Home menu button not working properly

Merrick61 wrote on 8/8/2013, 9:05 AM
I have burned a Blu Ray with Architect 6 and all is working except when i am playing media which has been created inside a sub-menu, when hitting the "home menu" button on the remote, the disc reverts to the parent menu and not the sub-menu. When using the preview inside Architect, it shows that the disc should return to the submenu (when you hit the menu button) however I have tried on 2 Blu ray players (one being a ps3) and the video returns to the parent menu. Note: after the clip is finished playing the submenu does pop backup..but I cant seem to navigate back to the submenu page with any menu buttons. So why are the discs when burned not behaving as they do with the preview? And any ideas here. ?Thanks!

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videoITguy wrote on 8/8/2013, 10:26 AM
The button on your remote control for the settop player that may be labeled title menu or something similar is programmed by firmware to go to the title menu. You cannot change this. Since DVDAPro is automatic single title generation in authoring process - again you have no control of this- is going to make the menu button activation on the REMOTE act like a main menu return button.

In your disc are you authoring more than one video to be activated from the submenu? If so this can complicate your navigation in another way. For the moment consider the only real option you have is the end action of a video media asset at the submenu level. You can program that end action to go to any menu in your disc or for that matter any other video asset. The end action is welded into the disc authoring and you let it play out that way.

From the main menu you should have an activation button for returning to its submenu.
Merrick61 wrote on 8/8/2013, 11:21 AM
Thank you for your reply. It appears that by defualt, the end action of a clip in the submenu is to revert back to the submenu itself. I guess this really is the "work around" to the problem..that is...forward the clip to the end and it will take you to the submenu as opposed to the main or top menu--For my uses the submenu is a scene selection menu--If someone were to be watching a clip in this submenu and decided to check out another clip midstream, they'[d have to revert back to the main menu, and then navigagte again to the submenu. From what you are saying, there really is no way around this. I am suprised this hasnt been discussed more as it is a bit of a pain.
videoITguy wrote on 8/8/2013, 1:28 PM
If you are trying to use scene to scene navigation at the submenu level IT WILL NOT WORK properly. This is what I hinted at to you in the earlier post. This is a known bug at the user support level in DVDAPRO since at least Version 4.0 was released years ago.

SCENE to scene navigation will work for the videos accessed on the main menu screen so long as there is no intermediate operation to navigate to a submenu level. Once a submenu navigation activity takes place it can kill scene to scene reliability.

This has been discussed ad nauseam in the forum posts for a very very long time.
Merrick61 wrote on 8/8/2013, 1:57 PM
When you say "scene to scene" are you referring to chapter points within a clip? or something else?
videoITguy wrote on 8/8/2013, 2:05 PM
If you setup markers in your NLE output or in fact make chapter points in authoring in DVDAPro - you create what is really an index to the video. Commonly this known as scene to scene navigation. So lets say you place a video one hour long accessed by the top menu - you could have navigation indexes every 20 minutes for the prev/next control of your REMOTE.
Merrick61 wrote on 8/8/2013, 2:15 PM
Wow, thats a pretty important thing not to be working properly on a submenu level. I am suprised since version 4 it has not been fixed. Thats crazy.