trying to create a motion interactive menu using xvcd

[TurboRunner]

Hi,

I can create Standard SVCD and Vcd with motion menus very close to the dvd menu eg.. Fast and the furious using Video Pack 5

But I am trying to create an xvcd because i want to fit one movie on 1cd
it's settings are 352x288, 16:9, 750CBR, Mpeg1, with 224bit sound.
and i have ended up with one mpeg of 750MB which will fit on one 80min CD.

Tryed creating with VP5 but it wants to re-encode to a 1gb file.

The next option was TSCV but that can't create the menu like the Fast & furious where if you click on scene selection from the mainmenu it will show the road going to a fence intro then it will goto the scene selection menu.

So i would presume you have to create the xml by hand and use vcdimager.

Is it possible to do it using vcdimager and creating the xml yourself using xvcd mpeg?

any help would be appreciated.

Thanks


TurboRunner

[vitualis]

The next option was TSCV but that can't create the menu like the Fast & furious where if you click on scene selection from the mainmenu it will show the road going to a fence intro then it will goto the scene selection menu.

Okay, "clicking" can't be done on any VCD authoring package simply because it isn't a feature of VCDs.

So i would presume you have to create the xml by hand and use vcdimager.

That's right.

What you want is definitely possible but VCDImager isn't going to create any of the video clips you need for you. You will need to extract/make the clips for the menus (or bridging animations between menus) yourself. The easiest way to do this is to extract the animations from the DVD.

This can be simply done by getting all the VTS_??_0.VOB files (which is usually where the menus reside). You can do this be decrypting them with SmartRipper in "File Mode".

Then, use DVD2AVI to get the stills/animations.

You may need to do some video editing (e.g., with virtualDub and or Premiere) to add/remove stuff you don't want (e.g., removing irrelevant DVD only options).

Then, encode to MPEG.

VCDImager +/- GUI +/- manual XML editing will then allow you to get the user interaction working anyway you desire.

Some of the guides here: http://www.vcdimager.org/guides may have you some insight on how VCDs work at all.

Regards.