Playing DVD problems

Hi all,
Have built a DVD with a first play track, which goes to a menu with two simple buttons. Button 1, the default button goes to the main film, button 2, to the "extras". I tested the DVD once burned and all seemed fine. Then as I stopped it, I just happened to hit play on the DVD players remote and it started into the "extras" automatically. I seriously do not want there to be a possibility of this happening, if it were to launch automatically, I would rather that it were the main film. I should add that this doesn't happen in simulation on DVDsp or in the Mac DVDplayer, only on my home unit. Also, the main film is a quicktime movie export whilst the "extras" are MPeg2 generated in compressor specifically for DVD.
Help!!

Hmm, first off your main video is a MPEG-2 also. All video on DVDs are MPEG-2. If you bring in a QuickTime .mov file, then DVD SP converts the file for you (It is better to do the conversion yourself).
Ok, there isn't a lot you can do about this in DVD SP. One thing you can do is make sure your Main track is located higher up in the Outline than your Extras track.

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