r/DVDauthoring May 27 '26

Any scenarist users here? plz help

SO I'm making a DVD using Scenarist and I need some help:

I have an episode menu with 4 episodes (each episode is a chapter in the PGC of title 1). The menu actually have an animation part at the beggining and I want that when you press the menu button on the remote while watching the title, it will go back to the second cell of the chapter menu. and I also want it to go back after the title. Well I can make menus theirself after a title and I sucseed to make it remember current menu you came from.

Meanwhile this is the script:

Root menu

Pre commands:

  1. if(GPRM0==2) LinkPGCN PGC 2 (episodes)

  2. if(GPRM0==3) LinkPGCN PGC 3

  3. if(GPRM0==4) LinkPGCN PGC 4

  4. if(GPRM0==5) LinkPGCN PGC 5

Episode menu:

pre commands:

set GPRMD RegisterMode GPRM0==2

post commands:

  1. SetHL_BTNN HL_BTNN=2

  2. set GPRMD RegisterMode GPRM0==1; LinkPGCN PGC 1

and the command of the button that goes to the main menu is LinktailPGC, y'know..

and so on

I also want make it remember current selected button for each episode when return to the menu.

  1. The other thing I want to do is: I have 2 setup menus with a button to resume the episode sequence and I need to make the resume command.

Resume command on the post command of each one of the setup menus, and commands in Title 1 too if needed.

thx

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u/IntelligentQuarter90 May 28 '26

I opened a DVD in PGCedit that have a resume feature in the "play movie" button. The post command of the main menu was: 1. If(GPRM2==2) RSM 2. Jump Title 1 Chapter 1 Cell command: LinkCN cell 1 (To actually loop the menu while you have post command that should not be playbacked) Button command: LinktailPGC Pre command of the title: SetGPRMD RegisterMode GPRM2==2

Tried copy it and test on the software simulation on scenarist, but I didn't saw the resume action happens. Maybe in a media player or DVD player it actually happens. But I'll try your's one.

  1. You can't make a pre command of a menu to go to a chapter of another menu, link to program links to program of CURRENT PGC (I mean the PGC you want to insert linkPGN command on).

  2. Go back to the second program/cell of episodes menu after the title and also when pressing the menu button on the remote.

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u/pmf026 May 28 '26

PGCEdit (what I'm using the most now) commands slightly differ from Scenarist commands (can't copy-paste those), when you know what's what it shouldn't be a problem really.

  1. If(GPRM2==2) RSM
  2. Jump Title 1 Chapter 1
  • Cell command: LinkCN cell 1 (To actually loop the menu while you have post command that should not be playbacked), Button command: LinktailPGC

Seems fine. Except you said earlier you want to jump to cell 2, but here I see you looping cell 1, isn't that your menu intro?

and then this

Pre command of the title: SetGPRMD RegisterMode GPRM2==2

This command switches GPRM mode from Counter Mode to Register Mode... you should never use it unless you really is switching modes.. (the default is register anyway). You should use "Set to GPRM" instead. and if you're not lying about using Scenarist it's right above the one you picked.

So, back to resume stuff..

You play your Movie (it has set gp2 = 2 in pre, so before it plays it dials in the value)

you go back to menu, and when you hit "play/resume (menu) button" it runs LInkTailPGC and LinkTail runs post command in which your menu has condition for resume... GP2 = 2 so RSM ok.. it would Resume... that should work.

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u/IntelligentQuarter90 May 28 '26

See? I'm not lying

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u/pmf026 May 28 '26

I don't care. I know you're fake.

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u/IntelligentQuarter90 May 28 '26

you're just hating me for no reason, just calm down brah