I authored a blu-ray disc for a Dance Recital that I recorded recently, and after some initial problems with a ridiculously large project size, someone suggested a method that actually fixed that size problem. The disc seems to operate normally on set top blu-ray players and PowerDVD as well, but it's acting weird on Daum Potplayer, a free Blu-Ray software package that I was trying out. A blu-ray player is supposed to (from what I understand) look for certain things in an authored disc, such as the first play, and then respond accordingly to these things. They are, as far as I know, a set of standards, and I can't imagine they aren't standards, otherwise blu-ray discs, commercial ones even, would play weird or act weird on different players. But PotPlayer completely ignores my first play and goes right into the 22nd dance. When I try to navigate, it says there are only two chapters, and lists a bunch of files that are NOT numbered in the correct order with the dances. So I'm a bit worried about this authored disc and wondering if I'm going to have to reauthor it in a different way yet again.
I originally had a single timeline, with all of the individual dances (as individual files) lined up in the correct order with chapter markers in between each video clip. This is how I had authored DVD's in the past, but in the case of this blu-ray, it was more than DOUBLING the size of the already encoded files! The video and audio files together were about 19.5 GBs, and the project was reporting a size of 43 some odd GBs!
That's how I originally had the blu-ray structured, so I definitely can't go back to that method, but here's how I currently have it set up.
Every dance (video clip) has it's own timeline. I have a Play All playlist that plays them in the correct order, and then the chapter indexes are pointed to the appropriate timeline. And each timeline is set to return to the previous menu.
Is it possible having it set up this way is causing PotPlayer to act weird? Could this cause issues with other players? Someone had suggested I encode all the videos into a single video file and then just place chapters in that as needed. I'm considering doing that, but I wanted to get some extra feedback, or possible alternatives before I attempt to do that, as re-encoding all of these dances will take about 48 hours on my old system.
Thanks!!