DVDA bugs with menu

lemke wrote on 1/8/2004, 2:35 AM
I use DVDA since several months but i recently noticed a serious problem with some DVD players: when i try to play the DVD created with DVDA the menu subpictures just...dont appair!
it makes very complicated to navigate the disk and it makes unusable the dvd produced for commercial purpouse...
this bug occurred me with some low priced Samsung players, is there anyone who had the same experience, and is there a trick to bypass the problem?

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richard-courtney wrote on 1/8/2004, 5:32 AM
I had one customer with A Samsung say the menu didn't work several
months ago. The background text was present as it is written on the
VOB file. When I played the disk using IFOEDIT I saw that some default
stream info was missing. Example: the lanquage identifier characters
"en" for english.

Make sure you have the current release of DVD-A.
Make sure the highlight color is very obvious.

Please indicate the model of the player.
FrameScale wrote on 1/8/2004, 7:00 AM
Maybe related -- I burned a simple DVD with a menu, music in the background, and an animated button (rendered from dragging the movie onto the menu and clicking on animate). When burned and played on my Samsung DVD-ROM combo drive, the menu stuttered and paused every 2 seconds. I could still select the movie button and play the movie fine though. My guess is the animation or the background music didn't render properly.

I've not tested the DVD on anything else as I burned it to a DVD-RW that won't play in any of my console players.

Adobe Encore DVD is giving me better results than DVD-A so far. It's just as flakey as Premiere ever was though, crashes, errors.
Lucius_Snow wrote on 1/10/2004, 4:46 AM
This is the highlight bug. There's a fix for it now :
http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=237515&Replies=7&Page=1
farss wrote on 1/12/2004, 2:07 PM
I've had both the "Highlight menu not working in PAL" and the stuttering playback problem. Situation improved when I burnt DVD-R at 4x and then the client tried several other mdel DVD players and the DVD worked fine on all of them.
He took the original 8 DVD players back, store gave him later 'version' and both original 1x burn and 4x burn DVDs played perfectly.