Next not working with linked videos?

msorrels wrote on 4/28/2004, 8:02 AM
If you take a few short video's, add them to the root of a DVDA2 project. Link the first one to the first menu. Inside the first video make the end action point to the second video. Inside the second make the end action point to the third, etc with the last being return to last menu. When you play this inside DVDA2 with the Preview everything works. If you press the next button it skips to the next video in the chain. But if you prepare this as a DVD, the next button doesn't skip you to the next video, it does nothing.

-Matt

Comments

SonySDB wrote on 4/28/2004, 8:09 AM
All DVD players don't behave identically in this situation. On some DVD players, the next button skips to the next video or other DVD players, the next button does nothing when on the last chapter.
coffeebean wrote on 4/28/2004, 2:19 PM
This is most certainly the case. I have a number of set top players both purchased around the same time and the same DVD plays differently in each one. The important issue is that they play in both, the average
user, from my experience presses the buttons on the menus.

cheers
-coffeebean
msorrels wrote on 4/28/2004, 2:54 PM
While this may or may not be true, DVD Lab has no trouble making a DVD like this and the Next button works just fine. I think the problem is with the .ifo DVDA2 is generating and not a DVD player factor. I'm also not talking about the behavior on the last video, that's documented and makes sense. I'm talking about the behavior in the middle of the chain. Something isn't right about DVDA2's output.

-Matt
msorrels wrote on 4/28/2004, 3:42 PM
Ok, I've looked at it a bit more and what seems to be happening is that each video is a seperate title, instead of being a seperate chapter of the same title. As a result you get pot luck with the next button. I tired turning off Title Play but that doesn't seem to help.

Is there no way to make DVDA2 put all the videos into the same title as seperate chapters(without rendering it as one big file)? When you stick them in a music compilation it always renders it as one big file. Which of course is the one reason I wanted end actions. But if the videos can't be linked I'm back to the render as one big file problem.

-Matt
SonySDB wrote on 4/29/2004, 5:14 AM
Yes. A music compilation is the way to go. It will not be rendered as one big file.
kevinc wrote on 4/30/2004, 10:06 AM
If you put all the a/v titles together as a music compilation, is there any way of creating a chapter selection menu in the title menu to access different parts of the "music compilation"? If using music compilation is the only way to compile small a/v files, there should be a way to create a menu for the music compilation, so you can either play all, or select the track you want to hear/watch.