Problem after adding first play with PgcEdit

[akdanie]

After looking through the forum at previous threads I have not been able to figure this out on my own so I'm hoping that maybe I've overlooked the obvious. I should add that I am a newbie to PgcEdit and find a lot of the terminology used here over my head.
I authored an hour long movie in Premiere Elements 3 with a main menu, a chapter menu and 8 chapters in title one. Then I added a first play intro with PgcEdit which became title 2. I was hoping that this intro would only play once upon insertion. What happens is that when I'm watching title 1 (the main movie) and I'm in chapter 8 (the last chapter) if I hit the next chapter button on the dvd players remote, it takes me back to the intro (title2). Before I added the first play, if I hit the next chapter button while I was watching the last chapter nothing would happen, which is what I want.
Here's the catch. I've tried 3 different dvd players and they all react the same way,taking me back to title 2, but if I watch the movie with PowerDVD on my computer it works fine, and hitting the next chapter button when I'm in the last chapter has no effect. The button is dead, which is what I want. I'm hoping this is an easy fix or I will probably leave it the way it is. Unfortunately I can't add a first play clip when I author in Premiere Elements. Any help you folks can give me would be greatly appreciated.
Dan

[M_Knox]

I noticed this strange behavior - when I burnt my DVD on DVD+RW media, my standalone player acted in a similar way you described. When I burnt this very same DVD on a DVD+R (non-rewritable) media, all was OK (i.e. the player fully respected the navigation). I did not care to inspect it further (whether this was about booktype setting or anything else), though.

[akdanie]

The media I used was a DVD-R. If I had a DVD+R here I would definitely try burning one of those. Thanks for the response.

[r0lZ]

I'm not sure what you mean with "nothing would happen". If you want to just stop the DVD (and therefore display your player logo after the last chapter of the main movie), try to simply add the command "Exit" in the post-commands area of the movie PGC. That should be sufficient.

If your player doesn't execute the Exit command and continue to skip to the next title when you hit Next Chapter, then you will have to add a new dummy chapter: double-click the PGC of the main movie in the left pane to open the PGC Editor. Click the "Create New Cell" button. Tick the option "Create a new blank VOB cell". Leave the other options unchanged. Click "Create Cell". The DVD will be saved automatically.
Now, hitting Next Chapter when the last chapter of the main movie is playing will have the effect of stopping the DVD.

I highly recommend burning on a DVD+R or +RW anyway. The -R/-RW technology is largely inferior, especially for dual-layer DVDs.
The fact that the behaviour of the player is different with a RW is strange. I have never noticed that. Perhaps the player assumes that the DVD has been created by a standalone recorder, and it tries to play all titles sequentially? Anyway, afaik, that's not in the DVD-Video standard.

[akdanie]

Actually if I'm watching the last chapter and I hit the NEXT chapter button I would like the movie to just continue playing as if I never hit the button and not stop or skip to anywhere. I will go out and buy some +R media today. Thanks.

[r0lZ]

You can try the first method (add the Exit command) anyway. It doesn't hurt.
But IMO you will not be able to do exactly what you want (except if the +R trick works). Anyway, it's your player fault, and probably not an authoring problem.

[akdanie]

I thought maybe it was the players fault since it works exactly as I want when I watch it with PowerDVD. I will try adding the Exit command and also burning to +R media. Thanks again.

[akdanie]

Well, I bought some +R discs and burned one of them. Acts the same as the -R disc. The Exit cmd is really not what I'm trying to do so I guess it's a case of "You can't get there from here", at least not with my players. It was worth a shot. I will definitely keep my eye on this forum. So much to learn.

[r0lZ]

Something you can try: swap title numbers 1 and 2. (Title -> Remap Title Numbers). If the main movie is the last title in the DVD, your player will not have a next title to jump to.
And if that doesn't work, you can also try to swap the titlesets (DVD -> Remap Titlesets).

[akdanie]

Success! Your first suggestion: swap title numbers 1 and 2. (Title -> Remap Title Numbers), did the trick. I really appreciate your continued attempts at figuring this out for me. You rock!

[Ghitulescu]

Originally Posted by M_Knox

I noticed this strange behavior - when I burnt my DVD on DVD+RW media, my standalone player acted in a similar way you described. When I burnt this very same DVD on a DVD+R (non-rewritable) media, all was OK (i.e. the player fully respected the navigation). I did not care to inspect it further (whether this was about booktype setting or anything else), though.

Do you wanna say that the same structure would behave differently when burned on a DVD-R vs. DVD+RW?