DVD-RB Pro: Segment blanking, some technical questions / how effective?

[JFerguson]

Hey guys,

I've just been playing around with DVD Rebuilder here the last few days. I have some questions around the pro feature of segment blanking. I don't own the pro version, so I'm flying blind here.

1) A segment is defined / bound by a unique V / C reference?

2) Segment blanking is achieved by replacing the segment(s) with a common dummy VOB or possibly unique dummy VOB(s)? (2 common methods for blanking titles / titlesets)

3) Menu references for a completely blanked title are not modified?

I just want to verify that segment blanking is performed something akin to what I describe in 2) above and not something less effective (like Shrink). If so, then a blanked titleset shouldn't be any bigger than maybe a few hundred kilobytes, at most.

Thanks...

[BadServo]

Menu references are not modified, but blanked material is so minute, you see at most a minor flicker after activating a blanked feature as it loops back to the menu.

You are correct that blanked material only takes a few hundred K of space, freeing up significant room for feature/wanted materials.

As near as I'm aware (I could be mistaken) when DVD-RB analyzies the disc, and generates the AVS files to be referenced by the encoder, blanked segments instead have their AVS files modified to generate a brief moment of dead black output instead of referencing the material of the source. As such the resulting M2V files are reincorporated into the VOB files during Rebuilding phase. Much more effective that DVDShrink meathod.