whens the next version of info edit coming out

[majicman21]

whens the next version of info edit coming out

and what will it include


thanx

[Derrow]

I know to be a magican sometimes, but huh gee,
the last release was a couple of days ago.

Are you expecting me to realase a new version every second day?

[windtrader]

No Derrow - he is the magicman, although there are 20 others. You work too hard already :-)

So - magicman, just what is the feature(s) you are missing the most?

I find the state of the product in its current release just amazing. Thank you Derrow!

Don

[bluespot]

maybe a little OT, but definitely not new threadworthy...Derrow, you're already the man, but if you could find some way, any way to automate updating cell info between Scenarist IFOs and original IFOs (as needs to be done when using CCE), you would be even more *the man* :D

I just spent almost an hour manually updating the 4 fields in *76* cells (Star Wars Episode 1 for anyone else that wants to try). And of course I made a mistake about half way through, so I had to go back and fix about 30 cells, and then I had to double check all 76 cells to make sure that I hadn't made any more mistakes!
I'd almost rather buy another copy of the damn movie before going through that again!

guess I'm just asking for another miracle, but you've been pretty good at delivering 'em so far;)

bluespot

[lucindrea]

blue ... one way i found to do it is to open both the ifos in ifoedit and in a hex editor ... then search the start and ending points in the scenrist ifo and the start and end bytes in the orginal ifo
i.e - cell 1's BCD = 000055d3 ( in hex ) and cell 30's last sector is 00078e63 .. find them in the hex editor and copy everything in between(including the 2 searched values).
Find the same section ( the numbers will be differnt so you have to search agin ) in the orginal ifo and paste on top of it

.. it's been working for me.


now i'm just waiting for ifoedit to get a button "inport cell/chapter information from a different ifo"

[Derrow]

@lucindrea

Wow, this approach is absolute genius! Great idea of yours.

I just added a new Menu Item to IfoEdit, maybe that would help you.
It's merging all menu information of one IFO file into the current loaded IFO file.

At least this would work then for movies, that only have one PGC.

[bluespot]

Lucindrea, I just tested your hexedit method...works perfectly! I just wish I had known about it last night. But it looks like Derrow put in that button of yours, so it'll be even easier now!

[lucindrea]

:-) .. i'm just happy i can contrubite somthing for a change after all i feel like the good dvd's ive managed to make are on account of Darrow and others hard work.

As for the multiple PCG's ... Matrix has 18 PCG's under the PCGITI section ... it's worked fine their just needed to tweak the PGC Program Map a little bit.

Anyone have the specs on how a chapter inport file should be for scenirest? .. i've been trying to figure out a way to automate adding the cell/chaptor points a bit. ( another thing that takes wayy to much typing )

[Derrow]

I also didn't find a way to import chapter points into scenarist, otherwise I already would have implemented an option for that into IfoEdit to generate an import file.

[SAT4N]

Just noticed that Derrow said he added a button for importing new sector points from scenarist created ifo into original ifo. What I don't see though, is the button... Is this something for the next release or is it in 0.9 and I'm just missing it. The movie i'm on has over 60 cells..

[bluespot]

SAT4N,

It's a feature that will (hopefully) be in the next version of IFO edit. Try lucindrea's Hexedit method. I've done it on about 10 movies so far and had absolutely no problems.

bluespot

[Scrapps]

Ok I accept that I may be thicker than a whale omellette but Lucindrea's method passes me in both lanes.

Any chance one of you fine ppl could write me an idiots guide to using Lucindrea's method?

Please:)

[lucindrea]

hehe when i wrote that i didnt have in mind someone that doesnt use a hex editor .. it was mainly a suggestion for Darrow , but i can go into a bit more detail...

first you need a decent hexeditor ... a very good one is here .. i like this one because it puts a "hex edit" in the popup when you right click a file.

ok when you have finished the scenartist and have the vob files from that .. and you have the orginal ones .. copy the scenartist vobs and the orginal inf's to their own folder ....

go to the folder with scenerist's vobs and open the inf for the movie in ifoedit .. then right click it and open it in hex edit

do the same for the orginal one that you copied to the new folder.

in hexedit you should have 2 windows open ( use the window/tile verticle option to put them side by side )

now in ifoedit goto VTS_PGCITI/PGC_1 ...

scroll own to Cell Playback: and you should see somthing like ( sorry if the spacing gets a bit messed up here )

[0000019a] Cell_1: Cell type (Angle) 2 [02]
type normal
Block type normal
seamless playback linked in PCI: no
interleaved: no
STC discontinuity: yes
seamless angle linked in DSI: no
[0000019b] Cell_1: Cell restricted? 0 [00]
restricted: no
[0000019c] Cell_1: still time (seconds, 0xFF = Infinite) 0 [00]
[0000019d] Cell_1: command Nr (0 = no command) 0 [00]
[0000019e] Cell_1: playback time (BCD) 9957 [000026e5]
playback time (hh:mm:ss.frame) 00:00:26.25 / 30 fps
[000001a2] Cell_1: entry point sector 0 [00000000]
[000001a6] Cell_1: first ILVU VOBU end sector 0 [00000000]
[000001aa] Cell_1: start sector of last VOBU 10068 [00002754]
[000001ae] Cell_1: last sector of this cell 10182 [000027c6]


if you look at playbacktime you see at the end it says 000026e5 the next 2 lines are 00000000 00000000 then 00002754 000027c6 ... so in hex edit do a search for the hex value 00 00 26 e5 00 00 00 00( you must put a space between groups of 2 starting from the right ) ..

Hexedit sould find it and just after the spot finds you should see 0000002754000027c6 ... if you see all this then you have the correct spot in the file ...

highlight the very first value ( the 00 part of 000026e5 ) and look on the bottom of the hexedit screen ... what you want is the offset number ( example here is 00000114b ).. write that down .. you will need it later ...

do the same thing for the last cell in ifoedit but use the last value as your search ( from the example above it would be 000027c6 ) .. and when it finds it you need to hold shift and press the up arrow untill you reach that offset you got before ... in other words you are highlighting everything in the file from the first part of the cell information to the last part... it is inportant that you have the first 00 from the top highlighted and the last digit from the last cell highlited ( c6 in this case )

click edit copy

do the same in the orginal ifo file excpt insted of edit copy you click edit paste ...


what you end up doing is taking a chunk of the new ifo and pasteing it over the same spot on the orginal file but replacing it with new values. ...

i know this is confusing at first but if you mess with it a bit you will see it's fairly simple ... i would paste screen shots etc. but i'm on my way out the door right now ... maby later.

*edited because i make alot of typos*

[s0nyguy]

lucindrea,

If this works i will buy you 5 pints :)

buy you got to come to the UK to collect OK ?

nice work dude.

[Scrapps]

Nice job Lucindrea!

Thanks a lot for your help, you quite possibly just saved my fingers from premature ageing. My gf will also be eternally grateful :)

Seriously though thanks for your reply, I can succesfully use your method now and it clearly rocks.

[smoof]

If your using Windows 98 SE then be careful when using the Hex Editor in IfoEdit. I've noticed that when you cut & paste a block of data it ends up pasting more data than the region you have selected.

I've also done the exact same operations on Windows 2000 and the Hex Editor works perfectly.

Can any other Windows 98 SE users confirm what I'm seeing? I suppose it's possible that something is really messed up on my Windows 98 system but I haven't noticed any other unusual behaviour from any other programs (or other functions of IfoEdit for that matter).

IfoEdit is a great tool so please don't interpret this as a complaint, it's just an observation.

[jdobbs]

Try the IFOUpdate program I posted yesterday in the first sticky in this forum (posted yesterday). It is meant to do exactly this task (saving you from having to type or copy/paste).

jdobbs

[SAT4N]

Question regardging the IFO sector updates. If the end result is just movie, no menu or anything else, then why do the original IFO's need to be updated with new sector info? Whats wrong with the Scenarist ones? I have just done this to two movie (again movie only), and the Scenarist generated ifo's work fine...

[smoof]

If your not saving the original menus (i.e. movie only) then you don't need to do this. Just use the .ifo files that your authoring program (scenarist, spruceup, etc...) generated.