Its certainly much less effort then starting from scratch, but still at least 2 weeks worth for a first draft, i would guess, plus ongoing fixes later on of course.
I'm not opposed to doing it, it would be a fun technical challenge, but needs a clear commitment.
Sounds like a 2 week weight loss challenge.... what have we to lose!
I've tried to keep a low profile on this stuff for a few months and as Matt originally suggested when agitating for a this, he asked me to try training the family on just using the existing MC menu support. I was sceptical as everyone was used to just pressing a "Menu" button, then selecting your choices. I have to say Matt was 90% correct and in most cases this works fine. The last 10% is still the problem as without a real menu you are still fumbling around trying to guess any of the following:
- Forced Subtitles (the ones that are not flagged as forced)
- Alternative vs Theatrical Endings
- Episodes on TV BD's
- "Bonus" content
All of these can really only be addressed by the logic in the Menu. Now I don't care if it is just HDMV menus or Java menus or both or even another way of presenting this logic but it is a real limitation for the "Average" user that just wants to put in a disc and select any of this stuff reliably.
One Q: I understand that HDMV menu support is more straight forward but do all disks have HDMV or are some Java Only (but then Gen 1 HW players would not get any menu either). If HDMV is on all (or most) discs then just supporting reading and presenting this logic even as a part of the existing MC Menu system would be a great benefit.
My 2cents
Nathan