ltDvdWriter.AddMenuTitle Method

Visual Basic Example

Syntax

Object.AddMenuTitle(Title As String, Index As Long)

Remarks

Adds a new title The name for a group of related video files (called "Chapters") on your DVD. For example, for a DVD called "My Summer Vacation," you might have the titles "Water Skiing," "New Friends," and "Hiking." For each of those titles, you might have one or more different video files. to the menu.

The title list can be modified at any time before writing the menu. A maximum of 36 titles can be added. Calling ltDvdWriter.AddMenuTitle method with an existing index will not make an update: it will insert a new title at the specified index and shift the list down.

Menu writing should be the last step in a DVD image A set of files that contain all of the video and audio content for a DVD, organized with a table of contents (optional). See also: Title, Chapter The name for each individual video file on a DVD. For example, under the title "Water Skiing", you might have the chapters "My first try," "My first wreck," and "My first jump.", ISO Image An ISO image (.iso) is a disk image of a file system. It includes data files that are contained in the ISO image along with filesystem metadata. ISO images are an alternative to physical media for distribution of a "DVD" over the Internet. Most operating systems allow ISO images images to be "played" as if they were physical discs. See also: DVD Image.. authoring process. Writing the menu first will cause an error and if a new title is written after the menu has been written, then the menu will be destroyed.

Any multimedia file can be used as the menu background, including a single page image, a multipage image, or a video. All Menus require a background video. To add menus to the DVD image, perform the following steps:

1.

Add a menu title by calling the ltDvdWriter.AddMenuTitle method.

2.

Set the ltDvdWriter.TitleMenu property to TRUE.

3.

Convert the background image for the menu. This is a standard DVD conversion graph, only the video will be used for the menu background.

4.

Set the ltDvdWriter.TitleMenu property to FALSE to close the "menu write" mode. This merges the menu subtitile information with the background video and modifies the DVD image.

 

Platforms

Win32, x64

See Also

Elements:

ltDvdWriter.RemoveAllMenuTitles Method, ltDvdWriter.MenuTitleCount Property, ltDvdWriter.GetMenuTitle Method, ltDvdWriter_RemoveMenuTitleMethod.htm, ltDvdWriter.ClearTitleSet_Method.htm

Topics:

Multimedia Properties, Methods and Events

 

The LEAD DVD Writer and Menus Titles and Chapters

 

DVD Module Properties, Methods and Events

 

Video Streaming Module Properties, Methods and Events