Huge problem using the video playlist

Samus wrote on 3/2/2006, 4:57 PM

Hi!

I have a bunch of videos ready to be used in DVD Architect 3. About 20 in all. However, I want a play all videos button, and a "select a video" menu. I know how to do all this, but I want to choose Play All and all the videos play. Then I want in "video selection" to be able to choose one video, then after it plays it goes back to the previous menu.

I figured "insert playlist" is the only way to get this to work. I tried it, except many of my DVD player's go completely nuts when play all is selected using this method. Some DVD player's don't follow the order I told it to, and one of my DVD players goes back to a completely unrelated menu when random videos are done being played! I even tried making sure linking each video's end action to the next video I want to be played, but then that screws up my idea of "video selection" going back to the menu after being played!

I tried Music Compilation, but that was worse. It accepted my videos, but when I tried to drag the same videos into the "video selection" page, my disk space got worse, meaning the damn thing was using the same video twice, killing my diskspace.

Can anyone help me out here? I am at wit's end.

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johnmeyer wrote on 3/2/2006, 6:41 PM

I don't fully understand everything that you're saying (my fault, not yours), but I do know that the order in which navigation occurs depends not only on things like end actions and the order in which things appear in compilations and playlists, but also on the order they are listed in the project list on the left side of the screen.

Here's a link to another post where I described this in more detail:

Another post

Samus wrote on 3/3/2006, 2:17 AM

Thanks, that worked, however it obviously does not fix my problem that some of my DVD player's go nuts and randomly go back to the main menu rather then go to the next video.

Music compilation looks like it would work nice but there seems to be no way to *not* get it to add to the final size when I link them individually in the video selection pages.

johnmeyer wrote on 3/3/2006, 10:31 AM

Anything you put in a Music Compilation will create a brand new, contiguous, VOB file. If you use that same media in some other playlist or compilation, then the media will be used twice. One of the main features of the Music Compilation is its ability to join media files together so they can be navigated as a single titleset rather than as separate titlesets. While you may not know a titleset from a hole in the wall, think of each titleset as a completely independent separate DVD, with its own navigation, etc. Some DVD players let you advance to a new titleset using the chapter advance buttons on the remote, but many will only let you get to the next titleset by going through the menu. Thus, the music compilation is a great way to take multiple MPEG-2 files and join them together into a single titleset. If you instead put these MPEG-2 files into a playlist or put them into DVDA in any other way, each MPEG-2 file will become a separate titleset.

Samus wrote on 3/3/2006, 2:09 PM

Which I guess means I have no options here? :(