4 Replies Latest reply: Dec 3, 2010 11:24 AM by theGadgetGuy RSS

    Blu-Ray Stops Playing at 1st Chapter Marker

    theGadgetGuy Community Member

      I am battling an issue I cannot get my arms around.  I have a 3-hour video that I have sent From Premier Pro (CS4) to Encore via Adobe Link.

       

      In Encore I rendered the video as a Blu-Ray image and set the play parameters to make the disc auto-playing.  That is the DVD has no menu start page.  The First Play is set to the beginning of the timeline, and the End action is STOP.

       

      I do not have any Overrides set at all in my Encore project.  I have checked both the disc and the timeline panels, and Override is set to "Not Set" in both cases.

       

      I have Encore Chapter Markers at the origin of the timeline and at every day thereafter of an 18 day trip.

       

      The .iso image file produced by Encore was then copied to discs using CyberLink Power2Go.

       

      When the (Blu-Ray) DVD is put into a player, it starts fine but then terminates play at the 1st marker after play starts (this is actually the 2nd timeliine marker, as the first is at the origin, or zero point) about 9 minutes into the DVD.

       

      When I examine the Stream file  (BDMV>STREAM>00000.m2ts) on the disc, it does contain the entire video, and it plays just fine.

       

      Thus I am assuming that something has not correctly constructed the playlist scripts causing the playback to start at the beginning but STOP at the first Chapter marker it encounters after starting play.

       

      Any thought on how to debug and fix this issue will be GREATLY appreciated!!

       

      PS - I just opened this Encore project and used the Preview function to play the video.  The preview STOPS also at the first chapter marker (9 minutes into the video) exactly as in the finished DVD.

       

      I can find nothing unusual about this marker, but it is obviously the culprit!

       

       

       

        • 1. Re: Blu-Ray Stops Playing at 1st Chapter Marker
          theGadgetGuy Community Member

          OK.  I think I found the issue but not sure why!

           

          When I set the project up in Encore in the Flowchart window I set the Timeline icon (linked to by the disc as the 1st play item) to an End Action of STOP.

           

          Since it was the entire timeline that was my 1st play asset, I assumed that the STOP End Action would be at the end of the DVD.

           

          BUT, apparently it Stops when it encounters the first Marker.

           

          If I go to the Timeline in Encore and click on the individual Markers, all of them but the first one have an End Action of "Not Set" but the first one has "Stop".

           

          I have just changed that 1st (at the timeline origin) Marker's End Action to "Not Set" and the last Marker to "Stop"

           

          I'm guessing this will fix it.  Will report back after I preview things.

          • 2. Re: Blu-Ray Stops Playing at 1st Chapter Marker
            theGadgetGuy Community Member

            That was it.  For some reason on the Blu-Ray disc Encore project (but not the regular DVD project) the Timeline End Action setting of "Stop" was applied to the first marker (at the origin).  Because this was also the First Play link target, it appears that Encore set up the flow to first play the initial clip and then End there instead of continuing on to the next one (as intended).

             

            The End Action was correct for the entire timeline, but in the case of this Blu-Ray build an End Action ALSO got assigned to the initial timeline marker, causing playback to cease at the beginning of hte second Marker.

             

            Once I manually overode that initial false end action, the finished Blu-Ray discs play back fine!

             

            Sounds like a Blu-Ray build bug!

            • 3. Re: Blu-Ray Stops Playing at 1st Chapter Marker
              Bill Hunt CommunityMVP

              Great news, but you were just too quick. None of us had a chance to even reply. Job well done, and thank you for reporting, as it will likely help others in the future.

               

              Good luck,

               

              Hunt

              • 4. Re: Blu-Ray Stops Playing at 1st Chapter Marker
                theGadgetGuy Community Member

                Thanks Bill.

                 

                As an ex-college teacher, I always try to "pay forward" new knowledge so that others may benefit.  Glad to contribute.

                 

                Ken Burkhalter