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Originally Posted by hardkid
Hi, everybody.
When I put music on the menu background, it starts playing over from the beginning each time a select the next title while navigating. Anybody knows how to make it play continuosly during navigation between titles? Thanx.
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I'm not 100% sure I am properly understanding what you are trying to do so let's make some assumptions & try to cover all options.
Firstly, are we talking about DVD-Video, DVD-Audio or Blu-ray here?
If in DVD-Video then you cannot do this at all - period. In DVD Menus, the audio is tied to the video background, be it a motion menu or a static menu. This cannot be worked around at all - change the graphic, and the audio must change with it.
If in DVD-Audio then things are reversed and the graphic can be tied to the audio in such a way that it is quite simple to change the graphic without interrupting the audio. It does require a full-spec DVD-Audio capable authoring system though.
If we are in Blu-ray things are a little more complex, but again what you must bear in mind is that
everything is a video - even the menu systems. Again, the visual element is the dominant one and the audio is tied to it.
There are possible options available though. If you use BD-J, you can set up a dynamic menu system similar to the attached example. How this works is that as you scroll down the playlists available on the disc (the left-hand side) the tracklist for each playlist (the right-hand side) is automatically changed. To access individual tracks you simply use right arrow and a new button appears at thee top of the tracklist section.
This cannot be done in DVD at all & I do not know if it can be done using the IG (Interactive Graphics) method of authoring - I suspect that you would run into graphics buffer problems (the limit is 16Mb across all menus) even if it were possible.
Authoring in BD-J is not a simple matter so lots of luck if you want to give it a try - you have to use a certain type of Java or else you run into compatibility issues. Whilst this is the method we use, I do not do the BD-J code writing so cannot be much more help than this.