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Gap between movie files
Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2023 11:00 am
by AlanBell1975
Hi,
I have a short 'intro' movie which links to the main movie via the 'end action'. This is supposed to be seamless, and is on two of my Blu-ray players. However, on the third (an old Sony player) there is a flash of black as the movies unload and load respectively.
Obviously, I can't author my disc based on the playback of one player, but this black flash ruins the flow and I'm concerned it could happen on other players. Could this be happening because I'm using a BD-R or is it likely that this would still happen on a replicated disc?
If you can offer a solution or recommend an alternative way of authoring the disc, which might eliminate this problem, it would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Re: Gap between movie files
Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2023 2:28 pm
by Alexey Kolesnikov
Hi,
End action cannot be seamless. If you need a seamless playback place your movies into the playlist and check "Seamless" in its properties (should be "on" by default). And now you should use this playlist instead of the movie (you need to reassign all actions to the playlist of course).
Re: Gap between movie files
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2023 12:00 pm
by AlanBell1975
Hi Alexey,
Thanks for the tip Alexey, that works great.
Re: Gap between movie files
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2023 2:30 pm
by AlanBell1975
Hi Alexey,
One more thing: my playlist is now made up of two movies, the 'intro' and the 'main movie'. Once the intro has played I want a pop-up menu to appear over the 'main movie'. Is this possible?
If so, I'm guessing it may be done with GPR programming. Can you shed any light on this?
Re: Gap between movie files
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2023 3:53 pm
by Alexey Kolesnikov
Hi Alan,
There are several ways.
1. The easiest. Right click on the playlist and select "Open scenes (direct editing)". Add chapter at the movie start, select this chapter at the list at the right, right-click and select a popup menu in the action list.
2. If you don't wanna a chapter here you can use "Action every second". Let's image that intro video duration is 30 seconds and popup menu name is "Popup". By default all GPRs are 0. So you can use for example GPR[1]. So, in "Action every second" you can use the script:
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if (manager.getGPR(1) == 0 && manager.getMediaTimeInSeconds() > 30) {
manager.setGPR(1, 1);
manager.activateSegment("S:PM_Popup.show_menu");
}
Re: Gap between movie files
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2023 9:56 am
by AlanBell1975
Thanks for this Alexey, your first solution worked fine.
However, I want the pop-up menu to remain on screen. At present, if I press the pop-up menu on my remote the menu disappears and doesn't reappear once re-pressed. Is there a simple method to disable the 'pop-up menu' button on the remote for this menu?
Re: Gap between movie files
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2023 4:45 pm
by Alexey Kolesnikov
Yes, you should remove the action on the "Popup menu" ([close popup anim]) in the popup menu properties.