Possible To Edit Playback Out Before Menu

[Master Yoda]

OK, i know how do skip the trailers at the beginning of the disc so it goes to ether a menu or logo, but i was wondering , is it possible to edit the playback chain at the beginning so it skips jus the middle files. i.e.

The dvd i backing up goes like this... menu to select language > warning > Disney Logo > About 10mins worth of trailers > Menu.

If possible i would like it to go language > warning > Disney Logo > Menu. So it just skips the trailers, so my player does'nt search back and forth where the trailers have been blanked out.

[r0lZ]

There is a method similar to the Jump2PGC method, but that method has not been implemented as a mecro yet, and there are no guides to explain it.

Let's say you want to go directly from point A (the Disney logo) to point B (the main menu). It's relatively easy if either A is in the VMGM domain, or if both A and B are in the same titleset.

1. Go to trace mode, and trace until you reach the first post-command of A.
2. Select the trace menu "State -> Clear 'Register Changed' Flags".
3. Continue to trace until you reach the first pre-command of point B.
4. Select the trace menu "Clipboard -> Copy Changed Registers as commands".
5. Go to the PGC A, and paste the commands in the clipboard as the first post-commands.
6. If point A is in the VMGM domain, and a SetSTN command has been pasted, delete it.
7. Select the last command you have just pasted, and insert a new NOP command. (Use the Add After button.)
8. Edit the NOP command to jump to point B. Use the Jump and Call menu of the command editor to select the right command. (If the command is a CallSS, don't forget to specify "return to cell 1.")
9. Save and test.

But note that there are cases where the method will not work as expected. For example, if point A is called from several points of the DVD, you will jump to the main menu each time the logo is displayed, which is not necessarily what you want.
You can check if point A is called from several points in the DVD: Select the PGC A, and use the Go To Calling Command function. If only one PGC is displayed in the list, you're (probably) lucky. If not, check the DVD carefully!

If point A and B are in different titlesets, you will have to do an indirect jump via a new dummy VMGM PGC. Let me know if it is your case.

[Master Yoda]

Step 5.. i select point A but which paste optionss, can only find paste replace,paste before and paste after by right clicking on the left window in trace mode....?

[2COOL]

5. Go to the PGC A, and paste the commands in the clipboard as the first post-commands.Select "********** post commands:" label and choose Paste after.

[r0lZ]

Select "********** post commands:" label and choose Paste after.... or select the first post command and choose Paste before! :D

[2COOL]

I did another variant of jumping over only the preview trailers.

Perform the Jump to PGC Upon DVD insert macro with main menu as target PGC. At the end, you will have a DVD that will quickly jump to main menu but this is not what we want.

Create a dummy VMGM. Right click on any VMGM and select "New dummy PGC". It will be created as your new last VMGM. Remember it's VMGM #.

Go to First Play PGC and select the newly inserted commands. It's from the first NOP and all the commands before it. Right click and Cut. We will paste them in your newly created dummy VMGM.

Go to new dummy VMGM (Step 2), and select NOP command. Right click and "Paste replace".

Option: To clean up the commands a bit here, you can safely delete the first "if-then-goto" pre command.


Now, go to Post commands of PGC that has the Disney Logo clip. Select first post command, right click, and "Add before". You will have a new NOP command for Post command 1.

Double click on this NOP command to edit. Click on Alphabetically > CallSS-VMGM-PGC.

In VMGM PGC field, enter the dummy VMGM number you got in step 2. Click OK to set.

Save and test.

[r0lZ]

Go to new dummy VMGM (Step 2), and select NOP command. Right click and "Paste replace".There is something missing in your explanation. What do you paste here? If I follow your guide step by step, there is nothing in the clipboard when reaching point 3.

I suppose you have to cut the commands added in the FP PGC by the macro. Right?

Anyway, although it's a good idea, I think my method is better, because it will set only the GPRMs that are changed between point A and B. With your method, all GPRMs changed between FP-PGC and point B will be set. So, you will loose the GPRMs values that are eventually changed by the menus encountered before reaching point A.

[2COOL]

There is something missing in your explanation. What do you paste here? If I follow your guide step by step, there is nothing in the clipboard when reaching point 3. I apologize to the community for my blunder. :( As I was editing my post, I had accidently deleted my true step 3. I have re-edited my guide. I hope it makes sense now.

I suppose you have to cut the commands added in the FP PGC by the macro. Right? Your assumption is dead on.

Anyway, although it's a good idea, I think my method is better, because it will set only the GPRMs that are changed between point A and B. With your method, all GPRMs changed between FP-PGC and point B will be set. So, you will loose the GPRMs values that are eventually changed by the menus encountered before reaching point A.I'll have to ponder on this for awhile as I had a few beers. :)