Select Scene Menus and Main Menus.

[Tariq]

Main Menu

I have my ‘Main Menu.MPG(10 seconds of Intro animation then Buttons and subpicture fade in at 15 seconds’) and I also have a 'Scene Menu' in VTS_1:EnglishLanguage Folder.

The problem I am having is on my Menu I have a button saying Play video, the video is in located VTS_1:Title 1:Main Video, so I link it to the folder 'Title 1'it,. If the user then clicks Play movie, the movie starts but when I press Menu on the remote, I am taken back to the the start of my Main Menu. Is there a way I can be taken to 15 seconds into the 'menu.mpg' as I do not want the user to watch the intro over and over?

Select Scene.
I would like my Select Scene menu to work the way Hollywood DVD's do.
If the user presses Select Scene from the 'Main Menu' they are taken to the 'Select Scene Menu', if they then click Scene 2 they are taken to Scene 2 in the main video, if they then press Menu on the remote control they are taken back to the Select Scene Menu with the Scene 2 button highlighted.

Please pelase help.

[mgt]

I think you have to do both by using GPRM scripting.
I'm not sure, but that's the way I'd try it:

First one:
Edit the PRE command of your Main Menu. First check if GPRM X (where X is any GPRM you can choose, e.g. GPRM 1) is set to 1, if yes, let him skip the 15 seconds and jump directly to "real menu". (I'm sorry I don't know which command you need, but you have to activate that "compare"-checkbox). Then add another PRE command to that PGC where you set your GPRM X to 1, if it is equal to 0 (same thing with that compare-checkbox again).

Second problem:
Same thing here - store the information whether the last menu was the Scene Menu in a GPRM.
That means you have to edit the PRE commands of the VTS Menu and both the PRE and the BUTTON commands of the Scene Menu.
The PRE command should contain the comparison if GPRM X (where you plan to store that information about the Scene Menu) is set to 1, if yes, jump to the Scene Menu. Then PRE command of the Scene Menu resets the GPRM X to 0. The BUTTON commands of it should set it back to 1.

Note: I've never done this before. I just read the Scenarist help to get an impression of S/GPRM scripting, and I hope that I made no mistakes here. The whole post is related to Scenarist btw. ;)

[Pato]

This is how I would do Transition to Menu without GPRM's using Scenarist answering your 1st question:

TRACK EDITOR:
You make a new track in track editor with the transition and the "real menu" (call it Intro+Menu) starting the subpicture and the highlight at 15 sec. Then you make a second track with it´s "start time to video" at 15 sec with the subpicture and highlight along the whole track (call it Menu Loop) It is important that you make forced selected button as "nonexistent" in the Loop. This would be your "real menu" Loop.
Create also a "Dummy" track.

SCENARIO EDITOR:
Place (Intro+Menu) in VMG as title menu and link it´s post cmd to (Menu Loop) also in VMG. Link (Menu Loop's) post cmd to it's cell (to make it loop!).
Don´t forget to program all buttons in both.
Place your (Dummy) as Root Menu in VTS1 program it's pre cmd to Set HL_BTN=1(or other BTN) followed by a link to (Menu Loop).

That should do it;)

PATO