PgcEdit v9.1 released - 3 January 2009

[r0lZ]

PgcEdit v 8.5 released! (September 24, 2007)

• A. Added "Info -> Jumps from current VTS to VMG" and "Jumps from all VTSs to VMG".
• A. Preview option "Real Time Playback". Enabling this option can be useful to slow the playback down on fast machines.
• E. Kill PGC Playback: Improved detection of the potentially dangerous cell commands. As a consequence, some warnings are not displayed any more in some circumstances, and it is more often possible to remove the PGC cells.
• E. Import Menu: When importing a VMGM menu to a VTSM menu, PgcEdit converts now the Title Menu type to Root Menu, and vice-versa. A warning is issued when a Subpic, Audio, Angle or Chapter menu is imported in the VMGM.
• E. The DVD is now saved automatically after Import VTST Titles, Replace VTST Titles, Delete Last Titleset, Import Menu and Remove Menu, to keep the IFO and the VOBs synchronized on disc. An incremental backup is also made automatically after Import VTST Titles and Delete Last Titleset.
• E. Menu Editor: Advanced options modified slightly to be able to specify the currently selected button as the button to be activated automatically.
• E. PGC Editor -> Create New Cell: When the first cell is created in a menu domain, the user is now prompted for its aspect ratio (4:3 or 16:9.)
• E. Modified PGC Editor -> Del Angles to be able to clear the "First ILVU End" values from cells when the angle flags and the interleaved allocation flag have been cleared manually. This makes possible to remove manually only some angle or interleaved cells in a PGC, and keep the other ones.
• F. PGC Editor: The coloured warnings and tooltips of the seamless joint flags were sometimes wrong in multi-angle PGCs.
• E. Command Editor and command disassembler: LinkNoLink requires a non-zero highlighted button. The editor doesn't allow entering a LinkNoLink command without a button any more, and the disassembly of the LinkNoLink commands generates now an error when the button is not defined.
• F. Delete Uncalled PGCs and Delete Uncalled VTSs: Fixed an important bug occurring when those functions were called after having used trace mode.
• F. Delete Uncalled PGCs: The Chapter tables were not assigned to the right titles when a title has been deleted before another one in the same VTS.
• F. Delete Uncalled PGCs: Fixed an error occurring when Delete Uncalled PGCs is invoked several times in the same PgcEdit session and needs to detete some PGCs in the same VTST domain each time.
• F. Trace mode: When playing a PGC in random or shuffle playback mode, the cells of the PGC were selected randomly instead of the programs.
• F. Trace mode: When a NextPGCN link was executed after playback of a PGC without post-command, the trace stopped with a Target Not Found error.
• F. Trace mode and highlighting of commands target: A LinkPGCN command in a title domain and jumping to another TTN was not considered as illegal.
• F. Trace mode, under Linux: The preview options "Close and Break Trace" and "Blank This Cell" were not working. PgcEdit_preview.exe v 2.6 has been modified to support those options under Linux.
• F. VOBU plugin: Fixed a bug in PgcEdit (introduced in v8.3) that prevented the selection of the start and end LBAs with the preview.
• F. Option "User Interface -> Play sounds with yes/no/cancel dialog boxes ?". It might be necessary to disable this option if PgcEdit hangs when displaying its dialogs on computers with dual core CPUs.
• F. Some little problems in Import and Export all Menu Buttons and BOVs when a titleset is deleted have been fixed. The useless information about the deleted VTS was still saved and loaded.
• F. Create ISO, under Linux: The file save dialog to select the output ISO filename was not working correctly.
• F. Set Menu Type: When using Set Menu Type to modify the position of a menu (such as the Root Menu) the Entry PGC flag was left on the original PGC.

DVDShrink plugin v 2.5 (August 2, 2007)

• Added "Enhance and fix authoring", a new method to assign navigation functions to the remote buttons (including arrow buttons.)
• Added "Make DVD completely region free", as DVDShrink still prohibits the regions 7 (reserved) and 8 (special intl. venues).
• Corrected some typos.

PgcEditPreview v 2.7, by jeanl (Included in PgcEdit v8.5)

• v2.7: Added key in the ini file (RealTimePlayback) to tell the preview to display videos at the normal video rate.
• v2.7: Fixed a bug in the display of the hours in the time-stamp of the info window.
• v2.6: Added a CLI option to pass the ReturnFilePath in the INI file. This is necessary to support the options Close and Break Trace and Blank this Cell under Linux.

[blutach]

Fantastic work. Thank you!



Regards

[Calimari]

Thanks for your hard work, rOLZ!

[conair]

Thanks once again for an work.

[notec]

Sweetness.

Thanks again r0lZ for churning out such a high quality, useful tool that just gets getting better and better...

[r0lZ]

Please note that my e-mail address has changed. It is now "the name of the program followed by the well known [at] symbol followed by TELE2ALLIN in lower case followed by the dot and finally followed by the first two letters of Belgium in lower case".

Sorry, I don't want to write it in the forum, or I will be spammed like crazy!

You can also have a look at the Contact section of my home page, or write me a PM. Of course, the preferred method to contact me is to post in this thread.

[r0lZ]

Finally, the new PgcEdit is here!

PgcEdit v 8.6 (January 12, 2008)

• 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.

DVD Shrink plugin v 2.6 (October 3, 2007)

• Enhance and fix authoring uses now the original SetSTN commands defined by the user with the DVD Shrink option "Set Default Streams..."

Play All plugin v 1.3 (January 1, 2008)

• Bug fix: Error when creating a play all PGC from the VMGM domain.
• Bug fix: The check for the minimal version of PgcEdit was wrong, and the plugin was unable to work when the DVDShrink plugin was not installed.

Search and Replace plugin v 2.6 (December 31, 2007)

• Added the options to limit the action of the Search and Replace to a VTS range, to the menus or title domains, and to the pre, post, cell or button areas only.
• Bug: some commands were not replaced due to upper/lower case problems.
• Several bugs introduced in beta releases 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 or 2.5 have been fixed too.

[dirio49]

Thanks a lot r0lZ

[blutach]

Many thanks again r0lZ for this indispensable tool.

Regards

[r0lZ]

PgcEdit v9.0 released!

The changes are so numerous that I can't list them all here.
See What's new in PgcEdit v9.

Please note that there are new versions of the Play All PGC and the VOBU plugins. Please download and install them if you need them, as the old versions may be incompatible with PgcEdit v9.

Also, the Time Maps and Language Unit (LU) plugins are now deprecated, as their functions have been integrated in PgcEdit itself.


Now, the bad news:

PgcEdit is no longer totally free! A nag screen is displayed during some seconds when PgcEdit starts, to boost the donations! Apart from that, no functionalities of PgcEdit are disabled. The source code is temporarily unavailable, of course.

The donors that have donated even a single $ in the past, will receive by email a code to disable the nag screen. If you haven't received your code in 2 or 3 days, please send me an email. (My email address is on the PgcEdit homepage, in the contact section.) Also, if you have helped me in the past, for example by writing some guides, you may receive a free code. Again, write me!
I wish to thank the peoples who have already donated. Unfortunately, they are not numerous, and therefore I had to introduce this little limitation. Sorry for the inconvenience.
The guys who have not donated yet will need to pay at least $15 or €10 to receive the code. Sorry, guys, you should have donated when PgcEdit was free!

[Wombler]

Great to see it at last r0lZ.

Thanks for the phenomenal amount of effort you've put into this and for producing such fantastic software.



Edit: Don't forget to update the thread title.


Wombler

[r0lZ]

Thanks!

The thread title has been updated by someone else. I guess it's Blu. Thanks to you too. And thanks to all beta testers!

Have a nice XMas, guys!

[r0lZ]

Thanks to the beta team, I have just fixed a bug in v9.0.

When you select the menu "Preview -> Automatically start preview playback?", an error message is displayed.
Don't worry. This error has no consequence. Just cancel the error dialog.

Of course, this bug will be fixed in v9.1. Pity we haven't noticed it yesterday!

[gonwk]

Hi r0lZ,

THANKS for the Christmas Present!

Wish YOU a MERRY XMAS & Wonderful New 2009 Year!

G!

[blutach]

Thanks for a truly magnificent product r0lZ. Now, sit back and have a joyeaux Noël.

Regards