How to identify if Movie Cells re-used in extras ?

[zacoz]

OK guru's, I'm splitting a DVD-9 disc across 2 DVD-5 discs - one with the movie and commentary, the other with remaining extras. I've seen cases before (Shrek 2 I think it was offhand) where certain of the movie cells are re-used within the extras. Obviously this breaks the extras if the movie cells are blanked out on my extras disc.

Is there a way to identify if a given cell or cells are re-used elsewhere on a disc ?

[lark]

open the ifo with ifoedit to see, which cells are used by which PGCs.

regards
t :)

[zacoz]

@lark....can you be a little more specific on what to look for. Nothing jumps out as me as a give away one way or the other.

Also, can cells be re-used in other VTS's or only within the same VTS ?

I still get easily :confused: with all the VTS / VOB / TTN's etc running about everywhere.

[blutach]

Reused cells will be in the same titleset. VobBlanker shows them in it's main screen.

If you keep a VTS on one disk, there will never be an issue with reused cells.

For the main movie which reuses cells, some of which may be on disk 2, you may need to reprogram the extras menus to say - go to the other disk etc.

Regards

[sweetness]

re-used cells have the same VOB-ID and CELL-ID. In VobBlanker you will see the cell marked as re-used(in cell mode) just find the first time these cell ID's play(usually PGC 1) and that's the cell all the other ones reference back to.

and like blutach said you can only re-used cells within the title set.

you can also extract the cell(original) and then replace it into the other re-used ones. VobBlanker will change the id's for you so it is no longer referenced.

[zacoz]

Thanks Les.

Just looked back at Shrek 2 and can see where the extras try to access cells (flagged as re-use) in the same VTS as the movie previously was.

[blutach]

Yeah, it's an interesting one - do Shark Tale and Bridget Jones Edge of Reason, too - they have many re-used cells.

Regards

[2COOL]

You'll commonly find re-used cells in DVDs with Theatrical and Extended versions.