Remote Control Button Assignment

I'm having trouble setting the Menu button on my remote. In the inspector I assign the main menu on my dvd to the menu button.
However, when you hit the menu button on the remote nothing happens. THen after selecting a track and then hitting the button it returns you to whatever menu or track you were previously on.
I want to set it so that it acesses the main menu and the main menu only, under all circumstances.
Any thoughts?

Hi - welcome to the discussions.
What you are seeing is perfectly normal - the menu button will only move you between a track and a menu and back again. You can say which menu you go to by using the property inspector, but once you arrive in the menu from a track, if you press the menu button a second time, you will go back to the track at the point where you left off.
You can also use the 'Title' button and set this to go to your main menu. It will get you there even if you are in a menu at the time you press it (the menu key won't do this).
If you go to a menu but don't play a track, then pressing the menu key will have no effect at all - you will stay on the menu. This is because there is no 'resume' information stored for the disc. You cannot use the menu key to move up through the menu hierarchy at all. To do that you really need to use the 'Return' key, but this is not well implemented in DVDSP.
In short (and to re-cap) what you are seeing is perfectly normal, and you need to think again about what the handset keys can and can't do...

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