TMPGEnc DVD Author Menu Problem

[scamit]

Hi,

I am trying to author a DVD in TMPGEnc and everything seems to be working fine, but for some odd reason, one option does not seem to work for me. I have 3 tracks, the first track being a general track with copyright information and the creator of the disc and the other two tracks the actual video tracks. When the disc is first entered into a player, I want the first track to display with the copyright information and then go to the main menu. There is an option in TMPGEnc to do this, and I did the following.

In the MENU DISPLAY SETTINGS, under FIRSTPLAY ACTION, i choose PLAY ONLY FIRST TRACK and under ACTION TO TAKE AFTER EACH TRACK HAS BEEN PLAYED, i choose, PLAY THE NEXT TRACK. In TMPGEnc, it states that FIRSTPLAY ACTION has priority over ACTION TO TAKE AFTER EACH TRACK HAS BEEN PLAYED. Therefore, it should work fine and go to the main menu after the copyright information is displayed. But when i enter the disc, the copyright information is displayed, but then it just goes into playing the next video track, and does not go to the main menu. It seems odd, I thought I screwed up on the options, I burnt it twice and same result. Anyone know what I am doing wrong? This seems really odd, maybe a bug in the program?

Thanks!

[Tom Roper]

Seems to me, the easiest way to fix this "bug" is to modify the wording of the firstplay action to PLAY THE FIRST TRACK, deleting "ONLY". My $0.02

I can't tell you what to do, only what I'd do under the circumstances, I'd make the best of it and under ACTION TO TAKE AFTER EACH TRACK HAS PLAYED, I'd choose DISPLAY MAIN MENU, and give the user the option to press the PLAY ALL button, or choose a track. If he chooses PLAY ALL, the DVD will not return to the main menu after a track has played. If he chooses one of the two tracks, it will return to the main menu after the track has played.

You could even write some instructions on the main menu to that effect, but I doubt that it's necessary unless the target viewers are complete neophytes. Less insulting would be to put a number in front of each track title, so that the user plays the tracks in the desired order (if he didn't choose "Play All" in which case the tracks would play in the correct order automatically.)

And I'd also right-click on the copyright track thumbnail on the main menu, and delete it, so it doesn't show up again.

Upon insertion the disk would play the copyright, then display the main menu with thumbnails for the remaining two tracks, and a play-all button.

[Robert Kario]

Go to the link below for a similar problem.

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=211388

Good luck. Robert