Stop and Play remote functions

stevem99 wrote on 9/5/2009, 5:55 PM

I have DVDA 4.5 When in the preview / remote window I hit the PLAY remote button,
I get a little circle icon with a line thru it. Is there a way to make it play the highlighted
button when play is hit on the remote? Also, when it is playing and I hit the STOP remote button, it goes to a generic blue background. Is there a way to make it go to the main menu when stop is pressed? When I have the blue background, and I hit the MENU remote button it still won't go back to main menu. I have to hit PLAY to get the main menu. Thanks for any help.

Comments

Steve Grisetti wrote on 9/6/2009, 6:20 AM

You should be able to set the button up to play when you click the play button by opening the menu page in the Workspace and then setting up the Play button's actions on the Menu Page Properties panel's Remote Buttons pane.

bStro wrote on 9/6/2009, 8:20 AM

You cannot "make" a remote control button do anything within the DVD authoring application -- the buttons are programmed by your DVD player's manufacturer. The buttons do what they're programmed to do. The closest you can come in DVDA is to enable or disable certain buttons based on the current media / menu playing.

The behavior of the PLAY button while on a menu varies from one player (or, rather, player manufacturer) to the next. Some program their player's PLAY button to play the selected item. Others have it play the first movie no matter which button is selected. Still others don't have the button do anything at all -- it's merely used to start the first movie (or the disc itself, starting with whatever the "first play" item is) if the disc was already stopped. This last behavior is the one emulated in DVDA. Your actual DVD player will do whatever it has been designed to do.

Every DVD player I've ever used does exactly one thing when you press STOP: It's stops playing. Period. If the disc has a jacket picture and the player supports them, then the jacket picture will be displayed. But the STOP button never returns to a menu.

Rob

stevem99 wrote on 9/6/2009, 9:14 AM

Thanks for clearing that up.

Former user wrote on 9/6/2009, 11:11 AM

When your DVD is stopped, and you have no RESUME function (such as if you stopped it during a movie), play will always play the FIRST file on the disk. In most commercial movies, the standard is to make this the Feature Film. In DVDA (I don't know about Studio) you can organize it so the first file is whatever you want to play.

If you have a RESUME function Play will resume playing where you left off.

Stop is always stop. Menu button will take it to the Root menu, usually the last Menu you accessed.

Dave T2