Can't Kill Previews w/o Killing Previews

[idontno]

This time I want to kill the previews B4 the Main Menu but keep the previews accessed thru the Preview button. But they are both called by the same VMGM.

I'll try not to be too confusing.

The previews B4 the Main Menu are called from VMGM 2... Jump to Title's 3, 10 and 11.

I cloned the three pgc's to 19, 20, and 21. Then changed the jumps in VMGM 2 to match.

Then I was going to kill 19, 20 and 21 thinking that clicking on the corresponding previews in the Previews Menu would take me to 3,10 and 11. Instead I was taken to 19,20 and 21.

I tried stepping thru looking for a way to just skip over the previews, but it jumps around thru so many pgc's that I get lost.

Am I being clear enuff? And can I get around this?

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[techreactor]

This time I want to kill the previews B4 the Main Menu but keep the previews accessed thru the Preview button. But they are both called by the same VMGM.

I'll try not to be too confusing.

The previews B4 the Main Menu are called from VMGM 2... Jump to Title's 3, 10 and 11.

I cloned the three pgc's to 19, 20, and 21. Then changed the jumps in VMGM 2 to match.

Then I was going to kill 19, 20 and 21 thinking that clicking on the corresponding previews in the Previews Menu would take me to 3,10 and 11. Instead I was taken to 19,20 and 21.

I tried stepping thru looking for a way to just skip over the previews, but it jumps around thru so many pgc's that I get lost.

Am I being clear enuff? And can I get around this?

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Use VOBblanker - > Blank Auto option. That will kill all previews and extra, but you can enable the extras if you want to, before clicking on "process"

[idontno]

Use VOBblanker - > Blank Auto option. That will kill all previews and extra, but you can enable the extras if you want to, before clicking on "process"

If I kill all the previews it will kill the previews in extra also. They are one in the same.

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[blutach]

Do a menushrink (no audio) and post the resultant IFOs and menu VOBs. Then we can see what you're saying. You'll need to create a new PGC in VMGM and redirect your previews button to it, most likely.

Or we may be able to do it, via testing with a GPRM as a flag. Ist time it comes along, it doesn't play, next time, it is any different number and it does.

Anyways, please post the files. You may need to pop them on a filesharing service.

Regards

[techreactor]

If I kill all the previews it will kill the previews in extra also. They are one in the same.

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There is a cut/keep feature in VObblanker!!!

[blutach]

@TR - I think he is saying they are one and the same video segments. It's just he wants to kill playback in certain instances but not in others.

VobBlanker can't help here, I don't think.

Regards

[r0lZ]

You can skip everything that is played before the main menu using PgcEdit's Jump to PGC upon DVD insert function. The previews will still be available when called from the bonus menu. No need to duplicate them.

[idontno]

Do a menushrink (no audio) and post the resultant IFOs and menu VOBs. Then we can see what you're saying. You'll need to create a new PGC in VMGM and redirect your previews button to it, most likely.

I don't know of any filesharing service yet, so I zipped em.

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[blutach]

As usual, r0lZ is spot on with the advice. Follow it!

Regards

[idontno]

You can skip everything that is played before the main menu using PgcEdit's Jump to PGC upon DVD insert function. The previews will still be available when called from the bonus menu. No need to duplicate them.

When I select to Jump to Pgc upon DVD insert I get a message saying I need to set a breakpoint.



Since I don't know how to set a breakpoint PgcEdit gives me the option to let it set it for me.



But then it indicates that there is an error.



If I knew how and where to set a breakpoint I might not have this problem.
And when I "Step" thru, it doesn't stop at the Menu pgc. Goes from previews to movie. But when I 'Run" it stops at the Menu pgc???

I've set breakpoints all over the pgc and it still says I don't have one set.

Where should it be set?




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[r0lZ]

You have successfully set your breakpoint. This is why the PGC label turns red. No error! (The errors in PgcEdit are highlighted with a pink background, not with a red foreground.)
You can also right click on the PGC and set the breakpoint from the popup menu.

When your breakpoint is set, restart the trace (click the button with the Load/Eject symbol) and click Run. When the trace will stop at the breakpoint, call the Jump2PGC function. The rest is automatic.

(BTW, since the Step mode stops at each command, the breakpoint is of course useless. A breakpoint is a way to automatically stop the Run mode at a specific location.)

[idontno]

@r0lZ

That was really easy.

Once again you've saved my butt.

PgcEdit really automates a lot for you. It's just learning the program.

Knowing more about how DVD's work would help also.

I wish I knew more about the language. I used to do some programming (self taught). If I could find some books or something on this it would make life a lot easier.

Know where I could find something like this?


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[r0lZ]

Which language? The VM commands used in the DVDs?

Try DVD Replica. BTW, you can also click on the command name button in the Command Editor of PgcEdit to open that command description at DVD Replica automatically in your web browser.

You can also visit the excellent DVD Information site of mpucoder. It is more technical, and not free (although cheap.)

There are also two good books, but I don't have them.

[idontno]

Yeah, cause I have no idea which command the Jump2PGC function changed.

What did you mean?

Which language? The VM commands used in the DVDs?

I meant the commands used in the right pane of PgcEdit (my most used program).

What other languages are there? Like, ie, is the language in IfoEdit different?


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[idontno]

BTW, you can also click on the command name button in the Command Editor of PgcEdit to open that command description at DVD Replica automatically in your web browser.

Wow! Another cool function I didn't know PgcEdit had.


BTW, those sites are now tucked away as shortcuts in my "Learn DVD" folder. Thanx.


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