"Playlist" menu

Hey everyone, I hope I can get a little help on this. I am wanting to make a sort of playlist menu for a dvd I am making in DVDSP v.2. Basically I want a menu with a list of 12 songs that I will be able to click on (or navigate through by the remote control) and have that song play. But I want it to play while the playlist menu is still on the screen. I would also like a "Play All" button to just play all the songs in order, also with the menu still on the screen. I tried to create a track with all 12 songs on it split up with chapter markers, then linking all the buttons on the playlist menu to their respective song on the track, but it comes up saying "Illegal Angle Situation. Only The Main Video Angle Will Be Simulated." No audio starts up. But I figured this wouldn't work anyways, because the menu would end up going away to play the track, which is not what I want. If anyone has got the solution for my dilema I would really appreciate it. Thanks a lot.
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Ok, well I set it all up, but it is a little different from what you had described. I could have done it that way, but I haven't messed too much with the buttons over video, and once I dove into it I got extremely mixed up and it wouldn't let me do what I was wanting, so here's how I set it up: On the menu it lists all the songs, so I just made 12 different menus in Photoshop with each song highlited and then put each of those pics over their respective song on the track with all the songs on it. Then I added chapter markers before each song. So then the track opens up playing, and they can use their remote to change back and forth through the songs. It just automatically plays all the songs, so now there is no "play all" button. This way saved me about 1.5 gigs on the DVD as compared to the 12 seperate menus. Thanks for your help, though. Are there any good tutorials online or elsewhere that explains the buttons over video a little better than the manual? The manual just seemed to throw you from page to page to read about certain things, and it was really confusing me. Maybe some kind of tutorial with some screen shots to help guide me through?

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Connect iPod shuffle to your computer.
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The 3ivX codec is in your quicktime library folder, normally: root/Library/QuickTime, but I don't think, that Apple encodes their movies with an unsupported codec. Maybe there is another unsupported codec in your library that creates the iTunes-stuttering or the reason for your problem is completely different. I paste here the content of my library folder. If you have anything else in your folder, quit Quicktime Player and iTunes (if they are running) , remove the plug-in and try your movie again in iTunes. Hope, this helps.
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