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SuperFresko
1st July 2003, 14:13
Hello everybody!

I have my favourite TV Series, with both the English and the Italian audio tracks.

I'm trying to author with DVD-Maestro DVDs with 4 episodes each, with both the audio tracks, in the following way:
- At the beginning (First Play) the menu let you chose the language: English or Italian.
- Then a Menu comes out with the titles of the four episodes, in the language you have chosen.
- When you play one of the episodes, you hear the language you chose at the beginning.
- Anyway, you can change language during playback.
- During playback (or at the end of playback), regardeless of the audio track you are listening to, you go back to the menu with episode titles in the language you chose at the beginning. And here is the problem.

I've read the manual, and managed to do something similar. My only question is: how can I make the DVD Player "remember" which language was chosen so that, when playing an episodes, pressing Title/Menu buttons it goes back to the menu with titles in the language I chose at the very beginning, even though I changed audio stream during playback?

I mean, something like Star Trek TNG or DS9 Region 2 DVDs: at the beginning you chose the language, and then all the menus are in the language you chose, even though during episode playback you can change audio track.

I hope I explained myself... :)

Thanks for any help!

Bye bye,
Massi.

Nemesis25
1st July 2003, 14:58
@SuperFresko

...I think this problem could be solved with 'Command-Sequences'...

...with those you got the possibility to store values or parameters so later on you can reuse them...

...e.g. to return to a specific menu with specific language...

'Command-Sequences' is a huge topic, you should use the 'Search'-Function to get more information,
there are also a lot of good examples in this forum...

Greetz, Nemesis

auenf
4th July 2003, 17:14
in the tree view, right click on a menu and click properties, look at the bottom for the 'display conditions' and you can set it to check language selected in the menu.

the other way to do it is to use a command sequence to set a GPRM to either a 1 or a 2 depending on what they selected at the start, and in the display conditions, you can use the GPRM as well as the SPRM's

Enf...