Dvd skips the menus

I burnt a dvd using idvd. i made a chapter menu as well that branches off of the main menu. I made these chapters in idvd. For the actual movie, all i did was drag and drop the mp4 file onto the main menu.
Before i burnt the movie, i previewed it in idvd and everything was fine. After i burnt the movie, i played it on my tv and it skips the menus. If i press disc menu on the remote it takes me to the menu and it works fine but i want it to take me to the menu everytime i put the dvd in, instead of playing the movie straight away.
Can someone please tell me what i have done wrong? Thanks.

Hi
a. I don't use .mp4 files with iDVD only iMovie projects that I import from within iDVD.
Never use the Share/Export to iDVD from within iMovie. Or in FinalCut save as QuickTime
(no selfcontained, no conversion)
b. I would in iDVD go to File menu and down to Save as a DiskImage
Do this and double click on it to extract a virtual hard disk.
Then I would start DVD-player (in Application folder) and test if this virtual
copy plays as intended.
If so. I would burn this with Disk Util tool or Roxio Toast™
If not. The problem is in iDVD pref file or in the structure or in material used
eg .mp4, .avi, .wmv, .mp3audio etc.
• Then I would convert video to streamingDV and audio to .aiff
• Delete the pref file
• Secure a minimum of 25Gb free space on internal (booth/start-up) hard disk
Yours Bengt W

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LONG LONG LONG LIST
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PART One.
Use of strange video/audio material e.g. .avi, .wmv, .mp3 etc.
I only use.
Video - StreamingDV (miniDV tape via FireWire) and
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Photo - .jpg (.bmp known problematic)
Chapters !
A. Using strange letters in video project name e.g. +,/; etc. keep to a-z and 0-9 strange letters in project name e.g. +
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Important when from iMovie HD6 or previous - Now also observed when using FCE 4
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from Robert Modero.
"Multiplexing Error. Problem during initialization of tracks"
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Once I did that, I was back in business.
from Boise Jim
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I always makes a DiskImage first and test this so that it runs OK
I use only - Verbatim DVDs
I use only - DVD-R
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3 Chapter marks in transitions - minimum 2 sec from
FROM Bev.
(Not a 'guy' but I will answer!)
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by dheb0422
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One user more writes
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Video from both passed from FCE 4.01 with chapters
One project worked fine in creating disk image file
The other gave Multiplex Errors
I tried suggestions to remove special characters and no chapter marks at beginning, but nothing worked
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Russ One - suggest this
Multiplex Error-There was an error during muxing preparation
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