Re: Idiots guide to making DVD menus?

Thanks for your help.

I am finding the help pages for spumux confusing because it mainly
talks about creating subtitles, not menus, although the xml input can
do both, right?

http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/doc/r2515.html

If I have a still image which I want to use as a menu background, do I
need to convert that into a short mpg to create a menu?

I'm assuming the spumux call would be something like this?

spumux xmlfile.xml < input.mpg > output.mpg

Where the xml is like this:

<subpictures>
   <stream>
      <spu start="start-time" [ end="end-time" ] [ image="picture.png" ]
           [ highlight="picture.png" ] [ select="picture.png" ]
           [ transparent="color-spec" ] [ force="yes" ]
           [ autooutline="infer" [ outlinewidth="width" ]
             [ autoorder="rows" | autoorder="columns" ] ]
           [ xoffset="x-coord" yoffset="y-coord" ] >
         <button [ name="name" ] [ x0="x0" ] [ y0="y0" ] [ x1="x1" ]
                 [ y1="y1" ] [ up="name" ] [ down="name" ]
                 [ left="name" ] [ right="name" ] />
         <action [ name="name" ] [ x0="x0" ] [ y0="y0" ] [ x1="x1" ]
                 [ y1="y1" ] />
      </spu>
   </stream>
</subpictures>

the button tags, I think I understand. But action? I don't get how to
format this. What I want is a "Play all" button and then buttons for
each chapter.

I feel i'm missing something obvious here...

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