Create "Play All" button in Maestro

[SurfDrifter]

I authored a DVD with 6 episodes of Friends and I created a menu where it points to every episode. After an episode is played, i want to return to main menu. I did that in connections and it works fine...
Now i want to create a button that when i press it, it will play the whole 6 episodes in a row...How do i do that?

Thanks
SurfDrifter
Greece

[slk001]

You might try this with command sequences. Create a button that sets a GPRM register to a value (ie, SET GPRM(0) = 1). Then, at the end of each episode, use a command sequence to "test" GPRM(0) for a value of "1". If one, then jump to the next episode. If NOT one, then jump to the menu. I don't know the exact syntax for these commands, I just know that this can be done.

[SurfDrifter]

Ok, i fully understood what you meant and i understood how this thing would work, but i don't have the manual of Maestro, so i don't know how to syntax a command sequence...
Anyway, i'll go with the "trial & error" approach!
Thank you very much...

[skutny]

If I remember right in Maestro with 6 episode I created 5 chapter points (the first is automatic), in the connections for play all button I pointed to the first episode(chapter) and at the last episode(chapter) I set the end action to return to the menu this will give you play all. To get to play one and only one chapter which ever I choose, I created 6 playlist, in playlist1 I only had episode(chapter) 1, playlist2 I only had episode(chapter) 2, and so on, in connections I mapped the episode(chapter)# button to the playlist#.

Hopes this helps:)

skutny

[auenf]

Originally posted by skutny
If I remember right in Maestro with 6 episode I created 5 chapter points (the first is automatic), in the connections for play all button I pointed to the first episode(chapter) and at the last episode(chapter) I set the end action to return to the menu this will give you play all. To get to play one and only one chapter which ever I choose, I created 6 playlist, in playlist1 I only had episode(chapter) 1, playlist2 I only had episode(chapter) 2, and so on, in connections I mapped the episode(chapter)# button to the playlist#.

Hopes this helps:)

skutny

very simple and well thought out solution, the VTS ends up with 7 PGC's, the whole VTS (limitation in maestro) as the first PGC, and the other 6 are each of the episodes.

and yes it can be done with command sequences, but is a bit harder than the playlists.

Enf...

[SurfDrifter]

I did that and it works...
BTW, i didn't know that maestro had a limitation of 7 VTS...
Anyway, i have 7 VTS sets now and 13 titles...6*2=12 + a music video clip...

2 questions...
Is there any way to "merge" the vobs to 1 VTS? and not 7?
And is there any quide for command sequences anywhere?
I prefer a guide, because i don't have the manual...
Thanks

[auenf]

DVDMaestro has a 99 VTS limit, the limit i was refering to was PGC's, where a playlist in maestro is a PGC, maestro will also add a playlist (as the first PGC) which is the whole VTS, sorry if i confused you...

you should be able to put all of them into the one VTS.

Enf...