How to fix menu error on Sesame Street Old School, volume 1 disc 2?

[spiovente_iv]

Hi all. I hope this question isn't too newbie-ish! (I am fairly experienced with video encoding, but admittedly have done very little with actual DVD menu editing.)

There is a fairly well-known menu error on the second disc of Sesame Street Old School, volume 1: When selecting "Play All" for the Season 3 bonus segments, the first song - "C Is for Cookie" - will play, but at the conclusion of that song, playback returns to the menu, rather than continuing to the next segment. If one presses the "next" button while "C Is for Cookie" plays, playback appropriately jumps to the next segment, and continues through the remainder of the bonus segments as it should.

I would like to fix this on a backup disc, as it continually frustrates my two-and-a-half year old daughter when Cookie Monster ends his song and the menu returns. Any advice (step-by-step instructions or a link to a tutorial would be especially nice!) would be appreciated.

Thank you!
- spiv

[blutach]

Without the IFOs (which can not be published here on Doom9), it is impossible to answer you.

What you could do on a backup disc if you did not require menus (which the kids might not need anyway) is to make a re-authored DVD with DVD Shrink or Ner0 Recode, or whatever. After that, apply the PgcEdit DVD Shrink Plugin's authoring enhancements (which allow for chapter and title skipping).

Regards

[r0lZ]

If disc 1 has not the same problem, try to examine how it works with the PgcEdit trace, and modify disc 2 accordingly.

IMO the error can be:

- the Play All button jumping to the wrong Title or TTN (if there is a "Play All" Title and several different Titles for the episondes, it should jump to the longest Title.)

- There is a cell command on the cell containing "C Is for Cookie" that returns to the menu. You could simply try to remove it, but be sure that when you play the episode alone, it still returns to the menu.

There might be other reasons as well, but, as blu said, it is difficult to us to know the origin of the problem without the copyrighted IFOs. Sorry.

[Video Dude]

This is the problem:


******* Start playback VTST 6 , 2 TTN 2 (24:59) Title 10...
******* Playing Program 1, Cell 1 (1:30.28) (Chapter 1)
-> sprm(7:Chapter number (or PGN)) = 1 (0x0001)
Cell 1: Executing cell command 1.
-- cell 1 : (CallSS) Call the VMGM PGC 32, resume cell 1


VTST 6 , 2 TTN 1 (24:59) Title 9 SHOULD have cell commands.

VTST 6 , 2 TTN 2 (24:59) Title 10 SHOULD NOT have cell commands, but it does.

To fix it using PgcEdit:

Double click on VTST 6 , 2 TTN 2 (24:59) Title 10

This opens the PGC Editor window.

Under the Cell Cmd # column it will read:


1
0
0
0
0
0
.
.
.
0


change it to


0
0
0
0
0
0
.
.
.
0

[spiovente_iv]

Video Dude, thank you! My apologies for not realizing sooner that you had posted this solution... and my sincere appreciation for the very easy-to-follow instructions you provided. :)

- spiv