vobblanker disables dvd navigation slider

[adkins21]

Occaisonally, when I open the vobblanker output in windvd and play the movie, the navigational slider is grayed out and unusable. If I go back to the originally (unblanked) ripped movie I can use the slider. Anyone know why this is happening, or how to avoid it?

[r0lZ]

It's probably because you use the VobBlanker options "Prev and/or Next PGCN pointer to itself" in the Title domain. It's a good trick to enable the Prev and Next Chapter buttons of the remote when the first or last chapter is playing, but WinDVD considers such a PGC as non-sequential, and disables the time seekbar. Though not really a bug in WinDVD, it should not do that! Most standalone players are happy with this trick.

Note that you can safely use the Next/Prev PGCN pointer to itself option in the Menu domain, because you cannot use the time seek function in a menu anyway.