I tried to make a layout with videopack 4. I want to create a vcd with 2 menu's. The first linking to clip 1 ~10 and the second to clip 11 ~ 18. Menu1 is connected to Menu2 and all the clips are connected with each other as menus. So you you have for example a menu with clip 3 and it is linking to all the other clips. Here's the problem. I made this layout (after hours of clicking for the linking) and saved the layout (in total 40 nodes). When I open it later (same layout), videopack change the whole layout-file. All the tracks are missing and now there's only 32 nodes. Very fustrating after working on it for hours (1 hour). Does anyone know why this is happening and how I can fix it? Maybe there's another better program for creating menus for vcd? Plz mail me. Btw I tried to make the layout and then burn the image, but most times videopack crashing when it says "parsing script", so that won't help (after making layout, burn immediately). Anyone with solutions, plz mail me/ post in here (although I don't check here often)

~SpiderX~

-- SpiderX (spiderx@usa.com), March 23, 2001

Answers

Right-clicking on the workspace can make you choose between default and menu layouts. When you choose menu layout some nodes on the items may change or disappear; likewise with default. Menu layout is basically for routing choices made in the menu; default is for routing choices when such buttons like FF, PREV, NEXT, and RETURN on the player are pressed. VideoPack has separated the two views to avoid cluttering the workspace especially on complex projects. VideoPack has a few bugs of its own. For example it may not co-exist well with any version of Adaptec Easy CD on some systems. Generally, it behaves better with SCSI CD-R drives as well.

-- Mehmet Tekdemir (turk690@yahoo.com), March 24, 2001.

I had this problem also with tracks missing after the project gets reloaded. I found out that there's a bug in VP4 when using containers. After copying and pasting containers here and there, at some point, tracks starts to get lost.

I had to redo the entire project without containers. I had done some pretty wild routings and the tracks stayed intact.

Maybe that's what's happening.

-- rixng huang (rixinhuang@yahoo.co.uk), March 24, 2001.

I don't use containers and I still have the problems. I'm using menu's with a MPEG-track in it. Maybe the problem is caused, because I'm pasting the menu's. I will try again without any copy and pasting. I have a test project file on Yahoo!Briefcase : http://briefcase.yahoo.com/dumbo0001 (videocd.cpj) I want it to have 18 menus with 18 selection each, but when I reload the projectfile it is missing one menu... Someone can fix it?? But first I'll try adding menus without copying & pasting...

~SpiderX~

-- SpiderX (spiderx@usa.com), March 24, 2001.

Frustrated with that problem, I copied the portions that contained the Mpeg tracks and their entry points. I edited the videopack project file in wordpad. (It's text format) and kept a copy of the mpeg track reference and entry points. VP4 also has a bug with entry points accumulating. I then paste these into the new project file when it got screwed.

But yea. copying and pasting menus could have caused it too.

-- rixin huang (rixinhuang@yahoo.co.uk), March 25, 2001.