Special functions with Maestro

[mikeathome]

Hi,

I am looking for two special functions (Maestro):

1) Jumping from Movie Title No.1 to No.2, Resume Button (pressed in Movie Titel No.2) jumps back to where I left Movie Title No.1
- what for, special Button over Video application

2) Jumping to the loop point of an animated menu, not to the beginning but to the point where the menu loops

Is that possible ?

thx, mike

[auenf]

1) would it work that you jump to a animated menu instead of a video, then the resume should go back to the movie?

2) possibly need to use button over video (instead of menus) for that, not too sure.

Enf...

[mikeathome]

Originally posted by auenf
1) would it work that you jump to a animated menu instead of a video, then the resume should go back to the movie?

2) possibly need to use button over video (instead of menus) for that, not too sure.

Enf...

... well, you answered it:

2) yeh, that's the reason for question 1)

Did you get it ?
I want to achive that special menu behavior that's why I choosed button over video 2) with the result that the Resume Function does not work anymore the way it is supposed to be, ok here follows the workarround. It's a 80% solution only, because there's NO WAY to jump to a certain Timecode BUT to a chapter start point. I can live with that. Two Command Sequences follow:


# ResumeJumpOut from Main Movie (Movie1) to Chapter Menus (Movie2, with button over video)
1 SetGPRMMD GP0 to Register 'Registermode, don't know if that's necessary
2 MOV GP0 , SPRM7 'store current chapter
3 MOV GP1 , GP0 'temp. variable
4 SUB GP1 , 1 'chapter count starts at 1 where the chapter numbers start a 0
5 DIV GP1 , 4 '4 chapters per chapter menu, it integer's automatically ;-)
6 ADD GP1 , 2 'first chapter offset in button over video stream
7 Jump To Movie2[GP1] 'jump to appropriate menu chapter in button over video stream



# ResumeJumpBack from Menu Movie (Movie2) to Main Movie (Movie1)
1 Jump To Movie1[GP0] 'jump to stored chapter


Assign ResumeJumpOut to the MenuKey (connections) of the Main Movie Chapters and ResumeJumpBack to the Resumefunction/button of the Menus.

That's it...

mike

[auenf]

heh, stuck between a rock and a hard place...

altho most 'white rabbit/green fairy' implementations 'resume' back at the start of the button, not the exact point where enter is hit.

Enf...

[mikeathome]

Originally posted by auenf
heh, stuck between a rock and a hard place...

altho most 'white rabbit/green fairy' implementations 'resume' back at the start of the button, not the exact point where enter is hit.

Enf...

... hi, hi, I know why :D

mike

P.S. You also want to know why, well, there's NO System Register which hold the actual timecode, just the cell (chapter) SPRM7.

[easy2Bcheesy]

Just one tiny word of warning. Jumping to a GPRM-based chapter *might* sometimes causes issues in some DVD players.

A couple of years back I wanted to produce my own form of "multiangle". I had invisible buttons over video and a chapter point at every second. You would jump between the two movies by reading off the chapter point then jumping to the second movie using a similar command sequence to the one you are using to return to the video.

(For what it's worth, this form of "multiangle" allowed different audio without pressing the audio button, plus superior quality non-multiplexed video)

Any way, the point is that on some DVD players, it always jumped to the beginning of the second video, not the specified chapter point. Perhaps it was because I was jamming the VTS with so many command sequences, maybe it was because Maestro's "jump to chapterpoint 'GPO'" isn't very good... I never worked out which!

When my method didn't work on Samsung or Mitsubishi DVD players, I canned the idea.

[auenf]

thats a pity, but a very good idea otherwise.

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[Cayne]

I had the same problem and suddenly had the idea to append the "button-over-video-menus" to the main movie and create a sync audio track. Would this perhaps reenable the use of the resume-function?

Haven't tried it yet, but why shouldn't it work?

[mikeathome]

Originally posted by Cayne
I had the same problem and suddenly had the idea to append the "button-over-video-menus" to the main movie and create a sync audio track. Would this perhaps reenable the use of the resume-function?

Haven't tried it yet, but why shouldn't it work?

... haven't tried it either, don't know, most likely YES. May be a good idea, need to check.

mike