[Terry Wilson]

no that’s not it, sorry if my post is confusing, that’s not what I’m trying to do. The idea is to have a menu with a motion background that doesn’t reset when you activate a button.

so the background video begins, the user hits various buttons to set some options, and the background is continuous until the user hits the play button.

By setting the button command to something like: R(0)=63, this goal is achieved.

BUT the problem I am having is that on some older dvd players, this will freeze the button navigation, and you will have to hit the menu button on your remote to get back out (which in itself isn’t all that bad, just a nuisance).

So I’ve set up 2 versions of the menu, one for older dvd players, and one for newer ones. All I have to do is figure out how to differentiate between the two.

I think I’ve pretty much solved it.
What I have found in the couple days since my original post is that because SPRM15 is 16 bits (set by the manufacturer), it’s almost like a signature that’s different on every dvd player model,
what I’m currently looking for is a list of various SPRM 15 values out there for different models.

Because there are so few players that have this problem all I have to do is check for those signatures, and send any matches to the menu designed for older players

[Terry Wilson]

thanks, i’ll check that out.

I think the only way I’m going to be able to do this is to compile a list of every dvd player i can find.

sprm 15 is 16 bits, and every player has a different configuration it seems, so i can use that as a bit of a finger print…. maybe i can find a list somewhere……

[Terry Wilson]

dunno what sort of quality requirements you are looking for, but couldn’t you export a loss-less animation file from FCP and use DVDSP’s encoder? The quality is about as good as compressor was (yes compressor is mostly broken).

If you do this however, encode the audio separately, use compressor to make ac3 files, it still works for that. ac3 are a much lower bit-rate, allowing you to almost double your video bit-rate.