Re: need help debugging highlighting on hardware players

On 12/5/2011 5:34 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> Looking at the PNG files with Gimp, menu1-0.mpg_buttons.png has nothing
> in it but transparent pixels. The highlight and select images contain
> just a frame on one side and a line on the other. What exactly do you
> see on your Pioneer?

The default highlight is the line.  It underlines the words "Play all". 
  Pressing an up/down arrow key toggles between the line and the frame. 
  When the frame is highlighted it's outline changes from blue to 
white/light gray.  This works on the Pioneer DV-333, VLC on Windows and 
Ubuntu, XBMC on Windows and Ubuntu, and MythTV's internal software DVD 
player on Ubuntu.

It does not work on the Toshiba.  The Toshiba will display the line 
under "Play all" but pressing the up arrow key results in no visible 
change on the screen.  The frame, although now selected, remains blue 
and the white line remains under "Play all".  Once the enter button is 
pressed the frame will momentarily flash white and the video will play.

This is one of the default example templates provided with DVDStyler.  I 
thought it would be good to test with as it was something that hadn't 
really been manipulated by me.  I've created at least a dozen different 
menus, trying different types of buttons and settings with DVDStyler and 
absolutely nothing I have tried works on the Toshiba.  In every case the 
highlighting action will not change with an arrow key press.  The only 
time a visible change is seen on the screen is after you press the enter 
key.  The result of this is that any kind of menu is unnavigable as you 
have no visual feedback as to what is actually selected on the screen.

Taking it a step further, someone on the DVDStyler help forum was nice 
enough to link an iso they created with a two button menu in which there 
are two text buttons and the highlighting action will toggle underlining 
between them.  This also does not work on the Toshiba.

> In this one, Menu.png contains two full-colour thumbnails against a
> black background, with two numbers below them. MenuHighlight.png
> contains two translucent yellow rectangles, while MenuSelect.png
> contains two pink ones, presumably covering those thumbnails.

In this one the default highlight is that thumbnail 1 is overlaid with 
the yellow rectangle and pressing the arrow keys will then cause 
thumbnail 2 to be overlaid with yellow.  This works properly on all of 
my players, software and hardware.  On the Toshiba pressing an arrow key 
immediately results in a visual change on the screen with one or the 
other thumbnails being overlaid with yellow as expected.

It kind of seems like this Toshiba is either ignoring or strictly 
following some spec that the the Pioneer and all the software players 
are not.  Clearly dvdauthor can output something that works on the 
Toshiba as the Bombono output demonstrates but absolutely nothing that 
DVDStyler outputs works on it.  I've tried all 4 of the unmodified 
default templates provided with DVDStyler and they all behave exactly 
the same on the Toshiba.

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