Play list problems

zstevek wrote on 7/15/2006, 5:39 AM
Has anyone ever run into the playlist not performing correctly when you play the finished DVD on a standard player?

My playlist peforms fine when I preview the disc in DVDA, but when I play the DVD in my DVD player the chapters do not skip to the proper media in my playlist?? I have tried this on 3 different DVD players with the same results on each of them.

I have checked my project over and over again and it is set up the way it should be.

Steve

Comments

johnmeyer wrote on 7/15/2006, 9:50 AM
The order in the project list (in left-hand pane) affects the order in which the chapter advance button navigates. Thus, you have one navigation order defined by end actions (which defines what happens when media plays to the end on its own), and a completely separate order that defines what happens when you press the chapter advance button.
zstevek wrote on 7/15/2006, 1:02 PM
John,

The problem I am having is in the playlist I created, all the media is added in the correct order.

When I play it back in DVDA's "Preview Disc" everything plays back perfectly the way I want it to, BUT.... When I play the Burn't DVD back on any of the 3 DVD players I have I do not get the same results. It is as if DVDA is not burning the disc correctly.

I have wasted 5 discs now and this is getting very frustrating!

Why would DVDA3 preview the disc exactly the way I intended it to play back, but the fished DVD (that I have to give to a client) doesn't do the same thing?
ScottW wrote on 7/15/2006, 1:19 PM
There's a difference between the playlist and the project list. The playlist only controls the end action of each clip in the playlist, that is when that clip comes to the end, then the DVD executes the correct commands to take you to the next clip in the playlist.

Chapter advance buttons on the remote override this behavior, and will normally take you to the next media as it is ordered in the project list, not in theplay list.

If you check the left hand pane, you should see a project tree. Just make sure that all of your media clips are organize in the correct order, and if not, just drag them around until they are.

--Scott

p.s. you might want to consider investing in some RW media for testing.
zstevek wrote on 7/15/2006, 2:16 PM
John & Scott,

Thank you, that fixed my problem.