NuMenu4u

NuMenu4u is an advanced and approachable software utility that enables you to take your DVDs apart, integrate smaller videos, and put them back together by eliminating unused sections. It requires third-party authoring tools and decoders.

Simple setup and UI

After a rapid and uneventful setup procedure, you are greeted by an outdated interface which consists of a normal window with a plain and simple structure. All options are neatly organized in various menus.

Demux, customize and rebuild DVD movies

You can select the DVD drive, VIDEO_TS folder and working directory, along with the default output. Once a DVD movie is loaded, you can check out the currently available menus and languages, and choose the ones you want to keep for the new DVD clip, in addition to the minimum menu size.

Configure encoder settings

It's possible to convert the TV system format using AviSynth (NTSC to PAL or vice versa), preview the demuxed VOBs for removal, use Muxman for authoring instead of Scenarist, as well as pick the preferred encoder between Cinema Craft Encoder, Procoder, Quenc, Rejig or HC Encoder, provided that you have them installed on the PC.
The tool may also be asked to parse the video stream in order to confirm the 16:9 aspect ratio. It can process all video assets to match attributes, while you can import and compile Scenarist scripts, specify the audio bit rate when converting WAV to AC3, as well as correct the audio length, AC3 delay and CRC errors. Sound streams can be converted using SoftEncode or BeSweet.

Evaluation and conclusion

We haven't come across any stability issues in our tests, thanks to the fact that NuMenu4u didn't hang, crash or display error messages. It carried out tasks swiftly while remaining light on system resource consumption.
On the other hand, it's not backed by intuitive options for less experienced users. We must also take into account the fact that NuMenu4u hasn't been updated for a very long time.