CS6 Blu-Ray multi-page menus- No preview possible?!?!

I'm fairly confident of the answer here, but just want to make sure that this is Encore CS6's "fault" rather than mine...
Is there really no way to preview/test multi-page menus in CS6 Blu-Ray projects?
Thanks in advance!
- Jim 8^}

You can add multipage menus to your Blu-ray projects. But the preview of Blu-ray features (Multipage menu, pop up menu etc) is not available in Encore as of now. But you can navigate to all the menu pages in the menu editor.
Use these Next and Previous buttons to navigate to the different pages of the menu.
-Ramesh.

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I got this error message near the end of the disc build:
Blu-ray Error: "fatal error". Code: "6", Note: "Graphics buffer underflows. - Failed to multiplex with maximum IG PTS: 54900000 (in 90kHz).
The blu-ray project I am working on is an 87 min live concert with about 8 other much shorter timelines. The main menu has 6 buttons with a motion background. There are few submenus as well, but the problem came when I started making pop-up menus for the various timelines.
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I then went through the pretty involved process of making a final version of the main pop-up menus. The main concert's pop-up menu has 5 pages (including page 0). There are specific pop-up menus for other timelines, but those have no more than 2 pages. None of the menus have more than 10 buttons.
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Thanks.

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First of all, the pop up menus can not be linked to each other.
If you want, you can have more pages on a single pop up menu and link all your timelines or chapters to the buttons of the pages and then link that pop up menu with more number of pages to all of the timelines. In this way, you can have the option to navigate to any chapter of any timeline while any timeline is playling.
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