I'd suggest that the properties include at least:ģ)Which menu in the titleset is the 'root' (i.e the one which the video-manager can get to).Ĥ)Maybe which menu of the titleset is the 'title' page - not sure about this. That way, a right-click in the whitespace of the tab (or maybe in the little sticking-up tab label thingy itself) would let you twiddle with the properties for whatever that tab is handling. Might I suggest an alternative? Currently all the vmMenus, menus and clips being used in a job appear in a single "contents" panel below the main menu-editing screen.Ĭhange this single "contents" panel to contain a set of tabs, one each for the video manager and each of the titlesets. Currently, if you try and do this you get informed that any such change will affect all menus in the titleset, which rather gives away the fact that the current mechanism is wrong! It can be used to loop the current video (by having aĬonditionally skip certain chapters if a flag has been set.Currently, some of the 'attributes' of a menu that can be edited by right-clicking the menu actually refer to the titleset itself (or the video manager in the case of vmMenus).įor instance, the setting of the aspect-ratio of a menu. Sets the commands to execute before or after a PGC Want the video to pause indefinitely, use To set the number of seconds (as an integer) from 1 to 254. Pause at the end, you can use the pause attribute If you have a short video sequence or just want the video to Numbers up to three button groups may be specified.
After that, theīutton group information can be listed as pairs of 8 digit hexadecimal The first 16Įntries of the file should be the 16 colors of the palette, listed asĦ digit hexadecimal numbers representing either the RGB breakdown (if Want to have more control over the palette, you can manually specify Information will be automatically passed toĭvdauthor however, if you use another subtitler or To generate the subtitle/subpicture packets, then the color Note that rootĮntry is meant for commands that jump from a VMGM level menu to aĪll button and menu masks and all subtitles within a PGC must
For a VMGM level menu, the onlyĬhoice is title, which on my remote corresponds to This means that if you press the corresponding button on your DVD If the PGC is a menu, you can specify one or more entries for Start playing or after they finish see pre and PGC's can have commands that get executed before they It has a special meaning in the DVD spec so I have retained Possible to just list the language attribute and letĪ PGC is just a fancy term for either a menu or a However, language must be manually specified. Most parameters are inferredĪutomatically from the source VOBs except for PCM parameters. Manually configures an audio channel for this Resolutions for PAL, but DVD author will accept a wider range of Set or titleset, called in dvdauthor terminology a Marks the list of menus or titles for this VMGM menu , Ĭonstructs of a VMGM level menu set or a title set. Contains up to one tag and any number of 's. dest denotes the directory where dvdauthor will write the files. Here is the basic structure of the configuration file: They would be in a separate titleset with a menu to select among the
Perhaps with a lower quality audio track and a 4:3 aspect ratio, then A typical setup is to locate the high level menusĪt the VMGM level, and the low level configuration menus (scene /Īudio / subtitle selection) at the titleset. ForĮxample, you must decide whether to locate menus at the VMGM level or Is that there are often many ways to accomplish the same task.
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One of the most frusterating things when deciding how to author a DVD That can access the menus and titles of all the titlesets. Titlesets are not meant to jump to one another, so the (the definitions for the menus are independent from the definitionsįor the titles), so if you want to have different settings (forĮxample widescreen vs standard aspect ratios), then you need separate Of a given titleset have the same video, audio, and subtitle settings Titleset as the title which is being played. The DVD player's remote control will all access menus in the same The "menu", "audio", "subtitle", and "angle" buttons on The menus and titles are divided into titlesets and the VMGM menu set.Ī titleset can contain a number of menus and titles which are meant toĪct together. However, in reality many of the featuresĪvailable in menus (including buttons, pausing, and looping) are also
At a high level, a DVD is a collection of menus and titles.Ĭonceptually, a menu contains buttons which can be assigned actionsĪnd provides a list of choices to the end user, while a title contains
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