solkap said:
I have created a project in DVDStyler … But the menus didn’t seem to burn properly. The buttons didn’t look the same or do what they were supposed to and the background image quality changed for the worse as well.

I’ve used DVDStyler (a SourceForge project) but not over version 2.8, which is recommended in the “portable version” only because that has no forced “crap-ware” installations. It’s an excellent shell that organizes several freeware programs (included in the installer) to do the actual work (which also can be run independently, if you learn how to use them, for your own specialty creations).

For proper menu background/image quality, go to the Configuration > Settings menu > Core tab. The default for Menu video bitrate is some low value. Set it to 6000 and your menu backgrounds and everything else on them will look perfect quality. In fact, it’s a good idea just to wander through all the settings just to see what’s there. You might find other settings that may need some tweaking.

So I was hoping to be able to author some very simple menus, with nothing but background images, that would let me navigate chapters and turn subtitles on and off.

No, no! Go the full route! DVDStyler makes it easy! Gander at this motion-menu (with equal length vids from the two movies – you specify where to start each loop of your specified time; 8 seconds in my case). I quickly put it together – nothing special, nothing hard, just good lookin’!