Playback pausing at chapter markers

Creating a DVD of an individual talking to camera, I've used chapter markers so the user can jump to particular points in his talk.
However, when run in the Simulator, the project pauses/ playback glitches whenever a chapter marker is passed.
Is this supposed to happen? And if not what am I doing wrong?
Thanks
jON

Sounds to me as if you originally set an end jump on a chapter marker to go back to the main menu, then changed it to go on to the following marker. All you need to do is to remove all end jumps on the markers.
If you do want to only play a single marker then you can do this with stories instead of using end jumps.

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