Architect 5.0 shutdown during menu loop

[Rob Strobbe]

I can confirm this. I just tried the same thing, and DVDA5 bombed out. Not really anything anyone here could do to help, I imagine. Report it to Sony as a bug.

That said, I’m not clear why you’re even trying to do what you are.

Just to clarify, the reasoning behind a loop point is this: The viewer puts the disc into their player, and the menu starts from the beginning. When the player reaches the end of the menu, it loops — restarting at the loop point and, again, plays to the end where it loops again. Rinse, lather, repeat. This is done so your menu can have an introduction animation that only plays once.

By setting the loop point to the same as the length of the menu (20 seconds), you’re telling DVD players that when they get to the end of the menu, they should return to…the end of the menu. Unless I completely misunderstand what you did.

I think what you want to change is not the loop point, but the Out point. It’s a yellow flag at the end of the timeline and decides where the end of the menu is. Move that, and the DVD player will play the menu until that point and then loop — starting at either the In point or the Loop point if there is one.

Rob

[Pete Locascio]

The reason I’m trying to do this is probably because I’ve seen it on some TV show DVDs that I’ve watched. They usually play the intro till the theme song ends and then they start the menu again. Thanks for your response, it was helpful.

[Rob Strobbe]

That I can I understand. What I meant was that I didn’t see why you’d want the the loop point timecode to be the same as your menu length (thereby putting the loop point at the end when it should be, well, anywhere else).

Rob