DVD Lab Menu and Ratio problem

[The Meddler]

I've been having problems authoring a DVD using DVD-Lab.

It's a DVD of original music videos. I've been trying to build a menu which allows the user to choose the song they'd like to play, watch it, then it goes back to the song menu. But I also need to add the facility to skip from song to song while playing using the chapter functions.

I've been able to make DVDs in which you do return to the menu after a song but you can't skip, and DVDs where you can move between songs using chapter points but it doesn't return to menu at the end of a track - it just plays everything from that point on.

As a quick fix I've managed to make a disc with a Play All button, but this involves putting all the songs on the DVD twice. There must be a better way to do it, so any help would be appreciated - even if it's pointing me to another authoring package that can do the job.


My other problem is that the DVDs display in the correct widescreen ratio on my player, but appear as stretched-out fullscreen on my friend's older machine. The files were encoded in TMPGEnc Plus and everything in both that and DVD-Lab that allows you to specify 16:9 widescreen does so. The only reason I can think of is that the menu is fullscreen, but that shouldn't affect the output of the seperately-encoded video, surely? Again, any help would be appreciated.

[awlchu]

DVD-Lab Pro,

Assuming all the videos are in one movie:

Create one movie and place a chapter between songs. Use a movie branch to jump to a chapter (song). Returns to the calling menu after playing the chapter. Title is placed once on the DVD.

'Play all' and each branch uses the same title.

I don't know of a way to chapter forward to the next song while in the middle of movie branch. You need to go back to 'title' or 'root'/'main' which can happen easily.

See your friends player has a display override and force 4:3 (or whatever it is suppose to be).

[Silvas]

You might try creating a playlist.

[The Meddler]

Thank you for the display override suggestion, awlchu. This turned out to be the problem although oddly the player in question had to be put into 4:3 mode to play the DVD in widescreen. I haven't had the opportunity to try the other suggestions in this thread yet but the widescreen fix is certainly progress, which is appreciated.