Scripts in DVD SP

Greetings!
I am authoring my first dvd and would like that when ever the viewer press the eject buttom a short "goodbye" video track plays. It is similar to the first play, but inverse; a kind of last play.
Is there any script or command for it?
Thanks in advance,
Kasper

Thanks again and maybe you can help me with these too.
The first play is a small intro video that ends in the main menu.
The main menu has eight buttons, each one assigned to a specific track.
I would like them to play in a specific sequence that goes like this:
Track one´s end jump goes to track two´s button in the main menu , Track two´s end jump goes to track three´s button, and so on. But if some how the viewer interrupts the track in the middle of a play it would go to the same button of the track that is playing and not to the next of the sequence.
Also, I would like a script that allows me to automatically play through all the fluxogram of the authoring. In other words, after the first play reaches the main menu it holds for about three seconds with the button of the first track highlighted and then, automatically initiates the sequence of the play, showing all the buttons and tracks of the authoring. For example: In the main menu the track one´s button is highlighted, holds for three seconds and star to play, if it completes the play it goes to the main menu and shows the second track button highlighted, stays for three seconds and start to play, if now for some reason the viewer interrupts that, it goes to the main menu but with the track two´s button highlighted, showing me the track the viewer just came from.
Thank you in advance for your help.
kasper

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edit4: thanks skottish... this _should_ work. testers welcome
edit5: 'final' version posted, dependencies listed. enjoy!
edit6: just a cleaner and more commented version. no major changes
edit7: moved the title finding section to the top so i could then us $TITLE everywhere to be safe
Last edited by brisbin33 (2009-03-27 21:27:35)

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# called later by dvdauthor -c. we need to find a more
# elegant way to handle this failing, but then again
# i'm not sure how often it will fail, if ever...
egrep "\[Chapter ..\] " $WD/probe.txt | cut -d " " -f 4 | \
perl -pi -e 's/\n/,/' | perl -pi -e 's/,$//' > $WD/ch.list || exit
### Display the Chapter
# let's display the chapters in a more readable format
# do the reverse of above, we'll be confident the file's
# ok if the listing look's good
echo -e "\n Your Chapters were determined as follows: \n"
count=1
cat $WD/ch.list | sed 's/\,/\n/g' | while read chap; do
echo -e "\tChapter $count \t- \e[1;34m$chap\e[0m"
count=$(( count + 1 ))
done
echo ""
echo -e "\n Chapters look ok? y/n " && read A
echo ""
[ "$A" = "y" ] || exit # cop out!
### Finally, we can encode the Video
# these settings build an NTSC DVD compliant mpg with
# a straight copy of the audio and a vbitrate calculated
# to keep it under the 4.4 GB limit defined above
mencoder dvd://${TITLE} -dvd-device $DEV -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd:tsaf \
-vf scale=720:480,harddup \
-lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=${VBR}:\
keyint=18:vstrict=0:aspect=16/9 -ofps 30000/1001 \
-oac copy \
-o $WD/file.mpeg || exit 1
### Author the DVD folder
# we need to set it up such that if the ch.list fails
# then we can choose to do an interval - chapters each
# 10 15 minutes or something, dynamically set up a file
# then conditionally call -c ch.list or -c fallback.list
if [ -f $WD/ch.list ]; then
dvdauthor -t -c $(cat $WD/ch.list) -o $WD/MOVIE $WD/file.mpeg || exit 2
else
dvdauthor -t -o $WD/MOVIE $WD/file.mpeg || exit 2
fi
# TOC is required so it's playable in standard players
dvdauthor -T -o $WD/MOVIE || exit 2
### Build the ISO image
# this is done so that the .iso can be saved or burnt
# to disc in the next step
mkisofs -dvd-video -o $WD/movie.iso $WD/MOVIE || exit 3
# prepare to burn, eject the disc and ask for a blank
# one. sudoers file needs to be edited to allow access
# to this command w/o a password
sudo /usr/bin/eject $DEV || exit 4
read -p " Please insert a blank DVD-R and press any key to continue:"
### Burn the ISO image
# wait 5 seconds for the drive to settle then burn the
# iso to disk. this line can cab used directly on the
# $WD/MOVIE folder if you're never going to keep the
# ISO image file on disk
sleep 5 && growisofs -dvd-compat -Z $DEV=$WD/movie.iso || exit 5
# Now that we're done let's clean up the Temp data
# the user is asked b/c we might want to keep the .iso
echo -e "\n\n Seems we're all set. Would you like to remove the Temp data? y/n\n" && read A
[ "$A" = "y" ] && rm -r $WD
echo -e "\n\n Enjoy your movie!"
exit 0

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