Layered menu not working in DVD player

I've made a DVDSP4 project with a layered menu, from Photoshop, pointing to each of six different video clips. The Photoshop file has normal, highlighted and selected layers for each clip.

When I simulate the disc and play it in one of my DVD players, it works fine. Up, down, right, left, enter, all work the way I'd expect.

Then on the other DVD player, the menu is 'stuck'. Clip number one is permanently selected, and up down left and right make no difference to what appears on screen.

However it appears that the buttons are *working*, it's just the display that's not working, if that makes any sense. For example, if I put the disc in, and press right-right-enter, then clip 1 is still selected on screen, but it's clip 3 that plays. And if I start again and press right-right-right-right-enter, then again the display doesn't change but clip 5 will play (which it should).

I don't know whether this is a fault in my build or in the DVD player, but this is a disc I'll be doing many copies of so I don't want to send it out if this is going to happen on lots of players.

Any suggestions would be very gratefully received.

I've done this now, thanks.

I hadn't realised that layered menus were so non-standard, until I found this article:
http://www.tfdvd.com/public/123.cfm
which made me realise that layered menus might look good but overlay was the way to go.

Thanks again

Hi, found this whist trying to work out why a layered menu I'd made was okay on some DVD players but not on others. Anyway, I wondered if you could explain how to auto-activate the menu buttons as you describe;

"you do it with a separate menu for each state, and then you auto-active the navigation buttons to jump to what appears to be the button above, below, left or right."

I'm making a DVD menu for a county council about their children's centres, it has eight similar films on, but each one is taylored to an ethnic group and they want black and white flags as buttons that highlight by going into colour. At first it seemed easy (using the layered menu style), but when I got people to take the discs home to test about half couldn't use the menu, which isn't good!
Anyway, yours or anyones help would be greatly appreciated, so far Google hasn't helped me!

Cheers,

Michael Lansdell

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I ended up making every possible menu page and set up DVD Studio Pro to auto load when selecting any neighbouring button. A bit complicated but the results are really nice. Many thanks to all for their help on this :o)

Michael Lansdell

Online/Offline Editor

My system:

2 x 3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
5GB DDR2 RAM
512MB ATI Radeon X1900 XT
OS X 10.4.11
Final Cut Pro 6.0.4
After Effects CS4
Blackmagic Design DeckLink HD Extreme (6.6.2)

Take a gander at my personal blog:

http://www.monstersareart.co.uk