Rivergate Software Inc. - makers of DVDAfterEdit

Posted Jun 21,2005 3:40 AM ChrisMD

Hi everyone!

I've got a rather difficult (piece of cake for you, I hope...) project to do in the next few days, that contains a mixed angle track where buttons are displayed everytime there is the second video-stream present. Those buttons should allow the user to change the video-angle instead of having to use the angle key on the remote to do that.

The project is authored using Scenarist 2.7. At the places where there are two angles I've got a forced display subpicture containing the buttons that is displayed as long as a second angle is available.

Since the muxer of Scenarist strangely only muxed the first appearance of a second angle correctly (in all following sections there is no navigation info in the second angle navpacks), I used TFDVDEdit to copy all the button Information from the first angle to the second.

With PowerDVD, WinDVD and a standalone player from Medion everything works as expected (you can change the stream as often as you like while the buttons are displayed), but with standalones from Sony, Panasonic and Pioneer the following happens:
when a mixed angle spot is reached the buttons are displayed correctly. When I press the button to change the stream, it works, but the button remains pressed (activated state) and nothing can be done until the next time where there are two angles....

Any ideas how to make that feature work on most players??

What about changing the "buttons highlight" information from "use prev vobu" to "all new Info" on every navpack at two-angle points.... (and what about that "prev+commands"???
I f that could work is there a way of changing that info of all navpack at once instead of clicking on each of those thousands of navpack one after one?

Greetz from Germany
Christoph