Returning to menu at the end of a chapter

[DonR]

Newbie question alert! I've got a short film with only two chapters, first one at start of movie. From a menu button can you have the first chapter play and at the end of that chapter have the movie go back to the menu rather than play through to the next chapter? Same with second chapter. Or do I have to split the movie in two? Thanks for reading. oh btw I'm using DVD-lab

Rgds,

Don

[Susana]

You can use cell-commands.

Also, you can duplicate PGC for avoiding non-seamless playback with the "play all" button.

I don't know if DVD-Lab allows cell-commands, maybe only PRO version.

[vcmohan]

Also, you can duplicate PGC for avoiding non-seamless playback with the "play all" button.


I did not understand this. From a menu I can give a command as jump titlesetx chapter xx;. If I duplicate a PGC then there are two titlesets with same name. Since pgc s do not have numbers how can we do this?

I have also another question. I am using DVDAuthor to create my DVD files. From the documentation I find that I can use upto 12 general purpose registers g0 t0 g11. Do they have initial values? I want to use these values as a conditional jump to subsequent menus. Also can I use jump instructions in the <pre>...</pre> tags?

[Susana]

I did not understand this. From a menu I can give a command as jump titlesetx chapter xx;. If I duplicate a PGC then there are two titlesets with same name. Since pgc s do not have numbers how can we do this?
I don't understand you. You can have different PGCs refering to same cells in VOBs; it's a PGC as anyone else. I don't know DVDAuthor possibilities.

From the documentation I find that I can use upto 12 general purpose registers g0 t0 g11. Do they have initial values?
Initial value is 0.

[mp3dom]

In DVDLab (for what I remember with previous version) you can made Playlists. You made 2 additional playlist: one with the only 1st chapter and one with the only 2nd chapter (of the whole movie). You can then set the "end-comman" of every Playlist and link them to the menu. So you press the button and go to playlist/chapter1 and at the end you'll return to the menu. Same thing for the second playlist. If you want to play the whole movie seamless (without pause between chapter1 and 2) you need to link directly to the movie (or made a third playlist that include both chapter 1 and chapter 2)

[vcmohan]

I don't understand you. You can have different PGCs refering to same cells in VOBs; it's a PGC as anyone else. I don't know DVDAuthor possibilities.
Thanks. I am trying to make an xml file for DVDAuthor. In this I have menus in vmgm level and in some titlesets. When I use the expression in vmgm menu "jump titleset 4 title 1 chapter 1" or "jump titleset 4 title 1 " the xml parser gives an error saying cannot jump.While the documentation clearly says that this is a valid target. There is also an un clear issue. If I have same vob file in two different pgc s or in two different titlesets how do one identify them as targets? Are these valid? " title y chapter 1" and "title z chapter 1" . In second case "titleset x title a" and "titleset y title c"?
I also read that vmgm level all titlesets and titles and menus are accessable. One can just target as title 1 or title 2 the number being its position on the disc. If so if same vob file is specified at different positions in either one titleset or in two titlesets what is its title number? Its position in the disc or its position in titleset?

[mpucoder]

If I have same vob file in two different pgc s or in two different titlesets how do one identify them as targets?
Vob files contain the video, but are not the target of any jump, PGCs (which refer to sections of vob files) are targets.
Further, you cannot have the same vob file in two different titlesets, each titleset has its own vob file(s). If the same track (segment) is used in two titlesets it will be duplicated.
I also read that vmgm level all titlesets and titles and menus are accessable. One can just target as title 1 or title 2 the number being its position on the disc. If so if same vob file is specified at different positions in either one titleset or in two titlesets what is its title number? Its position in the disc or its position in titleset?
Again, you do not target vob files but PGCs. Each PGC in a titleset is numbered according to its title number within the titleset. One of the PGCs for each title is marked as the entry PGC if there are more than one. Another table in VMG lists all the titles on the disk and refers to each by titleset number and title within the titleset.

[Susana]

When I use the expression in vmgm menu "jump titleset 4 title 1 chapter 1" or "jump titleset 4 title 1 " the xml parser gives an error saying cannot jump.While the documentation clearly says that this is a valid target.
From VMGM, you can use (related to VTS):
- Jump VMG Title (entry PGC of that Title; Another table in VMG lists all the titles...)
- Jump VTS menu (root or audio or ...).

So, you can not jump to a chapter of a title from VMG.

[Mr_Odwin]

I was having troubles with jumping around in dvdauthor and found that using
<dvdauthor jumppad="on">
at the top of the xml file, helped a lot. (But some hardware players have trouble playing back jumppad dvds.)

[querdenker]

I think, I do have the same problem. I have a film with scientific material - let's say with 6 "chapters" - which was recorded as one piece . I would like to burn a DVD in that way, that each "chapter" can be reached from a very simple main menu. But at the end of the "chapter" the main menu must be displayed automatically an play back must not continue automatically with the next "chapter".

I have set title marker in DVDLab at the beginning of each chapter and linked them to the corresponding entry in the main menu. This works fine and each "chapter" ca be reached driectly from the main menu. But as told before playback does not stop at the end of a "chapter".

It should work in the same way as it works with a lot of Flash-manuals: you select a topic in a menu and after playback of this topic the previous menu is displayed automatically.

How to solve this for a DVD? It seems to me a very basic requirement. Isn't it?

Thank you for your help

querdenker

[setarip_old]

@querdenker

Hi!

It sounds like you should simply be creating individual TITLES rather than CHAPTERS...

[querdenker]

Hhm, but what are "titles" and how to create them. The only thing I find in DVD-lab are "chapters". Yes I see, there is a "Title Button" in the "Connections"-window. But i do not know how to use this for my special task.

What doesn't help is just to create different files (mpg) and to put them on the DVD. At the end of playing the file, the DVD-Player just starts automatikally with the next file.

(Sorry, I'm very new to authoring; may be I have to use another software?)

[setarip_old]

Sorry, I'm very new to authoring; may be I have to use another software?A simpler to use program is "TMPGEnc DVD Author" v.1.6 (NOT v.2.0). You can obtain a FULLY functional free 30 day trial version of this commercial program at:

http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/download/tda16.html

To create separate TITLES in TMPGEnc DVD Author, use the "Add new track" function, individually for each title to be created...

[goonix]

@querdenker

Open your DVD with PgcEdit.
Set the "Layer Break" flag ->(non seamless cell) for every chapter.
Write a "1" as cell command number for every chapter.
Add the cell command "1 (CallSS) Call the VTSM Root menu of the current VTS, resume cell 1" to this PGC.

Now the playback stops and go back to the root menu after every chapter.

goonix

[querdenker]

@goonix

I downloaded PgcEdit. Wow, what a software! I also downloaded the manual etc. But ...

Can you please give me some more advice how to do what you described. Menu-Editor? Command-Editor??

I don't find the "Layer Break" flag. Have I to create it? Where, how?

Any help would be fine, thanx

[bigotti5]

In the right pane doubleclick your pgc
Here you can set the flag and the # of the cellcommand (see picture)

http://members.aon.at/video.digital/nsm.png

In the left pane mark the pgc and rightclick in the right pane as in the picture to add a cellcommand

http://members.aon.at/video.digital/cellcom.png

after inserting doubleclick on the command to edit it to your need

[querdenker]

Excellent help. Thank you. Works great.

@ setarip_old
In addition I downloaded TMPGEnc DVD-Author and had a short look at it. May be it can work for me too. But PGCEdit is free!

[setarip_old]

[Quote]But PGCEdit is free![Quote]True, but for 30 days, so is "TMPGEnc DVD Author" v.1.6. As I said previously, the download is a FULLY functional free 30 day trial version...

Glad to hear that PGCEdit allowed you to accomplish your mission ;>}

[querdenker]

Meanwhile I tried TMPGEnc DVD Author, too. It works for me, too.

But there remains one "small" problem. The original material consits of a lot of very small "clips" (mpg-files) This files have proper descripting file names, which should be used for selection in the DVD-menu.

I didn't find a way that the file-names are automatically entered into the menu. Because it is very complicated scientific material, the file-names are comlicated too. I don't like to retype them (i.e. 15 ore more for each DVD). Typing mistakes! Copy works, I know, but it is a lot of work too.

I tried TMPGEnc DVD Author, also DVD-Lab. But always I have to type(copy) everything by myself. In DVD-Lab I created a template, but I also have to type the file-names (clip-names) by myself.

Any ideas?