Editing menus and fine tweeking home movies

Right click on the appropriate button and select 'Properties'.

 

Ok. thanks! Now that I'm all done, guess what my latest problem is? It says that there is a problem with the spumux.exe file and it can't burn the menus...what can i do to fix this?

 

Either try a different version or the help forum.

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/DVDStyler/old-versions#download



There's a DVD styler Forum here.

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=318795

 

@ attar

Nice job. Looks like I'll have to give DVDStyler a whirl.

 

@MysticE
I hope rebel14 gets it working after all that blood and snot.
That file with the error is part of DVDAuthor, but I've no idea why it's acting up - maybe an Administrator/User issue - I'm sure we are both using the same version.

 

I noticed somewhere else they talked about grabbing spumux.exe from DVDFick and dropping that into Styler (???)

Seems DVDAuthor is falling a bit out of style as most of the frontends have gone to Muxman.

 

I copied the file from DVD Flick to DVD Styler - it created the output ok even though the file sizes were quite different.

 

I still can't get the file to work. I've uninstalled and re installed it, installed different versions, and tryed switching the spumux.exe from DVD Flick (though i did get a little bit farther)and it still didn't work. It quits at the first menu every time. No one has answered this question on DVD Stylers forum either and I searched there for help. So close to being done. lol

I am running the latest version of DVD Styler so im pretty sure they are the same.

 

I don't know if it applies, but I know that some programs are prevented from operating in Vista because of DEP.
If you have Vista it might be OK to try to disable DEP for spumux.exe to see if it does anything.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/65790-dep-turn-off-programs.html

 

I just tried that since i am running Vista and still no change.

 

Since I am running Vista, what would happen if i saved all my work onto a jump drive or external hard drive, downloaded DVD Styler and Avidemux to a computer that runs XP....would the spumux.exe file work there?

 

It runs ok on my XP machine - you could install DVDStyler and have it do a quick run through on a small file before the main project.

 

That's a good idea! I tried that on my computer with Vista with all the original files on it and it worked. Now what do I need to do to get the main movie to fit?

 

Copy all video and image files to a USB drive.

On the Vista machine you can save the project (File > Save) and it will be saved to an .xml file.
Save it to the usb drive.

Edit the .xml file in Notepad so that any reference to the path where images or video reside, reflects the usb drive.
In my case, any reference to c:\ would be changed to g:\ - of course when it is plugged into the XP machine it would have to have the same drive letter.

Here is an example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<dvdstyler format="4" videoFormat="3" emptyMenu="1" audioFormat="3" name="DVD" jumppad="1">
<vmgm>
<menus/>
</vmgm>
<titleset>
<menus>
<video aspect="4:3"/>
<pgc>
<vob pause="inf">
<menu videoFormat="NTSC">
<svg width="720" height="480">
<image xlink:href="G:\img281.jpg" width="720" height="480" id="background"/>
<defs id="defs">
<svg id="s_button01">
<image xlink:href="G:\clip.avi" width="80%" height="80%" style="opacity:1;" id="image" y="10%" x="10%"/>
<rect width="80%" height="80%" style="fill:none;stroke:#ffffff;stroke-width:5;" id="rect" y="10%" rx="5" ry="5" x="10%"/>
</svg>
</defs>
<g id="objects"/>
<g id="buttons">
<use xlink:href="#s_button01" width="124" y="135" height="106" id="button01" x="99"/>
</g>
</svg>
<button id="button01">
<action audio="-1" subtitle="-1" playAll="false" chapter="0" pgci="1"/>
<filename>frame.xml</filename>
<parameter highlighted="#0000ff" selected="#ff0000" name="stroke" normal="#ffffff"/>
<parameter highlighted="none" selected="none" name="fill" normal="none"/>
</button>
</menu>
</vob>
</pgc>
</menus>
<titles>
<pgc>
<vob file="G:\clip.avi">
<video format="3"/>
<audio format="3"/>
</vob>
<post>call vmgm menu 1;</post>
</pgc>
</titles>
</titleset>
</dvdstyler>

 

Is there a way to re size the main project and all the movies so they are smaller?

 

Mpeg-2 files can be converted to AVI - which means a quality hit, then converting them back to DVD format means another hit - not to mention the time involved - I understood you had an external drive - why the problem with the file size.

 

Well I hurried up and made a really basic simple test movie with one of the clips i had, and put in a menu with a pic and a button to press play with. (I did this on my vista computer because i didn't have the external with me nor the computer with xp on it) The movie burned fine. Now when I try it with the main movie (on the same computer), here is the error message i get:

Error executing of command: spumux "C:\Users\Valued Customer\Desktop\trial\Video Edit Clips\DVD Trial\dvd\dvd\menu1-2.mpg_spumux.xml"


The main movie has 5 menus and 17 titles. Now why would it work with the test dvd and not this one. Hence why I thought reducing the size of the files might be an option. But I also don't want to take away the quality either.

 

Any difference between the working DVD and the failed?
Same button, same font?

 

the only thing similar between the 2 was the 1 clip i used is the last clip on the dvd and it had its own button but with words instead of an arrow.