I screwed up... blanked VTSes not PGCs

[Jeff D]

I was blanking out some extras in a disc that I didn't want. I was planning on running the blanked output through dvdshrink to get the 5.1GB fileset onto a DVD5 disc, but I screwed up (I think).

Instead of blanking the PGCs I blanked the VTSes and now tools like DVDShrink or PGCEdit can't open the fileset because of the missing VTSes.

Have I screwed myself beyond recover or is there a way to dummy up these missing VTSes? I've got no idea what to searh for to do this, and the guides I've looked at don't have anything exactly like this.

My disc fileset has VIDEO_TS.*, VTS_01*.* and VTS_07*.* with all other VTSes blanked so I'd need the IFOs and VOBs files for anything of those tools to work.

If someone could direct me to a guide or information that would be great!

[Jeff D]

Ok, I'm making progress, but not sure if dvdshrink will fix the problems that doing this could create.

I took a disc with 12 VTSes and blanked everything, I took the blank title sets and copied the missing VTS files into the dvd file set. The applications then are able to open the dvd file set.

My question now is will DVD shrink correct the IFO files and the data used for VOB offsets and such?

[lark]

i guess the easiest way is to rip those files again ;-)

but your method would work as well GIVEN that there are no ref to titles or menus in the blanked VTSs from the 'clean' VMGM or VTS1 or VTS7.
in addition you might get some weird errors, if the # of titles in your 'new' VTS2-6 is different from the original ones...

why don't you just create a dummy dvd with 1 VTS. copy over your VTS1. import VTS7 as closing title. and finally fix all the VM commands. or are you having multiple titles in the VTS1 or 7?

regards
t :)

[Jeff D]

Thanks for the info lark.

As far as I can tell there's just one title in each title set, so that's the easy part.

I was just playing around with a disc when I ran into the problem and sure you could just rerip the disc, but where's the adventure in that? =)

I always screw things up in ways the majority of folks don't and when I do I like to take the problem as a chance to learn and discover.

I'm burning a "fixed" disc right now, I'll know in a few minutes if the blanked VTSes from another disc will work or not.

Seems to work, I should edit the files to get rid of the auto play trailers, but other than that it works.