Layered menu problems on settop dvd player
by Thatcher Kelley
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Dec 11, 2008 at 7:25:04 am
I made a dvd using they layered menu option. i have a graphic appear for each menu button when it is highlighted. the dvd works fine in the computer. I have to click on each button twice, but that's supposed to happen. When I put the DVD in my sony player, i can use the up and down to select the button, but the item doesn't actually highlight or reveal the graphic. if i move up or down to navigate to the menu button and click, it will play the video that is linked to the button. but when I'm actually moving up and down, there is no highlight or change. the menu just looks frozen.
I don't think its a problem with my DVD player because I put another DVD in (arrested development) which also uses this layered menu method and it works just fine.
Any thoughts?
I am doing 16x9 menus. would that affect it? I haven't tried it on another set top dvd player yet.
Re: Layered menu problems on settop dvd player by eric pautsch on Dec 11, 2008 at 4:00:17 pm
It hard to say without actually seeing your authoring. ry it on another set top. Arrested Development doesn't have layered menus (or any other professional disc for that matter) There's a reason for this: Layered menus are a neat little feature added in DVDSP - I guess to try to set apart from other authoring tools? The problem with layered menus is that each button state is located in different parts of the disc which makes navs slow and possibly choke up some players - this might be the issue.
Layered menus should be removed form DVDSP. It chokes up players - especially software players and makes navigation slow.
Re: Layered menu problems on settop dvd player by Michael Sacci on Dec 11, 2008 at 4:23:51 pm
Anyway make sure you are using a layered menu icon not just a layered file in a normal menu. Just sounds like you have an authoring problem doing on.
There are a couple of DVDs that I have seen that use layered menus. Seinfeld all have this when you go to the Episode Menu, Road to Perdition also used them on a sub menu. They may have been created from flatten images but the end result is the same - auto activates to a new menu with a different image somewhere on the next menu. But I agree this feature should not be used much if at all.
