DVD Workshop - Buttons not functioning in SVCD menu??

[Psycloned]

All,

I am just starting to use Ulead DVD workshop and am having some difficulty getting the results that I am expecting. I have created a simple test project and have added one 480x480 SVCD compliant clip into the title section. I then selected the menu tab and added a generic background. I then added a button to the menu and linked the clip to the button by dragging it onto the button. At this point the button attributes showed the button as having a link to the clip. It appears as if it is all linked properly.

I chose the finish menu and clicked the play button on the remote. I was presented with my menu containing the one button. The problem is that clicking the button does nothing at all when I expect it to play the clip linked to it. The only way to play the clip is to use the number pad and click the number one.

I thought maybe this was a symptom of not actually having it as an svcd so I decided to burn the project. Once the project was burned to cd, I browsed it and appeared to be in order with the various folders/files that an svcd needs, I am a newbie so I don't know exactly what all is needed but it seemed complete.

I then put the disc into my pc dvd player, opened PowerDVD and pressed play. I got the menu as I expected but again, the button does not function, only when I used the keypad in PowerDVD and clicked the number one, did the clip play. I have not tried the disc in my Toshiba home DVD player as it does not support vcd/svcd, but I am not so sure it would matter. I expect that DVD Workshop is the culprit here.

Has anyone had this problem before and if so, what is causing it and how do I fix it??

Thanks...

[marsmayhem]

That's how it works when you stick an SVCD in your player. You have to press a number on the remote that corresponds to the number assigned to the chapter. There's no mouse in a DVD player obviously, so it has to rely on the remote's interface, which for VCD/SVCD includes numbers, Play, Prev, and Next.

DVD Workshop is doing what it's supposed to. Except that it doesn't let you set up Play as an action for a button - otherwise known as Default action, technically speaking.

[Psycloned]

I thought that you could create a menu just like that of a DVD for an SVCD, the only difference being the format of the video on the disc. You mean that there isn't a highlight that you can use the arrow keys on a remote to move to the 'play' button to start the video playing??

I have also tried DVDit using the same menu design and video clips as a test and it worked fine, allowing interactivity with the mouse in the test mode and when burned to disc.

All of the on disc tests were done in PowerDVD on my PC as my Toshiba SD2109 does not support vcd/svcd.

Confused...

[marsmayhem]

For SVCD, nope. No nice highlights like on DVD.