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L8R wrote on 9/14/2008, 12:08 PM
good questions I'd like to know that as well.
bStro wrote on 9/14/2008, 1:07 PM
Navigate into your sub-menu, select the button that links back to the main menu, and go to the Action tab of the Button Properties window. Change "Destination Button" to the button you want highlighted when the user returns to the main menu using that return button. If "Destination Button" is disabled, first change "Destination" to Parent Menu.

This will have no effect if the user uses a Menu button on their remote to go back to the main menu. You'd probably need to get your hands dirty with DVD scripting for that (assuming it can even be done that way).

Rob
PeterWright wrote on 9/14/2008, 6:19 PM
Thanks for that Rob - that's just what I needed.

John Meyer has emailed me the scripting method, which works, as you suggested, with the Menu button on Remotes and is ideal for multi chapter projects.

If anyone would like to see this, John is happy for me to share it .....

cheers

Peter
Grazie wrote on 9/15/2008, 12:38 AM

"You have email"

Grazie


johnmeyer wrote on 9/15/2008, 6:38 PM
It's easy to return to the proper menu AND highlight the button which corresponds to the chapter that is playing. All you need to do is use DVDA's scripting.

While it is intimidating to take the first step, it is actually amazingly easy to do things with scripting, and it does not in any way require programming experience.

What you do is insert a script somewhere in your project list (on the left side of DVDA). Next, you set one of the GPRM registers (it is just a variable which every DVD Player keeps track of internally). You set it equal to the chapter number (which is kept in an internal register called SPRM7).

Finally, you create a line in the script for each chapter. If the chapter number is 1, then you return to a certain menu, and you highlight a specific button. Then, you do the same thing for chapter number 2, etc. It can be a little tedious (I just did five DVDs each of which had 70+ chapters), but it is very straightforward.

Here's what it looks like in DVDA:



You will see three scripts in this example because the DVD specification (i.e., the spec provided by the DVD organization, and not by Sony) limits the number of lines allowed in a single DVD script. So, with 70+ chapters, I had to link one script to the next.