The menus you make in WinonCD or Videopack 4 viewable and useable in stand alone dvd/vcd players?

-- Randal Santiago (the_fool99@hotmail.com), February 08, 2000

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Yes! excellent! VideoPack 4 has a few bugs in it but whats left is great.

-- Ross McL (rmclennan@esc.net.au), February 08, 2000.

What are the bugs?

PS Thanks:)

-- Randal Santiago (the_fool99@hotmail.com), February 08, 2000

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Others on this site have mentioned some of the problems, some I can remember or have experienced are:

Difficulties with in/out points and that has a solution which is related to the encoder/GOP properties it seems. I could not get them to work when I wanted to play two sections as highlights from within the one larger file by menu selection. I simply got around it by encoding those sections and making them different tracks.

I have used a series of stills as a menu item and have not been able to get the times consistant in a set top dvd and on a computer. If I set for the DVD player it was about 10 times as long on a PC; because of this I simply used a mpeg stream so that at least the time is then consistant on both and the quality was the same.

There are other things which I cannot remember but I simply adopt an attitude that if its a problem then get around it even if you drop it altogether, afterall maybe we all did not pay top dollar for the software anyway!

Its a bit unfriendly to use and changes within a project must be treated as a new project, try using a standard set for 3 levels and removing some unwanted items! However, once you experiment enough .......

There is a thread here somewhere listing Problems with VideoPack 4.

-- Ross McL (rmclennan@esc.net.au), February 08, 2000.