Menus not showing up on WinDVD HD (Toshiba Qosmio)

Hi all,

this maybe isn't the right place to discuss compatibility with players but maybe somebody tried to get things to work on a software player before.

My project is working fine on Microsofts iHDSimulator and the Toshiba HD-A1 standalone player. But when I try to run it with WinDVD on the Toshiba laptop (the one with HD DVD Rom drive) the software either crashes or just plays the menu video without the graphics.

Any ideas Are there any known issues for the WinDVD software

Cheers,
Gunnar

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Menus not showing up on WinDVD HD (Toshiba Qosmio)

Gmukwewa
I assume you are talking about the Toshiba Qosmio G35 V650

I have that notebook as well. You should update the drivers for WinDVD and any other patches posted on the Toshiba site (the WinDVD patch is there).

How did you create the disc
arkiboys
Have you run the validator on it
Scienter
Will Merydith wrote:
Gunnar - are you getting menus to display for any HD-DVDs
Yes. Even Million Dollar Baby is working well.

Installed is only IE6 and WMP10. I do the programming on another machine...

I made some tests and it seems that the menus are working (when navigating blind), they are just not visible!

Even the simplest markup file is not showing up. Am I missing something essential

From markup:
<body xml:base="file:///dvddisc/ADV_OBJ/TEST.ACA/">
<div style:width="100px" style:height="100px" style:x="0px" style:y="0px" style:position="absolute" style:opacity="1.0" style:backgroundImage="url('Image.png')" />
</body>

From playlist:
<ApplicationSegment titleTimeBegin="00:00:00:00" titleTimeEnd="00:02:00:00" sync="soft" zOrder="0" language="en" src="TEST.ACA/MainMenu.xmf">
<ApplicationResource priority="0" src="file:///dvddisc/ADV_OBJ/TEST.ACA" size="1423564" multiplexed="false" />
</ApplicationSegment>
Aamer
Email sent.

I have access to two Qosimo's, one with WMP11/IE7/iHDSim2 and the other stock. I will verify that the menu works on the stock notebook.

Maheshsingh21

Bryan Kilian - MSFT wrote:
Have you run the validator on it

Yes. The only uncommon thing I did was to use XML includes in markup files. And if I remember right the iHD Validator didn't like it very much but only because of the file extension xml. I'll give it a try without includes next...

Will Merydith wrote:
I assume you are talking about the Toshiba Qosmio G35 V650

I have that notebook as well. You should update the drivers for WinDVD and any other patches posted on the Toshiba site (the WinDVD patch is there).

I use a Qosmio G30-189. I updated graphics driver and WinDVD software yesterday using the update from the Toshiba support website. At least WinDVD doesn't crash anymore when trying to play the disc. But still no menu graphics.

Will Merydith wrote:
How did you create the disc

Encoding was done by Sonics CineVision encoder, multiplexing and image creation with Scenarist HD. Advanced content was created by hand.

Lucian Wang
Not sure if this is related or not (seems to be), but ever since installing the new iHDSim (plus WMP11 and IE7) I cannot get menus to display in my copies of Million Dollar Baby or Serenity.

Gunnar - are you getting menus to display for any HD-DVDs

UPDATE:

I downloaded the nvidia drivers and now the Serenity menu works but not Million$ Baby.
J M B
I finally got it working. The problem were relative urls. This works:
url('file:///dvddisc/ADV_OBJ/TEST.ACA/Image.png')
Pieter Pabst
Will, can you please e-mail me at ptorr@microsoft.com about this Thanks.
Menus not showing up on WinDVD HD (Toshiba Qosmio)

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