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[Penecho]

Hi, i'm using pgcedit (latest version) for my dvd editing. Now i have the problem, that my scenes i want to link are not in the same title :(

And I have only the chance to do: "Jump to VTST Title in same VTS"

How can i jump to other VTS in my dvd?



Cu

[r0lZ]

You have to jump to a PGC in the VMGM first, and jump from that PGC to the real target. Same thing to return to the menu. You can cerate new dummy PGCs in the VMGM to do that easily.

[Penecho]

AHHH ok thx :)


btw. pgcedit is the best programm i ever used, you can do nearly anything with it :)


Cu

[r0lZ]

:thanks:
Have fun!

[Penecho]

An other Question came up to me. First I made a picture of my dvd structure

http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/7092/dvduu2.th.png (http://img161.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dvduu2.png)

now I want to link lets say Scene 2 from the scene selection (Chapter Menu) to Main Movie chapter 15.

I first link scene 2 to an empty VMGM, lets say 20. Than i can only select to link to another menu, thats why i had to cheat and VTSM 2, 2 to AngelM, VTSM 2, 3 to Subpict menu...

Now my Question, how can i Link from VMGM 20 to VTSM2, LU1, 4 ? (how to link from 4 to the movie and the chapter i know)



Cu

[r0lZ]

Now my Question, how can i Link from VMGM 20 to VTSM2, LU1, 4 ?
You can't!

However, there are several indirect methods to do what you want.

You can, for example, assign the Chapter Menu to VTSM2, LU1, 4 (with Set Menu Type) and link to that menu directly. (You may need to add the Menu Call - PTT PUO to titles 2 and 3 so that the user cannot call the chapter menu with the remote when the VTST 2 titles are playing, although there are very few remotes with a Chapter menu button.)

You can also initialize a free GPRM with the target chapter number in VMGM 20 or in the original chapter menu, and then call, say, the root menu of VTSM 2. At the beginning of that root menu, you have to add several commands to check if the GPRM contains 0. In this case, continue with the original pre-commands normally. Otherwise, link to PGCN 4 (or jump directly to the main movie.)
Of course, you have to reset the GPRM to 0 as soon as possible, at least before playing the main movie, or the same chapter will be called again and again when the user press the Root Menu button of the remote!
Note also that in this type of authoring (when the chapter menu is in another VTS than the main movie) there is certainly a GPRM already used to store the chapter number to jump to. You can probably use that GPRM instead of a free one.

The same technique can be used to jump from the chapter menu to the VMGM and then directly to the target title. In this case, it's in the target title PGC that you have to check the value of the GPRM, and link to the target chapter if it is not 0, or continue to the original pre-commands otherwise.

An alternate method, usually complex to do manually, is to move the real chapter menu to VTSM 2. You can do that with PgcEdit by importing the whole VTSM 1 menu in VTSM 2. Then, you have to remove the chapter menu from the VTSM 1, and remove everything but the chapter menu in the VTSM 2. You have also to recreate the original dummy PGCs of VTSM 2 manually, and modify the original links to the real chapter menu by jumps to the VMGM to bounce to the new chapter menu. You can remove the unused cells from the menus VOBs of VTSM 1 and 2 with FixVTS ot VobBlanker.
Usually, this technique is recommended only if you redo the whole authoring manually anyway, as it's a lot of work.

The complexity of those methods is due to the stupidity of the DVD-Video specifications! :devil: