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I've made a little avisynth script to make a chapterselection menu for SVCD/VCD/KVCD.
Here is the results:

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Code:

### Setup



# Enter Source

Source=mpeg2source("D:\NeroImages\VCD\DVD2SVCD\DVD2AVI_PROJECT_FILE.d2v")



# Enter Text

MovieTitle="Sweet Home Alabama"

CDNum="1/1"

EncType="KVCD"



# Chapters (Enter chapeter start frame)

Chapt1Start=0

Chapt2Start=2001

Chapt3Start=4001

Chapt4Start=6001

Chapt5Start=8001

Chapt6Start=10001

ChaptStartafter=200



# Width, Height, Framerate

MenuWidth=720

MenuHeight=576

MenuFramerate=25



# Time

Thump_time=100



# Details (Advanced)

ThumbWidth=150

ThumbHeight=150



NrThumbWidth=4

NrThumbHeight=2



FromEdge=10



### Calculations

StartWidth1=MenuWidth*FromEdge

StartWidth=StartWidth1/100

StartHeight1=MenuHeight*(FromEdge+7)

StartHeight=StartHeight1/100



EndWidth1=MenuWidth*(100-FromEdge)

EndWidth2=EndWidth1/100

EndWidth=EndWidth2-ThumbWidth

EndHeight1=MenuHeight*(100-FromEdge-5)

EndHeight2=EndHeight1/100

EndHeight=EndHeight2-ThumbHeight





### Script



# Background

Background1=Trim(Source,0,-1)

Background2=Loop(Background1)





## Subtitle

# "Title"

Background=Subtitle(Background2, MovieTitle, x=MenuWidth/2, y=25, first_frame=0, last_frame=99999, font="Arial", size=50, text_color=$FFFFFF, align=8)

# "CD Number"

Background=Subtitle(Background, CDNum, x=StartWidth+5, y=MenuHeight-40, first_frame=0, last_frame=99999, font="Arial", size=40, text_color=$FFFFFF)

# "CD type" (SVCD, VCD, KVCD, Etc.)

Background=Subtitle(Background, EncType, x=EndWidth2, y=MenuHeight-40, first_frame=0, last_frame=99999, font="Arial", size=40, text_color=$FFFFFF, align=6)





# Thump lenght

Clip1=Trim(Source, Chapt1Start+ChaptStartafter,Chapt1Start+ChaptStartafter+Thump_time)

Clip2=Trim(Source, Chapt2Start+ChaptStartafter,Chapt2Start+ChaptStartafter+Thump_time)

Clip3=Trim(Source, Chapt3Start+ChaptStartafter,Chapt3Start+ChaptStartafter+Thump_time)

Clip4=Trim(Source, Chapt4Start+ChaptStartafter,Chapt4Start+ChaptStartafter+Thump_time)

Clip5=Trim(Source, Chapt5Start+ChaptStartafter,Chapt5Start+ChaptStartafter+Thump_time)

Clip6=Trim(Source, Chapt6Start+ChaptStartafter,Chapt6Start+ChaptStartafter+Thump_time)



# Thump Size

Clip1=LanczosResize(Clip1, ThumbWidth, ThumbHeight)

Clip2=LanczosResize(Clip2, ThumbWidth, ThumbHeight)

Clip3=LanczosResize(Clip3, ThumbWidth, ThumbHeight)

Clip4=LanczosResize(Clip4, ThumbWidth, ThumbHeight)

Clip5=LanczosResize(Clip5, ThumbWidth, ThumbHeight)

Clip6=LanczosResize(Clip6, ThumbWidth, ThumbHeight)

# Thumb numbers

Clip1=Subtitle(Clip1, "1", x=0, y=0, first_frame=0, last_frame=99999, font="Arial", size=40, text_color=$DD0B01, align=7)

Clip2=Subtitle(Clip2, "2", x=0, y=0, first_frame=0, last_frame=99999, font="Arial", size=40, text_color=$DD0B01, align=7)

Clip3=Subtitle(Clip3, "3", x=0, y=0, first_frame=0, last_frame=99999, font="Arial", size=40, text_color=$DD0B01, align=7)

Clip4=Subtitle(Clip4, "4", x=0, y=0, first_frame=0, last_frame=99999, font="Arial", size=40, text_color=$DD0B01, align=7)

Clip5=Subtitle(Clip5, "5", x=0, y=0, first_frame=0, last_frame=99999, font="Arial", size=40, text_color=$DD0B01, align=7)

Clip6=Subtitle(Clip6, "6", x=0, y=0, first_frame=0, last_frame=99999, font="Arial", size=40, text_color=$DD0B01, align=7)





# Mix

v1=Layer(Background, Clip1,"add",255,StartWidth,StartHeight)

v2=Layer(v1, Clip2,"add",255,(MenuWidth/2)-(ThumbWidth/2),StartHeight)

v3=Layer(v2, Clip3,"add",255,EndWidth,StartHeight)

v4=Layer(v3, Clip4,"add",255,StartWidth, EndHeight)

v5=Layer(v4, Clip5,"add",255,(MenuWidth/2)-(ThumbWidth/2), EndHeight)

v6=Layer(v5, Clip6,"add",255,EndWidth, EndHeight)





Trim(v6,0,-1)

What about make a litle plugin for DVD2SVCD, so this goes automaticly?
With this method I also can make motion menues, but the encoding time will be long....
My biggest problem is to change the xml-file for VCDxBuild. Can anybody help me???[/IMG]