Best method for PLAY ALL

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Best method for PLAY ALL

I've used a couple methods for a PLAY ALL and wonder if anyone has comments on which is preferable. This will be for a glass-mastered SD DVD - an extra feature with an audio disc - and with 5.1 Dolby audio on the DVD.

On this one we're using multiple tracks and scripting to play each track successively as part of a PLAY ALL, or each track separately from a chapter menu.

Previously we've used one main track, and then played chapters via stories.

MBPro 2.4 Ghz, Mac OS X (10.5.7)

Posted on Aug 1, 2009 7:02 AM

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Answer 1

Drew13

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Aug 1, 2009 8:38 AM in response to Coruway

Depends on the project. But stories will usually play a bit quicker (less pause) since they are all on the same track (if they are on different tracks the playback gets kicked to a different part of the DVD which slows things down), and scripts sometimes are a little less reliable than stories. Found that more on older players, but once in awhile DVD SP scripting can behave strangely. I think most of the "gotchas" can be worked around.

Some others around here prefer scripts more than stories and do not like setting up tracks to have stories. I am not sure there is a perfect answer because each probably have the pluses and minuses, but I usually go with stories when I can, even though I find scripting alot more fun 🙂

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Answer 2

Hal MacLean

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Aug 1, 2009 4:07 PM in response to Coruway

Yup - it depends on how you've got your disc set up. If you have got lots of tracks for a reason, then it is likely to be a scripted solution. If you have lots of tracks for no good reason other than you wanted to put the content in different places (i.e. it could be all put into one track) then stories are the way to go.

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