DVD Format Restrictions

The DVD standard imposes a number of restrictions on what can be included in the publication. Remember that DVD is intended as a playback format and cannot achieve the levels of interactivity possible in a normal Opus publication.

Menu Pages

Menu hotspots must not overlap.

There is a maximum of 20 menu items on a single page.

There is a maximum of 70 menu pages per publication.

Hotspots must be static. It is possible to produce an animated hotspot in Opus DVD but when published to DVD the hotspot area will stay at the original location for the object so this should be avoided.

Video Pages

Quicktime (.mov) files cannot be converted.

Normal Pages

The Browsers, DocView and QuickTime VR objects are not available.

Multiple windows or any functions that invoke extra windows (such as bookmarks or the publication search) are not available.

If any of these errors are encountered during the initial publish process an error will be reported.

 

Related Topics:

Overview of Opus DVD Publishing

DVD Video Compatibility Issues

Publishing a Video Creator Publication

Recording Mouse and Keyboard Input