I’m trying to make a blu-ray disc with one 90 minute movie and several chapters with MEP. The disc would have a main menu with a ”play movie” button and a ”go to submenu” button. And the submenu would have buttons for all the chapters of the movie. I tried to make this project, but the chapter buttons or chapters didn’t work.
Then I have done some tests with a shorter and simpler movie (2 minutes and 2 chapters). The movie is 1080p50 mp4. I put it in the timeline, then right-click, select ”markers” and then ”set chapter markers”. I set two chapter markers; the first at 0:00 and the second at 0:56.
Then I go to the Burn interface. In my first test I used the default menu and in my second test the Red Smoke menu. I didn’t make any changes to menus. Then I open the Burn dialog window, and select AVCHD, and then burn an image. And finally I burn the image to Verbatim BD-RE with ImgBurn.
Then I try the disc with several players. I would prefer to play my blu-rays with my stand alone Samsung blu-ray player. Samsung plays the test movie, when I press the play button in main menu. It also plays chapter 1 when I press that button in submenu. But it freezes (black screen), if I press the 2nd chapter button in submenu, or if I try to jump to the 2nd chapter when playing the movie. I got same results with the default menu and Red Smoke menu.
Then I tried three different players in my computer.
Media Player Classic doesn’t seem to support Bluray menus at all. But it plays the movie, and even allows me to jump to the 2nd chapter, and it plays fine. Same results with the default menu and Red Smoke menu.
CyberLink PowerDVD 12 plays the movie and plays 1st chapter, when I press that button in submenu. But if I press the 2nd chapter button in submenu or move to the 2nd chapter, I get distorted video (strange color bars etc.). The movie rolls though, and audio seems to be ok. Same results with the default menu and Red Smoke menu.
VLC Media Player gave different result for the default menu and Red Smoke menu. With default menu, the movie rolls, and I can hear the sound, but there’s no picture at all. I can reach the 2nd chapter, and sound is ok, but no video. With Red Smoke, the movie plays ok (this time with video), if I start it from main menu. But if I press either of the chapter buttons in the submenu, I get no video, only audio.
Any suggestion show to make the chapters and chapter buttons work?