Scenarist and playlist?

[matrix]

Hi everybody and Happy New Year.
I made a dvd with music videos,(There are 40 of them), and I thaught it would be nice, if I can choose certain songs, and playback only the chosen ones, in the order you chosed them.
I searched the forum, and there are many posts about playlists, but most of them deal with maestro.
There is something about scenarist too, but is beyond my comprehension. Mabe I shouldn't aim that high, but I'm in no hurry, and I'd really like to make this the way I want, before I burn it.
The project was allready done, before I thought about playlist. So it looks like this.
I have a main menu in a language folder in video manager, then in vts1, in a language folder I have three menus. Chapter menu, with 40 pages,(one for every song, auto action stuff) an audio menu, wich I don't need anymore, since I took out one audio for space reasons, and a subtitle menu.(lyrics). Plus title1 where the videos are, as cellls in one pgc.
I use GPRM1 for the main menu, to make it loop after the intro, and in chapter menu, Mov GPRM0,SPRM7 and if gprm0==1, to ==40 to come back to the correct chapter page.
I tried putting a playlist menu, 2 pages actually, 20 songs(buttons) in each, in another title in one pgc, and in another pgs I put the same tracks I use in title1, for trying purposes only.
And I tried different things, but can't make it work. I heard about splitting gprm's and stuff, but I don't know what commands I should have in buttons, pre, post and or cell. I need help. And if there's too many tracks, I could make a smaller playlist.
So I would appreciate very much if somebody has the time and patience, to give me some detailed guidance.

Best regards
matrix.

[influenza]

Maybe you can write down a general structure of the dvd layout so it's easier to understand what exactly you try to accomplish.

Scenarist doesn't use playlists it uses pgcs. Probably you can achieve what you want, but a little more structural info would be welcome.

There are some authoring programs that can do playlists and are much easier to use (but maybe less powerfull). For example dvdlab pro has some very nice features. You might want to consider giving the trial version a go.

[matrix]

I know there are some other programs that can do playlists, but I don't know if they can do what I wanted.

Anyway, the structure of the dvd right now is as I said in my first post.
In VideoManager in a language folder I have my main menu (title menu),wich has 4 buttons.
In VTS_1 in a language folder I have 3 PGCs, labeled as Root Menu, Audio Menu, and Subpicture Menu.
In the Root Menu, I dropped all my chapter pages, as cells.
In Audio Menu I have a menu where I can chose between 2 audio tracks.
And in Subpicture Menu, there's a menu where you can choose to have the lyrics displayed or not.
Now, in Title_1 in one pgc, I dropped all my music videos, so they are just like the chapters in a movie.
The way it is now, it works just like it should.

But what I wanted, was to be able to choose some tracks, and play those in the order you chosed them.

I thought of having a page with all the songs, as buttons, wich is not possibile for me, because I have 40 video tracks, and you can only have 32 buttons I belive.
But then 2 pages with 20 buttons each, on one, tracks 1 to 20, and the other one 21 to 40.
Where you would be able to select a track, then another, and another, and so on, as many tracks as you want, and a PlaySelectedTracks button, wich when pressed, would play all tracks you selected.
I read a thread about something like this I belive, here's the link
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=76085&highlight=playlist
They say you can split up a gprm so you can have two selections in one gprm.
But since there are only 16 GPRMs, the maximum would be 32 selections.

If I knew how to do that, I wuld have a page with mabe 30 tracks. Select any and how many you want, and play them, and only those in the order you selected them.

I don't know if that is possibile or not. Mabe I didn't understand what those people were talking about.

In the meantime, I tried something else, and it works pretty good.
I have 4 playlists, each containing several tracks. And when you press a button (play list1 for instance), it plays those tracks, and after that comes back to the playlists menu.
If I can't do anything else, I'll do it this way.

Regards.

[influenza]

I know maestro has a play chapter by GPRM (or something like that) option. This way you can play chapters based on a gprm value. I don't believe scenarist has this option.

It seems the post you're referring to is quite informative. Can't help you there though, since I'm inexperienced with that. Some further investigation in the bitwise functions seemms to be a goof idea though.

BTW I think the term playlist is a bit misplaced here. I would think of a playlist as a predefined set of songs/pieces of video to play. While you mean that this 'playlist'is created on the fly based on user input.

[matrix]

BTW I think the term playlist is a bit misplaced here. I would think of a playlist as a predefined set of songs/pieces of video to play. While you mean that this 'playlist'is created on the fly based on user input.
Yeah, I guess you're right.
Anyway, I think I end up doing predefined playlists, as I said in my post above.
Besides, the way I wanted, would've been good only if you could have more than one button highlighted. Actually all that you selected.
So, as I said, I have a few playlists, and it works nice.

Thanks for your time

matrix