How much space are my menus using?

FijiDVD wrote on 3/24/2013, 2:29 PM

Is it correct that all menus (and associated graphics) are limited to a single VOB - and thus one gig? If so, how can I tell how much space my menus are using? (So far everything works with 343 menu pages, each with its own background graphic. But I want to add twice that much more.)

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musicvid10 wrote on 3/24/2013, 2:43 PM

Take your program VOBs, subtract their size (most will be 1024 MB), and that will get you close.

Chienworks wrote on 3/24/2013, 2:43 PM

DVDArchitect probably doesn't have any reliable way of telling you. It's size estimates are notoriously off, and also will only show you the composite total for everything on the DVD, not just the menus.

Probably the only way to get a reliable figure is to do a Prepare, then go look at the size of the resulting VTS_01_0.VOB file (assuming of course that your menus appear in the disc structure before content video).

If your menus are primarily text and still graphics then you'll probably hit the limit of number of menu items before you'll run out of disc space.

FijiDVD wrote on 3/24/2013, 2:49 PM

Thanks. I just figured out that all of the menus should be in VTS_01_0.VOB. Right now it is under 100MiB. Chienworks, do you know what the limit on number of menu items is? That is likely to be my limiting factor. I'd like to get at least 9 lessons per DVD and I have assembled three so far. (Total space used so far is about 1.2GB so I am hoping that I don't run out of menus first.)

FijiDVD wrote on 3/24/2013, 2:53 PM

MusicVid - This kind of DVD has resulted in a very strange structure. It has 20 VOBs so far, with sizes from 3460KB to 158,944KB!