Re: [Dvdauthor-users] DVD Plays on computers but not on DVD player

[Paul Z. <ta...@di...>]

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Thierry de Coulon wrote:

> hello!
> 
> I'm new to this list and just completed the task of creating my first DVD
> only  with Linux tools (Kino, DVDAuthor, mkisofs, growisofs).
> While the result plays perfectly both on my Linux computers (using Xine) and 
> on a PowerMac (using the Apple DVD player), the menu does not work well on my 
> standalone DVD player: it plays the first seconds of the sound track and I 
> can't select one of the 3 movies. Chaging track soon enough works however, so 
> I could check that the mpeg files themself play perfectly.
> 
> I can live with this (I could not check yet if the problem can be reproduced 
> on other DVD players), but I'd like hints as to where to look for the origin 
> of the problem.

Welcome to the list :)

As far i can tell following issues exist:

- Some DVD Players have Problems if you use "jumppad=yes".
- Some DVD Players have Problems with VMGM-Menues.

I don't know exactly if this is a dvdauthor problem or a DVD Player problem,
because this does only happen on older Players.
I figured out, the most commercial DVDs also does not use VMGM Menus.
There only use VMGM to display the copyright things or intro trailer.
So for me the solution is to move all Menu stuff to titles, leaving the
VMGM Menu nearly empty.

example:

<dvdauthor dest="/backup/dvd/mpeg/dvd">

  <vmgm>
        <menus>
        <video format="pal" resolution="720x576" aspect="16:9"/>
        <pgc>
          <vob file="/Video/trailer/dolby-temple.mpeg"/>
         <post>
                jump titleset 1 menu;
         </post>
        </pgc>
        </menus>
  </vmgm>

  <titleset>
    <menus>
      <video format="pal" resolution="720x576" aspect="4:3"/>
      <pgc entry="root">
        <button> jump title 1;</button>
        <button> jump title 2;</button>
        <vob file="/backup/dvd/mpeg/menu-3-final.mpg"/>
        <post> jump menu entry root; </post>
      </pgc>
    </menus>

    <titles>
      <video format="pal" resolution="720x576" aspect="4:3"/>
      <pgc>
        <vob file="/backup/disney/aladin.mpg"/>
          <post> call menu; </post>
      </pgc>
      <pgc>
        <vob file="/backup/disney/mulan.mpg"/>
          <post> call menu; </post>
      </pgc>

    </titles>
  </titleset>

</dvdauthor>


greets,
    Tami