Joe Bowden
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Hardware DVD-Video players wouldn’t support displaying PDF files at all.
It could be done for software DVD-Video players on a computer, but that would require extra software (eDVD, no longer sold) to directly link menu buttons to a PDF. Yes, the non-DVD native files would be located in the ROM section of the disc.
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Yeah, DVDs are interesting. 🙂
You should check out a few Hollywood DVDs, and observe their behavior in a DVD player, and compare them to how your Encore-authored DVDs behave. You’ll very likely find it interesting.
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How about using another directory? Why is that a problem?
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“video button”
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It’s called a replacement layer, and it’s for dropping images into.
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i couldn’t find it anywhere…
Did you search in the help for video buttons?
When I did, the first two hits explained exactly how to do what you are asking for.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.