Menu buttons are highlighted when played in computer but not on DVD player

[rui]

Hello

I was wondering if any nice and friendly computer expert out there could help me out because I am going crazy.

I put together a nice little film of my baby with Intervideo WinDVD Creator 2 and burnt it into a DVD which played normally on my DVD player. However, since I didn't like the colour of the menus and the soundtrack I worked some more on the project a few days afterwards and produced another DVD. However, the buttons of the menu in this new one (actually, in any of the 7 DVD I have burnt in the meantime trying to amend things here and there) do not appear highlighted when selected when I use my DVD player, but they appear highlighted if I use the computer (either Intervideo 4 or WMediaPlayer). Please note that the underlying function is working - if I blindly count the "steps" I am able to navigate through the menu and all the chapters work fine, it's only that they do not get highlighted when I am hovering over them.

This is getting me crazy: if the first DVD had not worked as well, I would have thought it was a compatibility issue my DVD player, but that cannot be, because the buttons on the first one are highlighted when selected, even on the DVD player.

Is it something I did in the meantime? I did download DivX between my first DVD and the first couple of not-working-properly ones, but I uninstalled it in the meantime and the ensuing DVDs still don't have the buttons highlighted on the DVD player. After uninstalling, did I lose something I had before installing? I have also re-installed Intervideo WinDVD Creator 2 and that hasn't helped either.

As for specs: I am using WinXP, a Toshiba Satellite with a 1.6 Centrino, 512 MB Ram and burning DVD-Rs.

Again, what baffles me is that it worked once!

Thank you in advance for all the help you can give me.

[borax]

1. I have no idea what causes this 'behavior'
2. Have you tried another soft player (VLC, MPC) and another SA Player?
3. Hard way: Compare the working DVD and one of the 'strange' DVDs with pgcedit.

[rui]

Thank you, Borax. I have not tried another soft player because it works fine with two (Intervideo and Media Player).

I am a begginer here: can you please clarify what is an "SA" player?

Anyway, I will probably use pgcedit, because even I get it working, and I want to understand what went wrong.

Thanks

[Bjs]

Intervideo and Media Player , while they do work are not effective enough to assume all will work ... some player's are better than other's .

Powerdvd = fine
Nero showtime = fine
Ulead dvd player ... issue's

Free :

Koolplaya ... required dvd video decoder (freedvdcodec) link here : ****://www.freewindows.dk/fw/modules/mydownloads/singlefile.php?lid=339

Also require the ac3 filter package , and a sub filter ... check codec section on site as there may be other's for dvd decoding .

Ifoedit ... but it crap's out under xp ... all other os's are fine ... even tell's you if navigational error's appear .

Pgcedit : https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=270121

Come down to about halfway down on this guide and you will see a multi coloured image , called the sub picture colour lookup table ... form this , you should beable to see how to confirm those colour's within the menu ... those with b's marked ...

Once you have copied the colour's from one ... check the other menu's and see it the colour table's match ... if not ... you paste , when done , save dvd and re-play test it in koolplaya ... should also be fine for window's media player .

If all is fine now ... burn and it should work as normal .

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As for "3. Hard way: Compare the working DVD and one of the 'strange' DVDs with pgcedit."

No it's not ... it's very simple ... as the guide I listed above use's this technique to copy the colour table from a commercial dvd to my project dvd .

[borax]

I am a begginer here: can you please clarify what is an "SA" player?

Stand Alone DVD player

[rui]

At BJS

Thanks for this, I used DVD SubEdit and have already ascertained that the CLUT is right in the only good DVD (b-black, p-white, e-1 - green, e-2 - blue) and wrong (all four squares are "Red") in the malfunctioning DVD's. However, I cannot correct it. If I select "ignore CLUT", the four colours become the same as the good DVD but some way or the other I cannot save those definitions. If I change the colours manually, it still doesn't work. And in any case I don't want to be doing this everytime I author a DVD... I think I will just ditch WinDVD Creator 2, it's too much for me...

[Nelson37]

First sounds like a software DVD player that is helping you TOO MUCH. A better player, in this case, would be one that correctly shows the playback as it would be on the standalone player rather than correcting it for you.

My guess would be that this is only happening on the edited project. Have you tried making a completely new project and checking the menu on that?

At least that would nail it down to a bug in the software and there may be some easy fix for this, you could check the forum's for this program.

[rui]

@ Nelson,

Yes, I tried that. After 3 ruined DVD's I started a whole new project with different clips (where my baby was 9 months old instead of 3 months old, as in the first project)

I really cannot pinpoint what I am doing different, if anything. That's why I assumed that downloading DIVx in the meantime had just changed in my specs somehow and impaired the ability of WinDVD to author it properly. It's the only thing I can remember to be different between the good and the bad DVDs...

rui

[rui]

problem solved - thanks everyone

I used PgcEdit to correct the CLUT, then used WinDVD again to burn the resulting files into a DVD and it works. Beats me why the CLUT gets wrong and I will have to do this trick if I want to use this program, but at least now it's working.

Thank you everyone.

Regards