PgcEdit 0.5

[selyb]

Bug: Store PgcEdit_backup in the DVDs root folder instead of VIDEO_TS

the backup is put in the parent folder even if there is no VIDEO_TS folder

[r0lZ]

Thanks, selyb.
Will do the fixes...

[r0lZ]

PgcEdit 0.5.7 beta 2 available

I have tried to fix some display problems when running PgcEdit under Mac. There are also some minor fixes.

F. Fixed some english grammar/vocabulary errors.
F. When the option "Store backup folder in parent of VIDEO_TS folder" is ON, the backup folder is saved now in the parent only if the DVD files are in a VIDEO_TS subdirectory.
F. Some display problems on Macintosh platforms (default font size...) are now hopefully fixed.

[zacoz]

Originally posted by r0lZ
A. Added an option to go automatically to Trace mode whan a DVD is opened.This option is not working for me (in 0.5.7 b1 or b2 - no not the bananas blu, the beta's). Anyone else tried it ?

I've tried: opening DVD's by right clicking on .IFO and choosing open with PgcEdit. opening PgcEdit and then opening DVD straight away. making PgcEdit the default program when opening IFO's (instead of WinDVD) turning on/off various other new options and BOV scanner in case of conflict. 3 different DVD's (one with LU differences due to previous work in PgcEdit, one with Blank VOB's giving warning and offer of delete, and one without any other opening issues). expert mode to avoid the "DVD opened OK x VTS loaded" dialog box.Can't think of anything else specific to try that might pin down the issue.

[r0lZ]

Right. It doesn't work if you open a DVD by calling PgcEdit from the Windows explorer with an IFO or BUP file as argument.

However, it works if you set the 'Launch Open DVD dialog at startup' option, and then launch PgcEdit alone. You have to load a DVD from the file/folder dialog that pops-up when PgcEdit starts.

I will see if I can add an option to enable trace mode when starting PgcEdit with an argument...

[EDIT:] Done. Was easy to do. I forgot the case of the DVD opened from the command line. The fix will be available with the final version.

[zacoz]

Ah yes, now I see it works. I didn't think about it being dependant upon the "Launch open DVD dialog at statup" option.

It's probably not unreasonable, however I've found lately that it's more efficient (or seems so) if I have windows explorer open and use the context menu to open the DVD in PgcEdit. It allows for quick jumping back and forward to a number of directories, tools and player for testing. Having said that PgcEdit remembers the last directory, therefore it's more the other programs that benefit from opening from windows explorer context menu.

[zacoz]

Originally posted by r0lZ
[EDIT:] Done. Was easy to do. I forgot the case of the DVD opened from the command line. The fix will be available with the final version.What....already !!!!
Hope you're fitting some non-PgcEdit time in somewhere. We don't want to burn you out.;)

[selyb]

may i ask why the install options are not present when pgcedit isnt exe-wrapped?

[r0lZ]

Because almost all options in the install submenu do use a special library (called package in Tcl terminology) to read and write some registry keys. This package is included in the freeWrapped exe under Windows, but is not included by default in the standard Tcl/Tk distribution, and I don't want to ask the user to install it just to install PgcEdit easily!

[selyb]

understood

[selyb]

request: Enable/Disable Macrovision

[2COOL]

Originally posted by selyb
request: Enable/Disable Macrovision I found this tidbit information. http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=60170&highlight=macrovision. But I think r0lZ may not venture into this arena as he doesn't do deep work on the VOBs. I think.

[r0lZ]

Originally posted by 2COOL
I found this tidbit information. http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=60170&highlight=macrovision. But I think r0lZ may not venture into this arena as he doesn't do deep work on the VOBs. I think. Right. It's a job for a VOB processor (VobBlanker?).
@selyb: Why do you want that? Anyway, when you rip the DVD with DVD Decrypter, macrovision should be removed.

[r0lZ]

PgcEdit 0.5.7 beta 3 released.

Yet another beta, mainly for Mac users running Tk-Aqua.
F. Error when blanking a titleset when the preview window is open fixed.
F. "Save IFOs as" saved the modified VOBs also (in the original folder).
F. Fixed more display problems under Mac and Tk-Aqua.

[selyb]

Originally posted by r0lZ
Anyway, when you rip the DVD with DVD Decrypter, macrovision should be removed. I dont use dvddecrypter usually, but the method i use does remove macrovision
i had the impression (from something i read somewhere) that macrovision is only a bit at a hex offset that could simply be set to 0 or 1

[selyb]

hehe, i could post requests all day ;)
these should be easy tho

request: bind Ctrl+Del to Blank All Menus/Titles

request: show hotkeys in popup menu

[2COOL]

I think I brought this up before but can we have an angle column in PGC Editor? If would give the user an obvious indication which cells hold which angle.

How about a cell times file? e.g.

13721
23081
28166
34406
42446
52001
66971
80981
86561
94466
103781
115496
130151
136646
143681
152996
170703
170718

or a built in Chapter X-tractor?

[r0lZ]

@selyb

- Macrovision: right, the program to remove macrovision is verry easy to do, but I don't want to go to this direction. PgcEdit is essentially an IFO editor. Maybe you could ask this to the guy who wrote the program to change the PUOs in VOBs? Should be easy to add this option. Also, that may be easily added in VobBlanker (but less efficient, since it will copy the VOBs).

- Ctrl-Del: OK.

- Shortcuts in popups: OK.

@2COOL

Celltimes.txt: relatively easy to do. I'll probably add this function.
I don't rememebr what Chapter X-Tractor is supposed to do exactly. Could you explain?

[zacoz]

Angle column would be cool (no pun intended). It's slightly annoying having to load up DVD into another program to check for them.

[blutach]

@zacoz - confused. It's easy to see if the disk has angles. Just look in the PGC Editor at the cell type flags.

Regards

[r0lZ]

It's even easier. In angle blocks, the First ILVU End is non-rezo.

Anyway, I'll add an angle column... when I will have some time to devote to PgcEdit.

[zacoz]

Don't really know anything about the cell type flags, although looking now I have seen a little on angle types. Unless I'm missing something else, this would require checking each PGC to establish if angles were present. At the moment I load up in VobBlanker which will give a warning pop up box on loading if angles are present.

Reading 2COOL's request again, it seems I misread it first time around. I was thinking that an angles column in PGC Selector would be handy to see at a glance if angles are present, whereas 2COOL was referring to column in the PGC Editor which I guess is more useful as it's at cell level.

@r0lZ: Maybe include in the "DVD Opened OK" dialog box / status bar that angles are present.

[r0lZ]

Originally posted by zacoz
@r0lZ: Maybe include in the "DVD Opened OK" dialog box / status bar that angles are present. That's too difficult. The PGC datas are analysed by PgcEdit only when you open the PGC Editor. Doing that when loading the DVD requires too many work, and will slow down the Open DVD operation.

[zacoz]

No problems, not important.

[mpucoder]

But if you just want to know if any titles have angles you can look at VMG_TT_SRPT

[2COOL]

Originally posted by r0lZ
Anyway, I'll add an angle column... when I will have some time to devote to PgcEdit. Thanks!

[2COOL]

I wonder if Derrow uses PgcEdit more than his app when it comes down to editing commands? Just a thought...

[jeanl]

Originally posted by 2COOL
I wonder if Derrow uses PgcEdit more than his app when it comes down to editing commands? Just a thought...
I wonder if derrow is doing DVD stuff at all!
jeanl

[blutach]

Haven't seen him on for about 6 months.

Regards

[r0lZ]

Originally posted by mpucoder
But if you just want to know if any titles have angles you can look at VMG_TT_SRPT Thanks. Of course, it's the simplest way.

BTW, is it legal (or possible) to have multi-angles clips in the menu domains?

[jeanl]

I think I remember mpucoder mentioning that it's not..
jeanl

[r0lZ]

PgcEdit 0.5.7 released.

A. PgcEditor: Added an Angle column ("A.") in the cell list. The angle value is computed from the Type Flags. "-" means all angles, "?" means error.
A. Added a function to remove the current LU from the IFO. The VOB cells are left unreferenced. You may strip them with VobBlanker easily.
A. Added a button "CellTimes.txt" in the Pgc Editor to generate the list of cell times needed to remux a clip with chapters. You may add an offset to the cell times if you want.
A. Added an option to hide the [hex codes] in the main commands listbox.
A. Added an option to go automatically to Trace mode whan a DVD is opened.
A. Shift-clicking on a PGC in the PGC Selector now toggles the breakpoints on that PGC (without selecting it).
A. Added a "Documentation" item in the help menu. It tries to open these files: "<PgcEdit install dir>/doc/PgcEdit_manual.chm" (under Windows only) then, if the file is not found, "<install dir>/doc/PgcEdit_manual.htm", then "<install dir>/doc/PgcEdit_manual.txt", and finally, it opens the online HTML version stored at VideoHelp.
The old, obsolete single text file has been removed from the distribution.
A. Added an option to tell PgcEdit which web browser you want to use. Now, the homepages, online docs and DVD-Replica online help are available also for Linux and Mac users.
E. The shortcuts of the context menus of the PGC selector are now displayed in the menu.
E. Added tooltips on the edit buttons with the keyboard shortcuts.
E. Added tooltips in PGC Editor's color table to show the color number.
E. Added some tooltips on the labels of the cell list in the PGC Editor.
E. Added the Control-Delete shortcut to call the Blank Out All PGCs utility.
E. The "DVD modified, are you sure?" warning now allow to save the DVD.
E. New Preview 1.9 by jeanl. In info mode, the buttons outlines are displayed. Also, mfc42.dll is now linked in the executable, and is therefore not needed anymore under Linux.
F. Bug in the Search function in All mode: the line numbers were wrong.
F. Menu Editor: The Align button functions where not working as expected when the current button position was previously edited manually. Fixed.
F. Workaround for a Tk bug under X11 (Mac and Linux): a wrong height is calculated by Tk for windows with menus. Therefore, the OK/Cancel buttons were hidden in the menu editor.
F. Some display problems fixed under Mac (X11 and Aqua versions.)
F. Error when blanking a titleset when the preview window is open fixed.
F. "Save IFOs as" saved the modified VOBs also (in the original folder).
F. When the option "Store backup folder in parent of VIDEO_TS folder" is ON, the backup folder is saved now in the parent only if the DVD files are in a VIDEO_TS subdirectory.
F. Trace: LinkTopCell in a menu button linked to the previous cell. Fixed.
F. Fixed a rare bug when reading the menu buttons informations.
F. Fixed some english grammar/vocabulary errors.


There are also many changes in the homepage:

New PgcEdit documentation, available online and downloadable in HTML or Windows .CHM format. See installation instructions on the homepage. Thanks to Blutach for this great work!
New installation procedure for Mac users, with a starter application. You don't need to install Tcl/Tk anymore. Thanks to Pucklock!
New guide by Blutach: How to use PgcEdit’s new Jump to PGC Upon DVD Insert Macro.
2COOL's Jump2PGC helper application updated to v 1.55.
Link to a new guide: Menuing DVD compilations easy, by Bjs.
Updated version of Tobi's Beispiele.PDF.
Added the links to download the Test-SPRM-7 test DVD, useful to setup the virtual player (used in trace mode).
And more...


Note that the old ASCII documentation (in english and french) has been removed from the PgcEdit distribution. Have a look at the Installation section on the homepage to learn how to replace it with the new HTML or Windows Help (CHM) files.

[Tobii]

Many thanks r0lZ! :)

[blutach]

A million thanks r0lZ for this excellent program.

Regards

[dirio49]

thanks r0lZ
great program

[absinthe]

Thanks for your work! Cell times ... I love it!

-abs

[arsmori]

Joining the public sentiment: w00t! :D

Q: the text background is now white while it was gray bf (my sys colors?), is there a way to change it back (not the windows frame color), cause my eyes :scared:, ze goggles, zey do nussink!?

[r0lZ]

Joining the public sentiment: w00t! :D

Q: the text background is now white while it was gray bf (my sys colors?), is there a way to change it back (not the windows frame color), cause my eyes :scared:, ze goggles, zey do nussink!?Hum. I changed the background of the listboxes because the X11 gray is a little bit depressive, especially under Mac. But I may add an option to leave it gray in the next release.

[sweetness]

:eek: wow, i think this release should be v0.6.0 with all the changes.
thanks, and take a vacation too, you need one. ;)

[zacoz]

Another version, another big thankyou r0lZ.

[CoNS]

I have to step in line: THANK YOU, r0lZ, for your great work. Much appreciated. :)

BTW, have you thought more about adding an option to select the previewed titles/PGCs/cells for blanking while previewing in trace mode, in order to create a VobBlanker project file to be executed with VobBlanker? Is it on your to-do list, or are you not going to implement it?

[jeanl]

r0lZ,
I have 1 question for you...
In the option you added to remove a cell from a PGC, does PgcEdit modify all the commands to account for the fact that the cell numbers have changed? Do you also do that in button commands?
I'm puzzled, because it seems like a lot of work to me!
My hat to you!
jeanl

[r0lZ]

No. The cell is removed. Point.
Same for programs and chapters.
You have to change the commands yourself. But most of the time, it's easy.

[r0lZ]

Version 2 of the CHM/HTML documentation by Blutach is available on the PgcEdit homepage. It's for PgcEdit 0.5.7 final.

Also, the PDF "Das Programm PgcEdit", wirtten by Tobi for german users, is also updated to PgcEdit 0.5.7.

Thanks, Blutach and Tobi!

[blutach]

Always a pleasure - hope PgcEdit users find this to be a bit of a help :)

Regards

[video_magic]

I have downloaded the latest version and the help as well and I'll be taking a look through it to see what I can do with this program!, it's something to do with the structure of a DVD right? I am hoping it will assist me in my quest to figure out how to author DVDs which are very compliant. Thanks very much for your time and work ROIZ, and blutach for the help which I will need and find very useful for sure. :thanks:

The program certainly seems very neat and fast.

[CoNS]

r0lZ, I have some problems with the keyboard shortcut for previewing a PGC. The shortcut is `(~) but probably due to the differences in the various keyboard layouts, I just can't find that shortcut key...?!

[r0lZ]

I know this problem. On US keyboards, it's the key just below the ESC key. I cannot change that shortcut, because it's impossible to use the normal keys, or you will call the associated function when you type something in the search field. Sorry.

[mpucoder]

You've used up all the ctrl and/or alt combinations? Or don't want to use them?

[Wheelie4]

Got a question about Jeanl's guide on Skipping FBI warnings and Previews on this guide Here (http://jean.laroche.free.fr/SkippingStuff0.4.3.1/index.html). When I do step three and get the popup message I should choose No if I just want to create and burn an iso after that instead of using ifoedit or vobblanker afterwards, right? Just making sure.

I made a goal earlier this week to begin learning atleast some of the most basic possibilities with pgcedit. If I'm correct I can now,

Run the trace mode
Bypass/blank VMG menu's (without buttons ofcourse thx to jeanl tip)
Use macro to blank all unwanted VTS's (thx to jeanl's tip)
Blank cells at beginning of main movie (thx to 2cools guide (http://home.tiscali.be/debie.roland/pgcedit/third_party/2cool/blanking_cell/blanking_cell.htm))
Create iso with 32k gap.
(Learned all that in 6 days, I'm exhausted) ;)

I've learned a tiny bit. :D Couple more years and I'll be able to use 1/20th of pgcedits features. MAYBE. ;)