I recently revamped one of our showrooms and I would like to have a 5 disk DVD changer somewhere out of sight. The room will be controlled with a VIA and I would like to have predetermined scenes to use as demos from the changer. What I have there now is a Sony piece. What I need is a way to jump to disk, jump to title, jump to chapter. I have the codes for disk select, and chapter select but I can't enter them right away. The disk has to read then play and enter the menu before I can enter the chapter #. Is there a better way to do this? a way around this? another DVD player that would work better? Thanks for your help.

Can you create your own DVD? Seems to me with all the DVD burners and copy software you should be able to do this. Then you could have all the scenes you want all on one disc. This will also eliminate the delay from changing discs.

I would suggest that the customer bring their faves with them.

Larry
www.fineelectricco.com

I would suggest that to but we know it never happens. I'm just trying to create something easy for the customer and the salesman to use. jwalkup> I don't think you can burn in 6.1 yet but I may be mistaken.

it depends on the dvd. i use play+stop+stop+play to override the menu. by doing this movie satart from the first chapter. but some dvds don't work with this so you can give it a try with your dvds

Problem with burning your own DVD is that the software to do DD 5.1 or DTS costs megabucks. If you're lucky you may be able to find a local media producer that can do this, but it would probably work out cheaper to use multiple DVD players! :)

Well I got it to work. It works increadibly well actually. It took a few hours but it's a really nice room. Now just another week for accoustics and we will be in business.

You got *what* to work? In case others need to do the same thing...

What I did was pick out a scene that I would like to play as a demo. I have the DTS trailer on one disk, and two more disks that have 4-6 min scenes that I will use. What I do is play the DTS trailer first then the other scene as selected by the client.
So the sequence runs like this:
DVD Play
Light scene 3
DVD Play (you have to do it twice incase it was on screen saver)
27.750 sec Delay
Pause
Track Back
1 sec Delay
Discrete code for next disk
Delay (as long as I need for the scene)
Pause
Light scene 1
track back
1 sec delay
Discrete code for DTS disk
13 sec delay
pause
track back
So what essentially happens is that the player is always paused on the DTS demo untill it is played and then it jumps to the disk I want and begins playing at the point I left it last which is right at the begining of the scene I want to play. You have to add the 1 sec delay after pause, track back, before selecting the disk otherwise the disk will go back to the begining for some reason. I hope this can help some one else out there.