Multiple language DVD video

Hi at all,
I've a doubt.
I'm making a DVD video with many languages. Each language must have a different menu (language menu) and each video track have an audio + subtitle track dedicated for each language.
I also need to start the dvd with a languages menu where everyone could choose the preferred language from a list. I think that a greek person could want to see and listen at the franch audio + subtitles instead of english audio and subtitles
Have I to script each language button? How could I set the language menu for each button?Thanks in advance and sorry for my english...

Here is an example of using scripts for setting preferences, in that case audio. So you can do something like that to have people select their language and route to the rest of the DVD as needed.
http://www.dvdstepbystep.com/audioset.php
There are a couple of other approaches also. I would let the users decide what subtitle/audio they want and not assume that, using the Greek language selection, that they would want to hear/see French. Makes it easier to code also.
Quick heads up, you mention many langauges and there are limits on audio and subtitle streams on a track (audio is probably going to be a more practical limit based on the number of streams)
Also keep in mind how subtitle and audio streams will affect encoding/maximum rates
http://www.dvdstepbystep.com/faqs_3.php

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Not sure if you text is in the footage itself or not. Sounds like a not? You may need to use something like stories to route the footage to the proper places. (If the clips are the same lengths there are other tricks to try.)
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Regards,
John O'Conner
Its obvious to me that I will need to store the
multiple languages in the database in some way, I'm
thinking of either storage in some xml format, or a
new table hanging off the "dvd" table with languages
for each dvd. Either of these options would work for
my purposes, but I don't want to go reinvent the
wheel when this same problem has arleady been solved.
If someone could point me in the right direction I
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We're getting to the final stages of a multi-language DVD (subtitles and audio) and have been trying to figure the best method to work. Is is best to add languages and use the language sub-menus, or best to add separate menus for each language (3)? I see possible advantages in terms of scripting to each method.
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I was able to use photoshop files to make each language menu (sub-menu?) with appropriate words and characters. But I couldn't get my head around how to get to each of the language menus. I could find only one menu: the Main Chapter selection Menu.
WHAT WORKED:
As mentioned above we simply created logical architecture that led to different language menus that were language specific in terms of look, but still – from an authoring level – inside the DVD's one language (English).
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I offer all this that someone might say: The easy way to use foreign languages on a DVD is THIS WAY. Otherwise why add multiple languages? With decent, CLEAR methods maybe then Apple could write that in the manual and save me and others a heck of a lot of time hacking around doing the same thing people before us did already.
-Bill
Open to better ideas

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A suggestion: Submit a
feature request
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Marc

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here I am to tell about my doubt in the an International DVD authoring, trying to figure out the correct workflow procedures.
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Paul

last time i had to make a multi language dvd i dropped the language in DVD SP and managed it with GPRM from the first language select menu.
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Are you referring to a commercial and hence copy-protected video DVD? If so, it's illegal in the US to attempt to break the copy protection, so we cannot help you with that question here.
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