VobB: PGC x is too short. No entries in TMAPTI are created.

[TomBrooklyn]

What do the subject and following notes mean?

In processing the movie, Avatar, with VobBlanker, I got No Errors and 0 Warnings; but I got 17 notes.

Most of the notes were, as stated in the title:

PGC x is too short. No entries in TMAPTI are created.

where x = a sequential integer starting with 1, that reset to one with each new VTS being processed.

There were also several of the nature:

NOTE: PGC: 3 is not a One Seq PGC. Anyway, creating entries in TMAPTI


Searching the Help Window with the parameter TMAPTI returns nothing.

[r0lZ]

Don't worry. TMAPTI is the Time Map Table. It contains pointers within the VOBs to allow you to jump quickly and precisely to a specific time in the title. When that note appears in the VB log, that means that VB has processed a title of less then one or two seconds. It's usually a dummy title with just 1/2 second of black. It is too short to have (or require) a complete time map.

The message "PGC # is not a One Seq PGC. Anyway, creating entries in TMAPTI" means that VB has encountered a title that is flagged as "not-one_sequential". A title is not sequential when its cells are not intended to be played in sequential order (like in most games). That means that a TMAPTI is not necessary, since there is no fixed "time line" for such titles. However, some titles marked as not sequential are in fact played sequentially, so VB fills the TMAPTI table anyway. Although it is theoretically not necessary, it doesn't hurt, and it can be used by some players, that ignore the not-one_sequential flag. With that players, you should be able to use the remote to jump to a specific time in the non-sequential title, even if doing that doesn't make much sense.

In both cases, the notes are not errors or warnings, so you can ignore them safely.