- PGCEDIT 7.3 - I want to start DVD with Scene Selection Menu

[blutach]

First run the final DVD through PgcEdit. Run the fix number of stream macro in the DVD menu.

Then post another pic with your IFOs zipped up.

Regards

[rock_king_my]

Screenshots of PGCEDIT (after Exporting DVD from DVDREMAKE)

Hi Blutach & Co.

Here they are!

Screenshots 2-7.

Please give the instructions like this (picture number as header then the guide):

Pic 2
- ............
- ............
- etc

Pic 3
- ............
- ............
- etc

If you need more shots at other parts of PGCEDIT, let me know!

Cheers!

[rock_king_my]

More Screenshots of PGCEDIT

Hi

Here's the no6 & no7 screenshots.

CHEERS!

[blutach]

Please zip up your menu files and post them somewhere. If too big for an attachment here, try rapidshare.

Menus are VTS_0X_0.VOB and VIDEO_TS.VOB

Why have you deleted ALL commands off the DVD? This makes it very hard. Go back to before you did that and repost the IFOs please. It's a lot easier to edit than create out of thin air. I know for sure a merge with DVD Remake Pro does not leave a DVD looking like this.

Also, what did you use to mux the titles? Every cell has a "non-seamless" flag set - meaning there will be a little layer-break like pause at the end of each cell. This will be very annoying!!!

Regards

[rock_king_my]

PGCEDIT / DVDREMAKE Errors

Hi

"Why have you deleted ALL commands off the DVD?"
I didn't delete ALL the commands .. well if I did, they were accidents/screw-ups by me.

"Go back to before you did that and repost the IFOs please."
I'm not sure what this means but I'll send the IFOs per movie in separate zip files (i.e. the ones that went through PGCEDIT & VOBBLANKER but not yet merged together). Is this ok? I assume you mean send the IFOs of each movie separately before I used DVDREMAKE PRO for merging, right?

Also, what did you use to mux the titles?
I didn't like the default MAIN MENU (that brown-ish one!) I got after merging the DVDs in DVDREMAKE PRO so I made a new one. When I replaced block & imported the new one via Muxman, the 3 buttons disappeared. I assume that's how you replaced the background image of the default main menu. I couldn't see how to do it in PGCEDIT so I did it in DVDREMAKE PRO instead.

Will do the rest of your instructions soon.

CHEERS.

[blutach]

No, please do not post the 3 separate sets of IFOs, but the IFOs and menu VOBs directly after the 2 merge operations in DVD Remake Pro.

As for replacing menu backgrounds, see the new sticky - animated guide to replacing menus in VobBlanker.

It is not the menus that exhibit these cell flag issues - it is the titles. Have a look by double clicking one one of them and viewing the cell flags - note the layer break flag is ticked on every cell.

Regards

[rock_king_my]

IFOs & Menu VOBS from Merged DVD

Hi

Here are the IFOs. I can't upload the menu VOBs yet coz my net connection is SO SLOWWWWWWW! Will try later.

Fresh off merging in DVDREMAKE (i.e. I did the merging again) but NOT YET re-inputted into PGCEDIT & VOBBLANKER for another round.

This time, I left the default menu by DVDREMAKE. Changing menu background to be done later ... So no MUXMAN then?

Not sure if the IFOs are any different than the previous I posted.

If you need screenshots, let me know what of & in which software.

CHEERS!

[blutach]

You probably didn't input your command set in muxman. See how to do the menu background substitution in VobBlanker in the sticky as advised in my previous post (see here). But save your IFOs first!

I'll take a look at them.

EDIT: Those IFOs are one movie only - not after DVD Remake Pro merge. Need to see the latter.

Regards

[rock_king_my]

The VOBs

Hi

Here’s VIDEO_TS.VOB, VTS_01_0.VOB and VTS_10_0.VOB. I can’t upload VTS_04_0.VOB as my net connection is slow and it’s 2mb-ish in size.

Do you think you can sort my mess without VTS_04_0.VOB at the moment?

CHEERS!

[blutach]

Not without your merged IFOs from DVD Remake Pro. These will have about 15 VTSs. Post 37 includes just 1 movie with 5 or 6 VTSs. It will look like post 32's IFOs, but will have commands in the PGCs.

Regards

[rock_king_my]

Continued ...

Hi

"Those IFOs are one movie only - not after DVD Remake Pro merge. Need to see the latter.
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I’m afraid those IFOs are the only ones I found in the EXPORT DVD folder (where DVDREMAKE’s output went to after merging). The only other IFOs I got are for each individual movie before merging them.

The only other things I can post are more screenshots.

CHEERS.

[blutach]

Screenshots are not helpful here, I am afraid.

You need to take your 3 projects and merge them again. Export to a new folder. This will give a whole new set of DVD files, similar to post 32.

Regards

[rock_king_my]

Repost Ifo zip

Hi
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In the IFO zip there should be VIDEO_TS.IFO plus about 15 VTS.IFO files. A total of 16 items in that zip.
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Here it is again.

[blutach]

Those are the same IFOs are you provided in post 32. Somehow, ALL the commands have gone. See - there's nothing on the right hand side under pre/post/cell?



Compare that to the IFOs for the single movie you provided.



I don't know how all the commands have gone - only that it will be impossible to advise you without them.

Sorry.

Maybe you are not following the guide to merge DVDs properly - see http://www.dimadsoft.com/dvdremakepro/ht_merge_full.php

By the way, is there any reason you are not using the latest version of DVD Remake Pro? (I know you mentioned it crashed on some of the other stuff - this is puzzling). I still think you should login and update to 3.5.3.

Regards

[rock_king_my]

Dvdshrink, Titlewriter, Dvdstyler, Subtitles ..

Hi Blutach & Co.

I'm really lost now ...

How about if I do a "movie only"/multi-movie DVD compilation with DVDSHRINK first?

Then insert the original scene selection menus using PGCEDIT and / or VOBBLANKER or into that compilation.

In fact I have done a 3-movie compilation already with DVDSHRINK. Would it be useful if you check out its IFOs if I post them? No menus in there obviously.

Blutach, you did a guide on "Adding Back Original Menus to a DVD Shrink and Nero Recode Reauthored DVD", right? The guide was for 1 movie DVD ... what about "movie only"/multi-movie DVD compilation?

If not possible, then use something like TITLEWRITER or DVDSTYLER or DVDAUTHORGUI anything else? Muxman?

It's puzzling to me that DVDSHRINK will let you keep some subtitles using Re-Author mode but when importing them in other software like NERO RECODE or TMPEG DVD AUTHOR or ULEAD DVD MOVIE FACTORY, you'll lose them? What the point keeping them if the other DVD authoring software won't take them? I hope I'm right about TITLEWRITER or DVDSTYLER.

See a new post I started about this:

http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=69050

I'm just waiting for any TITLEWRITER or DVDSTYLER expert to advice me on that ... particularly FALLEN ANGEL obviously!

Then do final fix-ups with PGCEDIT / VOBBLANKER.

A few points/questions about TITLEWRITER & DVDSTYLER:

- I tried to download the menu templates for TITLEWRITER but the link doesn't work

http://www.dvdshrink.info/titlewriter/MenuTemplates_Simple.zip

- I downloaded DVDSTYLER but when trying to execute it, a black DOS window quickly appeared & disappeared .. nothing is installed

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dvdstyler/DVDStyler-1.4_1-win32u.exe?download

Have I got the wrong links .. are these outdated?

I could use some good simple-to-follow guides on TITLEWRITER & DVDSTYLER ... ones with pictures!

As for that 5.1 to 2.0 audio conversion thing, I still dunno where to get that kinda guide. Mostly I've spotted doing the vice versa. What's the technical term for 5.1 to 2.0 conversion .. is it Dolby Digital to PCM or LPCM or something?

I'm considering ripping the movie into DVD compliant MPEG-2, the output should instantly be 2.0, right? What the best DVD RIPPING software for doing that? IMTOO DVD RIPPER PLATINUM or anything will do?

Then use a software (or more than 1 if required) to add back the subtitle streams on to that output.

Not sure if this is possible & with what software(s).

Or if keeping the 5.1 audio, use the DHDSHRINK-TDA route & use something to add back the subtitle streams on to that output. TDA's menu templates are not that bad! & it remembers/maintains the chapter points from DVDSHRINK! I think TDA got a AC-3 plugin thing but not to sure if that will reduce 5.1 to 2.0.

CHEERS!