Advance Selected Button on Main Menu???

TheDingo wrote on 3/13/2008, 8:58 AM

Hi All,

I want to have the selected button automatically advance to the next menu button when the first button's video completes. For example, you click the first menu button which then plays a 5 minute video. When the video completes, the main menu appears again, but this time the NEXT button is selected to play. How the heck do I create this behavior with DVDA ?

Thanks.

- Guy

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bStro wrote on 3/13/2008, 9:46 AM

For each button, double-click it to navigate into the movie. Go to the End Actions tab of the Media Properties window. Change Destination to the name of the menu to return to, and change Destination Button to the name of the button to select.

By default, Destination is set to "Most recent menu," a generic variable, if you will, that means "go back wherever you came from." Since it's generic, the DVD player has no idea what buttons exist until it gets there. By telling it exactly which menu to go to, you can then tell it which button to select.

Rob

TheDingo wrote on 3/13/2008, 7:53 PM

Thanks Rob. Much easier than I thought it would be.

- Guy

johnmeyer wrote on 3/26/2008, 9:48 AM

Actually, there is somewhat more to it, if you really want this to work correctly.

First, this only works if each button is attached to a separate MPEG-2 file. More important, it will only work if the user plays the asset until the end. But, what if the user presses the menu button on their remote? If they do, they'll go back to the most recent menu, whatever that happens to be, and the button selected will be the default button. So, you need to change this behavior as well as the end action behavior. To do this, double-click on the media asset in the project window, and then find the "Remote Buttons" tab in the Media Properties window. Open up the Menu section and change the Destination to be the menu that contains your buttons, and change the button to the one associated with this media.

You have to do this for each piece of media, just as you did for end actions.

Finally, if you want to have this behavior for buttons which link to chapter stops within one piece of media, then you have to use a script (at least that is how I do it).