Error in DVD tutorial

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro-2]

Ben Hutchings' tutorial on DVD authoring under Linux
<http://womble.decadent.org.uk/talks/dvd-ukuug06/> is useful, but I
think there's an error in it:

     For each button, the menu has a single instruction to handle each of
     the Enter, Up, Down, Left and Right buttons being pressed while it
     is highlighted. Usually the directional buttons cause the highlight
     to move to another button in the given direction but this is not
     required. For example some discs provide extensive information in
     the menu system that can be "paged through" simply by pressing
     directional buttons.

There is no general "instruction" available for handling the direction
buttons on the remote; there is only a static specification of which
other menu button lies in each of the respective directions. As for
being able to "page through" stuff without pressing Enter, he's thinking
about auto-action buttons. These take effect as soon as they're
highlighted, but they still have only one instruction sequence attached
to them, same as regular buttons.

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[Ben Hutchings-3]

On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 17:15 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> Ben Hutchings' tutorial on DVD authoring under Linux
> <http://womble.decadent.org.uk/talks/dvd-ukuug06/> is useful, but I
> think there's an error in it:

Maybe you should write to me about it then, instead of to a mailing list
which I might not subscribe to.  (I do, but I don't read it regularly.)

>      For each button, the menu has a single instruction to handle each of
>      the Enter, Up, Down, Left and Right buttons being pressed while it
>      is highlighted. Usually the directional buttons cause the highlight
>      to move to another button in the given direction but this is not
>      required. For example some discs provide extensive information in
>      the menu system that can be "paged through" simply by pressing
>      directional buttons.
>
> There is no general "instruction" available for handling the direction
> buttons on the remote; there is only a static specification of which
> other menu button lies in each of the respective directions. As for
> being able to "page through" stuff without pressing Enter, he's thinking
> about auto-action buttons. These take effect as soon as they're
> highlighted, but they still have only one instruction sequence attached
> to them, same as regular buttons.

This is a subtle distinction which I may have forgotten when writing the
paper, or may have wished to gloss over.  In any case I didn't think it
was worth trying to cover every last detail in that talk and paper.

Ben.

--
Ben Hutchings
If more than one person is responsible for a bug, no one is at fault.


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