Menu: Play button?

rberman wrote on 8/29/2005, 1:06 PM

Hi all,

I have a simple project -- a single menu with a title and play button, and a single video that plays when you press play.

The menu is based on a single background image, and a 30-second music segment. I have it set to loop at the end.

I want to make it so that if you press "play" on the DVD remote, it will play the one video (while you are in the menu). Pretty much any commercial DVD I've ever used has this feature, but I can't find any way to hook up the remote "play" button to the action of playing the video.

The single button object on the menu does work -- I linked it to the video event, and clicking it plays the video.

Title Play under "Remote Buttons" is "on". The short text on this when you select it in the designer says "Operation to play a title by title number", but I find no place to set the "title number".

Any idea how to hook this up?

Comments

bStro wrote on 8/29/2005, 4:19 PM

You don't have to do anything in DVDA for this. The default behavior for most DVD players, when you are at a menu and you press Play, is to start whatever selection is currently selected. It can vary from player to player, but this is pretty standard. Oddly enough, DVDA's preview doesn't behave that way, though.

If your DVDA player doesn't do that, there's not much you can do about it in DVDA. It's up to the player manufacturer to determine what buttons on their remotes do what.

rberman wrote on 8/30/2005, 10:04 AM

Still isn't right. On every commercial DVD I've ever played (on my player), regardless of what is selected, pressing "play" plays the main movie. Doesn't matter whether I've moved to the "play" button on the screen. In fact, some other button can be selected, but "play" does the right thing.

So it has nothing to do with the current selection. Example: the menu on screen has "play movie", "settings" and "features" on it. NONE are currently selected. Press "play" on the remote and it plays the movie.

ScottW wrote on 8/30/2005, 11:40 AM

I just tried a commercial DVD on my player and I could not reproduce what you are seeing - pushing PLAY on the player took me to whatever button was selected on the menu.

One other thing which might be relevant - you can't not have a button selected on a menu - so you can't have "NONE." There's always going to be a button that gets selected as the initial button. If the DVD you are looking at doesn't have a button selected on the menu, then most likely what's been done is a hidden button or possibly your player is exhibiting some additional not usually normal behavior.

--Scott

rberman wrote on 8/30/2005, 3:39 PM

Interesting. Thanks for trying this out and reporting on it.