Scripting play all end jump problems.

hi all
in my project i have a script that plays all of my tracks following the 'scripting a dynamic play all button in dvd studio 3' help sheet i found on this discussion forum. for it to work i need to set the end jump of the tracks to a 'play next script.'
However, when i want to play one individual track from the menu it finishes on a black screen and remains there as i cant set the end jump to return to the main menu as it is in use with the play next script.
can anyone help im at my wits end
many thanks in advanced.
ed

Ed:
Wellcome to the forums!
You can get the PLAY ALL / PLAY EACH chapter feature using just Stories with no scripting at all. Check this Stories Tutorial.
I found that way easier than scripting.
Hope that helps !
Alberto

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henrik

hi B
I am teaching new media, and one of my students has made a dvd containing about 45 menus and 10 tracks.
he is a very clever students ,so all the targets and end jumps is something he is used to do himself
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Is there a way when I script a play all button, that at the end of playing each track individually, the button for the follow track is highlighted?
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Eric,
There are several ways to optimize Play All through different aspect clips, depending on the project type.
One method is to conform the assets - though, this depends on the ratio of 4:3 to wide footage, and other factors - if you only have a couple of 4:3 assets, then you can make them wide (black on either side), and nestle them in with all the other wide clips in a single Track. You could also put them in another Track by themselves (still make them wide, and set for Pan and Scan - not failing to stripe the mpeg assets with the P&S centering vectors with John Brisbin's "Mpeg Append Force Pan and Scan"; that way the footage displays properly pillar bar'd on 16:9 TVs and full-screen on 4:3 TVs).
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There are other ways, as well; again, depending on project parameters (and of course, wether Hal "got to 'em first" and had them script the twenty separate Tracks for Play All! ).
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I have a start of an article on this whole question, and hopefully I'll be able to post it soon. My SPRM table I mentioned in another thread was delayed because of the games in NY (I'm based in Philly :- ), that will be up by Monday (feels good saying it!).
Oh, and one correction to my reply above; When I said a Track is an entire 'Video Title Set Menu Domain', while true, all Tracks and Slideshows include such a structure; I should have said a Track is an entire 'Video Title Set'. It was late (that's my story, and I'm sticking to it :- )
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I tried a reinstall but it did not change anything.
Any help please?
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Angle, Chapter, Audio, Subtitle drop down menus all go clear when clicked. Only the Menu drop down stays but does not drop down. It shows: Same as Disc.
Maybe there's a link.
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Play All still jumps back too early

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If you are using scripts, you need to set the end jumps to the scripts. I find using scripts as pre-commands on a track doesn't always work, particularly if you press the "next" button on the remote. So the flow would go something like this:
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End jump for Play All not working

Below is my question on an earlier post, followed by an answer from a forum member, which I thought was the solution. I followed his suggestion to link the play all button to Track 1, and then clicked in the track to get the track inspector and linked the end jump to Menu 1. It must have worked in the simulator, because I marked Steve's answer 'solved', but now when I play the discs I've burned, the play all button plays only the first selection and then return to the menu. Same thing happens in the simulator.
So please tell me how to get that play all button to really play all. It's driving me crazy, and I have to recall 2 discs I sent out to clients so far. If someone could walk me through it, I'd really appreciate it, thanks!
MY POST: I have 9 markers on the track for 8 selections, the 9th was added so that the track would play all the way through when the Play All button on the menu was clicked. When the user clicks on any one selection it plays through and returns to the menu. I can't get the Play to do that, it just stops at the end and the user has to click play to get the menu back on the screen. Again, the manual on page 490 mentions setting end jumps and says the end jump for the last marker is not linked to any targets, and must be set yourself. So I have tried several times to do this in an number of ways as suggested by the book. No go.
Again, simplest possible explanation, please, as I've used a lot of time on this, and have lost most of my concentration and patience(!)
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Steven Cohen
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Re: End Jump Setting for Play All
Posted: Aug 19, 2008 1:43 AM in response to: Keith Rodan
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Link the "Play All" button to the track, not the first chapter marker. Then click on the track. In the inspector, settings for the track will appear. For end jump, select menu 1. (or whatever you want it to jump to.) If you want each segment on the track to play individually and then jump back to the first menu, easiest way to do that is with stories. Check manual or do search of this forum on ways to do that. Hope that helps.
Steve

Hi Keith - there are several ways to do this. By far the simplest is to use stories, but there are two ways of doing that, too.
Here's one way:
Make sure you have the 8 markers that you need, and make sure that each marker has got an end jump on it to return you to your menu and the button for that section. Now add a single story and add ALL of the markers to that (drag them over from the story editor window left to right). You'll notice that the markers are labelled 'Chapter 1 Entry', which means you are not adding the end jumps to the story... each marker will play and then go on to the next in the sequence, ignoring any end jumps you have already put on the markers.
Now set your play all button on your menu to go to the story container (NOT chapter 1 inside the story). All you other buttons should point to the relevant markers on the track and not in the story.
Set the end jump for the story to go back to the 'play all' button on your menu, and set the menu call for the story to do the same. You can set the menu call for the markers as you want, too.
You should now have a single track, eight markers with end jumps, a single story with 8 chapter entry markers in it and a disc that alows you to play a single marker or the entire lot.
The alternative way to do this is to add your 8 markers as before (no need for 9), make sure there are NO end jumps on the markers and then add 8 stories. Put one marker into each story and set the end jumps on each story to go back to the relevant menu button. Set the menu calls for each story to do the same.
Now set your single chapter play menu buttons to the relevant story container (and NOT the chapter inside it), and your pay all button to the track itself. Set the end jump and menu call for the track to go where you want them to.
There are then at least two other ways to do this using scripts... but I figure these here should cover what you need right now! I'd recommend using the first method - it's quicker to set up and more simple to implement.

End Jump Scripting

I know nothing about scripts exept that it appears to be the only answer to my problem.
I have a project with a series of standard menu's which access various clips and slideshows. However the client also wants all the clips to be accessable via an index menu. So, once a clip ends I need it to jump to the next button of the last menu played which could be the standard menu or the index menu.
How can I make this happen?
Mike

There was a very similar question posted about this recently.
You do it in a number of ways, but the scripting is fairly easy. The theory is that you need to assign a value to each menu so that you can always know which you came from. To do this create a script per menu and write the following:
mov GPRM0, 1
Jump menuname
Each time you write that script, in the first line you change the value (use the 'immediate' setting in the script editor to do this), and on the second line you put the correct menu name. Now, every button on any menu that points to a different menu should instead point to the relevant script. This will then overwrite the value in GPRM0 each time you move between menus.
When you start playback and want to get back to the correct menu you either use an end jump or the menu button. You can create a script which reads the value in GPRM0 and goes back to the appropriate menu, but you also want to go to the next logical button on that menu (not the one that was last selected).
Every DVD player has an internal set of registers which record all kinds of different pieces of information. One of these records the value of the last button played. If you read that value and then add '1' to it you should then have the value of the next logical button, right?
But, those values are stored in increments of 1024, so we have to do some extra maths to get it to where we need it:
mov GPRM1, SPRM8
div GPRM1, 1024
In the first line we copy the value in SPRM8 to a memory slot (SPRM8 holds the value of the last button selected). We then divide it by 1024 to get it into a usable state. Now we can add the '1':
mov GPRM1, SPRM8
div GPRM1, 1024
add GPRM1, 1
So, in GPRM0 we have the value of the last menu we were on, and in GPRM1 we have the value of the next logical button. We can now combine those two pieces of information into a script that does the end jumps and menu calls automatically. We need to use GPRM based button jumps and conditional commands (Compare commands). The following script should do what you want...
mov GPRM1, SPRM8
div GPRM1, 1024
add GPRM1, 1
Jump menu1 [GPRM1] If (GPRM0 = 1)
Jump menu2 [GPRM1] If (GPRM0 = 2)
Jump menu3 [GPRM1] If (GPRM0 = 3)
But, what if the user was already on the last button on the menu, and you add one to it before jumping back to the menu? Fortunately, what happens is that if there is no button that corresponds to the number in the script, you go to the default button for the menu... usually button 1.
Of course, you could probably do a lot of this using stories instead, but to me the scripted solution is a lot more elegant and once you have your head around the way it all works, is a lot quicker to set up, making a 'cleaner' project.

Fine in Simulator, but encoded "Play All" Scripting Goes Screwy

So I followed this Tutorial for scripting a dynamic Play All button: http://creativemac.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=30628
The Script checks the GPRM values at the end of each video. It also has a pre script to reset the value to 0. It works perfectly in the simulator, but once encoded the Play Button plays totally different tracks on the DVD. Perhaps there is an issue with the GPRM values?
The menus are video files, not Photoshop files with layers so I don't think this workaround applies: http://forums.digitalmedianet.com/cgi-bin/displaywwugpost.fcgi?forum=astarte_dvd &post=080314211038.htm
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So, my workaround is this: I made a separate prescript for every layered menu I needed the dynamic end jumps for. The single I command I used was "mov GPRM 0, 32" for the first menu rather than "mov GPRM 0, Current Item" (you have to switch from Special to Immediate to manually type in the number, FYI). The second menu had it's own prescript with the command "mov GPRM 0, 64". And so on for the subseqent menus."
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Message was edited by: Benny11

your problem comes from a bug in the simulator.
When you use jump indirect it is looking for a menu or track based on its position on the disc, for example menu 1 is 32, menu 2 is 64, menu 3 is 96, etc, etc.
Well simulator gets object positions based on DVD Studio Pro's Outline View. The problem is there are two different outline views, one is by type, and one is by VTS. Simulator uses "by type" when calculating object values, but in real life (as in all DVD players) the value is based on its position in the "VTS" view.
I would check your VTS view and make sure the tracks are in the order your want them to play in.
Additionally, i have always found "prescripts" very unreliable. I find it I get better results by jumping to a script directly and then at the end of the script jumping to my target as opposed to creating a script and assigning it as a pre-script to an object.

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Dynamic End Jump Script

I'm new to scripting in DVD studio Pro. Lately I have been attempting to create dynamic buttons to return to the same menu, and the next available button. The below link is the tutorial that I have been following.
The script worked perfectly when I only had one menu. My project is becoming more complex with different menus. The script no longer works properly. Instead of going to the same menu, it goes to the very first menu. It still goes to the next button, just not the right menu. How can I program it to jump to the previous menu?
http://dvdstudiopro.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=34239-0

The script depends on using the layout in the outline view of DVDSP to work - the menu at the top of the list has a value of 32. The next menu down has a value of 64, etc. The idea is that you don't worry about the actual menu, but consider the order in which they are listed in the outline view as the most important info.
I prefer not to use that method, relying instead on using either pre-scripts (if not using GPRM based button jumps) or stand-alone scripts. I tend to change a value in a GPRM as I move from menu to menu and rely on that value along with the stored value in SPRM8. My script would be something like this, assuming I am tracking menus in GPRM1:
mov GPRM0, SPRM8
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add GPRM0, 1
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Jump menu3 [GPRM0] If(GPRM1 = 3)
This would get me on to the next button on the menu I came from. However, you have to think about what happens when you start on the last button on a menu - by adding '1' to the value in GPRM0 (having loaded it with SPRM8) you could feasibly end up with a value that doesn't exist for a button. To counter this, you could put in a conditional statement in line 3:
add GPRM0, 1 If(GPRM0 <= X)
where X is the value of the last but one button. If the user was on the last button, the 'add' line gets ignored and the user gets sent to the menu and the last button on it.
The only other thing to do is add three scripts which set the value into GPRM1 each time you move to a new menu. So, before loading the first menu, go to this script:
mov GPRM1, 1
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then, when moving to the second menu, go to this script:
mov GPRM1, 2
Jump menu2
and so on for each menu that you have got. Don't use pre-scripts in this system - the GPRM based button jumps won't work.
Whilst this relies on you adding the scripts as necessary, it is probably a more dependable method than using the DVDSP values for menus.
I believe Dave Nagel's scripts are better for DVDSP v2/3, but can't be sure.

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