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[2COOL]

2CL's Cheat Sheets & Guides List J

Updated: July 15, 2005 (1 entry)
Last Update: February 4, 2005

I've learned a lot in these great forums of Doom9 since I've registered in Oct2002. My cheat sheets and guides are my way of giving back to the community. It's hard to come up with a standard guide to fix everything as DVDs are authored a million ways. Though some of these guides maybe DVD specific, you might find a tip or two that will work on another DVD I haven't posted. I strongly believe in learning through examples. All movies I backup are NTSC region 1.

As time goes by, my cheat sheets and other guides will be scattered around the forum. Here is a consolidated list of my accomplishments to help you seek, learn, and burn. Let me know if it worked for you.

“You take the BLUE pill, the story ends...you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the RED pill, you stay in Wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.” quote from Morpheus to Neo to 2CL to you, The Matrix.

If you have any questions, please post it in associated thread or PM me.
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* Movies that originally contained Aspect Ratio Selection Menus
OBSLETE: Guide is old due to current tools now automating them.

MOVIE GUIDES (NO TRANSCODING OR ENCODING):
Note: These cheat sheets were created before DVD2One 1.0.1, Instant Copy 7.0, and DVD95Copy was introduced. Some of them,DVD-splits or with credits taken out, would be done differently now using the programs mentioned as they can be used to keep your whole DVD. Keep in mind that these cheat sheets are at original video quality. The ones with bypassing aspect ratio selection menu procedures are still good to learn and use.

For you people who are looking for a cheat sheet on a specific DVD on bypassing the Aspect Ratio Menu (widescreen or fullscreen), try my generic guide on getting rid of it. If you have any success, post what DVD you were working on and what it's region code is in that thread.

• Barbershop (Movie w/Menu)
• Barbie as Rapunzel (Widescreen) v1
• Barbie as Rapunzel (Widescreen) v2
• Black Hawk Down (2-DVD Movie Split)
• Blue Crush (2-DVD Split Movie)
• Daddy Day Care (Widescreen or Fullscreen)*
• Dog Soldiers (Widescreen)*
• Extreme OPS (Widescreen or Fullscreen)*
• Fight Club (2-DVD Split Movie)
• Formula 51 (Widescreen or Fullscreen)*
• Ice Age [Disk 1] (Widescreen or Fullscreen) / [Disk 2] Extras Only *
• Identity (Widescreen or Fullscreen)*
• Joe Dirt (Widescreen)*
• Jonah: A Veggie Tales Movie (Widescreen or Fullscreen) *
• Lilo and Stitch*
• Maid in Manhatten (Widescreen and Fullscreen)*
• Matrix, The (2-DVD Split)
• My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Widescreen/Fullscreen)*
• One, The (Widescreen or Fullscreen)*
• Reindeer Games (Widescreen or Fullscreen)*
• Signs (with Menu/No Transcode)
• Spiderman (With Menu/No Transcode)
• Stuart Little 2 (Widescreen)*
• Sweetest Thing, The (Widescreen)* Similar to Joe Dirt but edit Post command to [71 00 00 00 10 01 00 00]
• TomCats (Widescreen or Fullscreen)*
• Top Gun (Widescreen/Fullscreen)
• Van Wilder Unrated (Widescreen or Fullscreen) Version 2*
• Van Wilder Unrated (Widescreen or Fullscreen) Version 3*
• Wild Thornberry's Movie (Widescreen or Fullscreen)*
• xXx (Movie w/Menu,Widescreen)

PARTIAL MOVIE GUIDES (NO TRANSCODING OR ENCODING):

• What's the Worst That Could Happen?(Getting rid of 2 Aspect Ratio Selection Menus only)*
• Hey Arnold!: The Movie (Disabling Aspect Ratio Selection Menu )*
• Scarface [Region 1] (Displaying Main Menu Upon DVD Insert)
• The Simpsons, 3rd Season Volumes 1 to 4( Wrong Region Fix)

MOVIE GUIDES (WITH TRANSCODING OR ENCODING):

• Daredevil (Widescreen)
• Mobile Suit Gundam Motion Picture: Char’s Counterattack (Widescreen)
• .hack//Sign Volume One (Widescreen)
• Miyazaki’s Spirited Away (Widescreen)
• How to Deal (Widescreen)(VIDEO_TS.IFO fix)
• Shrek 2 (Tweaks)

MY TIPS, TRICKS, & TECHNIQUES:

• TITLE BYPASSING GUIDES:
• Disabling/Bypassing Unwanted Titles (Version 1)
• Disabling/Bypassing Unwanted Titles (Version 2)
• Getting Main Menu to Display Upon DVD Insert (in-depth)
• Disabling All Miscellaneous Between After Play button Is Pressed and Before Start of Movie
  
  AUDIO/SUBTITLE GUIDES:
• Turning Subtitles (On/Off) by Default
• Correcting Menu Language Buttons After Stripping Unwanted Audio(s)
• Correcting Menu Sub-Title Button(s) After Stripping Unwanted Subtitles
• Correcting Stripped Stream Attributes Left After DVDShrink Transcoding (* For v3.0 beta 5 and earlier)
• Swapping a Movie's Audio/Subpictures Attributes
• Correcting Fuzzy Green Subtitles on New IFO
  
  TITLE STRIPPING GUIDES:
• How To Blank Out a Single PGC TitleSet (Optimized for Speed) OBSLETE See Note 1
• How To Completely Blank Out a Multi-PGC TitleSet (Version 1) OBSLETE See Note 1
• How To Completely Blank Out a Multi-PGC TitleSet (Version 2 Optimized) OBSLETE See Note 1
• How To Partially Blank Out a Multi-PGC TitleSet
• A Quicker Way to Stripping Multi-PGC Titles OBSLETE See Note 1
• Bypassing Paramount's "Previews/Main Menu" Selection Menu
  
  Note 1: Replaced with How to Completely Blank Out a Titleset (VTS) Using PgcEdit
  

Continued in next post...

[2COOL]

MISCELLANEOUS GUIDES:

• Getting Rid of Movie-Intros
• Disabling a Main Menu Button the IFOedit way
• Editing SpruceUp Authored Movie to Play Titles Consecutively
• Keeping Bonus Materials Only and Menu
• Full Movie With Chapters Deleted
• Removing Layer Break Guide (See Post #6)
• DVDs with Episodes in Separate Titlesets Using DVD2One
• Disabling a Chapter Selection Menu Residing in a Multi-Cell VOBid After DVD-Splitting
• Inserting Chapters Only at each Episodes’ Starting Point
• 2COOL’s “Movie Only” Method
• DVD95Copy Movie With Chapter Menu as Default Main Menu
• How To Do a Movie-Only DVD using DVD95Copy
• How to find out which Title and Title Set is for Widescreen/Fullscreen
• My PowerDVD's Error Code 89030000- Unknown File Format Fix
• Creating a Custom VOB With Multiple Blank Program Chains (PGCs)
• Using Title Menu Button to Skip Titles in Re-authored DVD Shrink Movies
• My m2v Remuxing Guide (Beta)
• How to set the Provider ID
• How to get rid of Aspect Ratio Menus and Multi-Language Start-Up Menus ! v1.0
• Inserting a Blank Cell at end of Title OBSLETE
  Now automated with Addchapter
• How to add a “Insert Disc 2” clip OBSLETE
  Now automated with Addchapter
• How to change default Language Menu Unit
• How to Do a Mock Strip using IfoEdit
  

• THREADS/LINKS I FOUND USEFUL,INFORMATIVE, OR JUST TOO COOL!:
• How To Get IFOedit To Process Quicker (This really works and you can do it with VOBedit too)
• How To Make Your Own SpruceUp Buttons
• How To Prevent IFOedit 0.95 From Displaying Version 0.94
• Learning about VMG Titles and TitleSet Titles
• Decimal to Hexadecimal Conversion Table
• About DVD-Video
• The DVD Players VCD,SVCD,CD-R/W,DVD±R/W Compatibility list
• Hidden Easter Eggs in DVD Movies
• Advanced DVD Lab Tuturials
• Forum Rule #12 Poll
• DVD95Copy v2.0 "No compression" setting test results
• DVD Shrink's “Logical remapping of enabled streams” option explained

• MY REFERENCES:
• Virtual Machine DVD commands and DVD Basics (The Unofficial DVD Specifications Guide)
• Understanding Cell Commands
• Language Codes for DVD Menus, Audio, and Subpictures
• SPRM(2)'s Value When Setting SubPictures (SetSTN)
• About VMG_PTT_SRPT Title Playback Type Bit Settings

Continued in next post...

[2COOL]

PgcEdit Guides

Post your comments or bugs in their associated Discussion Threads

• How to Completely Blank Out a Titleset (VTS) Using PgcEdit ( Discussion Thread )
• Kill Playback on Titles ( Discussion Thread )
• Removing Language Selection and Aspect Ratio Menus v3.0 ( Discussion Thread )
• Turning Subtitles ON by Default v2.0a ( Discussion Thread )
• Turning Subtitles OFF by Default v2.0 ( Discussion Thread )
• Previous Chapter Skipping after DVD Shrink Re-authoring ( Discussion Thread )
• Blanking a Cell ( Discussion Thread )
• Jump2Pgc User Guide ( Discussion Thread ) Mirror 1
• How to Get Your Menu to Start With No Highlights

[waldok]

hi 2cool, and your nick says it all !

This is invaluable information you provided with your great cheat sheets. Now I was willing to dive a bit into corresponding region 2 titles to see the differences. I plan to try Lilo & Stitch tonight (if wife doesn't start yelling...) and see where the differences are compared to your region 1 sheet. Man, I'm not quite sure I can handle it as well as you did, but your information should help me I guess.

Thanks again for your work.

Waldok

[Doom9]

@2cool: you can edit your original thread and add new titles instead of posting a reply with a new link

[htc10825]

very cool!

But I have just another problem: The DVD "Feet of Frames" Cht-Version staring always with a chinese menu selection, after click on the button "Feet of Frames" then switch to english menu. How can I change the default menu page to english?

[Goldfinger_007]

Originally posted by Doom9
@2cool: you can edit your original thread and add new titles instead of posting a reply with a new link

i would much prefer if 2COOL could do both, as i'm subscribed to the thread and only know if something has been updated, by 2COOL replying (no notifications if he just edits)

[htc10825]

I've just posted a massage in your thread "Getting Rid of Movie-Intros". The original steps 1. -12. can be simplifed to ONE step.

[Reggatta Mondatta]

Really appreciate all the work you have done and documenting it for others. My RL ("Real Life") work keeps me from doing my 'DVD thing' regularly, so having this source of information to refresh from is great. Once again, many thanks.

Regards,

RM

[geffroman]

I have been struggling to find and remove the Widescreen/Full Screen Menu on "The ONE"

Have you ever dealt with this one... Any assistance would be appreciated...

Thanks... Jeff

[2COOL]

Originally posted by geffroman
I have been struggling to find and remove the Widescreen/Full Screen Menu on "The ONE"

Have you ever dealt with this one... Any assistance would be appreciated...

Thanks... Jeff

Just wanted to touch bases with you to inquire if you are referring to region 1 "The One". If so, I can look into as I have an original copy. Mine is a special edition with widescreen and fullscreen.

[geffroman]

Originally posted by 2COOL
Just wanted to touch bases with you to inquire if you are referring to region 1 "The One". If so, I can look into as I have an original copy. Mine is a special edition with widescreen and fullscreen.

Yes... Thats exactly what mine is... Thanks for looking at it for me... Jeff

[royalb]

In your cheat sheet you tell the user to "region free". I assume that you are using it as a verb. How do I do that?

royalb

[2COOL]

Originally posted by royalb
In your cheat sheet you tell the user to "region free". I assume that you are using it as a verb. How do I do that?

royalb

At the time my cheat sheet in question was written, I was using Smartripper 2.41 instead of DVd Decrypter. I was making sure that when you ripped the files to your harddrive, the files were already purged/removed of RCE or Region Coding Enhancement. And what is RCE you ask? Here's a Regional Coding Enhancement FAQ for you.

Since I worked only with region 1 NSTC DVDs, I put in a step to make sure that all IFOs were free of RCE. If detected then you would take it out and save the IFO and BUP.

To "Region Free" a IFO, first select a IFO file in IFOedit. Look at the bottom buttons, you'll see one that says "Region Free". With your IFO highlighted and selected, press this button. You will get a message saying if you do or don't have RCE in this IFO. You must remember to save any IFO that you had RCE detected and removed.

Now, I have been using DVD Decrypter strictly as of late and it does a better job on removing RCE during ripping so that step can be optional.

[geffroman]

Anyone Done Tears of the Sun yet...?

I a having difficulty BYPASSING Title 2 on PLAY to get to the main movie. I have stipped the unwanted Title 2 data but I still have a delay because it must still cycle through the Title 2 then Title 1 (Title One being the movie)

When I try the Title 2 change all Post Commands to Precommand a BREAK stops playback...

I'm stuck...

Regards... Jeff

[Defiler]

We need an "adding subtitles to a DVD that didn't have them before" guide, since I'm definitely having trouble with that.

[Goldfinger_007]

Originally posted by Defiler
We need an "adding subtitles to a DVD that didn't have them before" guide, since I'm definitely having trouble with that.

this might help:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.ph...s+from+scratch

[Defiler]

Thanks for the link, Goldfinger, but I'm talking about actually taking DVD subtitles from one disc, and putting them on another. Not a text-based subtitle format, like SSA, SRT, etc.

[2COOL]

Originally posted by geffroman
When I try the Title 2 change all Post Commands to Precommand a BREAK stops playback...

You need to read the guide again. All commands with "Break" in them need to be changed to jump to first converted Post Command.

If you are still confused, post your original commands in your PGC Command Table for title 2.

[geffroman]

Originally posted by 2COOL
You need to read the guide again. All commands with "Break" in them need to be changed to jump to first converted Post Command.

If you are still confused, post your original commands in your PGC Command Table for title 2.

I knew that... got lazy... forgot... THANK YOU...

My bad cost me a disc... better call Meritline and reorder...

2COOL... did you ever give that MOVIE TITLE thing a look see...?


Regards... Jeff