DVDA Menu problems

bansl wrote on 11/28/2004, 9:10 PM

OK, I realize that there are some incompatabilities between DVD players, but...

I just finished the first DVD using Movie Studio and DVDA Studio. Previously I created the DVDs with VF or Movie Studio and did the menus with Pinnacle Studio 8.

On my Sonic Blue DVD Player it plays OK, the menus work, skip to chapter points work. On my basic $30 player, all is well, but it hangs trying to chose/skip to the last two chapter points.

On my brand new megabucks Pioneer player, the Main menu appears ok, but trying to go to the Scene Selection menu causes it to Stop and give up on trying to play anything. Clicking on the video name from the main menu causes it to play OK, and pressing skip to next chapter on the player works OK too, right to the last one. But the Scene Selection menu remains elusive. My Scene Selection menu is all text, no thumbnails, containing 14 chapter points.

I tried burning the DVD with Nero instead, it gave some warning about one of the files not being a multiple of the logical block size (2K). I divided all of the file sizes by 2048 and they were actually all an exact multiple. However, even using the Nero version the DVD player would still not show the scene selection menu.

I realize that by using Pinnacle I can get the Scene Selections to work OK, but I really wanted to try phasing out use of Pinnacle.

Anyone else found problems with a particular player and the DVDAS menuing system. Is there any way to get around it.

Thanks,

Bryan.

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joeldecker wrote on 11/29/2004, 11:45 AM

I'm also experiencing that scene selection menu stopping problem. (I got into the forums today to enter a message about it when I saw your entry.)

The main menu appears okay and the 'play all' works fine, but going to the scene selection menu causes the DVD to stop playing. (If I then hit play the main menu comes up, as it should.)

In my case, I've only tried the DVD in my Xbox. I haven't tried it in any other DVD players yet.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,
Joel

joeldecker wrote on 12/1/2004, 9:07 AM

I tried the DVD in my computer with Windows Media Player and in my other stand-alone DVD player and the scene selection menus work fine.

I guess this is just one of the (many) Xbox incompatibilities.

I'll probably have the few people I'd give my home movie DVDs to (i.e. family, close friends) try it in their DVD players. If it works in all of their players then I'll just stick with DVDA Studio, with the understanding that I can't use the scene selection menus in my Xbox. But if any of them also encounter this problem then I guess I'll have to look into a DVD authoring program that creates more consistently compatible menus.

Joel

IanG wrote on 12/1/2004, 10:08 AM

I'm not surprised there are compatibility issues with the XBox, but I'd look at the media compatibility before getting a new authoring program.

Ian G.

bansl wrote on 1/15/2006, 10:45 PM

Sorry to drag this one up from the past, but....

I just completed my first DVD since upgrading to MS Platinum and DVDA v3, and - the resulting DVD plays just fine on all the DVD players now.

Same media type, same players.

So what ever it was causing the menu/navigation problems is gone now...

Bryan.