Hi, I authored a dvd with a menu that has two audio streams. I wrote some commands to make that once you have entered the film and go back to menu the audio two is played. In short, when i put the dvd in my standalone for the first time menu plays audio 1, when I go to the film and play menu again, this time is the audio 2 which is played. The problem is my Pioneer 470 seems to have the memory of an elephant. I press stop button, I switch it off, I eject the tray, no matter what I do the player starts always at last memory point, that's to say with the menu playing audio 2. I tried the dvd in two other standalones (Samsung, Kiss) and have no problem at all to start a fresh play after switching the player off. I think my Pioneer has memory for five differents dvds, so one solution is to put five discs for the player to lose its memory. Anyway, I appreciate some information about this issue. How does players last memory work? Is there a command I could write to avoid this last memory isue? I thought about writing some precommand in the video manager first play, but it's obvious that players last memory doesn't care about first play. Thanks in advance.
You are right. It's only that I would like to set the dvd navigation for this to do the thing automatically. As a matter of fact this dvd is a present for a friend and I'd like to surprise her with this two special audios in menu. The thing is now I'm wondering if she has a Pioneer too. Anyway I'd like to be able to do a dvd that obeys always the commands, whatever the player you use.
While the player can remember what it was playing last I doubt it keeps all the register contents. In fact, that would violate the spec which states that all gprm's should be reset when a disk is inserted. So use a gprm to determine if the DVD has been played yet or not.
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Sounds like your Pioneer is as picky as a couple of my SONYs. Come to think of it, if you have access to a SONY standalone, I wonder if your original, "Pioneer-problematic" DVD would exhibit the same problem if played on a SONY...
I've had this problem with the same player. try this for fun! Play your disc, eject it, put another disc in, eject it, put the original disc in and with me it resumes where it left off from! :scared: The only way I could get it to reset the disc was to press the stop button twice! Cheers, D.
Well, it seems that the commands I added have something to do with the right behaviour of my dvd on Pioneer player. To explain why this is so you have to be an expert on dvd commands and unfortunately I'm not. The thing is with the first navigation I wrote the player didn't clear resume "pressing stop while resume is displayed", as the manual says, and with the second navigation it worked fine. Anyway, I think that the first commands I wrote were enough for any player to follow them properly. But who knows, may be not, or may be it's only a Pioneer issue or a firmware issue.