Playback media back to back

shirzo wrote on 9/25/2003, 11:17 AM
Hi there! I can't seem to figure this out. I have some media on the main menu page but I can't seem to get them to play back to back when one finishes. Eg, When media1 finishes it will automatically play Media2 or if the user presses the next button it will skip over to the next Media2. I understand this can be done with DVD Studio Pro but has anyone know how I achieve this in DVD Architecture? I'm really new to this trying to know if this software is suitable for me. Please help if you can. Thanks!

Comments

jetdv wrote on 9/25/2003, 12:07 PM
They must be ONE file - then you can create chapter points and do what you want. End actions are not currently supported.
Vscience wrote on 9/25/2003, 8:55 PM
Does anyone know if end actions will be supported in 1.0d ? Because like the original poster, this is incredibly annoying for me, as I often have 2 files of the same movie (Part A and Part B) that sadly when joined via joining software go out off audio sync or no software will join AC3 audio, and so on, so just playing the next video file would be perfect. I belive that both Ulead DVD Movie Factory and Workshop do this so I presume it is an easy task to program. So a big plea to the piogrammers, please add this feature :)
johnmeyer wrote on 9/26/2003, 3:15 PM
No one knows but Sony. I agree that it should be a free upgrade. Not having it was an almost unforgiveable oversight.
kameronj wrote on 9/27/2003, 4:25 PM
"...as I often have 2 files of the same movie (Part A and Part B)"

Once you are finished with your Kazaa download of the illegal movies - why do you want the Sony product to help make the task of putting it on DVD easier for you?

I think you should be happy with, first...getting the first run movie (basically) free of charge - and two, having other software on your system that you can join the movie with to make it work right.

Why put it on Sony's shoulder to make this task easier for you?
johnmeyer wrote on 9/27/2003, 7:21 PM
Once you are finished with your Kazaa download of the illegal movies - why do you want the Sony product to help make the task of putting it on DVD easier for you?

kameronj:

How do you know what this guy is doing? I happen to do this all the time, where I render a large project in several parts. The natural thing (to me at least) is to render each part into a separate MPEG file. I then want to bring these into DVDA, but have the results treated as one big movie. DVDA doesn't let me do this, and therefore I'm not happy with it.

Why do I do this? Well, I was taught to break large projects -- programming, video, hardware development -- into smaller pieces in order to make them more manageable. Therefore, to me at least, what this guy wants to do is perfectly logical and -- unless you know otherwise for a fact -- perfectly legal.

However, since you brought it up, I don't condone copyright piracy. I've been in the software business for 25 years, and I know first-hand about illegal copying. However, our industry never put its head in the sand about innovation. This has not been true of the entertainment industry. The music industry should have purchased Napster and figured out (like Apple and now Dell are doing) how to make money out of it. Instead, they are doing the same thing they did when TV started killing movies in the early 1950's; and when VCRs threatened broadcast TV in the early 1980's: In each of these cases, they tried to kill the new technology. In both these earlier cases the Neaderthals in the industry were finally pushed aside, and the smarter people figured out how to make scads of money using the new technology.

Eventually this will happen with file sharing. In the meantime, I am not about to rise up to defend "poor" Sony and suggest that they are a powerless victim. They'll figure it out pretty soon, and will make tons more money on music than they ever did before.
kameronj wrote on 9/27/2003, 7:47 PM
Johnmeyer,

You bring up a good point. I don't know what this guy is doing. And yes, there is a vaild reason for rendering larger files into multiple MPEG files.

However, I have been around the block more than a few times - and the post just sings of downloading illegal files and looking towards this board (and others like it) to find ways to work around and make this activitiy easier.

In another thread (I think it is on the Vegas board) - someone directly asks about this and says (something like) "...when I download AVI's Vegas won't import them...."

Now if that is not an admission of downloading illegal files and looking for the Sony (or SoFo) products to help them figure out how to make them play on t.v. top DVD players...I don't know what is.

Again, I think you are very right in asking how do I know what this guy is doing. I don't. But I think even Helen Keller could see where this was going.

As for the whole copyright infrigement discussion - I'm not even going to go there (too much). Regardless of what "the industry" could have done or could do with the technology - there is a certain little thing that I like to refer to (in the States, anyway) and it is called the law.

The law calls it theft. The law calls it criminal. The law calls it wrong.

I don't think that this forum should be a place for people who want to flaunt the law should be able to come and find better ways to do it. And then, taken very loosely - say that because they can't find a way to do it with the software as it currently is written - that there is a problem with the software.

Is this particular doing what I suggested? Maybe not. There is no way for me to know. But it is what I think is the case - and I tend to call it like I see it.