Unwanted chapter pauses

I am sorry if this has been covered..I am creating a dvd of a 2 hour presentation with various speakers. My client would like to be able to have a menu with a play all button and buttons for individual presentations to watch only. I have encoded the 2 hrs and set created a play all script:
mov GPRM 0,1
jump track1::opening
in the opening marker i have set the end jump to another script I call ch2 end.
jump track 1::ch2 if (GPRM 0=1)
jump menu 1
I duplicated this script with only the next chapter modification in the first line of the script changing to reflect the next presentation.
the upshot is that there is a slight pause going from chapter to chapter when the play all is pressed and I need to find a way to get it to play smooth or tell my client why it is happening.

Hi - welcome to the discussions.
The way to do this is not to use end jumps on chapters, and to use stories instead... no need to script this at all.
Make a single story that contains ALL of the markers, and set the play all button to go to that story container. Be sure to set the menu call and end jump for the story.
Now make a story for every single chapter marker, put the relevant marker in each and point your menu buttons to the appropriate story. Remember to set the end jumps/menu call for each.
When you pay a single chapter, you are actually playing the story - the footage will show and you return to the menu. When you play all, you are playing a much larger story... it will play through with no pauses.
There is a slight variation which can save some time for you.
Keep the play al story as it is, but use chapter marker end jumps to go back to the menu and correct button on each chapter. No scripts needed here... what happens is that the end jump for the marker gets attached to the end of the marker itself - like a post playback command. When you pay from a specific marker it will obey the command and go to the menu when it completes. However, if you put the same marker into a story it gets listed as 'chapter x entry' - i.e. no post commands are in there. In this situation the marker will play on to the next marker in the sequence... no pauses.
If you really want to script something, use a script to get back to the right button when the user presses the menu key - send them to this:
mov GPRM0, SPRM7
Jump indirect Menuname \[GPRM0\]
This will set up a GPRM based button jump - they will land on the menu and on the button for the last chapter that they were playing.

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