how to use "Auto repeat when disc playback ends"

[palutte]

Hi,

What does this Project setting means?
"Auto repeat when disc playback ends"

Checked or not my show stops after end and doesn't start from beginning as expected.

Is there any other obligatory setting or requirement when using this option? I don't need or use any menu right now. In MF preview it plays in the loop. Burning is done always with Nero, so I don't think that Nero is a problem.

Can I edit it with Ifoedit to play in a loop and where is this repeat from beginning bit?


I start to feel rather desparate with Ulead products. Many, all similar and no one doesn't work as expecetd.
As I couldn't figure out how to make the movie to autostart after end and to play in an endless loop, I learnt to use Ulead DVD Workshop to render my picture show, just to make it to play in endless loop.
Until I wanted to make a 16:9 picture show and I was directed to DVD Movie Factory.

Now again - I'm not able to create an endless loop of movie! I'm burning with Nero as always. The size of movie is 600 Mb and 18 minutes.

[Velojet]

Burning is done always with Nero, so I don't think that Nero is a problem. ... I'm burning with Nero as always.

Can't understand why, having set up the project in MF, you then bypass Step 3 of the MF DVD creation process and burn with Nero ???

[palutte]

I use Nero 6.6.0.18 as the last known burner only stable version.

There used to be a lot of DVD burning problems with other burning engines and early Ulead being known as one of the worst ones

To be precise - now I burnt now the slidehow with Ulead engine.
The problem is still there - DVD doesn't play in the loop.

Unfortunately I'm not a DVD menu expert, else I could fix these missing bits easily with IfoEdit.

Any other ideas?

Is Roxio a more reliable authoring slideshow?
I need some extension of panning, transition effects, 16:9 format and playing in the loop. No menus. Just the DVD content starts and plays in a loop.

[Velojet]

Well, I guess at this stage you need to tell us more about your system/environment and other project settings. I note that you've not filled in your 'system' details:

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[palutte]

Thanks for replies.
from IFO it appears that MF fails to write jump from end to the PGC start and instead the jump is directed to nonexistent menu.
Still I don't know the correct syntax of Ifo to repair it.

In Ulead DVD WS I had to use fake menu to bypass this limiation.

Obvoiusly the problem isn't hardware related.

Now my task is to take a menu to remove all stuff but to leave only play button and to use autostart after 1 second...
I have tried i also earlier with MF but it's menu handling capabilities are somehow less the in DVD WS and I failed then.



Actually it seems a little bit weird that ulead has very 3 similar, partially overlapping products, which all are handicapped in a way or another.

[maddrummer3301]

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[palutte]

I have MF 5+.
Do you mean that creating a slideshow without menu and with auto re-play from the beginning might work?
It should! But IMO it fails.

Also MF seems to lack an option to create a start menu with auto time out.


It doesn't seem to work either in Ulead DVD picture show, so I had to output from PShow a mpeg and render it through DVD Workshop in order to add a menu with auto menu time out and finally DVD was able to play in the loop.
If I didn't missed anything, then I believe that Ulead can't create ifo with jump directly back to program but instead it creates the jump to menu, even when it doesn't exist.

[GeorgeW]

I have MF 5+.
Do you mean that creating a slideshow without menu and with auto re-play from the beginning might work?
It should! But IMO it fails.

I believe you are correct, it does not loop using the type of project you have described.

Regards,
George

[Velojet]

In Ulead DVD WS I had to use fake menu to bypass this limiation. ... Now my task is to take a menu to remove all stuff but to leave only play button and to use autostart after 1 second. I have tried i also earlier with MF but its menu handling capabilities are somehow less the in DVD WS and I failed then.

Try again, palutte. This is the solution in MF5(+). Create a menu - it doesn't even need a play button, so you can just use one of the slide images and hide everything else.

Set it going and it'll loop forever. Guaranteed. I have an endlessly looping slideshow playing on my TV/DVD player right now.

(BTW, could you please complete your 'system' details? Thanks.)

[palutte]

Hi,

There is some of my system info now

Actually before posting here, I have tried to create an empty menu with MF5+ but no much of success.

How do you make the menu time out, could you give some hints please?

When trying to customize there doesn't seem to be any delete function.
I can just hide objects. It might be enough.
But I can't find a way to make the fake menu to time out and start the program automatically.
It's an essential part of the project I have and as you have described.
Loop wouldn't work without menu time out function.

[Velojet]

When trying to customize there doesn't seem to be any delete function. I can just hide objects. It might be enough.

Yes, no need to delete - just hide all objects.

But I can't find a way to make the fake menu to time out and start the program automatically. It's an essential part of the project I have and as you have described. Loop wouldn't work without menu time out function.

Can you tell us why "it's an essential part of the project" - how exactly will your DVD be used?

(Thanks for the system info.)

[palutte]

As I understand the program playing ends with a jump back to the menu.
To play in the loop, menu has to time out with next action to play the program.
The only purpose of the menu is the MF5+ invalid jump command.

[Velojet]

To play in the loop, menu has to time out with next action to play the program.

The (dummy) menu simply provides a starting point. Once the slideshow is activated - and that only needs the 'play' button on the remote to be pressed - the slide sequence loops endlessly and the menu is never seen again.

Try it!

[maddrummer3301]

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[palutte]

I spent some time playing with ifo's and succeeded to find the repeat or to be precise, the jump command. There is no jump limitations when away from Ulead, the jump command can take any numeric sector value and menu existence doesn't have any importance at all.

Definitely, if one is serious about creating own DVD, then there must be other, easy to learn applications with some essential functions.

Any ideas? Where to look for such an application? There are needed to be some transition effects, pan and zoom ans 16:9 of course. As told looping isn't a problem anymore.

There are Ulead Pictuse show, which is only outstanding because of it's capability to output mpeg stream. But it doesn't support 16:9.
Today very few wants to create 4:3 anymore.
Then there is a DVD workshop, good for adding some menu functionality when rendering mpeg output from previous. But obviously also doesn't support 16.9. And finally MF5+ which only pros is it's support of 16:9. Else it's totally crippled.