I am using Pinnacle studio 12 ultimate.

I made a dvd with three menus, M1 (the main one) pointing to M2 and M3. M2 and M3 have a button to allow the user to choose the whole movie and also has buttons to let the user choose individual scenes.

My timeline is like this

M1 M2 Ch1 RTM2 Ch2 RTM2 Ch3 RTM2 Ch4 RTM2

M3 Ch1 RTM3 Ch2 RTM3 Ch3 RTM3 Ch4 RTM3

There are no previous and next buttons on any menu

And the menus work fine, except...

When I play the dvd and in M1 select play wedding, I am redirected to M2, which is correct. In M2, when I select individual sections to play, say Ch3, it plays all the way till the end of Ch3 as it should and then returns to M2 as it should.

However, while Ch3 is playing, if I hit the previous / next button on VLC player, the video skips to Ch2 / Ch4. This isnt the way it should be, it should go back to the beginning of Ch2 when I hit the previous button on my remote and skip to the end of Ch2, see the RTM marker and return to M2. Also if I were to select Ch1, the video skips to and starts playing Ch1, but when it ends, the video see the RTM that shows return to M2 but for some reason the video returns to M1 (root menu).

So, in short, the prev and next buttons on VLC player treat the entire DVD chapter sequence as one long sequence without paying attention to the Return to menu markers AND the RTMs at the end of Ch1 under both submenus cause a return back to M1 (the root menu) and not to the submenus from which they were called.

Why is this happening and how do I fix it