DVDStyler Menu works on pc but plays like video on tv dvd player

[DangerNoodle]

Where was this website in my search results for the last week when I was scrounging the internet teaching myself how to make a dvd ToT As the title states, I created a dvd through DVDStyler. I exported it as a .iso and burned it to a dvd. When used on my laptop in VLC Media Player the menu works as expected - the buttons button and the episodes episode. However, I've had numerous issues with getting it to play on tvs. Don't judge me, but for literal decades I've just played movies through my playstation 3, however it was being read as a "data disc" and didn't know what to do with it. No big whoop, I was due an upgrade anyway. So I got this "2026 Model HDMI DVD Player for TV" through Majority on Amazon. This one actually read the disc, but it plays the menu like a short video and continues straight into the episodes. Anyone here smarter than me and can help me with this issue? I'm more than happy to switch programs if DVDStyler ain't it, it's just the first one i got to work. I was thinking about buying an access key for Yuhan DVD Creator, do we think that would work any better for what I need? Any thoughts and advice thoroughly appreciated <3

[dannyboy48888]

What burning software did you use? If you didnt set the dvd-video flag in it then it will just bring the disc like any other data disc. On the Linux side in k3b etc I have to set this. Your symptoms sound like this is what happened

[cholla]

I do not know of any TV or settop BD or DVD player with a USB port that will play a Menu.
Other than as you describe as a video file. Not an interactive menu.

I have not tested this but I believe an Android type media player with VLC for Android can do what you want.

[DangerNoodle]

What burning software did you use? If you didnt set the dvd-video flag in it then it will just bring the disc like any other data disc. On the Linux side in k3b etc I have to set this. Your symptoms sound like this is what happened

oh that good to know! I just used the built-in windows dvd burning and that didn't ask me for any preferences or anything. I'm sure this site has a place I can look into burning software so ill go peruse some options there ))

[dannyboy48888]

Use imgburn under windows. Hands down the best. In dvdstyler export In folder mode not iso and drop the folder into imgburn. It will detect it's video, set the breaks if it's dual layer, and take care of you like a pro...all for free

[Sharc]

When used on my laptop in VLC Media Player the menu works as expected - the buttons button and the episodes episode. However, I've had numerous issues with getting it to play on tvs.

TV players are basic file players rather than DVD players, so TV players usually won't play DVD file structures. You need to play your disc via a DVD player connected to your TV.

[cholla]

The "2026 Model HDMI DVD Player for TV" should play a DVD interactive menu.
Try a commercial movie DVD in it.
If it plays with an interactive DVD menu then something is not correct with the DVD DVDStyler created.

ImgBurn is a great software but it won't make the DVD menu better or worse.
It will only copy what you have.

As Sharc & I posted TVs will not play an interactive DVD menu.The onboard player will just play files as files.
Standalone DVD or BD players should play a DVD with interactive menu.
If they do not there is something wrong with the DVD. Either the writing (burn) or the disc itself or the data being written.

My standalone BD player has a USB port that will play movies from a hard drive or flash drive.
It is connected to my receiver HDMI & from the receiver to the TV HDMI.
IT WILL NOT PLAY A DVD OR BD INTERACTIVE MENU FROM THE USB PORT.
If I play a DVD or BD disc in the player the interactive menu works correctly.
I have never tested it strait HDMI to the TV. I believe it would work the same.

@ Sharc,
It depends on what you mean by DVD file structures.
My setup plays the VOB files fine from a hard drive or flash drive.
But the menu is not interactive.
Of course it plays them from a DVD disc.

[Sharc]

@ Sharc,
It depends on what you mean by DVD file structures.

I mean the VIDEO_TS folder containing the VTS_xx_x.VOB files (actually containers) plus the corresponding .IFO and .BUP files plus VIDEO_TS.IFO/.BUP, means all the files which constitute a DVD with video+audio+subtitles plus the menus and control/navigation functions as instructions for a DVD player how to play and navigate through the DVD (the "DVD menu").
A DVD authoring application like DVD Styler creates this folder plus these files, but the player must be capable to interprete these. DVD players and many PC SW players will, TV internal file players won't.

[cholla]

@ Sharc,
It depends on what you mean by DVD file structures.

I mean the VIDEO_TS folder containing the VTS_xx_x.VOB files (actually containers) plus the corresponding .IFO and .BUP files plus VIDEO_TS.IFO/.BUP, means all the files which constitute a DVD with video+audio+subtitles plus the menus and control/navigation functions as instructions for a DVD player how to play and navigate through the DVD (the "DVD menu").
A DVD authoring application like DVD Styler creates this folder plus these files, but the player must be capable to interprete these. DVD players and many PC SW players will, TV internal file players won't.

The above quote is what I thought you meant.

My BD settop player & my TV will play the .vob files from a VIDEO_TS folder on a hard drive or flash drive from it's USB port.
They will play the .vob files one after another without having to select each .vob.
What they can not do is play an interactive DVD menu.
From a DVD disc the menu works as it should.