How would I do this

[Andrew Robinson-8]

I am trying to convert a friend's wedding video to DVD. I've got a nice
title menu that correctly jumps to the beginning of various segments,
like the begging of the ceremony, the cutting of the cake, etc. However,
I would like to do something that I have never done with a DVD before
this. There is a real nice image of the rear window of the get away car
that has "Just Married" painted on it. When the video ends, I would like
to have that image pop up and wait for a button click of some kind. The
button click would then take the viewer back to the main menu.

In other words, I want the video to end with a menu that is different
than the one it began with. I have tried a few thinks with the
dvdauthor.xml file. But I keep running into the error that I cannot get
a video segment to jump to a menu other than the main one or the one for
that pgc group and I cannot have more than one menu per pgc group.
Anyone have any suggestions on how I might accomplish this?

Thanks!

Andrew Robinson

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[Claude Heiland-Allen]

Andrew Robinson wrote:
> But I keep running into the error that I cannot get
> a video segment to jump to a menu other than the main one or the one for
> that pgc group and I cannot have more than one menu per pgc group.
> Anyone have any suggestions on how I might accomplish this?

Registers and conditional branching.  Set a register in the vmgm first
play element <fpc>, then in the menu test the register and jump to one
of two menus depending if its set to "nothing played yet" or "video has
been played to end" (set the register to that value in the <post> code
of the video).

For an overkill conditional branching and pseudo-random number usage
example, I made an experimental DVD artwork:

http://claudiusmaximus.goto10.org/cm/2009-01-07_dvd2473.html
http://ia341027.us.archive.org/0/items/ClaudiusMaximus_-_DVD2473/dvd.xml

> Thanks!
>
> Andrew Robinson

Claude
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[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI-4]

On Seg, 27 Jul 2009, Andrew Robinson wrote:

> I am trying to convert a friend's wedding video to DVD. I've got a nice
> title menu that correctly jumps to the beginning of various segments,
> like the begging of the ceremony, the cutting of the cake, etc. However,
> I would like to do something that I have never done with a DVD before
> this. There is a real nice image of the rear window of the get away car
> that has "Just Married" painted on it. When the video ends, I would like
> to have that image pop up and wait for a button click of some kind. The
> button click would then take the viewer back to the main menu.
>
> In other words, I want the video to end with a menu that is different
> than the one it began with. I have tried a few thinks with the
> dvdauthor.xml file. But I keep running into the error that I cannot get
> a video segment to jump to a menu other than the main one or the one for
> that pgc group and I cannot have more than one menu per pgc group.
> Anyone have any suggestions on how I might accomplish this?

One way is with a flag: set, say, g0 = 1 when the video starts  
playing. At the menu, in a pre condition, test the flag. If it's 1,  
jump to the "just married" menu, otherwise display the normal menu.



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[Scott Smith-8]

On 7/27/09, Andrew Robinson <awrobinson-ml@...> wrote:
>  In other words, I want the video to end with a menu that is different
>  than the one it began with.

There isn't much difference between a menu and a title.  If the
resolution matches, and you don't mind your DVD player saying "Chapter
123 Timecode 10:00" instead of "Menu 12", then you can do it all from
within the title itself.
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[Lawrence D'Oliveiro-2]

Andrew Robinson wrote:

> But I keep running into the error that I cannot get
> a video segment to jump to a menu other than the main one or the one for
> that pgc group and I cannot have more than one menu per pgc group.

Here's a description <http://www.mpucoder.com/DVD/vmi-jmp.html> of which
calls/jumps are valid where. As you can see from the last diagram, from
within a titleset, the only valid "call" operations are to the FPC, any
menu in the VMG, and the root menu in the same titleset, while the only
valid "jump" operations are to another title or part of title in the
same titleset.

In other words, you could put your special sequence as an additional
(non-title) menu in the VMG, and "call" to it in the <post> sequence at
the end of your title.

Worth a try, anyway. :)

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