No Menu On Blu-Ray Disc

[DonnyG]

I selected the Splash menu and edited the names of the three videos. The burned blu-ray has no menu, just a black screen, and the video titles show as time length rather than names.

In the edit section there are three info boxes. How do I control which box is displayed on the menu? Also, why did I not get the menu?

 

See screenshot:

[DonnyG]

Okay, I guess the reason I don't get the player screen is because iMac is not recognizing the burned BD-R's. Both BD-R's I burned and played or tried to play in the Sony blu-ray player will not work now in the iMac. As they did prior. The single video disc does play in the Sony, but not the one with three videos.

[tsantee]

I've just burned 3 blu-rays, each containing 9 episodes of a show already-compressed to .264 and .ac3, with different menus: 'Splash 16x9', 'Arabesque 16x9', and a heavily-customized version of Splash edited in Photoshop. In each case, it appeared the menu would work, and when I look at the last element in the resulting disc image using Roxio Video Player, it indeed is a two frame movie of the menus.

 

But on my PS3, which I use as a blu-ray player (as do tons of other people), shows the menu as a black screen. It's navigable blind, but never visible. This problem is driving me nuts.

 

Any help or information would be appreciated. As far as I can tell, I'm running into a serious bug.

I don't know what to do about this. I don't have a PS3 so I can't troubleshoot it. Are you running Toast 11.1 (1072)? The only variable I can think of that you have control over is to try a different brand of Blu-ray media. As a test you could make a short Blu-ray disc that you burn to DVD media. That might indicate whether using different discs makes any difference.

[zachnfine]

I've just burned 3 blu-rays, each containing 9 episodes of a show already-compressed to .264 and .ac3, with different menus: 'Splash 16x9', 'Arabesque 16x9', and a heavily-customized version of Splash edited in Photoshop. In each case, it appeared the menu would work, and when I look at the last element in the resulting disc image using Roxio Video Player, it indeed is a two frame movie of the menus.

 

But on my PS3, which I use as a blu-ray player (as do tons of other people), shows the menu as a black screen. It's navigable blind, but never visible. This problem is driving me nuts.

 

Any help or information would be appreciated. As far as I can tell, I'm running into a serious bug.

[DonnyG]

BTW, the three video BD-R also played in the Roxio Video Player, albeit quite choppy & jerky. The "video" was a slideshow type, with photo prints sliding into view. The photos all came in with a herky-jerky motion. BUT, it did play nicely with the Sony player & TV and that's important.

[tsantee]

Good job in finding a way to get the disc to play. I'll suggest to others to give No Menu a try if they run into similar problems.

[DonnyG]

Okay, I just burned three videos onto a BD-R, but using NO menu. It plays fine in the Sony player.

 

AND I finally realized that I was using the external reader/writer to play the BD-R's in my iMac..... NOT the iMac drive! And I got the Roxio Video Player working too. Sorry about this issue coming up. Dang, I think my brain cells are going the way of my YKW cells. :-)

 

Thanks for all your help tsantee, I really appreciate it.

[DonnyG]

Re: the issue of the Sony player not playing BD-R discs with more than one video, is that something Toast should be looking at and possibly rectifying? Should I report this somewhere? The Sony Player is model BDP-S1100, serial S011022895D

[tsantee]

Okay, now I just inserted a burned BD-R data disc into iMac that I have used before, and that was not played in the Sony player, and iMac is not recognizing it. I restarted iMac, still no go. Why would iMac suddenly stop recognizing burned BD-R?

I'm sorry but I just don't know. It seems you're doing everything you can do. There was a post from someone that is having trouble with a Sony Blu-ray player when he burns two or more titles to a disc, but not when there is only one title. Weird things seem to be happening. I've had my Mac present a window saying the disc was a format that it didn't recognize and asking if I wanted to eject it or ignore it. I clicked ignore. Somehow I was still able to mount it. Maybe I used Disk Utility, or maybe Toast's Copy window was able to mount it. You've put in a lot of time on something that was simply supposed to work. I'm sorry. I wish I had the answer.

[DonnyG]

Okay, now I just inserted a burned BD-R data disc into iMac that I have used before, and that was not played in the Sony player, and iMac is not recognizing it. I restarted iMac, still no go. Why would iMac suddenly stop recognizing burned BD-R?

[DonnyG]

Not in the Extras menu either. When I select the player, I get the Finder. No player in the finder.

[DonnyG]

I tried playing the BD-R that I burned and referred to in my original post, in a Sony blu-ray player. It did not play. I then inserted this disc into my iMac again, and now it is not being recognized and ejects. Why would that happen? (playing surface looks good BTW)

[tsantee]

Yikes, I mistakenly said it was in the Utilities menu when it is in the Extras menu. Sorry.

[DonnyG]

Nothing about Roxio Video Player under Toast's Utilities menu. See screen shot:

 

When I select "Mount Disc Image", I get the finder. No player in the finder.

[tsantee]

You can see the menu pages individually and inactive using Roxio Video Player on your Mac. There is a button in the play bar area which allows selecting individual titles. The one (or ones) at the bottom will bring up a menu page. I don't know why Blu-ray video menus don't appear and work on the Mac as they do with a Blu-ray disc player. It may have something to do with Apple's decision not to support Blu-ray video playback on the Mac OS.

 

Oh, if you don't know, Roxio Video Player is accessed under Toast's Utilities menu.

[DonnyG]

Well, I tried the Aurora Blu-ray Player and I at least got the title of the disc. But the video titles are still shown as length of time for each video. Guess the next step is to pick up a blu-ray player for the TV and see if the menu shows there. Question is, will it work the same on a multitude of blu-ray players?

[DonnyG]

The player I'm using is "Free Mac Blu-ray Player, on my iMac.