Re: [Cellar] Menu System in Matroska Files

Hello,

Since DVDMenuXtractor is incompatible with the current versions of
MKVToolNix and VLC, and has been out of development for a long time, can we
have a new menu specification for Matroska, designed from scratch if
necessary?

Thanks and regards,
Nithin


On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 9:23 PM, Nithin Mathew Kurien <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I downloaded DvdMenuXtractor (rev1295) from
> http://tirnanog.fate.jp/mirror/DvdMenuXtractor/ and tested it on a
> DVD. The program completed execution and output .BAT files along with
> the demuxed tracks. I use the latest versions of MKVToolNix (v.8.8.0)
> and VLC Player (v.2.2.1). When I ran the .BAT files which invoked
> MKVToolNix, most of them aborted execution midway with error. A few of
> them completed, but when I opened the resulting MKV files in VLC, it
> showed the error "VLC can't recognize the input's format:
> The format cannot be detected." It seems that DVDMenuXtractor is not
> working correctly. Is there any way to fix this? Are there some
> example MKV files with menus which I can test in VLC?
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Nithin
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Steve Lhomme <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 2015-12-17 11:41 GMT+01:00 Nithin Mathew Kurien <[email protected]
> >:
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> The Matroska specification includes a menu system which is currently
> >> in a draft state (http://matroska.org/technical/menu/index.html).
> >> Currently there are no open-source players supporting this feature.
> >
> > Yes, VLC can handle Matroska files with DVD menus extracted using
> > DVDMenuXtractor:
> > https://github.com/Matroska-Org/dvdmenuxtractor
> >
> > This was a project meant to demonstrate that Matroska menus are
> > possible. It was never finished though as not all DVD commands were
> > translated into Matroska menus. It was also done ~10 years ago and
> > support in VLC might be broken by now.
> >
> > The idea was to be able to keep all the information contained in a DVD
> > ISO, but in a different format.
> >
> >> But there is at least one proprietary format, namely PGMX, a variant
> >> of MKV, that includes a working menu. These files are created by a
> >> proprietary TMPGENC PGMX creator and played by a freeware TMPGENC PGMX
> >> player. A PGMX file also supports including multiple related titles
> >> inside a single file. Opening this file on open-source players will
> >> play it as a normal MKV file without menus. There are some samples
> >> given in their website
> >> (http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/download/tpxp.html).
> >>
> >> I think the menu feature would be a good idea to implement in Matroska
> >> files and humbly request for the same. I think this feature would be
> >> useful for content authors who would like to distribute their works
> >> freely under a Creative Commons license, for example, who would
> >> otherwise have to adopt proprietary formats like DVD and Blu-ray. I
> >> understand that implementing a menu system from scratch might involve
> >> some complexity. In that case, would it be possible to adopt some
> >> features from the open-source libdvdnav and libbluray?
> >>
> >> Thanks and regards,
> >> Nithin
> >>
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> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Steve Lhomme
> > Matroska association Chairman
>

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