maestro issues

[takshaka]

hi all i have a few maestro issues i hope someone can help me with

1. i have set the menu call to go from the main feature to the scene selects page with the current chapter highlighted, what i want is an override function so that if i start the feature from the main menu with the play button root call will allways go back to the main menu and highlight play all, i only want the chapters to be highlighted if started from the chapters menu

2. i have 2 different sets of subtitles subtitleA can be En Fr or off and subtitleB can be En Fr or off. these subtitles relate to different movies so how can i set it to control subs for just 1 particular movie, eg if i select subtitleA off i do not want it to affect the current state of subtitleB (whatever that may be).

i think i could solve problem 1 by duplicating the movie and linking play on main menu to a different movie than the scene selects page, however is there no way to do this without duplicating movies?

thanks for your time

mike..

[skeg64]

hi,

1. It depends how you have the chapter select menu working. I assume by using a command sequence that reads SPRM7, and using the "GPRM based button selection" option, then having the menu button jump to this command sequence.
Ok, make a new command sequence that sets GPRM1 (if you haven't used this) to 0, then jumps to the main menu. Set this to where you originally call the main menu when you start the disc. Let's name this sequence "Menu Call".
Next, add a command sequence that sets GPRM1 to 1 and jumps to the main movie. Set this as the target on the "Play All" button.
Set the end action of the movie to "Menu Call".
Lastly, add a new command to the top of your current chapter-select (menu button) command. It goes to the "Menu Call" sequence if GPRM1=1. ie. Jump "Menu Call" if GPRM1 = 1 .

2. Technically you can only keep track of one setting for subtitles. But you can get around this by keeping the settings in GPRM's instead.
When the user selects a subtitle language from the menu it changes a GPRM value instead of the SPRM value. When you play the movie it selects the subtitle stream based on this GPRM.

[takshaka]

thanks for the help. worked like a charm..

i created command sequneces that set gp1 to 0 and gp1 to 1

gp1 when set to 1 will go to main menu
gp1 when set to 0 will go to chapter selection page with correct chapter highlighted (had to create 11 command sequences for the 11 different chapters, 1 for each button highlight)

when enter mainmenu gp1 is set to 1
when enter chapter select page gp1 is set to 0
when exit chapter select page gp1 is set back to 1
movie end action sets gp1 back to 1
title function which goes to main menu sets gp1 back to 1

so thanks...i havent done the subtitle issue yet but i may simply use 3 different timelines for the main feature, the subs are chapter titles and done this way the user will not be able to surf them and will have to go to the setup menu to change the "display chapter title" options to get the relevent subs En Fr or Off. but as they are chapter titles i dont tink that is so bad.

thanks.

mike...