Menu Problem - No Highlighted Item

[vicchiollo]

I have been trying to burn some dvds with several title sets and a menu to play on our vehicles DVD entertainment system. The DVDs burn fine and work fine on our home dvd player. But on our vehicles dvd player, the menu appears, but there is no highlighted item and I cannot scroll through the menu to select the individual titles. If I press play, the first title plays fine and then returns to the menu - still with no highlight.

Any suggestions are appreciated!

[ChrissyBoy]

Have a look at:

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=282510

and

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=263473

to see if that is the case for you too.

[vicchiollo]

I should have mentioned - I did read these threads and have tried changing the colors of the buttons - but still it doesn't work.

Another detail to add - on our home dvd player, when the menu appears after inserting the dvd, the first menu item is highlighted and blinking. Not sure if this should be blinking or just solid highlighted.

[ChrissyBoy]

ok have you got the "loop" option checked? If so can you try unchecking?

[vicchiollo]

I unchecked the Loop option. This solved the blinking highlight problem on our home dvd player, but the same problem still exists on our vehicles dvd player - no highlighted button.

Out of curiosity, I loaded SVCD2DVD v1.5 and built the same dvd with menu. The menus DID work just fine in both our home dvd player and our vehicle dvd player.

I guess until I can figure out why the menu in v2 won't work in the dvd player in our vehicle, I will just use v1.5

[ChrissyBoy]

Is it an audio menu? Can i seet the project part of the log? i.e:

************************* ProjectMetaData **************************

[vicchiollo]

No, it is not an audio menu. Here is the Project part of the log -

BTW - thanks for you quick response and all your help!

************************* ProjectMetaData **************************

<SVCD2DVD DateTime="11/16/2005 9:21:59 AM"><AssetSet><Asset ID="bb0c3344-7010-4fb2-952e-9095ff14a36c" Path="D:\My Videos\Dr Suess" Filename="Grinch New.avi" /><Asset ID="e7d8d29c-b41a-41fa-a33d-2723ec3c4338" Path="D:\My Videos\Dr Suess" Filename="Dr Suess - Cat In The Hat.avi" /><Asset ID="2dccdd87-08a1-4a9a-84d8-27f8ef316bca" Path="D:\My Videos\Dr Suess" Filename="Dr Suess - Grinch Night.avi" /><Asset ID="1983c6c2-3fa8-48a2-8f64-ee0134798831" Path="D:\My Videos\Dr Suess" Filename="Dr Suess - Sneetches, Zax, Green Eggs.avi" /><Asset ID="d843401c-fccb-4ce2-9d57-3b70eba612b1" Path="D:\My Videos\Dr Suess" Filename="Grinch New_S2D.mpg" /><Asset ID="96f4fd5f-636c-4325-8d1d-d5d8fc5ae2e8" Path="D:\My Videos\Dr Suess" Filename="Dr Suess - Cat In The Hat_S2D.mpg" /><Asset ID="f2ba0b33-afc0-4f60-b25a-4ac07323ccd0" Path="D:\My Videos\Dr Suess" Filename="Dr Suess - Grinch Night_S2D.mpg" /><Asset ID="89985c8c-302b-4c55-ba74-4569ab785eb1" Path="D:\My Videos\Dr Suess" Filename="Dr Suess - Sneetches, Zax, Green Eggs_S2D.mpg" /></AssetSet><DVDStructure><TitleSet Name="Sneetches, Zax, Green Eggs and Ham" PostCmd="" MenuButtonType="0"><MenuButton X1="96" Y1="120" X2="528" Y2="151" FontFamily="Microsoft Sans Serif" FontSize="18" FontStyle="0">Sneetches, Zax, Green Eggs and Ham</MenuButton><Title Name="Dr Suess - Sneetches, Zax, Green Eggs_S2D.mpg" AssetID="89985c8c-302b-4c55-ba74-4569ab785eb1" MplexOffset="0" /></TitleSet><TitleSet Name="The Cat in the Hat" PostCmd="" MenuButtonType="0"><MenuButton X1="184" Y1="192" X2="392" Y2="223" FontFamily="Microsoft Sans Serif" FontSize="18" FontStyle="0">The Cat in the Hat</MenuButton><Title Name="Dr Suess - Cat In The Hat_S2D.mpg" AssetID="96f4fd5f-636c-4325-8d1d-d5d8fc5ae2e8" MplexOffset="0" /></TitleSet><TitleSet Name="How the Grinch Stole Christmas" PostCmd="" MenuButtonType="0"><MenuButton X1="120" Y1="264" X2="479" Y2="295" FontFamily="Microsoft Sans Serif" FontSize="18" FontStyle="0">How the Grinch Stole Christmas</MenuButton><Title Name="Grinch New_S2D.mpg" AssetID="d843401c-fccb-4ce2-9d57-3b70eba612b1" MplexOffset="0" /></TitleSet><TitleSet Name="Halloween is Grinch Night" PostCmd="" MenuButtonType="0"><MenuButton X1="144" Y1="344" X2="437" Y2="375" FontFamily="Microsoft Sans Serif" FontSize="18" FontStyle="0">Halloween is Grinch Night</MenuButton><Title Name="Dr Suess - Grinch Night_S2D.mpg" AssetID="f2ba0b33-afc0-4f60-b25a-4ac07323ccd0" MplexOffset="0" /></TitleSet><DVDMenu TVStandard="NTSC" Normal="-1" Highlight="-65536" Active="-16711936" ShowPlayAllButton="False" DSOffsetWidth="1" DSOffsetHeight="1" DSColor="0" DSOnOff="True" BackgroundImagePath="C:\Program Files\BadgerIT\SVCD2DVD v2\backgrounds\Dr. Suess 3.jpg" AudioPath="" /></DVDStructure><Settings><General InitialAssetFolder="D:\My Videos" InitialDVDFolder="D:\" InitialProjectFolder="D:\My Videos" DeleteS2DFiles="False" UseDVDShrink="True" /><Menu AudioEncoding="Custom_mpa" DefaultCustomAudioPath="" DefaultCustomImagePath="C:\Program Files\BadgerIT\SVCD2DVD v2\backgrounds\film.jpg" TVStandard="NTSC" FontFamily="Tahoma" FontSize="28" FontStyle="3" PlayAllText="" Loop="True" EncodeVideo2AudioDuration="False" /><Process AudioEncoding="mpa" Chapters="Every 3 mins" SkipMPA48="False" SkipAC3="False" PanSan="True" MergeTitles="False" UsePulldown="False" PAL2NTSC="False" AVI2PASS="False" AVI2HALFD1="FS" NoBframes_FullME="False" UseCustomMatrices="True" IntraMatrix="C:\Program Files\BadgerIT\SVCD2DVD v2\Matrices\FOX Video Matrix (4K+)\Intra.mtx" NonIntraMatrix="C:\Program Files\BadgerIT\SVCD2DVD v2\Matrices\FOX Video Matrix (4K+)\NonIntra.mtx" /><Program BINExtraction="vcdxrip" VCDGearFIX="False" FastAudioEncode="True" /><Burning BurningMethod="DVD Decrypter" DVDDrive="" NeroWriteSpeed="Max" Eject="True" HighDVDCompat="True" VerifyDVD="False" DVDDecrypterPath="C:\Program Files\ImgBurn\ImgBurn.exe" DVDDErase="True" DVDDClose="True" DVDDDontBurn="True" /></Settings></SVCD2DVD>

************************* ProjectMetaData **************************

[ChrissyBoy]

Can you try creating an audio menu and selecting EncodeVideo2AudioDuration in the settings (and loose the lopp setting too)? Just to see if we can get any highlight. I notice it is a NTSC menu so maybe try AC3 as the custom audio type too.

[vicchiollo]

OK - that worked. Now there is a highlighted button and I can scroll through each item on the menu.

[ChrissyBoy]

Excellent... ( i had visions of your testing process: process, burn, go to garage, start car, watch dvd... back to the beginning!)

[vicchiollo]

That was exactly right! And it is darn cold here these days too, so that trip to the garage was somewhat painful!

Thanks again!