[JVB]

Hello,

I created a project using My DVD. It contains three slideshows and that is all. I have a root menu with four buttons: Play ALL, plus a button for each of the 3 slideshows.

It plays correctly in Preview. I burned a DVD and that went OK. When playing the DVD, the first slideshow plays fine, but when it advances to the second slideshow, it skips the first two photos in the second slideshow. Likewise, when it advances to the third slideshow, it skips the first three photos in the third slideshow.

When I select a slide show individually, it starts from the beginning of that slideshow and correctly plays the entire slideshow.

I get exactly the same results when playing in Windows Media Player and on each of the two standalone DVD players connected to my TV. It always skips the same number of photos in the slideshows.

Play All button is set up to 'Play all movies in project'.

Each slideshow button is set up as follows:

Go To Slideshow
Play From Chapter 1
After Playing Use Title Action

Unfortunately, I have not been able to find any guidance in the paper instruction manual, in the Help menu, online in the Forum, or online in the Hints and Tips.

I would greatly appreciate it if someone could point out the cause of my problem.

Thanks very much for your help.

[myguggi]

Hello,

I created a project using My DVD. It contains three slideshows and that is all. I have a root menu with four buttons: Play ALL, plus a button for each of the 3 slideshows.

It plays correctly in Preview. I burned a DVD and that went OK. When playing the DVD, the first slideshow plays fine, but when it advances to the second slideshow, it skips the first two photos in the second slideshow. Likewise, when it advances to the third slideshow, it skips the first three photos in the third slideshow.

When I select a slide show individually, it starts from the beginning of that slideshow and correctly plays the entire slideshow.

I get exactly the same results when playing in Windows Media Player and on each of the two standalone DVD players connected to my TV. It always skips the same number of photos in the slideshows.

Play All button is set up to 'Play all movies in project'.

Each slideshow button is set up as follows:

Go To Slideshow
Play From Chapter 1
After Playing Use Title Action

Unfortunately, I have not been able to find any guidance in the paper instruction manual, in the Help menu, online in the Forum, or online in the Hints and Tips.

I would greatly appreciate it if someone could point out the cause of my problem.

Thanks very much for your help.

This or a similar problem have been reported in several posts in these forums.
One solution was to actually select Chapter 1 for each the slideshow instead of instead of relying on the default selection even though it appears as Chapter 1 in the selection box.

[JVB]

Thanks for your reply. I followed your recommendation, but that did not fix the problem, unfortunately. Exactly the same slides are skipped when playing the entire DVD with 'Play All', but every other slide plays. And when I select slideshows individually, all slides play correctly.

Is there any chance this condition is a result of using My DVD to build slideshows, rather than buildnig them with Video Wave and bringing them into My DVD? I hate to think of reassembling the slide shows in Video Wave, but I would do it if I had some confidence it would solve my problem.

[myguggi]

Thanks for your reply. I followed your recommendation, but that did not fix the problem, unfortunately. Exactly the same slides are skipped when playing the entire DVD with 'Play All', but every other slide plays. And when I select slideshows individually, all slides play correctly.

Is there any chance this condition is a result of using My DVD to build slideshows, rather than buildnig them with Video Wave and bringing them into My DVD? I hate to think of reassembling the slide shows in Video Wave, but I would do it if I had some confidence it would solve my problem.

Did you perhaps use the slideshow wizard in myDVD? It is known to cause some navigation problems as well as being limited in its features.
I always create my slideshows in Videowave, save as dmsm file or mpeg and bring those into myDVD.
Another source of problems sometimes if the render mode is set to hardware, you could try software mode (or vice versa)
How big is your slideshow: how many slides, how long in time? Are you using transitions?

[JVB]

Yes, I used the slideshow wizard in MyDVD. I think that may be the problem. I finally found another post reporting the same problem (skipping slides on the second and subsequent slideshows) and that user had also built slideshows in MyDVD. That user reported the problem was corrected by rebuilding slideshows in VideoWave and loading resulting files into MyDVD.

My first two slide shows have 80+ photos; the third has 60+ photos. I am not using transitions. The entire project runs for about 20 minutes.

Based on your good advice and on other posts, I believe the best thing is to reassemble my slide shows in VideoWave, save as dmsm, and load into MyDVD when I am ready to burn. It will be tedious, but worth it, if it solves the problem. I won't have a chance to work on it for a few days, but will post my results when I can.

[JVB]

I am posting this as a follow up to my previous note.

I reassembled the slide shows in VideoWave and bourght them into My DVD. That corrected the problem with skipping photos in the second and subsequent slideshows.

Thanks for your advice on this.