Prev/Next buttons don't work

Robert P wrote on 1/10/2013, 5:42 PM
I have a BD project using 4 video files. I dragged them to the main menu page as four different chapter selections.

The only thing that isn't working the way I want it to is the Prev / Next buttons to skip from one chapter to another while the BD is playing. Doesn't work either with the Preview function within DVDAS or on a set top player.

Within each item I have Prev/Up and Next set to "On". Shouldn't this make the Prev/Next buttons work?


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videoITguy wrote on 1/10/2013, 5:55 PM
YES, paste these links into your browser for a look see:

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=22&MessageID=842949

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=836229&Replies=13
Robert P wrote on 1/10/2013, 9:30 PM
The advice here seems to be "don't expect it to work".

There has to be a better answer than that.
PeterDuke wrote on 1/10/2013, 9:34 PM
The problem only manifests itself with some Blu-ray players, notably Panasonic, and seems to be OK with at least some Sony players. It is OK also with my Dune network media player but not my Panasonic player (actually a recorder).

For this reason, I use TMPGEnc Authoring Works to make Blu-rays. (I don't like Encore because I can't make it not re-render my perfectly acceptable .m2ts files.)

Vote with your feet! If enough people do, SCS might be stirred to fix this and other problems.
Robert P wrote on 1/10/2013, 10:59 PM
Hmm. I'm using an LG player. Wonder if there's some firmware update.

I experienced consistent functionality with DVD's made with Pinnacle Studio 9 - things seemed to work the same no matter what player they were in but apparently things are different with Blu-ray players?

Or are you saying it's more the fault of DVDAS?
Robert P wrote on 1/11/2013, 3:00 PM
So the only way to ensure it works is to always render the project as one big file before importing to DVDAS?
videoITguy wrote on 1/11/2013, 4:04 PM
From the bug infest in DVDAPro 5.0b+ thru 5.2 you can import into a Blu-ray project a video file from VegasPro8.0+ that has chapter markers set on the VegasPro Timeline. You will be creating a scene selection menu on the main menu. From the DVDAPro point of view this is only going to work at the main menu level - you cannot import into a submenu.

From the Blu-ray set-top player side, you must have a compatible manufacturer/firmware update -preferably later than Sep 2011. There is no guarantee that a manufacturer/firmware combination is going to work properly.

These above two conditions must be met to be successful.
PeterDuke wrote on 1/11/2013, 10:24 PM
"So the only way to ensure it works is to always render the project as one big file before importing to DVDAS?"

I almost always produce only one file with scene/chapter markers, so that is unlikely to help you.

The key is that you can't have more than one menu page (no scene sub-menu pages) if you want the skip buttons of a Blu-ray authoured by DVDA to work properly in all Blu-ray players.

If you put all your scene selection buttons on the single main page it will work.

If you have chapters only (no scene selection buttons) then it should also work.

Actually, to be strictly correct, you CAN have scene sub-menus and the skip buttons WILL always work PROVIDED THAT YOU DON'T ACCESS THE SCENE SUB-MENU.