remote control

J. Bo Jorgensen wrote on 3/30/2007, 6:48 AM

I am currently making a DCD by use of DVDA.

In the default mode, when I push STOP on my remote the movie stops , leaving a blue screen.
Pushing STOP I would like to be directed to the main menu.
How do you do that ?

Thanks in advance !

Comments

ScottW wrote on 3/30/2007, 7:35 AM

You cannot. By definition, STOP means just that, STOP. You can prohibit the use of the STOP button, but you cannot re-assign its function.

--Scott

johnmeyer wrote on 3/30/2007, 9:06 AM

Scott is correct. However, there is a "jacket" feature in DVDA that you can use and which will achieve exactly the effect you want. However, it only works on some DVD players. It is quite simple to do:

1. Go to File -> Properties.
2. Select the Properties tab.
3. Select the Disc Properties sub-tab.
4. Click on Jacket Picture.
5. Click on the ellipses (...) to open the file browser, and select the image that you used for your main menu background.

Click on OK, and you're done. When you prepare your DVD, you will find that, in addition to the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders you will have a jacket folder that contains the images necessary for the DVD player to display a static image after STOP has been pressed. When PLAY is pressed, playback will resume according to how you have authored your DVD (you can control this with script commands).

richard-courtney wrote on 3/30/2007, 10:01 AM

John:

Can you elaborate on the script to resume after stop?

johnmeyer wrote on 3/30/2007, 10:48 AM

Can you elaborate on the script to resume after stop?

All I meant is that you can use a script to set, test, or clear the GPRM registers in the DVD player and use this to determine what action you want the player to take when play resumes.

ScottW wrote on 3/30/2007, 11:43 AM

I wouldn't count on this behavior being universal on DVD players. It's been my experience that STOP on some players is the equivalent of inserting the DVD (which would cause the contents of all the GPRM's to be set to zero), on others, 2 presses of the STOP button resets the GPRM's.

On some players, hitting STOP once is the equivalent of "pause" with the exception that you geta blue/black screen - hitting PLAY then resumes from that point on the DVD, so there's no opportunity to have a script execute.

--Scott