Simpsons Season 5 Disk 4 Hidden video

[hf]

I was just working on backing up this disk set and noticed on the
4th disk there are 9 clips in the VTS_02 menu domain and 2 clips
in the VTS_08 menu domain. I can't figure out how to access them.
Using pgcedit to trace backwards to see what calls the clips ends
in a dead end. You eventully trace back to some menus in the
VIDEO_TS that are not called by anything else. There must
be some way to access these menus from a remote, but I
don't know how to do it.

[sweetness]

i don't have that disc but when ever you see something like that it's most likely an easter egg.
so i did a google search and you can try this out (http://www.dvdreview.com/eastereggs/collect/671.html). see if that works.

edit: found better link. oh ya, use PGCEdit to view the menus buttons and look at their commands too.

[2COOL]

Originally posted by hf
I can't figure out how to access them.You can try this to see if it's truly a unreferenced material. Select PGC and right click. Select "Go to calling command". If none, then it's unreferenced. It was probably some residue during the authoring stage.

[hf]

The clips are not the easter eggs apparently.

I traced backwards using pgcedit. The 2 clips in VTSM_8 (menu numbers 3 and 4)
go back to VTSM_8 (angle menu) which goes back to VMGM menu numbers
10 and 11, which are not called by anything.

The ones in VTS_2 follow the same pattern. VTSM_2 menus 3-11 all go back to
VTSM_2 (angle menu) which goes back to VMGM menu numbers 2-8 & 12, which
are not called by anything.

There is another clip on this disk which is a bunch of deleted scenes (which
you can get to from the Special Features menu). I was wondering if I could
easily take all these unreferenced clips and slap them on the end of the delete
scenes? I'd guess I'd have to demux/remux the individual clips, use 'addChapter'
to add a bunch of blank chapters to the end of the existing deleted scene
clip and then use vobblanker to replace each of the blank chapters with one
of the individual clips.

I've never tried something like this, is this do-able? Is the fact that the clips
are in the menu domain a problem?

UPDATE:

OK, the good news is I was able to demux/remux etc like I outlined above and
it worked. The bad news is that I then discovered that the unreferenced clips
are all just shorter segments of what is already included in the "deleted scenes"
feature. These clips get shown when you watch an episode with the "show deleted
scenes" option selected. During the episode, you see a image of a scissors
where the scene is, you click on it, the deleted segment plays and then the
movie resumes. It is strange that pgcedit doesn't show these as referenced
by anything.

[r0lZ]

Originally posted by hf
It is strange that pgcedit doesn't show these as referenced
by anything. What version of PgcEdit did you use?
Starting with v0.5.0 (last release), the buttons over video should be recognized.

[hf]

I was using 0.4.9.1. After I posted my message,
I remembered the announcement for 0.5.0 supporting
BOV and thought that I should try the disk with
that version. I just haven't gotten around to trying
it yet. I'll let you know if I have any problems.