PGCEdit - How can I fix an undefined Menu button?

[Link Baby]

In processing a DVD through PGCEdit 8.6, there is an intro video where pressing the Menu button does nothing. The problem is not the PUOs - when I trace it through PGCEdit, the Title menu button works the way I want, but when I press the Root menu button, I get the following:


!!!!!!! USER: Root Menu Button
!!!!!!! USER: Resuming to Title domain.
####### WARNING: Resume point not yet defined! User action ignored!


Since trying to execute the Menu function in the DVD Player doesn't do anything, I would imagine that it's triggering the Root menu routine rather than the Title menu routine.

How can I fix this?


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Background info:


VTSM 2, LU 1 (en), 2 (0:22) Angle M - *** This is the intro video ***
VTSM 3, LU 1 (en), 9 (0:46) 4b - *** This is the main menu I'm trying to get to ***

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[r0lZ]

Pressing the Root Menu button when a menu is playing resumes to the point where the playback of the last played Title has been interrupted. If no title has been played before, then the player cannot resume. The message is normal and you cannot change that behaviour, although there is a trick to ensure that a title has been visited (but not played), so that a valid resume point exists when the menu is played for the first time.

In your case, it is perhaps possible to go directly to the root menu when you activate an invisible button during the intro (but that will not work if you press the Root Menu button.) Here is the method:

Create a new dummy PGC in the VMGM, and add this pre-command:
[30 06 00 01 03 83 00 00] 1 (JumpSS) Jump to VTSM 3, Root menu (TTN 1)

Create a big button on the intro video, covering the entire image. (Go to the menu editor, and accept the invitation to create a new button. Only one group is necessary.) The button command must be a JumpSS to the new PGC you have just created in the VMGM.

If, per chance, the button is not completely transparent, you will have to modify its color scheme, but usually that's not necessary.

With some luck, that will work.

[Link Baby]

The Root Menu button isn't being pressed when a menu is playing - it's simply an intro video that plays before you're routed to the main menu.

I understand what you're suggesting by creating a BOV, but given how common it is to have a DVD with an intro video where pressing the Menu button jumps directly to the main menu, I have to think that there's a way to make this work.

[r0lZ]

!!!!!!! USER: Root Menu Button
!!!!!!! USER: Resuming to Title domain.
####### WARNING: Resume point not yet defined! User action ignored!
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VTSM 2, LU 1 (en), 2 (0:22) Angle M - *** This is the intro video ***

You have pressed the Root Menu button in a menu! This is why it doesn't work, as explained in my previous post. You cannot easily jump from a menu to another menu by pressing a Menu button (except to return to the Title Menu when a Root menu is playing, on some players only.)

And, since your intro sequence is in a menu domain, it's a menu, not a Title, even if it has no buttons. Therefore, it's not a BOV that I suggest to create, but a regular menu button.

Anyway, there is another method to skip something, this time with the Next Chapter button. You have to set the NextPGCN link of the PGC to the number of that PGC. In your example, set the NextPGCN link of "VTSM 2, LU 1 (en), 2 (0:22) Angle M" to 2. Be sure to remove the NextPG Search PUO. Or you can simply use the PgcEdit macro "Enable All Operations". It clears all PUOs, and sets the Next and PrevPGCN links to point to the current PGC.
Note that, when applied to a title, this method has a drawback. Some players consider the modified title as not-one_sequential, and they disable the ability to jump to a specific time in the title (or to use the seekbar of the software players.) So, verify if your standalone player supports the method well.
Also, disabling the NextPG Search PUO can be confusing, or even dangerous in a menu PGC with several programs, as it will be possible to jump from cell to cell, and that's not the normal behaviour of a menu.

[Link Baby]

I wasn't previously aware of menu domains - to me, function determined a menu - so I apologize for my ignorance.