How to make multiple language selection ?

[stingertje]

Hello,

What I want is when te disc plays you can choose between 3 languages and after chosing one he will jump to the videomanager (VM) and select the right title menu form the language folder

Problems I have is if you just link to one of the titles in the VM he will always take the title of the current menu language. If menu language is Dutch and you have a button linked to the English one, he will always take Dutch because the command is jump to title ... so he doesn't know he isn't taking the right one ;-)

So does anybody know a workaround for this or know how I can set SPRM 0 (menu language) to a desired value ??? I'm using sonic scenarist.

Many thanks

edit : just found out that you can't chance the value of SPRM 0 ... so any workarounds ????

[stingertje]

Noboddy has ever made a selfmade DVD with more then one (menu)language ? Can't nobody help me or give me a clue where to start ???

thanks

[stingertje]

OK, nevermind, will use the workaround with a dummy PGC that then choses the right language determend by a value of a GPRM register.

thanks anyway

[Bish0p]

Yeah, I’ve been having pretty much the same problem.

If you use multiple language folders the player jumps to its set language. Works fine if the language folder and SPRM 0 match. Problem is what to do if your player isn't set to one of those languages or you want to change it via a menu.
I can set it to jump to a language set up screen if the player isn't set to one of the languages I have. However, I would not be able to link to a particular language. So to get round this I could just shove all the menus into one folder and do a few compares. This makes the language folders pretty much pointless.
There must be a better way to do this. I must be overlooking something

[auenf]

Originally posted by stingertje
OK, nevermind, will use the workaround with a dummy PGC that then choses the right language determend by a value of a GPRM register.

thanks anyway

or use SPRM's, if you can rely on the dvd being setup correctly

which reminds me, the new dvd players we got into work defaulted to Russian subtitles. this is a chinese made australian sold player btw.

Enf...

[Bish0p]

well thats just it what do you do if you if you want to change the language or can't trust the SPRM set up

[mpucoder]

If you don't trust the SPRM and the automatic language selection, use only one language unit with "unspecified" as the language. This will be selected by the player regardless of SPRM 0. From any type of menu (title, root, subpicture, etc) you can then branch off to the sub-menu you create for individual languages.

[Bish0p]

Thanks for your reply,
It solves the problem but is a little frustrating when you have a large number of languages. It’s just a shame I can't have the best of both worlds.
Cheers

[mpucoder]

Well, there is something else you can do. If the player is following the rules it should look for a language unit that matches the setting in SPRM 0. If that fails it should use "unspecified", and if that fails, it uses the first language unit. By arrangeing the language units with "unspecified" first you guarantee that it will be used if no match is found for all but the most horribly non-compliant players.

As for subpicture and audio languages, they have seperate SPRM's for the preferences, SPRM 16 & 17 for audio, 18 & 19 for subpicture. The actual audio and subpicture streams are in SPRM 1 & 2, respectively, and can be changed easily with the SetSTN command.