Menu music question

[Qun Mang]

I'm making a slideshow DVD for about a dozen people and I was wondering about menu music. Most of the DVD players in my house had no trouble at all with the DVD I made, but one did- my cheap RjTech which I mainly use for watching .avis and .mpgs rather than DVDs. It had trouble accepting key presses in the menu. I figured this out to be the music playing on the menu. I burnt a DVD with no background music and it worked fine.

The question I have is how likely is it that one of the people I give this DVD to will have the same problem? I really like the music so I don't want to get rid of it unless I have to. Does anyone know if many players have this problem with menu music? Thanks.

[yoda313]

Well you could make it a short 30 second opening video with the music and either a still photo or some small video with the music and set it as the starting video.

Most dvd authoring software allows you to set a starting video to play before your menu. That way you could include your music and some pictures or stills in the intro and then go to a standard menu without music.

[Qun Mang]

You know, that is an excellent idea. I even have some ideas right now on just what to put. Thanks. Of course, I need to see if any of the free solutions (or Nerovision Express 2) support it...

[yoda313]

Glad to get you on the right track. Good luck with the software hunt

[MOVIEGEEK]

Of course, I need to see if any of the free solutions (or Nerovision Express 2) support it...

No but Ulead VideoStudio does.
BTW...what kind of audio did you use for the menu?

[Qun Mang]

No but Ulead VideoStudio does.
BTW...what kind of audio did you use for the menu?

The problem is I am currently unemployed and can't afford any commercial software, though I suppose uncrippled time-limited demos could work as I don't anticipate making another DVD until next summer.

In any event, even if NVE2 doesn't do it, I could always add it as a regular video then add a call to it in the First-Play section using PGCEdit, right?

As for the music it was a 96-second MP3 when imported by NVE. I think I set it to 48000 Hz, VBR quality 2 in Reaper. I assume NVE would have converted it to proper format. I originally tried WAV, but NVE would fail to transcode it- I think Reaper compressed it. So far only one DVD player had problems with it so far, but I don't know what other players out there may as well which is why I asked.