DVD Menu: Smooth loop

[moviefan]

The DVD menu I am creating consists of 3 parts:
- intro
- main menu with transition from intro
- main menu loop (the same as above, but without the transition part

All transitions are perfect. When playing frame by frame in VirtualDub for instance, it goes on smoothly. When authoring the DVD menu, there is a short pause between the menu parts.

The menu structure looks like this:
|-VTS_1
---|-Language (English)
------|-PGC_1 (main menu - root)
---------|-Program_1
------------|-Cell_1 (intro)
------------|-Cell_2 (main menu with transition from intro)
---------|-Program_2
------------|-Cell_3 (main menu loop)
------|-PGC_2 ... (other menus like languages etc.)

The original DVD doesn't have any short breaks. Is there a way to get rid of them? It is really annoying!

[bigotti5]

Your authoring soft?

[moviefan]

scenarist

[PhillipWyllie]

If you are using scenarist to preview the menu, don't. Author the whole DVD, then test using PowerDVD for example. If still no luck could you post your scenarist save file?(It doesn't matter that I don't have the assets).

[moviefan]

How am I supposed to do that? It's about 1,5 MB big.
I've read that Scenarist can't do seamless branching...? Is that true?

[bigotti5]

I've read that Scenarist can't do seamless branching...? Is that true?

Yes - only the proprietary systems from Panasonic, Toshiba and Sony can do SB (dont know if SB in DVDAfterEdit works well)

Attach all Ifos of your authored DVD

[moviefan]

Attack all Ifos of your authored DVD

What do you mean?

[PhillipWyllie]

WinRAR it, then email. Yeah you're right Scenarist can't do SB, but I think you can't get true SB anyway(you'll probably have a command executed when the DVD branches, thus negating the seamless part).Also you have to have the branched video immediately after the main video on the disc(so the main video won't be seamless). The ony way to avoid this is with multi angles(which must be the same length as the chapter as it's replacing and a seperate asset).

[bigotti5]

Imho ILVU is not allowed in menu domain
I think your commands to link from cell to cell is the problem

[moviefan]

What else could I do instead of linking from cell to cell? By the way, do I have to set cell-commands to go from say cell_1 to cell_2 or can I just leave them off? I've tried it and the software DVD player simply goes on with the next cell if not set otherwise. But how about a hardware player or DVD compliancy in general?

[bigotti5]

There are different ways to link from cell to cell (e.g LinkNextC, LinkCN ..) in different areas (Cellcommand, Postcommand) with different speed at execution.
Even you have to be sure to have sequence_end_code (in MPEG stream) at the end of every cell to keep last frame displayed as long as the command is executed.

[Susana]

do I have to set cell-commands to go from say cell_1 to cell_2 or can I just leave them off?
It's not necessary. All programs in a same PGC will play one after another.

does scenarist let you put seamless flag at cell_3 in scenario editor ?

[moviefan]

does scenarist let you put seamless flag at cell_3 in scenario editor ?

Yes, it does. I have worked out the whole problem I had. As I'm new to authoring DVDs, I didn't know about the seamless flag so I just didn't set this option to seamless. Now it works!

Thanks for your replies.