End Action not working?

dand9959 wrote on 2/10/2006, 8:29 AM

Here's my setup:

A single mpg, with 3 chapter markers included from Vegas render.

Dropped the movie onto menu page.
Added 3 buttons on the same page, with each action pointing to the chapter within the single movie.

(In the past, I've used the "create scene selection menu" to create a separate page of buttons. More on that in a bit.)

I tried to set the end-action on the third button (corresponding to the last chapter in the movie) to return to the most recent menu page.

All works well in preview.

However, when I burn the DVD and play it in any player, the movie loops back to the beginning when it is finished, rather than returning to the main menu. This happens regardless of whether I play the movie from the beginning, or select the 3rd chapter button.

What gives?

(About the previous method: When I instead use the "create scene selection menu" method, things work okay. I can set the end-action of the final chapter to return to most recent menu, and it works.)

Edit: using DVDA 3c

Comments

ScottW wrote on 2/10/2006, 10:36 AM

I'm not entirely clear on what you're doing. Buttons don't have end actions; media and menus have end actions. If you're double clicking on the button to get to things so that you can set an end action, then you've actually navigated into the media.

By default, media brought into DVDA has an end action of link to most recent menu, so you shouldn't need to change this to get the behavior you want.

Anyway, 2 possibilities come to mind:

1) you navigated into another button to change the end action to link to the media, not realizing that it was the same media used in the 3rd button

2) The DVD player you used didn't correctly interpret the commands generated by DVDA. If you found this with multiple players from different manufacturers though I would be more likely to suspect something like case #1.

--Scott

dand9959 wrote on 2/10/2006, 11:11 AM

Thanks, Scott...

I wasn't being clear...I did navigate into the media by double clicking on the button, and set the end action there.

You're right, I think....since each button "points" to the same media, only differing in start offsets (chapter marks.) Regardless, it is all the same piece of media, right?

ScottW wrote on 2/10/2006, 11:14 AM

Correct.