Button count limit in DVD menus

farss wrote on 4/12/2009, 5:38 AM

Anyone know why there's a hard limit of 18 for a 16:9 DVD and 36 for a 4:3 DVD?

Thankfully I've only wasted a couple of days getting 25% into this project and did a test author and got a rude shock, not a limit I was prepared for at all. A quick check in the DVDA forum reveals not much about this apart from a suggestion that this is not a DVD spec limit as other apps have different limits. However a quick Google shows this limit is common to at least Encore and iDVD, DVD Lab set it to 18 for both aspect ratios.

From what I can deduce the same limit applies to BD as well. You'd kind of think with more screen real estate they might have relaxed the limit somewhat.

Bob.

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Chienworks wrote on 4/12/2009, 6:12 AM

No clue, but i faced the same thing. Fortunately my project was terribly simple, but i still had to go back and move the menus around, creating new pages and rearranging all the buttons. It was a very rude shock indeed! I was --> this <-- close to deciding it would have been easier to scrap the project and start over than to do all the rearranging and relinking. What a pain!

Wouldn't it have been nice to have been told when inserting the scene selection menu about the limit, rather than having it blithely accept a larger number? Or better yet, why not let us put as many buttons as we want on the page?