Re: A DVD that only runs on some players

Philip Walden wrote:
> Philip Walden wrote:
>    
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:54:05 -0700, Philip Walden wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>>>> I have a set of 3 webcams monitoring motion events outside the house.
>>>> I use a perl script and DVDStyler to produce a DVD with 4 months of
>>>> daily motion movies.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> If you’re scripting the authoring process, why bother going through a
>>> GUI front end at all?
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> The perl script generates the first pass DVDStyler file. The output sort
>> of looks like a calendar with seasonal photos as the background picked
>> automatically from my catalog of photos. The DVDStyler automates the
>> menu generation and the gui gives me the ability to quickly clean up
>> button colors and placement.
>>
>>      
>>>
>>>        
>>>> So have I exceeded some limit I am unaware of, or is the Sony player
>>>> deficient? Or is the "but only 12 [buttons per menu] at once for
>>>> widescreen" biting me with the newer player as they are always
>>>> widescreen?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> All I can suggest is, try producing cut-down test versions of one of
>>> your DVDs, to see if they fare any better. As a starting point, just do
>>> half the days in the month. If that doesn’t help, try halving some other
>>> number instead.
>>>
>>> The player itself should not be “widescreen” or “narrowscreen”—unless
>>> the player no longer has the option to output to a narrowscreen TV.
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> I'll give it a shot by scaling back until it works and let you know.
>>
>>      
> Test 1: removed all the extra Vob tags. Nore more that 31 vobs per
> titleset..still failing on the Sony BDP-370.
>    
Test 2: removed extra buttons from every menu. No menu has more than 12 
buttons..still failing on the Sony BDP-370.

AFIK, the DVD is at the base compliance described in the wikibooks DVD 
limits page and it still hangs the the Sony BDP-370. Is there a further 
restriction on Blu-Ray players that also play DVDs?




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