Maestro quot;First Playquot; puzzles me

andy

Hello people.
This has to do with the quot;first playquot; setting in DVD Maestro. I have made a disc which has a small intro, then goes to the menu and then you have the main movie. I have set the quot;first playquot; to be the intro and navigation flows correctly.

I have noticed, however, that quot;first playquot; only works the first time you insert the disc on the stand-alone player (which is a Pioneer 535). In other words, the first time you insert the disc, the intro plays and then it goes to the menu when you can change language, subs etc and continue with the movie. But if you stop the playback (pressing quot;Stopquot; twice which de-activates the resume option in Pioneers) and press quotlayquot; again without ejecting and re-inserting, it just goes to the main movie and starts playing it with the default language and subs options as set in Maestro. No intro, no menu.

I haven't noticed this with commercial DVDs, which navigate the same way, either the first time you insert the disc or after stop/play with the disc in. Is this a bug/feature of my stand-alone or is it the way Maestro authors the disc? Have I missed something in Maestro options? I would at least expect the menu to show up every time playback starts, without having to eject/reinsert or use the menu call button...

Cheers to all

My Pioneer 444 behaves exactly the same way.
Maybe it's a player issue; would be interesting if anyone with non Pioneer player noticed that phenomen, too.

Hi SupaCoopa,

my philips 711 has a favorites section that remembers the last 100 disks inserted and continues from the point last played. I have the option to enable/disable it or intefere with it the couple of secs that the player displays the FTS message. How yours is equipped in this section?

when the disc is 'stopped without resume', pressing the play button should play the 1st PGC in VTS1, pressing the 'title menu' button should take you to the 'title menu', but it or menu may act as 'first play'.

this is what all dvd players 'should do', but some software players (especially ones designed for testing authored titlesets give you a 'first play' button.

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