2005-12-18, 03:21 PM
ive added dvd menus support to my vids 5, but alas i suck making graphics so i need some help creating a few standard menus (want about 3-5).
ive made it so it will automatically generate a title list menu, a title information menu and a chapter list menu.
eg say you burn 4 episodes of "Enterprise"
menu 1 - lists the 4 episodes
menu 2 - shows info about the current episode and has the buttons "play", "chapters", "return"
menu 3 - the chapter list menu, with thumbnails/screenshots generated at each chapter point.
it uses a template format very similar to gbpvrs standard skin format (the skin.xml files) but my own code since i had to do some very boring special things to get it to work. i can handle all the code part, but i need a few images. namely
- 3 backgrounds (for each menu)
- 3 selector images (normal, highlighted, selected), maximum of 4 colours for each image (dvd limit)
the selector images are pretty much say just a box around the selected item, and selected and highlighted are just 2 different colours.
i want some really generic ones that you could use for pretty much any dvd, but its possible to do some custom ones eg a "Enterprise" one.
the available information for each screen is
menu 1
- title for each video (text)
- subtitle for each video (text) (episode name)
- titlesubtitle (just "Title - Subtitle") (text)
menu 2.
- title (text)
- subtitle (text)
- poster (image)
- description (text)
- rating (image)(star rating out of 5)
- year (text)
- director (text)
- writer (text)
menu 3.
- title (text)
- subtitle (text)
- chapter screenshots (images)
the backgrounds are the most work, just need some that look good . the menus will automatically be generated without any user interaction, i got a really simple ugly one working ill post some screen shots of that tomorrow (4:21 am here).
ive made it so it will automatically generate a title list menu, a title information menu and a chapter list menu.
eg say you burn 4 episodes of "Enterprise"
menu 1 - lists the 4 episodes
menu 2 - shows info about the current episode and has the buttons "play", "chapters", "return"
menu 3 - the chapter list menu, with thumbnails/screenshots generated at each chapter point.
it uses a template format very similar to gbpvrs standard skin format (the skin.xml files) but my own code since i had to do some very boring special things to get it to work. i can handle all the code part, but i need a few images. namely
- 3 backgrounds (for each menu)
- 3 selector images (normal, highlighted, selected), maximum of 4 colours for each image (dvd limit)
the selector images are pretty much say just a box around the selected item, and selected and highlighted are just 2 different colours.
i want some really generic ones that you could use for pretty much any dvd, but its possible to do some custom ones eg a "Enterprise" one.
the available information for each screen is
menu 1
- title for each video (text)
- subtitle for each video (text) (episode name)
- titlesubtitle (just "Title - Subtitle") (text)
menu 2.
- title (text)
- subtitle (text)
- poster (image)
- description (text)
- rating (image)(star rating out of 5)
- year (text)
- director (text)
- writer (text)
menu 3.
- title (text)
- subtitle (text)
- chapter screenshots (images)
the backgrounds are the most work, just need some that look good . the menus will automatically be generated without any user interaction, i got a really simple ugly one working ill post some screen shots of that tomorrow (4:21 am here).