How do you have a video start automatically when inserted in a dvd player?

david-ruby wrote on 2/19/2004, 9:13 AM
I can't seem to be able to do this DVDA.
I just want to insert dvd and have it play the movie asap. No menu.
This is for elderly folks to not have to mess with anything. Just put in and go. Cdrs are easy to do this with, but I can't seem to get this to happen here.
Help?
David

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Haw1144 wrote on 2/19/2004, 10:51 AM
on the main page of the menu..goto file then properties. select the audio/video file you want to start in the introductory media.

on a sidenote... does anyone know how to keep the chapter bookmarks for the video when set to the introduction (other than setting the bookmarks in Vegas)?
I have a bad habit of not setting bookmarks in Vegas... and end up setting them in DVDA. So if I just want a video to automatically play w/o going thru a menu, is there a way to set chapter marks in DVDA for that?
jetdv wrote on 2/19/2004, 11:10 AM
File - New - Single Movie
Haw1144 wrote on 2/20/2004, 9:03 AM
wow even better way! thanks jetdv
Haw1144 wrote on 3/19/2004, 3:57 PM
i just burned my movie with the Single Movie method. it doesn't work in ANY of my DVD players other than the one in my PC :(
all the other normal DVD's i've burned (with menu) worked fine before.
I normally Create the DVD folder
Burn with Nero

I did notice that when I start to burn with Nero for this single movie, i get some DVD allocation warning... which may be the cause? Why would I even get this warning? I created all the VIDEO_TS files via DVD-A. :(
ScottW wrote on 3/19/2004, 4:36 PM
Nero does not like DVDA files - I think the issue is that the files created by DVDA are actually out of spec - 1 byte too large when they hit 1GB (I remember someone doing some research on this and posting the results in one of the forums, but I could be mis-remembering).

What happens if you let DVDA do the burning?
Haw1144 wrote on 3/19/2004, 11:54 PM
yeah thats the error i got..something about being 1 or 2 bytes big/small. will try dvd-a burning first thing and post a result

surprising tho... i've always been succesful in burning "normal" dvd's with menu's via Nero.
Haw1144 wrote on 3/22/2004, 11:45 AM
just burned it via DVD-A..works great now! thanks
ad869 wrote on 3/27/2004, 7:13 AM
>i just burned my movie with the Single Movie method. it doesn't work in ANY of my DVD players other than the one in my PC :(

This might be an un-related point, but I've noticed the same thing sometimes with DVD-A; someitmes DVD's burned don't play. I took the same Video_TS and Audio_TS folders and burned them via Roxio 5's DVD data option, on the same type of DVD-R disc or the same DVD-RW, and it plays on my home player ok.

Not sure what the reason is - physically its the same media and logically the same files - but trying another burning program once the files are rendered could help.

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