Joe Bowden
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Put the images in a slideshow and add these same images to the ROM folder, and then provide instruction in the menu that the user can access the images on a computer by navigating to the disc root directory.
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When designing menus and rendering video, stick to standard frame sizes and pixel aspect ratios for DVD.
For widescreen PAL, that’s 720×576 px, with a PAR of 1.46.
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Please give us the dimensions and pixel aspect ratio of your menu and your video.
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You didn’t specifically mention where you were testing from, but this could be a Preview problem in Encore.
Have you tried burning a DVD RW and testing it in a player?
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OK, your position is abundantly clear. But like I said, it’s highly unlikely that BDMV will ever play from an SD card, mainly because you need a Blu-ray player to play it, and Sony has decided that Blu-ray discs are the only medium from which they can be played.
There may be other ways to display high definition video from an SD card, but they won’t be Blu-ray. And with that said, I’ll yield to anyone else who may have more information or experience with this along non-Blu-ray lines.
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[Terry Flaxton] “My thinking was, if the project were very simple, then why use a blu ray player at all – why not just use a card in the slot in the tv ?”
I think the Blu-ray consortium (i.e., Sony) would disagree with your assessment of the situation, and would rather you have a Blu-ray disc played in a Blu-ray player. In fact, I don’t think there’s a single software Blu-ray player that will play BDMV that is not on a Blu-ray disc.
I don’t know enough about the data transfer rates of SD cards (which of course are also limited by the speed of the reader) to know if high definition video playback is even possible. That said, I am nearly certain that this would be impossible to do with BDMV – at least legally.
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Glad to be of help, Aaron. Success is a good thing. 🙂
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[Aaron Estein] “Of course UTF-8 and UTF-16 are not going to work for Cyrillic characters.”
I am by no means expert in this area, but why won’t Cyrillic characters work with unicode text? This article may help:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_characters_in_Unicode
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You can clear or clean the cache in the Preferences (Media Database).
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Linking buttons to other menus? Linking is not something that can be saved with a menu in a menu template, so menu templates wouldn’t help here.
The only way to save this type of information as well as button routing is to do a SaveAs on the project, then delete everything you’re not going to use in the next project. Apply liberally with cleaning or clearing the cache for best results.
Caveat: many Encore users have reported eventual problems “reusing” projects in this way. I’d say try this until it no longer works. When it starts giving problems, it’s time to make a new project and wire everything up by hand.