Seamless Branching - Sum of all Fears

[shindsh]

Has anyone tried using the 'Seamless branching with Scenarist' with the movie "The Sum of All Fears".
VTS_01 has a still show (copyright notice)
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VTS_04 has main movie.
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When you play it in
S/W DVD Player- You have to hit Play again after VTS_01 completes then the menu comes up.
H/W DVD Player- It will give you error, if you don't hit Menu button before VTS_01 completes, after which the DVD plays fine.

I dont know if the problem is with not placing Cell Commands after VTS_01 or with IFOUpdate.

Regards,
Shree

[hoops10]

I just looked at this movie and its not a seamless branching movie, its not even a multiple pgc movie. The main movie is in the vts_04 set and it has only 1 pgc. Looks simple enough to me.

[shindsh]

I am trying the retain the entire disc with all its features -menus,extras etc.

Please take a look at the other VTS (not main movie), for example VTS5 has 6 PGC each with 2 VOBIDs each, which are not even sequenced.
My problem is not with VTS5 (multiple PGC) or 4 or 3.
Its with VTS1 which is a single PGC and needs to move to menu after the 2 second play.

Let me know if should not use Scenarist Seamless Branching method for this, and use another approach.

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Regards,
Shree

[hoops10]

You can keep the other pgcs totally intact. Don't mess with them, just encode the movie to a lower bitrate, re-introduce them into the original dvd structure, use IFOUpdate and it will work.

[shindsh]

Even with the original VTS_01*.* the problem existed.
Found the problem to be a silly one. It normally is, when it doesn't seem logical. RecordNow 4.01 Max was altering the files while recording (why-I have no idea). IFOEdit gave an error message during DVD play, on the recorded disc as invalid VOBU pointer right before it was supposed to go the main menu.
The hardisk version played fine and had no errors.
Solved the problem by creating an Disc Image using ImgTool of IFOEdit and then recording using RecordNow.
Thanks for your time hoops10.

Regards,
Shree