Actually different sizes are very easy to do in many ways. Through drag,n drop: Change the settings under [ Tools->Setup->Drag,n Dop -> Button Size ]
Through context menu: Right click in the menu [Add Image] or [Add Movie] and then creating the size you want Through Mouse: Click on the preview on the lower right corner ( make sure you get the exact yellow point ) and move the mouse Different shapes are available for images, and movies. 1) Unbutton you button if needed. 2) Add Mask 3) Play around with the settings, like shape, frames, colors, transparency, rotation, position etc. 4) click [Okay] 5) Define as Button I think what you'll find is that you have a ton of creative possibilities with QDVDAuthor. You can even animate most of the settings, like color, positions, transparency, size etc. for image/movie objects, or mask objects alike. Let me know if you have further questions. Varol :) On 12/17/2010 04:58 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > Thanks. It worked. There's still a discrepancy between the time mplayer > reports for a frame and the thumbnail preview qdvdauthor shows for that > time, but it's minor. The actual movie is the correct length and I can > fiddle with the preveiew thumbnails to get them to work. > > On my copy of qdvdauthor the setting is changed in Tools | Setup on the > General tab where there is a pulldown for the media engine. Selecting > the QMPlayerWidget seems to have done the trick. > > On another topic, I'd like to have movie buttons of different sizes and > shapes but that doesn't seem to be supported (yet). In fact, movie > thumbnails don't even necessarily correspond to the size/shape I > selected (as displayed by the frames when a button is selected). Is this > on the enhancement list? > > > On 17/12/10 07:16 AM, Varol Okan wrote: > >> Gary, >> >> this is due to xine not being able to determine the proper length of a >> mpeg2 video stream ( unfortunately ). >> >> You can mitigate this by choosing [ Tools -> MedaiBackend -> >> QMplayerWidget ] which will then use mplayer to determine the >> length.MPlayer is much more accurate in this regard. >> >> Please note that if this option is unavailable to you you will have to >> re-compile QDVDAuthor ( I can help ) >> >> Regards, >> >> Varol :) >> >> On 12/14/2010 06:10 PM, Gary Dale wrote: >> >> >>> I've experienced a problem with several movies I've tried to convert to >>> NTSC DVD format. The problem is that movie buttons don't show anything. >>> They (usually) simply display the first frame of the movie no matter >>> what the start time shows. A couple have problems with h264 recoding so >>> they display garbage. >>> >>> No problem, I naively thought. I'll simply recode them using avidemux2 >>> so that qdvdauthor doesn't have to. >>> >>> Avidemux2 has no problem recoding them but when I create a new project >>> with qdvdauthor using the recoded file, I run into problems. For some >>> reason qdvdauthor thinks they are much shorter than the actual movie >>> (e.g. 26 minutes for a 90 minute movie). >>> >>> I note that mplayer and vlc both show the correct length, while dragon >>> player and kaffeine end at the right time (they don't show the total >>> playing time, just the current time). For some reason vlc reports the >>> frame rate at double the actual, but all players play the recoded movie >>> correctly. >>> >>> The internal player in the video properties dialogue uses the same time >>> codes as the media info dialogue so it is internally consistent in that >>> respect. However, if I try to make a DVD, I run into problems. If I take >>> the chapter start times from qdvdauthor, they end up pointing to the >>> wrong times (i.e. the compressed time scale, not the actual movie time >>> codes) so that all the buttons jump to points in the first 26 minutes of >>> the 90 minute movie. >>> >>> On the other hand, if I use the actual times (I usually use mplayer for >>> this) for the chapters, the thumbnail movies don't go beyond what >>> qdvdauthor thinks is the end of the movie (26 minutes less the length of >>> the thumbnail - 0:25:48 for a 12 second thumbnail). >>> >>> Note that manually setting the video to the correct length in the media >>> info dialogue doesn't affect this behaviour. 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