DLP: Resuming DVD from menu does not work!

[Alain2007]

Resuming play of my DVD works properly ONLY if the STOP button was pressed during a movie. In which case, if PLAY is pressed, movie resumes from same spot. Perfect.

However...It will NOT resume properly if STOP was pressed when the user was on a menu screen. (instead, the first movie in the MOVIES folder starts playing, and once complete shows the ROOT menu).

How do I fix this???

[guns1inger]

Resume is a function of the player as well as a function of the disc. Authoring with a resume will only allow you to move from the movie to a menu, then back to the movie. If you stop the movie, then you have taken control away from the disc, and it is up to the player how it resumes.

I have a Pioneer player that resumes very nicely, and an LG that resumes to the last title. So if I am watching an episodic disc, for example, finish an episode, move to the menu for the next and hit stop, it will resume back to the last episode I watched, not the menu I was on. This is a failure of the player, and authoring cannot fix it.

Once you hit stop, the disc no longer comes into play. All discs expect to start with the first play item. Only your player can correctly put you back to where you were - or not.

[Alain2007]

Thank you.
I will instead disable the STOP btn during the menus.

[guns1inger]

As a user that would piss me off. Why? Because most of the time I don't stop the disc mid-title. I stop the disc when the title is finished and I am back on the menu. To have to start a title just to get around an arbitrary and non-obvious user restriction would have me just ejecting the disc instead of using stop.

And because the resume will work fine for some players, and not for others, you are penalising everybody's experience. I would think this through before doing what you plan to do.

[Alain2007]

Hmm....thanks for the opinion. I had the same thought as I was testing the DVD. So now I am reconsidering...I have a Simpsons DVD where it was disabled, but I have a Threes Company where it wasnt.

Is there really is no way to at LEAST make it so that when it is resumed from any menu, that it at least plays the ROOT menu (instead of playing the first title in Movies folder)?

[ron spencer]

use vm commands for resume instead of the resume button on your remote. Make a button called resume and link it to an RSM command.

[guns1inger]

The problem is once you stop the disc, the registers are cleared, unless the player chooses to store them. Some players store more than others. Some only store the title. It's not a function defined in the spec, so implementation is up the individual manufacturers.