PgcEdit ver 8.0 (a DVD IFO editor) *** UPDATE *** 23 January

[nwg]

Re: PgcEdit 0.5.3

Originally posted by r0lZ
PgcEdit 0.5.3 released

It's principally a bugfix release. Please download it!

Thanks.

[blutach]

Merci beaucoup!

Regards

[r0lZ]

PgcEdit 0.5.4

PgcEdit 0.5.4 released.

Fixes a bug in Import Startup/Intro/Closing Clip macros, introduced in v0.5.3.

Also, there is a new PgcEdit_preview executable, by jeanl. Not a verry important improvment, but it's the first step to implement the preview under Linux (and maybe also under Mac OSX).

• New PgcEdit_preview v0.7: with option to turn off the usage of DirectDraw overlays to show the preview, and an option to save the menu backgrounds as PPM instead of BMP (internal use only!)
• Added "Preview -> Disable DirectDraw Overlays" (Windows only) option. On some systems, it may be faster to turn off the DirectDraw overlay display.
• Shift-clicking on the "BMP" button in the preview window allow to save an image in PPM format.
• Inport First-Play/Intro/Closing Clip macros were broken in 0.5.3. Fixed.

[r0lZ]

Sorry, PgcEdit 0.5.3 has a new bug in the Import Startup/Intro/Closing Clip macros. Use PgcEdit 0.5.4 instead!

[blutach]

The bugfix of the bugfix version.

Thanks r0lZ

Regards

[r0lZ]

PgcEdit 0.5.5

PgcEdit 0.5.5 released

Thanks to jeanl, PgcEdit is now able to use PgcEditPreview.exe under Linux, through wine.

Also, the preview may run under Mac OSX, through darwine. However, it has not been tested yet. I'd like to hear if it works...

Of course, both wine (aka "wine hq") and darwine are free.

• PREVIEW (and menu backgrounds) available for Linux, and probably also for Mac OSX. You must install wine (for Linux) or darwine (for Mac OSX) to be able to use it.
• Added the Preview -> Use Preview option, to allow Linux or Mac users to turn the preview off, in case of problems with wine or darwine. Although not verry useful, this option is available also under Windows.
• Fixed a bug in v0.5.4, which caused the display of 16:9 letterboxed menus in the menu viewer to fail.
• When saving menu buttons, if you answered NO at the "Backup VOB?" request, PgcEdit offered to backup the VOB again and again. Fixed.

(Also, it's yet another bugfix, blutach )

[nwg]

Thanks again.

[blutach]

For those interested, a new PgcEdit beta (v0.5.6 beta 1) has been posted. Note it is a BETA and should be treated as such. The latest "release" is v0.5.5

Get it here.

Regards

[r0lZ]

It's a beta because I don't want to release too many versions in a verry short time, and there is no urgent bugfix in 0.5.6 beta1. But it should run without problems.

[tapom]

Which the best Software of removal PgcEdit or VOBBLANK?

[nwg]

Originally posted by tapom
Which the best Software of removal PgcEdit or VOBBLANK?

I prefer VobBlanker for removing vobs.

[tapom]

Originally posted by blutach
For those interested, a new PgcEdit beta (v0.5.6 beta 1) has been posted. Note it is a BETA and should be treated as such. The latest "release" is v0.5.5

Get it here.

Regards

Which the best Software of removal PgcEdit or VOBBLANK?

[r0lZ]

PgcEdit is only able to blank out a whole domain. But, if blanking the whole domain is suitable for your DVD, it has the advantage that it's immediate. You don't need to copy the whole DVD to process it.

In the other hand, VobBlanker is able to blank individual PGCs and cells. It is even possible to cut a cell (in title's domains only), and keep only a part of it (handy to remove credits or intros/logos in the main title).

[r0lZ]

PgcEdit 0.5.6

PgcEdit 0.5.6 released.

A. = Added feature
F. = Fixed bug

• A. New semi-automatic macro "Jump to PGC upon DVD insert". It's a modified version of jeanl's "Jumping straight to the movie (or the menu) with PgcEdit" and 2COOL's "Jump2Pgc" guides.
• A. Added "Swap or Copy Menu PGC" utility, to swap or copy the PGC parameters (cell table, color table, streams, VM commands, ...) from another PGC of the same menu domain with/to the current PGC. Useful to cleanup the menus.
• A. Added the command "Delete All Commands in PGC" in the PGC Selector popup menu.
• A. Added the utility "Delete All Commands in Domain", also available in the PGC Selector popup menu.
• A. Added the function "Delete All Commands in DVD", available only by right-clicking on an empty line in the PGC Selector.
• A. Added the utility "Blank out all Title PGCs in DVD", that calls the "Blank Out All PGCs in Domain" utility in sequence for all title domains.
• A. Added an option to change the default colors of the GUI, requested by a Linux user.
• A. Option "Skip Preview of short cells (< 1sec., without still time)?" in the preview configuration of the trace mode.
• A. PGC Editor: Added an edit popup menu on the audio and subpic streams title label to copy and paste all audio or subpic streams assignments.
• A. Added a button "All" in the search GUI, to display all occurences in a window. You may click on the buttons to jump to any occurence.
• A. Added some icons for Linux users (included in the Zip archive), thanks to M7S.
• F. PgcEdit_Preview 1.8 by jeanl. See history at the bottom of this file.
• F. Fixed a little bug in Kill Playback macro that caused the display of an erroneous warning when killing the playback of a menu PGC with some cell commands (LinkTailPGC...)
• F. A wrong path was used to store the configuration files on some Win XP foreign systems. Fixed.
• F. Fixed a little problem when using an Alt-F# system key under windows: The tool associated with the F# key was launched instead.
• F. Fixed a bug in the error message routine when a DVD cannot be opened successfully.
• F. Fixed a rare bug in trace mode.

PgcEdit_Preview 1.8 by jeanl:

• Fixed a bug in original DVD2AVI code that caused the CELLID to be incorrectly read from the VOB file in some rare instances.
• Enabled the original code to avoid an extremely rare problem where DVD2AVI finds a SEQUENCE_HEADER_CODE in the first navpack.

Thanks to jeanl, 2COOL, blutach and Tobi for the beta testing of the difficult 'Jump to PGC' macro, and especially to jeanl and 2COOL for their guides.

Have a look at the PgcEdit's homepage. There are some new or updated guides, too.

[r0lZ]

PgcEdit 0.5.7 released.

• A. PgcEditor: Added an Angle column ("A.") in the cell list. The angle value is computed from the Type Flags. "-" means all angles, "?" means error.
• A. Added a function to remove the current LU from the IFO. The VOB cells are left unreferenced. You may strip them with VobBlanker easily.
• A. Added a button "CellTimes.txt" in the Pgc Editor to generate the list of cell times needed to remux a clip with chapters. You may add an offset to the cell times if you want.
• A. Added an option to hide the [hex codes] in the main commands listbox.
• A. Added an option to go automatically to Trace mode whan a DVD is opened.
• A. Shift-clicking on a PGC in the PGC Selector now toggles the breakpoints on that PGC (without selecting it).
• A. Added a "Documentation" item in the help menu. It tries to open these files: "<PgcEdit install dir>/doc/PgcEdit_manual.chm" (under Windows only) then, if the file is not found, "<install dir>/doc/PgcEdit_manual.htm", then "<install dir>/doc/PgcEdit_manual.txt", and finally, it opens the online HTML version stored at VideoHelp.
  The old, obsolete single text file has been removed from the distribution.
• A. Added an option to tell PgcEdit which web browser you want to use. Now, the homepages, online docs and DVD-Replica online help are available also for Linux and Mac users.
• E. The shortcuts of the context menus of the PGC selector are now displayed in the menu.
• E. Added tooltips on the edit buttons with the keyboard shortcuts.
• E. Added tooltips in PGC Editor's color table to show the color number.
• E. Added some tooltips on the labels of the cell list in the PGC Editor.
• E. Added the Control-Delete shortcut to call the Blank Out All PGCs utility.
• E. The "DVD modified, are you sure?" warning now allow to save the DVD.
• E. New Preview 1.9 by jeanl. In info mode, the buttons outlines are displayed. Also, mfc42.dll is now linked in the executable, and is therefore not needed anymore under Linux.
• F. Bug in the Search function in All mode: the line numbers were wrong.
• F. Menu Editor: The Align button functions where not working as expected when the current button position was previously edited manually. Fixed.
• F. Workaround for a Tk bug under X11 (Mac and Linux): a wrong height is calculated by Tk for windows with menus. Therefore, the OK/Cancel buttons were hidden in the menu editor.
• F. Some display problems fixed under Mac (X11 and Aqua versions.)
• F. Error when blanking a titleset when the preview window is open fixed.
• F. "Save IFOs as" saved the modified VOBs also (in the original folder).
• F. When the option "Store backup folder in parent of VIDEO_TS folder" is ON, the backup folder is saved now in the parent only if the DVD files are in a VIDEO_TS subdirectory.
• F. Trace: LinkTopCell in a menu button linked to the previous cell. Fixed.
• F. Fixed a rare bug when reading the menu buttons informations.
• F. Fixed some english grammar/vocabulary errors.

There are also many changes in the homepage:

• New PgcEdit documentation, available online and downloadable in HTML or Windows .CHM format. See installation instructions on the homepage. Thanks to Blutach for this great work!
• New installation procedure for Mac users, with a starter application. You don't need to install Tcl/Tk anymore. Thanks to Pucklock!
• New guide by Blutach: How to use PgcEdit’s new Jump to PGC Upon DVD Insert Macro.
• 2COOL's Jump2PGC helper application updated to v 1.55.
• Link to a new guide: Menuing DVD compilations easy, by Bjs.
• Updated version of Tobi's Beispiele.PDF.
• Added the links to download the Test-SPRM-7 test DVD, useful to setup the virtual player (used in trace mode).
• And more...

Note that the old ASCII documentation (in english and french) has been removed from the PgcEdit distribution. Have a look at the Installation section on the homepage to learn how to replace it with the new HTML or Windows Help (CHM) files.