MF6+ DVD Menu Controls Not Working With Background Video

[Helimvee]

I have created a DVD with a background video on the main menu. When I insert the DVD into the DVD player the menu appears and the "play all" button is hi-lighted. During the first "loop" of the background video I can move the selector from the play all button to the three sub menu buttons. Each of these buttons works properly and when selected the video runs perfectly.

However, if I let the background video run through the first loop, once the second loop of the background video starts to play the play all button is no longer hi-lighted and I cannot select any of the buttons. I then have to eject the disc and and start all over - with the same thing happening again.

I created a second DVD doing everything exactly the same but leaving out the background video. This DVD works perfectly.

This leads me to believe that I have a setting wrong someplace.

Any suggestions?


The original video was shot on a Sony HC-3. I captured it to my HD and then converted it using VS X2 Pro.

MPEG Settings for source video (Note: I muted the sound and did not add a music track.)

General
-Data Track: Audio and video (Greyed Out)
-Frame Rate: 29.97 frames/second (Greyed Out)
-Frame Type: Lower Field First
-Frame Size: 720 x 480
-Display Aspect Ratio 16:9

Compression
-Media Type: MPEG-2
-Speed/Quality: 100
-Video Format: MPEG-2 (Greyed Out)
(Not Checked) I-Frames Only
(Not Checked) DVD-VR Compliant (Greyed Out)
(Not Checked) Two Pass Encode (Greyed Out)
-Video Data Rate: Constant 8264 kbps

Audio
-Audio Format: MPEG Audio (Greyed Out)
-Audio Type: Stereo (Greyed Out)
-Audio Frequency: 48000 Hz (Greyed Out)
-Audio Bit Rate: 224 kbps (Greyed Out)



Project Settings For DVD Project

-Display Aspect Ratio: 16:9
-Field Type: Lower Field First (DV)
(Checked) Do Not Convert Complaint MPEG Files
(Not Checked) Support X-Disc
(Not Checked) Two Pass Conversion (Greyed Out)
(Not Checked) Treat MPEG Audio as Non-DVD Compliant
(Not Checked) Auto Fade Out First Play To Menu
(Not Checked) Play All Clips before First Menu
(Checked) Auto Repeat When Disc Playback Ends

MPEG Settings For DVD Project

General
-Data Track: Audio and video (Greyed Out)
-Frame Rate: 29.97 frames/second (Greyed Out)
-Frame Type: Lower Field First
-Frame Size: 720 x 480
-Display Aspect Ratio 16:9


Compression
-Media Type: NTSC DVD (Greyed Out)
-Speed/Quality: 100
-Video Format MPEG-2 (Greyed Out)
-Video Data Rate: Constant 8000 kbps

-Audio Format: Dolby Digital Audio
-Audio Type: 2/0(L,R)
-Audio Frequency: 48000 Hz (Greyed Out)
-Audio Bit Rate: 256 kbps

[sjj1805]

Possibly it was a corrupted disc.
Try burning to a hard drive folder and then play back with a software DVD player such as WinDVD, PowerDVD, Nero Showtime etc.

[Helimvee]

It worked fine in the preview mode and I tried another disc but no luck.

Thanks

[sjj1805]

Dont rely on the preview mode, please try burning to a hard drive folder and check the result. If it works then please check this link

DVD Burning / Playback issues

[Helimvee]

In progress. I will let you know. Thanks for the link.

[Helimvee]

Well, I burned the folders and they worked fine. A disc burned from those folders had the same problem as described above. The DVD player is a Sony upscaling DVP-NS70H.

I tried the same disc in a PS3 and it worked fine.

It seems that the DVD can't handle that disc.

Ten years using ULead products and this was the first problem that I had. Nice to know that it wasn't a problem with the software.

Thanks for your input sjj1805

[JoReneA]

I am having a similar problem with DVD 6+ and it isn't confined to menus with background videos. I have burned a number of disks that play fine in preview mode and also when burned to a hard drive folder The disks also play ok on the computer, but when I play it in either of my DVD players, the menu items are not hightlighted at all, not even the first time. I used version 4 for several years prior to this and never had that problem. All version 4 disks play on the same DVD players with the hgihlighting showing up. I am not sure if it is related to newer templates, so am going to try to use the version 4 templates with version 6. Does anyone know how to do this (where to put the template files)?

Thanks, and if anyone has a solution to the highlighting problem, please post.

[JoReneA]

The problem was solved with Update 2. I hadn't been able to install the update at first due to a problem that developed after it was installed. Once I solved that problem and was able to install the update, the menu highlights appeared correctly on my regular DVD players. The program also was able to create a DVD much faster with the update.