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wbrooks
7th November 2004, 23:05
I am trying to get rid of the warnings... FBI, Attention, and 'the views' statement (seems to be same for all FOX DVd's) that reside in VIDEO_TS VOB ID 5,6 &9 respectively. If I use IFO EDIT and 'delete playback' it works great on the PC but both stand alones read the disc and stop (recoverable if you hit play and menu). I have tried to bypass them by going into VMGM_PGCI_UT and setting playback time (BCD) to 192 and setting the entry point sector to the value in 'last sector of cell' but the 'warnings' still play.
I can 'blank' them by using MenuEdit and replacing the VOB id's with a blank cell from elsewhere in the DVD but it still takes the same amount of time to get to the main menu as it would if the 'warnings' played but you see black screen instead of the 'warnings'.
Is there another way to do this that I have missed??
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated

cyberbob25
10th November 2004, 15:12
You can use vobblanker which I believe is freely available in this forum, just search. Alternatively, I use DVDReMake (not free, but a very nice tool) available at http://www.dimadsoft.com

D3s7
10th November 2004, 20:05
you can also modify the navigation to bypass these...

If you scan the ifo editor forum you'll run across some guides by 2cool that describe these types of things and how to get around them

wbrooks
18th November 2004, 03:21
Thanks for the replies but I have read most of 2cools stuff and they are not doing what I am looking for in my stand alone players. I will give 2COOL credit for the majority of my knowledge of DVD's, If you read this thanks for your awesome guides.
Here is what I figured out to get the main menu to play on insert, (if there is a guide somewhere for this I swear I didn't find it or copy this from it)
Use IFOEDIT and open VIDEO_TS.IFO
The idea is to find the Title set where the main menu starts. On the 8 discs I have done this on the information is always in
VMGM_PGCI_UT
- LU_1 (English) PGC-Menu_1
Scroll down to the PGC Command Table
Look at the Pre Commands for a line like the following
(JumpSS VTSM) Jump to TitleSet(vts):1, Title(ttn):1, root-menu
The Hex command string will be [30 06 00 01 01 83 00 00]
There may be different Title sets or if statements
Just copy this line of Hex
Now Go to VMGM_MAT (just above VMGM_PGCI_UT)
and open First Play PGC
Scroll down to PGC Command Table
Edit the first Pre Command and replace what ever code is there with the code you copied. Make sure the first 3 Hex numbers are [30 06 00](if not change them to [30 06 00]) the next two refer to the VOB ID and VTS_XX_0 of the start menu, in this case [01 01] or Vob ID 1 in VTS_01_0.
Not sure what the last ones are for or do but [83 00 00] works.
Now change the number of Pre Commands to 1, this will delete all the remaining pre commands.
Save the VIDEO_TS.IFO file
Get VTS Sectors (just habbit don't think you need to for this)

Like I said I have only done 8 DVD's with this process so it is by no means tried and true but it seems great so far.

Perhaps some more senior members will read it and verify the logic .. TIA