I don't know what version you are using, but in DVDA3 whenever you add a new page, it adds a back arrow at the bottom to get you back to the first page. This should be true for you if you are using 3 (I think 2 did this automatically as well). If you look to the left pane, you should see the DVD structure. You could try rebuilding your project or simply placing a link back to the first menu- you would get there not by pressing the return button but by highlighting the link that points back to the first menu and then clicking enter. Hope this helps.

j razz

jrazz, I'm using DVDAS 3a. Thanks for you reply. I already got two pages, but I do not want to return to the menu. What I want is:when playing a clip I want to return to the previous chapter(clip). The clips are in mpg2 format they are a total of 16 video-clips . Here is how I started my project : Main Menu ( 2 Links : Play, Scenes[ submenu]).Scenes[submenu] ( 2 Links: Page 1 & Page 2 ). Each page contains 8 Animated thumbnail buttons. Everything woks fine, navigation between pages, menues . Made another project with WinDVD Creator, no problems watching chapter "Y", pressing previous , it jumps back to chapter "X". Suggestions?

When you add multiple video files to a DVD project, each one is added as its own titleset -- not as "chapters." Each one is its own movie. And during playback, navigating from one movie to another using the >>| and |<< buttons can be unpredictable because not all DVD players behave the same in this situation.

What's probably happening when you use WinDVD Creator is that it's taking all those clips and putting them into a single movie, and putting chapter markers between them. This is not DVDA's default behavior.

You can remedy this a couple different ways:

1. Combining all of those clips into a single file beforebringing them into DVDA, and add that to a project instead of the individual clips. If they're already MPEG2 files, you should use something other than Vegas to do this, something that will not re-encode all of the clips. (Try Womble.com for some good MPEG2 editors.) Set up your chapters and insert a scene selection menu.

2. Add the individual clips to a music compilation (yes, a music compilation). Each clip will be a chapter within a single titleset.

Rob

You can do exactly what you want by using a Music Compilation. This badly named feature will combine the MEPG-2 files into one group, eliminating the titleset problem (described earlier) which is what keeps you from using the chapter control to go backwards (on some DVD players, you can't even move forward).

Just add a Music Compilation and then put your MPEG-2 files into that. The only limitation to this technique is that you cannot add additional chapter stops within MPEG-2 files. If you absolutely positively must do that, then you have to combine the MPEG-2 files (and audio files) together prior to placing into DVDA, using a tool like Womble's MPEG VCR, or some of the other programs often mentioned on this forum.