Dvd studio pro button problem

Hi, i have created my DVD with a menu, and use an arrow default button for each chapter of the DVD.
I have burned on my DVD and i notice a problem. in the menu, when I push a button, all the buttons disappears before the track start to play...
how to solve that?
thx a lot

Hi Jonathan, welcome to the discussions.
Yes - you certainly can put buttons over video in a track. It works by using the subtitle stream with start and end markers for the button duration. Look up 'Buttons over video' in the manual.
It is easy to set up, but there are reports of mixed levels of reliability with it.
The 1GB allowance in menus can be doubled if you use 4:3 menus AND 16:9 ones... but later versions of DVDSP allow you to move the menus into different spaces which helps avoid the 1GB limit.
Just so you know, the limit is actually formed because earlier versions of DVDSP insisted on all menus going into a single VOB when the disc is built. A VOB on a DVD can only be 1GB...

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