Thanks for the quick reply. That seems to work well if I let the clip play to the end, but if I stop playing it part way thru, I can't find a way to go back to my menu page.

If the Media End Action is set to "Link" (not "Stop") and the Destination is set to "Main Menu" (actually I prefer "Most Recent Menu"), then when you hit your remote Stop button it should return to the menu. You may want to look at the Button Properties themselves to see if anything is amiss.

If not, there may be something quirky with your particular player. Test your burned disc on a different player.

Normally you would press the MENU button on your remote. Once you hit stop, the commands within the DVD authoring will not function. You need to use the DVD player commands such as MENU.

Dave T2

Oh, wait. If you've added four separate media to the project, then you've created four separate titles, not chapters. This complicates the menu navigation unnecessarily.

The preferred method is to render a single MPG file in Vegas, with Markers at the beginning of each clip. In Vegas, you render separate DVD Architect video and AC3 DVD Audio files, and when you import the video, the audio follows. Then the markers import as Chapters when you open the file in Architect.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll re-render everything as a single MPG and give it another try.

That's the preferred way, but I don't promise that will solve it for you. As Dave points out, the action on hitting Stop is player-dependent.

Right, and key to that is that once you've hit Stop, you're no longer playing the DVD, so what's set up on the DVD no longer matters.

You'd probably want to hit "disc menu" or "title menu" instead of stop. Some players will remember what was being played at the time and use the disc's structure to decide which is the most appropriate menu to display, but you can't guarantee all players will behave the same.

Well... I got close. Thanks for your suggestions, and reading the documentation, I have a menu with my 4 "scenes", as well as a "Play All" option. Each scene goes back to the menu at the end, Play All plays all scenes sequentially, and from any scene I can move forward to the next scene. The Stop behavior still isn't working correctly. On my Sony Blu-ray player Stop takes me to a menu with 4 items that read "Title". On my Sony DVD player, Stop/Play resumes, whereas Stop/Stop/Play starts at the beginning for the first scene (but doesn't show the menu). If I ever figure it out (and it's doubtful, based on the comments about player behavior), I'll post the secret.

Actually it sounds like the Stop behavior is working more than correctly. On most DVD players i've seen, Stop does one of these things: pause, go to a manufacturer logo, go back to the disc menu root, or (if the player is also a tuner) show the incoming TV signal. It varies from player to player.

You really need to get away from thinking that you can control what Stop does. It's just the wrong button to be working with. Stop means, "stop playing this DVD" at which point the disc might as well be ejected. Under no circumstances is it ever intended to interact with the DVD structure or preserve the playback state in any way.