PgcEdit v0.3.

[Kaimaster]

Hi

Is it possible to remove unwanted Titles or PGC's? If so, how?

PGC Edit's the best. Keep up the great work.

Thanks

km

[jeanl]

I guess you missed this:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.ph...793#post244793
2COOL has written a few really cool guides for pgcedit, some of which to do exactly what you ask.
Jeanl

[Kaimaster]

Thanx 4 the reply.

I had a look at all those guides, but they only BLANK out the PGC's and Titles. In other words, they get replaced by a blank frame for Titles. This means that you'll have a few blank VOB files sitting on your DVD that's not needed at all and PGC's not used.

Scenaria: I create a new DVD with PGC Edit and add 2 Titles. Title 2 is wrong and I need to replace it or I don't want it anymore. Now the only thing to do is to blank it out right? Now I add the correct Title, but now I have 3 Titles. The only way I get past this, is to close PGC Edit, start it up again and create a New DVD.

Wouldn't it be cool to be able to delete it instead of starting over?


Thanx

km

[blutach]

You really are a perfectionist Kaimaster. Those blanks take up a measly 10KB (plus the associated IFO and BUP) and you can disable the playback with PGCEdit's killplayback function anyway.

[r0lZ]

@Kaimaster

I have tried to wrote a function to delete an arbitrary PGC, in the title or menu domain, or the whole titleset. This is really not a piece of cake. There are many tables and parameters to update, in the VTS and VMG IFOs. All references to the deleted PGCs must be safely removed. Furthermore, and this is the big problem, all references to PGCs or titlesets following the removed one must be updated.

I may write more easily a function to completely remove the LAST titleset of the DVD (VTSM and VTST), but here again there are difficulties. (For example, it is possible that one Title number in the deleted VTS is not the last one in the VMG_TT_SRPT table: I must therefore update all the JumpTT targets.)

If you really want to cleanup totally your DVD of unwanted titlesets, you should use the New DVD and the Import functions, and modify the references in the commands yourself. That's what you suggested...

[sweetness]

Hi r0lZ, i'm having some problems with Pgcedits macros. the import title closing clip and the import title intro clip i get errors, but the import first-play (start up) clip works fine. what i did was create a movie only backup with dvdshrink in re-author mode then tried to import the clips. here are the two error messages i get when i try to use the marcos.

invalid command name "set_menu_type"
invalid command name "set_menu_type"
while executing
"set_menu_type 0 1 1 0 "
(procedure "::macros::import_title_intro_clip" line 126)
invoked from within
"::macros::import_title_intro_clip"
(menu invoke)

and to other one is the same except of this line.

(procedure "::macros::import_title_closing_clip" line 273)

any ideas? thanks

[r0lZ]

Hi sweetness,

Bug found and fixed. A new version will be available soon...

[r0lZ]

PgcEdit v0.3.6 released.

Download

Added:

• Added the "PGCs params and Cell table" menu to dump all PGCs.
• Added the "Remove Parental Managment" utility.
• Thanks to jsoto, The VOB/Cell ID remapper (in the PGC Editor window, VOB/Cell ID buttons) has now the ability to append a new blank cell to the VOB. Handy to blank out a specific cell. Currently for Windows only.

Enhancements:

• Changed the "Info/PGC commands" to "Info/PGC". Now, dump also the PGC parameters and the Cell Table.
• "Find Unused GPRMs" now search also for GPRMs in the menu button cmds.
• In the disassembly of integer values, the ASCII equivalent of the value is now displayed only if it is a valid language code. (No more "..")
• The first column of the Cell Table in the PGC Editor is now the Number of Buttons for a Menu PGC (and still the Chapter Number for a Title).
• New popup menu on the Search fields of the main window and the text viewer, to clear, copy and paste in the search field.
• The Copy and Cut buttons in the main window are now placing the command in the clipboard without the "{" and "}" characters if only one command is copied/cutted. Handy to paste the hex codes in the search field.
• Command Editor: When pasting in the hexadecimal field, the command is now automatically validated, and transferred in the GUI.
• The number of buttons shown in the PGC labels is now "?b." if the VOB file is missing or not readable. Was "0b." before.
• Now, the "Cell Type Flags" editor doesn't allow to select an Angle Type if the Angle Block flag is not checked.
• "Kill PGC Playback" changes now also all Link to Cell, PG or PTT pre commands to GOTOs (only if the Highlight Button parameter is not used.)
• Documentation updated (and english doc corrected.)

Bug fixes:

• "Kill PGC Playback" will now remove the post commands after a Kill if the total number of commands exceeds the fatal limit of 128.
• "Import First-Play Clip" and "Import Title's Intro Clip" bugs fixed.

[maksa]

I'll check Parental MAnagement Removal tonight. Did you do all of it or just removal of PGC_MAIT TAble?

Regards,
Maksa

[r0lZ]

This utility will remove the parental managment:
delete the VMG_PTL_MAIT table, reset all Parental ID
masks in the VMG_TT_SRPT and the VTS_PGCITI tables,
and change the SetTmpPML commands to GOTOs.

The DVD will therefore ignore the parental level
of the player.

Are you sure ?

...

You will never be prompted for a password anymore!

To be sure that the Parental level is never used in the DVD,
you should search for any occurence of sprm(13:Parental level)
and change the sprm 13 in the command by the constant value 15.
(The search field is alerady initialized with the string "sprm(13:")
For example, change "Set gprm(4) =(mov) sprm(13:Parental level)"
to "Set gprm(4) =(mov) 15".

OK

[maksa]

Thanks a lot... didn't catch that one before.

[jeanl]

r0lZ, thanks for this new release!
It sounds like pgcedit's Kill Playback macro is now the most advanced around, as it now also handles cases (pointed out by 2COOL) where playback previously still occured. This is really cool.
Can't wait to play with it!
Jeanl

[r0lZ]

It sounds like pgcedit's Kill Playback macro is now the most advanced around, as it now also handles cases (pointed out by 2COOL) where playback previously still occured. This is really cool.

Yes, thanks to jsoto!
However, though it is theorically possible to blank or skip any playback with PgcEdit, the case of a menu with buttons is not yet automated. You have still to follow the 2COOL's guide to get rid of them.
Maybe I'll write a macro to automatize that...

[jeanl]

However, though it is theorically possible to blank or skip any playback with PgcEdit, the case of a menu with buttons is not yet automated. You have still to follow the 2COOL's guide to get rid of them.

Now, THAT would be a real breakthrough, because the procedure is pretty involved, but pretty neat too!
Jeanl

[jsoto]

@r0lZ

Yes, thanks to jsoto!

Are you taking about this?

"Kill PGC Playback" changes now also all Link to Cell, PG or PTT pre commands to GOTOs (only if the Highlight Button parameter is not used.)

If yes, don't give me any credit. You have pointed me in this direction before... VM commands management is your business.

jsoto

[r0lZ]

No, I think at BlankCell.exe. It adds a blank cell to any VOB. You know that: it's your job.
It is therefore now possible to exchange any cell with a blank one. This step was missing to complete the 2COOL's guide with PgcEdit alone.

Thanks again, jsoto!

[2COOL]

Originally posted by r0lZ
This step was missing to complete the 2COOL's guide with PgcEdit alone.

C My thanks to you too jsoto!

[blutach]

PGCEdit just keeps getting better and better.

Thanks r0lZ

From your biggest fan

[2COOL]

Anyone notice how clean the commands are now?

[2COOL]

Originally posted by blutach
PGCEdit just keeps getting better and better.

Since vStrip has CLI commands, I think you can incorporate it into PgcEdit for stripping out Audio and Subpictures. I hope you can understand this guide. This would take PgcEdit closer to matching IfoEdit. What do you think?