Our CIO has created some home spun dvds shot with his camcorder and 3rd party
software. He wants the menus recreated on the Windows Media Server I setup.

1) Are there any tools that allow you to visually see how the menus call the
segments? Unfortunately it seems random to me and it would take many, hours
to figure out.
2) Is it possible to just use Markers from Media Encoder to attempt to
reproduce the menus?

On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 13:56:00 -0800, Brian <Brian
@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Our CIO has created some home spun dvds shot with his camcorder and 3rd party
>software. He wants the menus recreated on the Windows Media Server I setup.

It sounds like he's handed you a turd (not least because he's used
unnamed proprietary tools, probably with no hope of project export)

I'm not actually clear what you mean by "Menus recreated on WMS" ?


>1) Are there any tools that allow you to visually see how the menus call the
>segments? Unfortunately it seems random to me and it would take many, hours
>to figure out.

Probably this Videohelp article will let you decipher the menu entries
in the VTS_01_0.IFO found on the DVD directory listing :
http://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=313743


>2) Is it possible to just use Markers from Media Encoder to attempt to
>reproduce the menus?

Eh ? How do you plan WME gets hold of these markers ? You'd have to
create them during authoring of a WMV file from the raw content, not
somehow magically have them appear when processing MPEG2 video
segments (vob data) from a DVD

Probably there's some confusion here ;-)

Would it just make more sense for him to provide the unmodified, raw
footage and let you encode the relevant sections from source - so you
don't then end up with problems demultiplexing the VOB data, messing
about with MPEG2 decoders and generally becoming irritated with your
boss' unreasonable request - he should have asked you *before*
creating this mess <g>

Cheers - Neil
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