Autostart with SVCD w/Nero

[ayed]

I have done a number of SVCDs with Nero. They all play OK on my RCA VC125HF, but won't start automatically. They "Load" then Stop. When I push Play they play fine.

This has not been a problem until I tried Menus. I can create the menu Ok (using the procedure in the How To section here). I can select the tracks, including the Menu. However the menu items do not seem to be "selectable" (no highlights on the menu item). The DVD player indicates I should be able to do this, so I think I'm missing something and suspect it has to do with autoplay. Any ideas?

Ed

PS I can play this with WinDVD, using the menu button, I get a separate screen to select the item I want, but this is different than highlighting the menu item I want and having it play.

[AntnyMD]

Auto-start is hardware dependent: your settop player's functionality determines if it will autoplay anydisc.

Hotspots, I believe, are either not supported in VCD/SVCD, or are so hard to create the mere mention of them will just generate new threads by newbies perplexed as to why they just can't do it right.

[ayed]

The player does autostart with commercial DVD movies, just not the SVCDs I made with Nero. Also Chapter selection works fine on the Commercial DVDs, but Ican't get a highlight on the menus I made.

Thanks

Ed

[AntnyMD]

It sounds as if your player doesnt support autostart on VCD/SVCD playback, and that is normal. Hotspots on VCD/SVCD are not supported in the specs (at least I think I remember reading that in this forum a year or so ago).

I have a player (Daewoo 3000N) and it autostarts every kind of disc except MP3/data CDs. My portable DVD player, which is about a month or so newer than the settop, autostarts audio CDs and DVD's only, but not VCD/SVCD.

You know, autostart is a nice feature, but seeing as I've been pushing PLAY on the VCR for 25 years, it just doesnt seem to be that big a deal to push PLAY when I insert a VCD. Clearly I've had practice.

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AntnyMD

Thanks for the info, I've only been doing this for a few months. It's a pretty steep learning curve, and the only good source seems to be these forums. It's sometimes hard to know if it's me or the environment when it doesn't do what I expect.

Have you been able to make Chapters/Menus work with SVCD? As I said, I tried the Nero procedure from the "How To" section here. I can create a menu but no highlight on the items so I can select.

Thanks for your reply