Delete Parental management menus

[mikenadia]

I am doing it using Kill Playback .
Usually ( at least for Disney movies ) they are 3 related PGCs per language unit associated with Parental management menus.
Once I click on Remove Parental Management , I am left with PGC3 which can be only be called from PGC3 ( no button) and two menus PGC4 and PGC5 (PGC4 can only be called from PGC4 and 5 and PGC5 can only be called from PGC4 and 5).
I was wondering if they should not be uncalled ( at least PGC3) using Sudoku-type strategies for doublets and triplets.
It is not a request, just want to know if my reasoning is correct or not.
Also, after Kill Playback, only PGC3 is uncalled and PGC4 and 5 are dummies. Can I delete them manually and what is the safest way to do it?
Thx

[blutach]

PgcEdit doesn't recognise these PGCs as uncalled. It requires you to analyse this sort of situation yourself, as you have done correctly.

You can look at Call Cross References (Ctrl-H) to make things easier. But in this situation you can safely remove the commands from these PGCs and do a Delete Uncalled PGCs.

Regards

[mikenadia]

Thx a lot , blutach. Better understanding. Improved housecleaning.

When I click on " Call cross-references ", I got the following message.

Do you want to delete the VM commands
and clear the Prev/Next/GoUpPGC links
in the uncalled PGCs?
(Useful to find more uncalled PGCs in
subsequent usages of this function.)

Does it mean that by doing "Call cross-references" before " Delete uncalled PGCs", I will do a better cleaning job and that I should do "Delete uncalled PGCs" only at the end instead of doing it several times (right after the rip, after jump to PGC upon insert...).

Also, r0lZ indicated that he was mapping the main movie to TTN1 if it were not the case.I searched the purpose of it. Need some light.
Thx.
Thx

[blutach]

It doesn't matter. Delete uncalled PGCs removes them entirely. Call cross refs shows all references to each PGC in the DVD and marks those which are uncalled.

Using call cross refs, you can do th sort of thing you did above at a glance.

Regards

[mikenadia]

Slowly getting there.
When I delete PGC 4 and 5 (Delete commands and Find uncalled PGCs) , PGCedit finds 3 additionnal uncalled PGCs ( I run " Find uncalled PGCs" before deleting the commands of PGC 4 and 5 (and did not get any warning ) so the 3 additionnal uncalled PGCs are linked to the fact that I deleted commands of PGC 4 and 5) and the dreadful Dialog message:
"As 1 VM commands using the SPRM 4, 5, 6 or 10 have been found,it might be unsafe to continue, unless you fix those commands manually."
I do not want to play with them (too scared) and I think that the message is due to the 3 additionnal uncalled PGCs (PGC 4 and 5 are only two parental management menus).
Will it be possible that PGC 4 and 5 remained deleted (if it does not compromise the structure of the DVD ) or that the PGC(s) that causes the dialog message to appear is not flagged uncalled unless the user accepts to play with SPRM 4,5,6,10.?
Thx . Not important at all.

[blutach]

If you don't know what you're doing, leave them alone - they can't possibly hurt anything. And the dialogue isn't dreadful; it's just a little warning.

But if you wish, you can find which sprms could possibly give nav trouble by using the trace after you have deleted the PGCs (it's only 1 command so it shouldn't be too hard to figure out if the DVD still plays OK).

Regards