[Daniel Ludwig]

charles,
are you talking about programming a blu-ray-disc or are you talking about programming a DL-DVD ?

DVDSP couldn´t author BDs.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

simple answer: NO.

maybe you can follow the way jon geddes has figured out, please look at his blog:

https://www.precomposed.com/blog/

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

eric,
you need to be sure your SD-file is flagged as 16:9, but there are a few players, that wont display it correctly.

please look at your player-settings if it will force display to 16:9 or automatic.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

hey dan,
this is something adobe implemented into their multiplexer/abstraction-layer-system for playlist-feature.

no good idea!

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

glenn,
MPEG2 on DVD will be scaled to 720×480. in real it will be cropped 3 px on top and bottom of the picture.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

alec,
encore is a big mess.

BD-spec is a lot more powerful that DVD-spec.

if you are working on PC you might have a look at BDEdit (freeware). it´s possible to edit your BD after muxing so it could work the way you like to do.

but you need to know the BD-specs a bit more in detail (and programming of movieobject-code).

if you´re working on mac, rivergate software could be your choice. they are working on Blustreak Tracer, an application you could navigate through your muxed BD and edit the movieobject-command.

please look here for more options:

https://www.rivergatesoftware.com/blustreak-docs

you might send an email to rivergate software and talk to larry.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

chad,
even DVDSP can only create 2bit RLE-button-overlays. if you have changing backgrounds/images this will be created as a fake. DVDSP will create a seperate menu, with the other picture(s) in background, it´s a so called layered menu.

very slow in navigation and you can´t create motion-menus with it, also no menu-sound is possible.

if you are creating buttons with encore they could only have the color that´s been set in the menu color palette.

by spec there a lot more possibilities with blu-ray, but encore is very limited to that.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

alec,
the play all-feature is very simple, you just need to jump to the first chapter of your film, so the whole film will play seamlessly.

if you need to set different chapter-marker just create them and jump from your chapter-select-menu to these chapters.

each chapter wont need to have an end-action, so the rest of the film will be played seamlessly.

if you would like to have an end-action on each chapter that would need another way of programming.

what would you like to do?

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

hi again,
could you upload a short test-file, so I can check it over here?

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

alex,
encore could handle 3rd party H264 and it´s working well on mac, too – but maybe it has a problem with squeeze-encoded files!

which version of squeeze do you use? will it create H264-elementary streams?

please tell us your other encoder-settings?

I allready created a lot BDs that has been replicated, too. there were no problems.

cheers

danny