Remote buttons

muckyp wrote on 1/26/2007, 9:02 PM

First let me say that I am new to the Sony products this question is probably very simple. I would like to be able to press the stop button on the remote and return to the main menu. I also have been unable to make the menu button on the remote work. Any help in these areas would be greatly appreciated.

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DrLumen wrote on 1/27/2007, 12:03 AM

Welcome to the boards.

I believe that the action of the stop buttons is a function of the player and not defined by the disk. Other than disabling the various remote buttons, I don't think you can overwrite the action of the stop button. Perhaps with scripting it can be done but perhaps not. If the disk action is stopped the script will likely be stopped too.

Go to the particular media file and click on the Media Properties | Remote Buttons tab. Check that the buttons are 'On' and you may want to manually define the action of the menu button. I would then trying burning to a RW disk and see if it makes any difference in your player.

MPM wrote on 1/27/2007, 10:22 AM

Bearing in mind that the way any remote functions, or how well, or if at all, varies by brand/model of player...

The stop playback button does just that -- your DVD's sitting in the tray, you haven't ejected, but the player is not making any attempt to read it.

Many remotes have one or more menu buttons, mentioned because one might be intended to show the player's set up menu. You might also have a Title button on your remote, and probably quite a few others that are related.

The DVD menu button should go to the menu page you've chosen when authoring your DVD -- In DVDA I think the default is Previous Menu, but you might want to set it, choosing the exact menu page you want. For each title, simply work through the menu choices in the upper right for the remote.
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In case it interests....
Every DVD has a set number of Prohibited User Operations (PUOPs), which AFAIK cannot be set directly in DVDA -- when you turn remote buttons on/off, this is the result, but you can't edit them otherwise in DVDA.

Why would you want to? I often find (in my opinion) that I can make the DVD playback experience a little less confusing, -- people have problems with DVD player remotes, and I've seen it fluster people when they hit a button that's enabled, but doesn't really do anything. With a button disabled the player will usually flash an icon that tells the user: "you can't do that", & the feedback actually helps -- they don't sit there randomly pressing whatever just to see if it even works.

There are a few programs that let you alter the puops after your layout is written to hdd... PgcEdit is one, but I more often use IfoEdit. To use it for checking setting puops....

In the VIDEO_TS folder you'll see sets of VOB files -- you can tell which ones are sets by the way they're named and numbered -- each one represents a title (video). Each of the VOB sets also has an IFO file. If you want to know which VOB set holds which video, drag one of the VOB files onto the open window of Power DVD. In IfoEdit you open a VOB set's IFO file, in the top half of the window select/expand VTS_PGCITI. For a DVDA DVD you'll probably only see one line when you expand that heading: VTS_PGC_1 , but it's no big deal if there are more -- just select them one at a time.

When you select the PGC (i.e. VTS_PGC_1 etc) check the bottom window... You'll see a line: Prohibited user operations -- double click it, set the desired puops in the dialog, then save everything.

ScottW wrote on 1/27/2007, 10:52 AM

"which AFAIK cannot be set directly in DVDA"

DVDA does allow the setting of UOPs - just navigate into the media in question or select the menu and click the "remote buttons" button on the right hand top corner. Turn remote buttons on or off as needed.

--Scott

MPM wrote on 1/27/2007, 3:47 PM

Hi Scott

You're right about the remote settings...
What I'm trying to say, & I'm obviously having trouble with the wording :-} is that you have these named settings for the remote in DVDA, and when it renders your project it translates them into the IFO file. You're not actually writing to the IFO file (it hasn't been written yet), so to me it's kind of indirect -- DVDA later writes the IFO files based on how it interprets your project and settings,

I have to think twice about the names Sony uses for the remote buttons, & DVDA doesn't always set it the way I want. The Resume button is always grayed out for example, & there doesn't seem a way to unblock it.