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Cannot select menu items on the DVD menu playing movie in dvd player
John [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Dec 10, 2008 23:58 Messages: 9 Offline
[Post New] Dec 12, 2008 12:07
Hello once again.

I was able to produce and burn a movie to disc. However when I went to play the disc in a dvd player, I cannot select the menu buttons/text icons to play the movie or browse to the chapters.

None of the the buttons are highlighted on the menu, and you cannot navigate from one to the next.

The highlighting, play, navigating to chapters, work in "preview" mode, but do not when the dics is burnt.

Thanks for all the help and advise you can provide.
John [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Dec 10, 2008 23:58 Messages: 9 Offline
[Post New] Dec 12, 2008 12:17
More information.

I'm not using video thumbnail, and the autoplay time is set to 60 secs. background music is also set to 60 secs, but the automenu timeout thing is not selected.

I hope this helps with diagnosis of the problem
vn800rider
Senior Contributor Location: Darwen, UK Joined: May 15, 2008 04:32 Messages: 1949 Offline
[Post New] Dec 12, 2008 12:47
Hi John,

Do these help?

http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/15/4492.page
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/4767.page

Cheers
Adrian Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. (see below)
Confucius
AMD Phenom IIX6 1055T, win10, 5 internal drives, 7 usb drives, struggling power supply.
ChicagoFrank [Avatar]
Newbie Location: Chicago, Illinois Joined: Dec 12, 2008 14:50 Messages: 11 Offline
[Post New] Dec 12, 2008 16:59
They probably won't because they only address designing a menu . . . not the lack of menu highlighting that John is experiencing in the finished DVD.

I'm having that same problem and in searching the forums, It seems to have been delt with before . . . but I have not seen a solution . . . check out this forum . . .

http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/3078.page
ChicagoFrank [Avatar]
Newbie Location: Chicago, Illinois Joined: Dec 12, 2008 14:50 Messages: 11 Offline
[Post New] Dec 12, 2008 17:10
Also, John, I find that the menus do work on the disk, even though you can't see the highlight. On the main screen the "Play" button will be set when you first load the DVD . . . hit enter on your remote and the video will play. If the chapter button is below the play button on your menu, hit the down arrow on your remote, then the enter key brings you to the "Chapters" page. If "chapter" is to the left, hit the left button on your remote, etc. Once on the chapter page, the first chapter is selected. You can count arrow clicks of your remote to navigate to the other "chapter" buttons, then hitting enter will play that chapter . . . kind of a braille way of doing it.

I sure hope they get this bug fixed as PD7 is an excellent program otherwise.

BTW the menu highlight problem does not seem to appear if you just use the templates as they are.
RobertWA [Avatar]
Senior Member Joined: Sep 20, 2008 00:18 Messages: 223 Offline
[Post New] Dec 12, 2008 18:44
Sometimes checking "Enable Video Thumbnails" helps with this.

Robert
ChicagoFrank [Avatar]
Newbie Location: Chicago, Illinois Joined: Dec 12, 2008 14:50 Messages: 11 Offline
[Post New] Dec 13, 2008 07:34
Thanks Robert, will check it out
John [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Dec 10, 2008 23:58 Messages: 9 Offline
[Post New] Dec 13, 2008 08:03
Thanks for the information. I will try all the options suggested, burn another disc and see the results
Paul [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Jan 03, 2009 13:30 Messages: 3 Offline
[Post New] Jan 03, 2009 13:35
Hi Robert (WA)

Could you please tell me where I can find "Enable Video Thumbnails"?

Thanks,

Paul
vn800rider
Senior Contributor Location: Darwen, UK Joined: May 15, 2008 04:32 Messages: 1949 Offline
[Post New] Jan 03, 2009 14:20
Hi Paul,

>Create Disc> configure preferences (spanner bottom left of centre) >menu tab >check box.

Cheers
Adrian Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. (see below)
Confucius
AMD Phenom IIX6 1055T, win10, 5 internal drives, 7 usb drives, struggling power supply.
ChicagoFrank [Avatar]
Newbie Location: Chicago, Illinois Joined: Dec 12, 2008 14:50 Messages: 11 Offline
[Post New] Jan 03, 2009 14:33
Paul,

"Enable Video Thumbnail" can be found as follows . . .

Click "Create Disc" tab . . .

At the very bottom of the page you will see an Icon with a wrench in it . . .
this is the "Configure Disk Preferences Button"

Click it and then click the "Menu" tab in the window that comes up . . . there it will be.

This fix, provided by "JL" really fixed the highlighting menu problem for me . . .

http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/4388.page#16829
ArnaldoGP [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Nov 24, 2018 19:10 Messages: 1 Offline
[Post New] Nov 24, 2018 19:15
Hi John,

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Do these help?

http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/15/4492.page
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/4767.page



Cheers
Arnaldo

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Fenman
Senior Contributor Location: Cambridge, UK Joined: Nov 24, 2011 04:44 Messages: 731 Offline
[Post New] Nov 25, 2018 05:44
Probably not, as you're replying to a 9-year-old topic. Regards,
Mike

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