help with user remote control

[Joe Bowden]

The user doesn’t pick which menu to go to when the menu button is pressed. You, the author of the DVD, do.

You want to look at Timeline properties, for Remote Menu, and set the menu you want the disc to go to there.

[Vin2000]

Hi Joe,

Thanks for the quick response.

I know encore had the capabilities of limiting the use of the remote buttons, but I thought by default if someone clicks “disc menu” it would take them to the root menu and if they click on “title” the name of the dvd title will show up. But apparently I see now that’s not the case!

I went to the properties on the timeline, but I still get the same problem.

On the DVD remote, after I burn it, if I click on the “title” button, it does exactly what i want the “disc menu” button on the remote to do. Clicking on “title” always takes me to the root menu. But “disc menu” on the remote activates like the “enter” button, it just starts a footage or goes wherever it wants.

I found no where on Encore, on the properties, or anything where it lets me assign an action to the remote buttons. It only lets me let the user be able to use it or not.

Any help would be great, thanks!

Vin.

[Joe Bowden]

Title menu is specified in Disc properties, and root menu is specified in Timeline properties.

To get to disc properties, select it in the flowchart, then look at the Properties panel. To get to a timeline’s properties, select it in the Project panel or Flowchart panel, then look at the Properties panel.

[Vin2000]

hi joe,

very cool, it worked. i just disabled the “title” action button.

is there any way to display the name of the project when they click on “title” ?? like in the upper left or right screen?

quick question, i noticed under the disc properties “main timeline” what’s the purpose of that? i don’t have a “main” one, but it forces me to choose one. just curious…

thanks!

vin.

[Vin2000]

another quick question regarding the “disc menu” button.

i noticed only on “timelines” i can direct where the “disc menu” button can go, but not on the menus.

when i play it on the dvd and i press “menu” button on the remote nothing happens when im in a menu different from the root menu, but on the timelines it works.

is there an options on the menus properties that will allow me to do that? i haven’t found it, thanks…

vin.

[Joe Bowden]

There is no way to display the name of the DVD as you are asking.

Main Timeline is the timeline that plays if you stop (hard stop) the disc, and then hit play again. Encore doesn’t force you to fill in this field – it chooses the first timeline created by default, although you can change it.

[Joe Bowden]

Menus can’t have a root menu specified in the DVD format – it’s a timeline (VTS) property only. That’s why Encore doesn’t let you do it.

By the way, a good rule of thumb going forward, more right than wrong, is that if Encore doesn’t let you do it, then the DVD-Video format does not support it. It’s not always true, but it’s mostly true.

[Vin2000]

interesting, thanks for all the insight!

vin.

[Vin2000]

hi joe,

i thought i had it all figuired out, but a new simple problem popped up.

i was able to disable the “title” menu in the disc panel, and that took care of that problem. on the timeline’s, i was able to direct the “menu” button to return to the root.

i now know that menu’s can’t have a menu button property, so im a little confused because if im in the “root menu” and i click on the “menu” button on the remote control, it takes me to the last place i was!!!?! it shouldn’t take me anywhere! i dont understand… and since it’s in the menu, there’s no properties for it… and i know by default on the timelines the “menu” always says “last return action” or something like that, and in the root menu it’s doing just that. my only solution would be to disable the “menu” button entirely, which i do not want to do!

would you know how to go around that?!? thanks,

vin.

[Joe Bowden]

if im in the “root menu” and i click on the “menu” button on the remote control, it takes me to the last place i was!!!?! it shouldn’t take me anywhere!

Uhm…yes, it should, actually. That’s how the Menu button works on all DVD players: if you’re on a timeline, it goes to the specified menu, and if you’re on the menu, it takes you back to the timeline where you last were.