• DVD Authoring

  assigning “stop” button to go back to “menu” on DVDSP?

  Posted by Randy Davis on March 22, 2012 at 10:28 pm

  Hi everyone,

  A client asked me this today, “When I’m playing a segment and stop in the middle, can that take me back to the menu? Is there such a way to program the stop button? I would just hit “menu” on the controller and that’d work. Anyone? Thanks in advance for your help. Randy

  Randy Davis
  Fast and Fearless Editing for almost 30 years
  Corporate and Series Television

  Bill Stephan replied 14 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Bill Stephan

  March 22, 2012 at 10:50 pm

  Randy,

  The function of the stop button is fixed by DVD Spec. You can’t redefine the function. The stop button terminates all further execution of the DVD, making any navigation on the disc impossible.

  The only buttons that can be redefined are the “Menu” and “Top Menu” buttons (and in very limited circumstances the “resume” button). You need a spec authoring application to do it because you need to insert a pre-command into the Video Manager or a Title Set Menu. You can’t directly access these in apps like DVDSP or Encore.

  Bill Stephan
  Senior Editor/DVD Author
  USA Studios
  New York City

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