DVD Maestro "First Play" puzzles me

[SupaCoopa]

Hello people.
This has to do with the "first play" setting in DVD Maestro. I have made a disc which has a small intro, then goes to the menu and then you have the main movie. I have set the "first play" to be the intro and navigation flows correctly.

I have noticed, however, that "first play" only works the first time you insert the disc on the stand-alone player (which is a Pioneer 535). In other words, the first time you insert the disc, the intro plays and then it goes to the menu when you can change language, subs etc and continue with the movie. But if you stop the playback (pressing "Stop" twice which de-activates the resume option in Pioneers) and press "Play" again without ejecting and re-inserting, it just goes to the main movie and starts playing it with the default language and subs options as set in Maestro. No intro, no menu.

I haven't noticed this with commercial DVDs, which navigate the same way, either the first time you insert the disc or after stop/play with the disc in. Is this a bug/feature of my stand-alone or is it the way Maestro authors the disc? Have I missed something in Maestro options? I would at least expect the menu to show up every time playback starts, without having to eject/reinsert or use the menu call button...

Cheers to all

[Lexus]

What you've desribed also happens occasionally with commercial DVDs played on my Pioneer 444. For example, some discs won't play the Dolby Digital intro again after you've stopped the disc.

[jonnybignote]

Hey - comforting to hear someone with the same problem as myself. Authored in DVD-Lab. Main menu available until stop pressed twice. I then have to either power off and on again, or eject the disc to get to the main menu, otherwise all it does is repeat the first segment or movie over and over...

Havn't solved it yet...

Worst still, this same movie doesn't present a root menu AT ALL in some players (Oritron 200 and Samsung m101) - it just plays the first segment...VHS was so simple