Posted by Ken Maltby on 06/14/06 18:08

"Bob" <spam@uce.gov> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:34:23 -0500, "Ken Maltby"
> <kmaltby@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> There is only one menu on the DVD you made. WinDVD is apparently
>>calling it a Title Menu.
>
> But TDA called it the Main Menu, and reserved the term Title Menu for
> something entirely different.
>

Again Semantics. And TDA doesn't mention a "Title Menu" at any time.


>>There is no way for the DVD to magically create
>>another menu to be your "Root Menu a.k.a. (by you, as a) Main Menu".
>
> Commercial DVDs create a Root Menu.
>

Yes they sometimes do, but when they want their DVDs to have
more than one menu, they create more than one menu.

>> When TDA makes a "Main" menu it is the menu in the DVD specifications
>>that lets you select different VTS (Video Title Sets). A DVD can also
>>have
>>other menus including a "root" menu to select other menus (audio,
>>subpicture, special features, ect..) that need not be the "Main" menu for
>>VTS selection.
>
> Commercial DVDs put the two together and call it the Root Menu. I am
> able to access it in WinDVD thru "Root Menu" and with my DVDR as
> "Menu". I don't even have a Title key on my programmable remote.
>

Not all the time, and not using "Root Menu" as a consistent term. The
player doesn't have any idea what the programmer who authored the DVD
(or the program he used) may have called his menus, they just respond to
the VM commands that navigate them through the DVD as it is structured.

All DVDs conform within the limits of a defined structure, in terms of
the allowed menu structure, as well; but there is a good deal of creative
flexibility built into the structure. No two DVDs (commercial or
otherwise) need be constructed with the same menus, but they all must
conform to the specifications.

It is pointless to get into a discussion of what terms should be used
for the different processes and implementations of the features of a
DVD. Different authoring programs, players, remotes, dropdown
menus, ect... will use different terms for the same processes and the
same terms for totally different processes. You and Alpha seem to
be able to pick the terms you believe should be used, and feel that
any use, contrary to that, is wrong.

This whole thread makes me wonder what you do when you go
out and there are no "Bathrooms" only "Rest Rooms", or "Men's
room" or some other colorful term?

I can make or trick TDA into making just about any menu I
might need. I don't expect every player out there to respond
exactly the same or use the same term as I intended. I am
often just glad if it will play the particular media, burned with the
particular program and file format I may have used. Most of the
time I get very satisfactory results.

Luck;
Ken

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