How to change the start up?

[Fenix]

Hi there everybody :)

I have a movie Resident Evil, but I want to make some changes :

The movie starts with four movie presentations before going to the main menu. What I want to do is change the start point. Meaning instead of going thru the four presentation movies, I wanted to go directely to the main menu. In fact I don't want those four movies to be deleted ( only skiped ) simply because I have a sub menu ( inside de main menu ) with links to all of those four movies!

Is it possible to do it with IFOEdit? I'm quite new with it. Can anyone point me out? Please?

Thanks in advance,

Best Regards,

Fenix.

[jshumate]

This is ridiculously easy. You'll be surprised you didn't figure it out yourself. Load VIDEO_TS.IFO into IFOedit. Click on the - sign by VMGM_MAT and under that select First Play PGC. Scroll to the bottom and select 1. Pre Command. Right click and select Edit Command from the popup. One of the options is something like Jump to Menu. Select that. I don't remember the names of the fields, but every time I've done it, the first 2(or 3 - don't remember) fields and are always "1" and the last field is "Root Menu". I don't have a copy of IFOedit here so I can't check, but you should be able to figure it out. Save it and it will skip the intro stuff and go straight to your menu.

[voo_doo99]

@Fenix
Its fairly easy if you know IFOedit, not so if you dont. As you will need to identify your movie main Title and TitleSet and find your way around in the tool. I dont have the movie so cant give you specific steps, may be someone else can.

But, the technique is in here Getting Main Menu to Display Upon DVD Insert Guide (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=48604), courtesy of @2COOL. And you would want to check out the [Sticky] collection of 2COOL's CheatSheets, Guides, Tips, Tricks, Techniques,... which will help building up your knowledge of the IFOedit tool.

[Fenix]

Originally posted by jshumate
This is ridiculously easy. You'll be surprised you didn't figure it out yourself. Load VIDEO_TS.IFO into IFOedit. Click on the - sign by VMGM_MAT and under that select First Play PGC. Scroll to the bottom and select 1. Pre Command. Right click and select Edit Command from the popup. One of the options is something like Jump to Menu. Select that. I don't remember the names of the fields, but every time I've done it, the first 2(or 3 - don't remember) fields and are always "1" and the last field is "Root Menu". I don't have a copy of IFOedit here so I can't check, but you should be able to figure it out. Save it and it will skip the intro stuff and go straight to your menu.

Thanks 'Jshumate',

I tried this :

Going from ( BTW it wasn't 1 but 3 on this case has you can see )

[000000f4] 1. Pre command (SetGPRMMD) set GPRMMD<GPreg<15>> = (set-val) 1, [COUNTER](mf=0)

[000000fc] 2. Pre command (SetGPRMMD) set GPRMMD = GPreg<2> = GPreg<15>, [COUNTER](mf=0)

[00000104] 3. Pre command (JumpSS VTSM) Jump to TitleSet(vts): 3, Title(ttn): 1, root-menu


To ( I checked on powerDVD what set was related to the menu )


[000000f4] 1. Pre command (SetGPRMMD) set GPRMMD<GPreg<15>> = (set-val) 1, [COUNTER](mf=0)

[000000fc] 2. Pre command (SetGPRMMD) set GPRMMD = GPreg<2> = GPreg<15>, [COUNTER](mf=0)

[00000104] 3. Pre command (JumpSS VTSM) Jump to TitleSet(vts): 5, Title(ttn): 7, root-menu


And it was perfect ;)

Thanks a lot for all your help.
And also to 'voo_doo99' for that nice link ( it was also helfull ) :)

Best regards,
Sincerely,

Fenix.

[Fenix]

Hello everyone.

Well I said everything was okay, but it isn't :(.
The changes I made worked okay on PowerDVD (PC) and also on a PS2 ( Playstation2 ), but it doesn't on a home player ( Philips ).
It just display title 7. TO start the title we need to press the DVD menu button, then everything goes like it was supposed to be !!

Anyone knows why?

Best Regards,

Fenix.

[clotz2000]

What you need to do is delete all of the Pre-Commands and just edit the last one for the root menu to play. Some players get confused if you start changing stuff with other Pre-Commands set. To delete just right click on them. Hope this helps you out. Don't be afraid to hose them, it won't mess up video structure or anything, just think of it as a set of instructions.

[Fenix]

Originally posted by clotz2000
What you need to do is delete all of the Pre-Commands and just edit the last one for the root menu to play. Some players get confused if you start changing stuff with other Pre-Commands set. To delete just right click on them. Hope this helps you out. Don't be afraid to hose them, it won't mess up video structure or anything, just think of it as a set of instructions.

Thanks Clotz2000 :)

I will try that.

Regards,

Fenix

[Josh]

I always edit the last pre command only and that usually does the trick for me. I never tried deleting the other pre commands, but I would think that would work too.

[2COOL]

I concur with Josh. Just edit the first jump/link command. One question, does your original jump command in your First Play already jumping to your movie's titleset root menu? If it is, you may have to disable some titles or delete playbacks on some clips along the way.

[leebo]

It just display title 7. TO start the title we need to press the DVD menu button, then everything goes like it was supposed to be !!

My guess is because in Pre command #3 you told it to go to title #7, rather than the root menu..