Assigning DVD Remote Buttons

Jethro · Post by **Jethro** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 4:58 pm

Greetings:
This is my second post today. I've just discovered this forum and I have lots of questions.

Is it not possible to assign the function of certain DVD Player buttons to menu actions? I specifically refer to the DVD remote buttons that allow you to jump back and forth to previous and next bookmark positions. On any given DVD remote, this would be the buttons with a double arrow (left for previous, right for next) and a vertical line drawn at the tip of the exposed arrow. Many DVD menu editors that I have worked with, automatically set it up so that if you are in a sub-menu structure, the next and previous remote buttons cause you to move to the next or previous sub-menu. Since DVD Workshop allows you to create any menu structure that you like, it is understandable that this would NOT be done automatically but there should be a way to say "I want remote's "next and previous" to act as if I have navigated to the next and previous menu buttons and selected them.

Can you do this with DVD Workshop?
Thank you,
Mark Roberts,
Toronto

Lastindependent · Post by **Lastindependent** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 6:24 pm

That's a function of the player not your menu. It works automatically.

Jethro · Post by **Jethro** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 6:41 pm

Hmmm.

Its just that I have used other menuing software, for example: Magix Movie Edit Pro, and the "previous and next" buttons of the same DVD player allowed me to move back and forth between sub-menu pages. But the DVD's I produce from DWS do not work that way...

What would be the difference here?

Thanks,
Mark

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 7:05 pm

Dead batteries in your remote control
or
You've forgotten to create Chapters. They can be created manually or automatically.

Lastindependent · Post by **Lastindependent** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 7:14 pm

The previous and next should do exactly that - move you to the next item in your Workshop "edit" list.

I'm not sure what you could have done to stop it?

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 7:19 pm

Just re-read you query you mean press the next/previous buttons to move between menu pages and not chapters.

I just tried that with a couple of very famous commercially produced DVD's and looks like whatever Hollywood use to create their menus with doesn't do it either!