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Among other things, IfoEdit allows you to modify the commands associated with PGCs (Program Chains). On this precise point however, it suffers from many limitations: it knows only some of the 41 existing commands, manages only some of the parameters of these commands, does not allow to create structured programs with conditions, branches etc... Moreover, it is very difficult to have an overall vision of all the commands of the DVD, because those are disseminated at various places in the DVD, among large amounts of other data.
I wrote PgcEdit to supplement IfoEdit. PgcEdit is a program much more limited than IfoEdit: it only enables editing the commands and modifying certain parameters of PGCs (Program Chains). On the other hand, it does not have the same limitations as IfoEdit: it allows one to edit all the commands with all their parameters, without other limitations than those imposed by the standard, and the philosophy of PgcEdit offers a better overall picture of the programming of the DVD. I have also added some functions as a bonus.
Changes in PgcEdit 8.6 :
- A. DVD -> Clear Jumps to Void PGCs, to replace the pre/post/cell commands jumping to void PGCs by NOPs and to clear the Prev/Next/GoUpPGCN links to void PGCs.Handy to improve the efficiency of Delete Uncalled PGCs and to remove automatically all references to a PGC if you make it void before.
- E. PGC Editor -> Del Angles: Since it is possible to keep several angles with FixVTS or VobBlanker, it is now possible to leave several angles in place. Previously, it was necessary to delete all angles but one.
- E. PgcEditor -> Import CLUT: It is now possible to import the colors defined in Scenarist .SST files. The colors that are not defined are not modified.
- E. When deleting a PGC of a non-sequential Title and that deleted PGC is not a dummy and has chapters, the deleted chapters were always remapped to some remaining programs.Now, the chapters are completely deleted when they are the last chapters of the title.They are still remapped when they are necessary to fill gaps in the chapter table.
- E. Delete uncalled PGCs: Now, when a Title PGC cannot be deleted because the menu of the same VTS is still referenced, the commands of the orphan Title are changed to a CallSS to the FP-PGC.This way, useless commands pointing to nowhere are removed.
- E. Find Jumps to Void PGCs: Added a warning with the void entry menu PGCs that can be called with the remote.
- E. Info -> GPRMs: Added a "Refresh" button to recompute the usage counts.
- E. Suppressed the warning displayed when a DVD is read about wrong time map tables then the VTS_PTT_SRPT table doesn't exist at all.
- E. Added the following hot keys: - DVD -> Clear Jump to Void PGCs:Ctrl+Shift+J - DVD -> Delete Uncalled PGCs:Ctrl+Shift+U - Info -> Find Jumps to Nowhere:Ctrl+Shift+N
- E. Improved some error messages.
- E. When a DVD is loaded, PgcEdit checks now if the TTN number assigned to a title PGC is not 0, and if it is 0, it offers to assign the TTN 1 instead.
- E. When a DVD is loaded, PgcEdit checks now if all VOB files are referenced by the IFOs, and offer to remove the unreferenced VOB files.This solve also the issue of unnecessary VOBs left after a Restore Backup operation.
- F. The number of PTTs was not updated in VMG_TT_SRPT after the use of Title -> PTT (Chapter) Editor.
- F. PGC Editor: the number of PGs was sometimes wrongly incremented by 1.
- F. PGC Editor and Replace VTST Titles: When the number of programs of a PGC was modified in the PGC Editor and then, in the same PgcEdit session, that VTS was replaced by another one using the option to keep the data of the original PGC, the number of programs was wrong, and that caused the PGC Editor to crash.
- F. Trace: Bug when a button or BOV command did not include a jump elsewhere.
- F. Fixed a bug occurring when the PGC comments or GPRM labels have been modified, the DVD Text General Name contains a character illegal in a file name such as ":" and the option to automatically save the user comments in the backup folder was not enabled.
- F. Fixed a possible bug under Vista when Roxio and Macrovision Software Manager has been installed.The path to the Application Data folder was wrong.
- F. Fixed a possible bug with the length of the VTSI_MAT table when its end-byte pointer is (intentonally?) wrong.(Thanks Michael!)
- F. DVD-Text General Name: When creating a new VMG_TXTDT_MG table, an useless pointer was initialized.It is now set to 0.
- E. The standalone executable is now wrapped with freeWrap v6.3. PgcEdit should now start without problem under Ubuntu v7.10 Gusty.
- E. Added the possibility to specify the character encoding needed by some foreign systems with accented characters by defining the system environment variable PGCEDIT_ENCODING, or with the command line option /E=encoding or -e=encoding.Specify /? or -h to see a list of the available encodings. The default encoding is cp1252.
• Related downloads:
- IfoEdit: allows you to strip audio and subtitle streams you don't need, to get rid of certain menus and extras but still preserve the general DVD structure.
- VobEdit: tool for joining, cutting, de-multiplexing DVD VOB files.
- MenuShrink: is a small application that lets you compress DVD motion menus.
- FixVTS: allows you to adjust your DVD files into better DVD compliance, so they can be opened in DVDShrink or VobBlanker.
- pgc.NET: is an extremely easy chain ripper. Can be used on DVD movie disks and hard drive folders.
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