Autoplay

StanLaurel · Post by **StanLaurel** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 6:06 pm

I have created a DVD with a menu using VS 11.5 and that is all OK. However, when I insert the DVD in my stand-alone player, it does not autoplay in the same way as commercial DVD's do. - I have to press the "Play" button on my remote control just to get to the menu. Is there some box I should have ticked at some stage to get it to autoplay, or is it just an oddity in my player. As I have said, commercial DVD's do autoplay.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 11:11 pm

I have 5 stand-alone DVD players scattered around the place. Three of them auto-play everything, including my home made VS DVDs. Two of them won't auto-play my home made discs, though they will auto-play commercial DVDs. But I cannot explain this and have not even bothered to look for a possible solution since I have not regarded it as being particularly important. (And I hardly use those two players anyway, though for other reasons!!!)

I would note that those two are my oldest players, though.

StanLaurel · Post by **StanLaurel** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 11:40 am

I am not sure whether this will help or add to the confusion. However, by a bit of trial and error, I have now found that where a movie is recorded onto a re-writeable disc it will not autoplay, but where the identical movie is recorded onto a "once only" disc it will - at least on my DVD player.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 1:41 pm

No that's not it either. All, and I mean every one, of my first burns of projects to DVD are done on an RW disc, which may be -RW but more recently is +RW. And on the stand-alone players that auto-play DVDs, these are recognised and played just like any other...