selectionmarker.bmp/C:\dvddir\selectionmarker.bmp/0/0
menu02: 258/ 35/ 295/ 64/jump title 2 chapter 12/C:\dvddir\selectionmarker.bmp/C:\dvddir\selectionmarker.bmp/0/0
***
jump title 2
jump title 3
call vmgm menu 2
call menu
***
<none>
<none>
<none>
<none>
***
center,bottom,60,60,30,30,28.0,arial.ttf,720,478,2 9.97,ISO-8859-1,FFFFFF:A0A0A0:808080|
center,bottom,60,60,30,30,28.0,arial.ttf,720,478,2 9.97,ISO-8859-1,FFFFFF:A0A0A0:808080|
center,bottom,60,60,30,30,28.0,arial.ttf,720,478,2 9.97,ISO-8859-1,FFFFFF:A0A0A0:808080|
center,bottom,60,60,30,30,28.0,arial.ttf,720,478,2 9.97,ISO-8859-1,FFFFFF:A0A0A0:808080|
***
jump title 4
NTSC
True
False

[awesomer]

The next thing I've been trying is to edit the XML and put in button controls. I'll probably start a new thread asking how to do that later on. So far, using DVDStyler xml output in DVDAuthorGUI xml isn't going well.

Also, the buttons in the menus probably should set the register as well, a "g#=#;" in the button tags, to direct where to go if the remote's menu button is pressed.

[GTRBudda]

I had assumed from the 1st post that there were menus in the vmgm, but after seeing the project file and making the config.xml, if that's not the case then my suggestion was a little off. To get to the second menu using what I posted before will work, except use

<post>g1=1; call menu;</post>

after the title 3 vob tag, and put the pre tag in the 1st titleset menu. Also, after the first play title, a "g1=0;" in the post tag will make sure there's a jump to the 1st titleset menu on start up. The config.xml I got, with the tweeks, came out like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<dvdauthor dest="C:\dvddir\title">

  <vmgm>  
     <fpc> jump title 4; </fpc>
  </vmgm>
  <titleset>
    <menus>
      <pgc pause="5">
       <pre>if (g1==1) jump menu 2;</pre>
        <button> g1=1; jump title 1 chapter  1; </button>
        <button> g1=1; jump menu  2; </button>
       <vob file="C:\dvddir\title\menusub1.mpg" />
       <post> jump menu 1; </post>
      </pgc>
      <pgc pause="5">
        <button> g1=1; jump title 2 chapter  1; </button>
        <button> g1=1; jump title 2 chapter  2; </button>
        <button> g1=1; jump title 2 chapter  3; </button>
        <button> g1=1; jump title 2 chapter  4; </button>
        <button> g1=1; jump title 2 chapter  5; </button>
        <button> g1=1; jump title 2 chapter  6; </button>
        <button> g1=1; jump title 2 chapter  7; </button>
        <button> g1=1; jump title 2 chapter  8; </button>
        <button> g1=1; jump title 2 chapter  9; </button>
        <button> g1=1; jump title 2 chapter  10; </button>
        <button> g1=1; jump title 2 chapter  11; </button>
        <button> g1=1; jump title 2 chapter  12; </button>
       <vob file="C:\dvddir\title\menusub2.mpg" />
       <post> jump menu 2; </post>
      </pgc>
    </menus>
      <titles>
       <video format="ntsc" />
        <pgc>
          <vob file="C:\dvddir\title\title1.mpg" chapters="00:00:00.00" />
          <post>jump title 2;</post>
        </pgc>
        <pgc>
          <vob file="C:\dvddir\title\title2.mpg" chapters="00:00:00.000,00:02:01.188,00:06:25.051,00:36:12.504,00:38:09.954,00:53:07.885,00:55:54.051,01:11:04.494,01:12:34.750,01:50:25.752,01:53:30.837,01:55:59.453" />
          <post>jump title 3;</post>
        </pgc>
        <pgc>
          <vob file="C:\dvddir\title\title3.mpg" chapters="00:00:00.00" />
          <post>g1=1; call menu;</post>
        </pgc>
        <pgc>
          <vob file="C:\dvddir\title\title4.mpg" chapters="00:00:00.00" />
          <post>g1=0; call menu;</post>
        </pgc>
      </titles>
  </titleset>
</dvdauthor>

Hoping I hit the mark this time

[awesomer]

You did, thanks! I had to add the changes manually instead of just cutting and pasting the whole thing over. I figured out that the problem I had cutting and pasting was the directories didn't match so it couldn't find the files. Another tip I think I can give to people is that you should delete the old directory because I ended up with an 11 gig iso that didn't work the way the edits GTRBudda made were supposed to. The real size shoulda been just under 4 gigs, so the authoring process was just adding new files to the existing directory structure. Once I deleted the old files, it all worked out. YAY!

Now, to figure out button navigation.

Hoping I hit the mark this time