DVD-Lab pro menu problem

[wackman]

Hey all,

I'm creating a DVD of home videos for my aunt to give her grandson for a birthday present. When you pop the DVD in the player, it starts with a slideshow of baby pictures, then after the slideshow, it goes to the menu. Besides the slideshow, there are 5 other videos. I have switched menus set up so that as you highlight a menu option, you see a screenshot in a frame in the corner. Everything works, BUT...

Somehow, the navigation of the menu is messed up. The menu starts with video1 highlighted, but when you press down from there, it skips to video3. Press down again and it's normal, 4, then 5. Then you can go back up one video at a time. You also can't just go up to 2 from 3. You have to go further down from there. Once you're on 4 or 5, then you can go back up to 2.

I've tried everything. It took me a time to realize how to fix the order of the links (sometimes when you edit the menu options, what you think is option 2 gets numbered as something else, so you have to send back or something). But that's not it; 1 is labeled 1, 2 is labeled 2 and so on. I thought it might be a problem in the switched menu, but I tried a static menu, but that did the same thing.

Would it help to try to reauthor or edit the ifo file with dvdremake or something? Am I overthinking it. I could probably tell them to not worry and just work with it, but some of the people who are getting this might be elderly people whose VCRs have been blinking 12:00 since the 80s. OK, that's an exaggeration, but I want to make this as perfected as possible.

I'm currently running the latest version of DVD Lab.

Thanks for any and all help.

Wackman

[guns1inger]

Have you tried manually routing the menu - not just changing the numerical order, but drawing the links ?

[Alex_ander]

Would it help to try to reauthor or edit the ifo file with dvdremake or something?

I think DVDRemake (or even PGCEdit) could help. Looks like you mainly have a problem with button links. For each button 4 numbers are stored (adjacent button numbers, left/right/top/bottom) in button information table of menu VOB (not in ifo's). In DVDRemake you can re-order 'adjacent' buttons for any button in the menu cells involved. Right-click on button -> 'edit button' and you'll see edit window for changing adjacent button numbers. After testing 'test DVD' you can export modified files (ifo's + menu VOB).

[tinker]

I agree with Alex-ander. If you are familiar with Remake commands, you can rebuild complete DVD and get rid of abstraction layer commands as you go.
I do this all the time, because doing it in DVDLab, I found it too confusing.

[wackman]

Thanks! DVDReMake was what fixed it. I fixed all the links in like 15 minutes. Now I have a perfect DVD.

Now, off to make a DVD cover.

Wackman