PgcEdit v8.6 released (January 12, 2008)

[blutach]

Good idea Robotik. Of course, with one (or just a few) stills, you can have the whole (or any part) of the audio muxed in and not just that part pertaining to the stilled section. Personally, I find this really quick and easy.

Regards

[GravuTrad]

to robotik: ....Maybe I'll do it, but I want to work on the verifier before, and that's a lot of work. Anyway, I'm in holidays now, and I have the intention to work less during this summer! :cool:

good to know this lol, so no 8.2 stable version previewed so...lol...(i say that to motivate myself for the finish of the french source 8.1 version lol...)

[r0lZ]

Hum, I have almost finished v8.2, which is essentially a bugfix release. There is however a new function, with some text to translate. ;)

I will probably release v8.2 tomorrow...

[GravuTrad]

good to know and no problem for me, if your sources will be updated.

[StephenChow]

Hello,

PgcEdit 8.1 doesn't work on Vista Ultimate 32-bit (not sure for other Vista version), it hang out when a message box appears most of time. If a DVD movie has a bug, it show a message box tell if you want to fix this bug, but PgcEdit also stops working and I have to force it closed.
If a DVD movie is ok (no bug), I don't think PgcEdit work correctly (for example, when I use delete all unreference VTS/Cell, I have the DVD movie in which Language button will take me to Extra Features:confused: of that movie)

I have no problem with PgcEdit on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003.

[SamuriHL]

I use it with Vista Ultimate and have no problems at all.

[r0lZ]

Short answer: Throw Vista away, and get a descent operating system!

Long answer: I really don't know what is causing the problem with the message boxes, but I'm sure it's not a PgcEdit bug! I really don't want to buy and install Vista just to find a workaround for problems introduced by Microsoft. I hope those problems will be fixed with a service pack, and I suppose that, due to the incredible number of problems encountered by almost all programs under Vista, SP1 will be released soon.

Note that I would like to fix the problems, but it's currently not possible, as I don't have Vista (and I don't know ppl crazy enough to buy it!) ;)
Unfortunately, a bug like this one is almost impossible to fix without a test platform, as I have absolutely no idea why it happens.

BTW, have you tried to run PgcEdit in XP compatibility mode? Have you tried to disable the new "features" of Vista?

[r0lZ]

PgcEdit v 8.2 released.

Although there is a new function and several enhancements, it's especially an important bugfix release (notably for the Kill Playback function.) Get it!

A. = Added feature
E. = Enhancement
F. = Fixed bug

A. Added "Menu -> Select a non-hidden button/BOV by default", a function to modify automatically the pre-commands of the current PGC with hidden menu buttons or BOVs to pre-select automatically a non-hidden button instead of the default hidden button. (In the menu editor, the adjacent button links of the hidden buttons have been improved also to be able to select a non- hidden button more easily with the cursor buttons of the remote.)
E. If an IFO file cannot be opened or has not the right identifier, PgcEdit tries now to open the BUP file instead.
E. When PgcEdit cannot load any menu button or BOV because the VOB files are missing or corrupt, and when a "menubuttons.but" file exists in the backup folder, in the VIDEO_TS or in the main DVD folder, PgcEdit offers now to load it automatically.
E. When PgcEdit needs to write to a read-only file, it tries now (silently) to set the write permission to the file before writing.
E. Menu viewer: Added < and > buttons next to the cells selector to easily select the previous or next cell without having to open the dropdown menu. (Those buttons are not available when the Preview -> Small Size option is ticked, and when there is only one cell in the PGC.)
F. Kill PGC Playback: When the PGC has buttons or cell commands and GOTOs in the post commands area, the GOTOs were not renumbered correctly.
F. Kill PGC Playback: When the cells with buttons were not removed because there are links in the pre-commands jumping inside the PGC, and when the PGC has been blanked, the button command was not executed. The button command is now added at the beginning of the post-commands area.
F. Blank Out All Menu PGCs, with option to remove the VOB file: Now, if some cells cannot be removed due to links to cells inside the PGC, the cells are not removed, and the user can choose to blank them instead.
F. Blank Out All PGCs (under Mac OSX): The command failed because the preview is not available under Mac.
F. Delete Uncalled PGCs: When a PGC with chapters was removed in the middle of a non-sequential title, the subsequent chapter numbers were wrong in the GUI. However, the chapter table saved on disc was correct.
F. Delete Uncalled PGCs was unable to delete the last PGC of the unreferenced titlesets when the option "Allow PgcEdit to add automatic comments in the PGC labels" was not ticked.
F. All remapping functions (and functions using them such as Delete Uncalled PGCs): The trace mode is now closed automatically before applying the changes, as continuing to trace the modified DVD can cause bugs.
F. Most of the search for uncalled PGCs, jumps to nowhere and void PGCs functions were broken in v8.1 when there is a Next/Prev/GoUp PGCN link pointing to a non-existent PGC.
F. Trace: When the trace mode was opened automatically at startup and a jump to an non-existent PGC was executed, the trace mode crashed.
F. Trace: The menu viewer was not closed when the trace was reset by clicking on the Eject icon, and it was impossible to close it manually.
F. The output of "Info -> Menu Buttons/BOVs Commands" was incomplete if there is a menu domain without cells in the DVD.
F. Fixed a little bug in automatic blanking of cells, when the cell cannot be added to the VOB file by PgcEdit: the error message was not displayed.
F. Fixed some problems when computing the true end address of the tables.
F. Fixed a little bug in autoupdate code. The final version was considered lower than a beta!


Updated plugins:

DVDShrink plugin v 2.3

E. Removed the Cancel option in the dialog of Check Streams Remapping safety, as it was confusing and useless.

Play All PGC plugin v 1.2

F. Calling Find unreferenced VOB cells in current domain with the FP-PGC selected produced an error.
F. The last scanned VOB file was not closed after the process. It was necessary to close PgcEdit to release the lock.

Womble plugin v 1.1

F. Fixed a bug in the generation of the default file name.

XiRON plugin v 1.1

F. The PGC and GPRM user comments (if any) were not saved when the DVD was saved during Fix VMGM VOB IDs.

[kumi]

Thanks, as always, for your hard work on PgcEdit :)

[SamuriHL]

Thanks for your hard work on the new version!

[blutach]

Many many thanks r0lZ!

Regards

[Calimari]

Nice work.
Thank you rOLZ.

[[Tobi]]

Thanks for the new version. :)
I have only one problem with trace. I can enable the trace only from the toolbar or with the shortcut key "Crtl+T, but not in the menu on top.

[r0lZ]

Oops, that's right. Strange, as the menu, the shortcut key and the icon call the same function.
Thanks for the report!

[jsoto]

Thanks for the new version

[[Tobi]]

Oops, that's right. Strange, as the menu, the shortcut key and the icon call the same function.
Thanks for the report!

Have you found it?
I get following (not always) application error if I call the trace from the menu.

can't read "::tr::current(Title)": no such variable
can't read "::tr::current(Title)": no such variable
while executing
"set ::tr::backup_current($set,Title) $::tr::current(Title)"
(procedure "snapshot_pos" line 13)
invoked from within
"snapshot_pos $set"
(procedure "snapshot_state" line 3)
invoked from within
"snapshot_state auto"
(procedure "cleanexit" line 2)
invoked from within
"cleanexit"
(procedure "::tr::dvd_trace" line 5)
invoked from within
"::tr::dvd_trace"
(menu invoke)

[r0lZ]

PgcEdit v8.2.1 released!

Sorry, Trace mode is broken in v8.2 when it is activated via the Trace menu. (The shortcut key Control-T and the toolbar icon worked as expected.)

Please download v8.2.1, that fixes this problem.

Thanks Tobi and JM for submitting this bug!

[r0lZ]

;1007804']Have you found it?As you can see, yes! Thanks again!

[Dr.Khron]

Doh, was about to post the tracemode bug... As usual, you beat me to it!

Thank you for work on this program. There is a lot of new polish here and there, and it shows. I also like the new bug dialog.


Edit: Potential Bug

The warning dialog for the "Delete Last PGC in Domain" menu option says that it will only show once per session, but it kept popping up every time until I turned it off.

[r0lZ]

Well, it's not really a bug, just an omission. I have changed the method, but I forgot to remove the message "this warning will be displayed only once per session."

[blutach]

Not sure if everyone else is experiencing this, but I got no auto update message from 8.2 to 8.2.1

Regards

[linx05]

Not sure if everyone else is experiencing this, but I got no auto update message from 8.2 to 8.2.1

Regards
Most probably he hasn't updated the version check. Just download it from the site (http://download.videohelp.com/r0lZ/pgcedit/index.html#download).

[r0lZ]

That's right, blu. The problem is caused by the third number in the version string. I was aware of the problem when I have released 8.2.1, and I have modified (again!) the autoupdate code. It should work without problem now, for version strings with 2 or 3 numbers, with or without beta extension.
Updating from v8.2 or any 8.2betaX version to 8.2.1 must still be made manually.

[Robotik]

E. Menu viewer: Added < and > buttons next to the cells selector to easily select the previous or next cell without having to open the dropdown menu.


it warms my heart when i see my request on the changelist.
thank you for the new release!

[r0lZ]

Indeed, it was a good idea, easy to implement. :)

However, as you have probably noted, the buttons are not present when the small size preview option is selected, by lack of space. Also, they are not present when there is only one cell in the PGC, as they are useless.

[dirio49]

Hi, r0lZ
Thanks for the new version.

A suggestion.
Can you add in the tools menu, for the argument an
%VMG and it always sends the path to Video_ts.ifo.
this is need in order to easily call Vobblanker and Titlewritter. instead of using %I
thanks

[r0lZ]

Use "%p\VIDEO_TS.IFO" (with the quotes.)

[dirio49]

Use "%p\VIDEO_TS.IFO" (with the quotes.)

Thanks,
I must have been sleeping :)

[IrmaIsfot]

Hey!

This is _the_ best tool ever and I use it alot. However, there is an annoying 'feature' that seems to survive from version to version...

When I enter the trace mode, the toolbar and the edit buttons disappear. Ok, I can live without the toolbar, but I use the edit buttons all the time! So every time I have to re-enable the edit buttons from the View toolbar.

Is there a reason for this behaviour? I would really like the different areas to remain intact independent of each other!

Thank you so much for all your efforts with this excellent tool!

/Håkan, Sweden

[r0lZ]

Welcome to the forum, IrmaIsfot, and thanks for your appreciation!

The reason is that, when you are in trace mode, you should not edit the DVD, as this can confuse the trace. However, I have not disabled completely the ability to edit the DVD, as it is possible to combine tracing and editing to do interesting things. For this reason, it is possible to force PgcEdit to keep the toolbars opened in trace mode. Just untick Trace -> Hide toolbars in trace mode.
Is it easy enough? ;)

[BigCondor]

Well, writing program is a neverending story, thanks very much for this wonderful program. Your continuing effort is greatly appreciated!

[[Tobi]]

@r0lZ

According to which criteria it is decided whether a TitleSet is uncalled, if one uses the function "Delete Uncalled TitleSets"?
How does this function works exactly?

[dirio49]

My understanding is that, there most not be any command anywhere that can lead to any part of the titleset. :)

[r0lZ]

The VMG (FP-PGC+VMGM) PGC and menu button commands are searched for references to the titleset. If none are found, it is globally uncalled.

BTW, Info -> Jumps form VMG to current VTS (or to All VTSs) is similar. If the output is empty, the titleset is uncalled.

[EDIT] Dirio was faster. However, note that it is impossible to jump from a VTS to another VTS. Therefore, only the VMG is checked.

[IrmaIsfot]

it is possible to force PgcEdit to keep the toolbars opened in trace mode. Just untick Trace -> Hide toolbars in trace mode.
Is it easy enough? ;)

Easy? Weeeeell.... OK!:) Guess it would be hard to figure out an easier way... Just goes to show that this program has it all!
:thanks:

[blutach]

Remember also that buttons in VMG are examined too to determine whether a VTS is called. Many examples abound of buttons which have Jump TTs to VTS where no other Jump TTs exist in VMG.

Regards

[r0lZ]

Right, blu. I have modified my previous post. Thanks.

[[Tobi]]

@dirio49, r0lZ and blutach

OK...Thanks for the explanations. I think now I have sorted out everything.

[President]

Sorry, I am late for the celebration :).

Thank's from me too, r0lZ!

[frank]

When you export Celltimes.txt for CCE the last separator is a point "."

CCE SP2 wants only ":" as separator, so you have to replace the points with text editor.
Then CCE will import the chapters correctly.

Please change it.

[r0lZ]

Hum, difficult, as I use the conversion function for many things in PgcEdit. Furthermore, I remember that I have tested the output with CCE, and it worked well. Maybe it was another version. I don't have it any more to verify.
Are you sure that the current version of CCE needs the ":"?

[frank]

CCE SP discontinued.

Tested CCE version:
CCE SP2 Trial v.1.00.00.10
SDK v2.70 CCE Trial 2006-09-05

In this version the import of chapter list is very simple.
But only ":".
Then Muxman muxes without any trouble.

BTW more and more Hollywood DVDs (PAL) have a 3% aspect ratio error!
The idiots think that 720x576 has AR 16:9. But the right size is 702x576 --> 704x576
That's why I reencode my stuff with correct AR.

[frank]

Ok, latest CCE SP2 Trial v1.00.00.015 tested.
SDK v2.70 CCE Trial 2006-09-05

Same issue.
Last time field counts frames, but separated by ":"

[r0lZ]

OK, thanks. I'll try to do something...

[blutach]

Perhaps these users can tick an option/cfg variable which would enable : instead of .

Just a thought.

Regards

[r0lZ]

That's exactly what I will do. Indeed, it is sufficient to replace all occurrences of the dot in the output before displaying it. That should be easy to do...

[EDIT: done!]

[Penecho]

Hi, I get the following Error Message when i try to remove some buttons (attached)



Cu

[r0lZ]

Please copy/paste the text here...

[blutach]

This looks like a Windows message. It is a random thing or does it happen a lot?

Regards

[r0lZ]

Try to download PgcEdit again, and chose the ZIP archive (as it has a checksum to ensure that it has been correctly downloaded.)
If it doesn't work, there is probably something that cause a conflict with the Tk DLL installed on your system.

Also, could you explain what you do exactly when you "remove some buttons" and when the crash occurs?