I assume you are talking about the actions of the remote control of a set-top player with a finished DVD that you have burned. You should walk your DVD disc to more than one set-top player - to test for this inactive function of play. It is possible that you have a failure somewhere in your set-top player chosen as first test.

Generally "enter" (for activate function) is what you use to engage the player -so I am not sure at what point your remote is supposed to engage play--- other than after a full-stop or pause button is pressed of the remote control. There is no other need for the button of "play".

Similarly if you are talking Preview in software - it is the Enter button you should be pressing.

I am having the same problem. I have created a Blu-ray for a client and he says that he always uses the play button to activate the menu button selected. He is right I have checked other DVDs and Blu-rays and that seems to be the convention. Also if you cannot find your remote there is no way to play the program. Is there some way to program the remote play button to work like the enter remote button?

When I went to a garage sale the other day - there was a brand new BluPlayer waiting on the table for me. BUT I did not buy it (it was $10) because it was absent the remote control. Folks these units are designed to be operated by a remote control, period. YOU must have the remote control!

A manufacturer can design the remote control to do anything he wants it to do including operate your air conditioner. This is firmware.

What you have control of in DVD authoring is to program the DVD to receive the regulated by DVD/Blu-ray spec interpretations of the remote control firmware. THAT means usually the "enter" or a button that executes enter or 'enable' or whatever.......

I know it may sound frivolous, but the client wants what he wants. The question is - Is it possible in DVD Architect to make the PLAY button work like the ENTER button?

Thanks for any help guys.

No.

Dave T2

Thanks alot Dave. I just really needed to know. I really appreciate your knowledge.
Thanks Steve

I have been looking online for info on this and people are asking the same question about Adobe Encore. There may be some of the more expensive authoring packages that do allow this to be set (such as Scenarist) but I have never seen that options in any products I have used.

Dave T2

I occasionally get questions from customers complaining too that they can't play the DVD by clicking "play" button. It should be a feature in DVDA, would be easy to implement, otherwise I spend time explaining "hit the enter button not play" which is counter-intuitive to many

I'm amazed at the calmness of response to what has to be one of the most stupidest, insipid, jackrabbit "specifications" that was ever created. I just ran into this having created my first Blu-Ray disc and found this most informative post thanky goodness. Yes, my reaction shows I'm not a Blu-Ray user which makes the "spec" even more stupidest (right word PC edited by forum provider, sorry), insipid, and jackrabbity. "Counter-intuitive" is putting it nicely. So Play won't start a disk but will resume a Stopped or Paused? Yeah, that makes sense(lessness); maybe its designed to foster sales of remotes. End of rant and a big thank you to the clarifications posted here. Agree completely that DVDA should expand the sacrosanct stupidity and allow Play to Play!

I can't see what all the fuss is about. Looking at it logically, if you move the highlight to a button on a DVD or Blu-Ray menu in order to select that button, you would obviously press Enter to select that button. Put simply, you select a button, you don't Play a button. Play does what it's supposed to do, that is to resume playback after a Pause action.

Well, i've never even touched a BluRay disc or player, ever, so i have no familiarity with them at all. However, every DVD player/remote i've ever had, both the play and enter buttons will start playback interchangeably. That just seems right and normal to me. Sure, there are a few menu functions that enter will do that play doesn't, but in those cases none of the functions are anything to do with starting video to play, so that too seems completely normal.

Until i read this thread just now, i had never heard of nor encountered the play button not starting playback of a selection.

+1 Chienworks

Jack S in above post has it exactly correct. This is the thought behind the design theory as explained in original standards document in Japanese. Maybe it loses something in translation? Well, no probably not. The conception of this document was for a broadly expansive set of control tools, far greater than what would become the ordinary in a consumer's hands.
I personally believe that DVDAPro authoring has this properly covered with its interface and scripting options. Usually the problem in interpreting how to correctly author has lot more to do with the person's expectations than what the software commits you to. A very common problem when the human mind is flexible and forgiving and by comparison following rules of computer programming are rigid and set.

Do you recall the first programming class you attended??, and you said what the hey??, I don't understand how they (the teachers) got to that programming method. Yet when you graduated you told yourself, that's the way it should be.