PgcEdit v 8.6 released (January 12, 2008)

r0lZ · Junior Member Joined: 13 Jun 2004 Posts: 62 Location: be

PgcEdit 0.4.8 released.

Option "When saving, leave at least 32K of space between IFO and BUP?" to help protect your DVD against defects and scratches. Use with caution!
Added File -> Burn DVD / Create ISO to create an ISO image with mkisofs and optionally burn it with DVD Decrypter. This method supports the 32K space option above. For Windows only.
When loading the DVD, a warning is issued if there are empty (0 byte) menu VOBs. Also, the stream attributes of the VOBs are resetted to 0 when the menu VOB is removed by the 'Blank Out All Menu PGCs' function.
Trace mode: Removed "WARNING: Trying to play cell 1 of a dummy PGC!" dialog when a dummy PGC is played. However, this message is still present if the cell to play is not cell 1.
Fixed rare a bug occuring in Trace mode when the First-Play PGC was played (ie. when the current position was on the "*** post-command" label)

r0lZ · Junior Member Joined: 13 Jun 2004 Posts: 62 Location: be

PgcEdit 0.4.9 released.

Added the "DVDShrink Streams Remapping" macro to check if the DVDShrink option "Logical remapping of enabled streams" may be safely used in full disc mode with the current DVD.
Added a button "ISO639 language codes" in the Trace's Virtual Player Setup GUI to show the valid language codes.
The PGC breakpoints are now cleared when a new DVD is loaded, but still not when the same DVD is reloaded (including after a restore backup).
Burn DVD: Added an option to mount the ISO image using Daemon-Tools.
Burn DVD: Added a confirmation dialog if the ISO image already exists.
Burn DVD: The VobBlanker_backup folder is now automatically excluded of the ISO image, like the PgcEdit_backup folder.
Burn DVD: Miscellaneous enhancements and little bug fixes.
Burn DVD Bug fixed: The abort button did not kill the mkisofs process in the standalone exe.
Burn DVD: Free disk space was wrong on Win 9X and on foreign Win 2K/NT/XP. Note: The free disk space is not tested anymore on Win 95/98/ME/SE!
Shortcut to select all the Trace output changed to Control-Shift-A to avoid a bug with Control-a.

Also, look at the homepage. There are updated and new guides...

r0lZ · Junior Member Joined: 13 Jun 2004 Posts: 62 Location: be

PgcEdit 0.4.9.1 released. This is a last minute bugfix for 0.4.9. It fixes a bug in the DVDShrink Streams Remapping macro. If you downloaded PgcEdit 0.4.9, please download the update now. Sorry for the inconvenience.

r0lZ · Junior Member Joined: 13 Jun 2004 Posts: 62 Location: be

PgcEdit 0.5.0 released.

BOV (Buttons Over Video in Title domains) support:
Replaced the executable button_dump.exe bt a Tcl/Tk function, able to parse the menu buttons in menu domains. The menu buttons informations are therefore available also for Macintosh pre-OSX platforms.
Added "File->Find BOVs" and "Options->Automatically Launch BOV finder when a DVD is opened?" to find the BOVs at startup.
"Utilities -> Show Menu Buttons or BOVs" works now also for Title PGCs.
Added "Show BOVs" popup menu in the PGC selector on title PGCs.
Removed the "Options/Show libdvdread warnings when parsing menu buttons?".
"Fix number of streams in VMGM/VTSI_MAT tables" macro to change the number of streams in the VMGM_MAT and VTSM_MAT tables according to the number of streams enabled in the PGCs.
Domain Streams Attributes check now if the current number of streams match the number of streams enabled in the PGCs.
Domain Streams Attributes allow now to edit the audio stream types and parameters. (Still no support to edit the karaoke parameters.)
Open DVD: If there are empty VOB files, an option to delete them is now presented to the user when the DVD is loaded.
Added a Burn DVD/Create ISO toolbar icon. (Windows only)
Added some missing credits and thanks in the About dialog.
Kill Playback macro: New algorithm to determine if it is safe to use the macro. It is safe to kill playback if there are no menu buttons, and if there are no cell commands jumping outside of the current PGC.
Blank Out PGCs in Domain: The "Kill Playback only when it's safe" option now uses the new Kill Playback macro.
Cell type flag SCR Discontinuity (System Clock Reference) renamed to STC Discontinuity (System Time Clock). (Recommandation of Mpucoder)
Burn DVD: The MenuShrinkBackup is now removed automatically from the DVD.
Added the audio and subpic stream IDs in Domain Streams Attributes GUI and in Info -> Streams.
PgcEdit_Preview.exe v1.6 by Jeanl. Fixes an aspect ratio bug with VCD and SVCD resolutions, and another one with garbage addeded in the bottom of the image when the vertical resolutions was not a multiple of 32.
When a cell is reassigned or blanked, the Seamless Joint flag is now cleared.
Trace mode: The target of LinkPTT commands was wrong (was pre-commands of the PGC instead of target chapter.)
Trace mode: A NOP command in a menu button or BOV is now ignored.
Highlight Target/Jump to Target did not work in some cases with CallSS.
Menu buttons viewer bug: After selecting another frame with the < and > buttons, the background image was not displayed for VMGM menus.
Fixed a bug with the Video Attributes display. The resolution, bitrates and 'top & bottom cropped' flags were wrong. The saved attributes were OK, though.
Fixed a bug when writing a PTT_SRPTI table containing PTTs assigned to program 0. Yes, I've seen a DVD with such bizarre things!
Fixed a bug occurnig after a Delete Program. The program map table was not padded to an even number of bytes.
Misc. little bug fixes.

r0lZ · Junior Member Joined: 13 Jun 2004 Posts: 62 Location: be

PgcEdit 0.5.0 released.

BOV (Buttons Over Video in Title domains) support: -Replaced the executable button_dump.exe bt a Tcl/Tk function, able to parse the menu buttons in menu domains. The menu buttons informations are therefore available also for Macintosh pre-OSX platforms. - Added "File->Find BOVs" and "Options->Automatically Launch BOV finder when a DVD is opened?" to find the BOVs at startup. - "Utilities -> Show Menu Buttons or BOVs" works now also for Title PGCs. - Added "Show BOVs" popup menu in the PGC selector on title PGCs.
Removed the "Options/Show libdvdread warnings when parsing menu buttons?".
"Fix number of streams in VMGM/VTSI_MAT tables" macro to change the number of streams in the VMGM_MAT and VTSM_MAT tables according to the number of streams enabled in the PGCs.
Domain Streams Attributes check now if the current number of streams match the number of streams enabled in the PGCs.
Domain Streams Attributes allow now to edit the audio stream types and parameters. (Still no support to edit the karaoke parameters.)
Open DVD: If there are empty VOB files, an option to delete them is now presented to the user when the DVD is loaded.
Added a Burn DVD/Create ISO toolbar icon. (Windows only)
Added some missing credits and thanks in the About dialog.
Kill Playback macro: New algorithm to determine if it is safe to use the macro. It is safe to kill playback if there are no menu buttons, and if there are no cell commands jumping outside of the current PGC.
Blank Out PGCs in Domain: The "Kill Playback only when it's safe" option now uses the new Kill Playback macro.
Cell type flag SCR Discontinuity (System Clock Reference) renamed to STC Discontinuity (System Time Clock). (Recommandation of Mpucoder)
Burn DVD: The MenuShrinkBackup is now removed automatically from the DVD.
Added the audio and subpic stream IDs in Domain Streams Attributes GUI and in Info -> Streams.
PgcEdit_Preview.exe v1.6 by Jeanl. Fixes an aspect ratio bug with VCD and SVCD resolutions, and another one with garbage addeded in the bottom of the image when the vertical resolutions was not a multiple of 32.
When a cell is reassigned or blanked, the Seamless Joint flag is now cleared.
Trace mode: The target of LinkPTT commands was wrong (was pre-commands of the PGC instead of target chapter.)
Trace mode: A NOP command in a menu button or BOV is now ignored.
Highlight Target/Jump to Target did not work in some cases with CallSS.
Menu buttons viewer bug: After selecting another frame with the < and > buttons, the background image was not displayed for VMGM menus.
Fixed a bug with the Video Attributes display. The resolution, bitrates and 'top & bottom cropped' flags were wrong. The saved attributes were OK, though.
Fixed a bug when writing a PTT_SRPTI table containing PTTs assigned to program 0. Yes, I've seen a DVD with such bizarre things!
Fixed a bug occurnig after a Delete Program. The program map table was not padded to an even number of bytes.
Misc. little bug fixes.

r0lZ · Junior Member Joined: 13 Jun 2004 Posts: 62 Location: be

PgcEdit 0.5.1 released

Menu Buttons/BOVs Editor.
Wrong display aspect ratio was used in the menu buttons viewer for group types sharing modes "normal" + "letterbox".
Fixed wrong highlighted target/jump to target in menu domains: the target was always in LU 1.
Moved the stream's VOB IDs from the Domain Streams Attributes to the PGC Streams assignments GUI, where they should be. The streans IDs are now hopefully corrects.
Linux standalone executables 0.5.0beta1 to 0.5.1beta1 were broken. The sources were OK. V 0.5.1beta2 is the first working 0.5 standalone exe.
Fixed a bug in 'Delete last PGC in domain' in title domain. The new total number of TTNs was wrong when a PGC sharing the same TTN number with another one was deleted.
Small bug fixed that prevented to "Delete Last PGC in Domain" if the PGC was created with "New Dummy PGC" during the same PgcEdit session.

r0lZ · Junior Member Joined: 13 Jun 2004 Posts: 62 Location: be

PgcEdit 0.5.2 released

Added a Configuration option in the virtual player setup to load the PGN (Program number) instead of the PTTN (Chapter number) in SPRM 7. Many software and hardware players are not standard compliant on this point.
Added Export and Import options to save and load the color lookup table of the current PGC in the PGC Editor. File format: raw YCrCb color table (64 bytes, with leading 0 before each color) or RGB colors in ASCII format. The import function can also import the colors from a Muxman project, or from a VTS IFO file (the colormap of the first PGC is used).
Added an option to display the popup menus when the right mouse button is released instead of pushed. This option is not recommended, though.
Added an option to store the PgcEdit_backup in the root folder of the DVD instead of in the VIDEO_TS folder. Useful to launch programs that doesn't work if there are illegal files in VIDEO_TS (like WinDVD).
Added File->Incremental Backup. Renames the current PgcEdit_backup folder (adds the modification time and date), and creates a new PgcEdit_backup.
A warning is issued when entering the menu buttons viewer if several sets of menu buttons are found in a cell. Currently, PgcEdit handles only the first set. A new option to optionally scan for multiple sets of BOVs has also been added in the 'Scan for BOVs' dialog, and the scanning for sets of buttons is optimized for speed.
Multiple errors messages when parsing the VOBs for menu buttons are now suppressed. Take care: one error message means that the whole VOB is not correctly parsed!
When saving buttons or BOVs, the original highlight status is left unchanged so that the animated highlights (for example, in Spiderman) will now still be animated.
File->Delete Backup(s) is able to delete the backups created by PgcEdit, VobBlanker, MenuShrink and Windows (Copy of ...), including incremental backups. TitleSetBlanker backups are not supported anymore.
Burn DVD: Excludes the backups PgcEdit_backup*, VobBlanker_backup*, MenuShrinkBackup* and "Copy of *" from the compilation.
Better error trapping for file I/O errors (copy, delete, rename, makedir). Now, a dialog pops up, allowing to retry the operation.
Thanks to the demo version of the Tcl DevKit, the code is now a little bit optimized, and a couple of potential bugs have been fixed.
The last VTS's title domain BOVs were never saved. Fixed.
"Can't read "::buttons::butsinfo(*,hlendtime)": no such element in array" (and selendtime) errors when a new button was created are now fixed.
The total number of menu buttons or BOVs displayed in the PGC selector label was not updated after a Remove Cell. Fixed.
Trace: When in a button command, LinkNextCell linked to the current cell, and LinkPrevCell linked to the current cell -2. Fixed.
Fixed a little bug in the "Options/Install/Associate PgcEdit with IFO (or BUP) Files", when the association was already present, but was blank.
Problem deleting the DLLs in the bin directory when uninstalling PgcEdit is now partially fixed. You will need to delete them manually.

Please note: DVD Decrypter 3.5.4.0 (as well as 3.5.3.0) has a bug when burning ISOs with some burners or medias. If you get an "Unable to recover TOC" I/O error after the completion of the burn, don't blame PgcEdit! I have tested a private beta release of DVD Decrypter, and this problem is now fixed. Please use DVDD 3.5.2.0 or wait for the next version!

r0lZ · Junior Member Joined: 13 Jun 2004 Posts: 62 Location: be

PgcEdit 0.5.3 released It's principally a bugfix release. Please download it!

Added an option in Info -> Calls Cross References do delete the commands in the unreferenced PGCs, and to clear the Prev/Next/GoUpPGC links. May be used to find more unreferenced PGCs in subsequent calls to the Calls Cross References function. Also, another option allow to convert unreferenced menu PGCs to dummies, to easily blank them with VobBlanker.
Added "Delete All Commands" in the Edit (and popup) menu.
Important bug in v0.5.2 fixed: new buttons created in a cell originally without buttons/BOVs were saved only in the first nav pack of the cell.
PgcEdit was unable to parse the VTSM_C_ADT table if the table was present, but with no entries defined in the table. Fixed now.
Fixed a bug in the parsing of the VTS_C_ADT table, occuring in rare circumstances: a wrong Nav Pack number was read, causing the search for menu buttons or BOVs to fail.
Inport First-Play/Intro/Closing Clip: The cell commands numbers of the imported title are now forced to 0 in the cell playback table.
Added a little delay when the Open DVD/Save DVD file requester is closed, to avoid a little Tk bug.

r0lZ · Junior Member Joined: 13 Jun 2004 Posts: 62 Location: be

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 · Junior Member Joined: 13 Jun 2004 Posts: 62 Location: be

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.

r0lZ · Junior Member Joined: 13 Jun 2004 Posts: 62 Location: be

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 below.
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 · Junior Member Joined: 13 Jun 2004 Posts: 62 Location: be

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.

r0lZ · Junior Member Joined: 13 Jun 2004 Posts: 62 Location: be

PgcEdit 0.6.0 released.

A. Burn DVD / Create ISO support for Double Layer DVD+R and DL DVD-R: - The method allow the user to select the layer break in a wide range of cells (actually twice as wide as the 'standard' method)! - Added a GUI to specify the Layer Break cell. - Added menu "Options -> Burn / Create ISO setup" menu to call the Burn Setup dialog directly from the main window. - The Burn Setup window has been modified to include, among other things, the capacity of a single layer DVD and of a double layer DVD. - New starter app for MacOSX (v0.5a), by Pucklock, including mkisofs 2.01 (needed for the Create ISO function.) Thanks to Pucklock! Note that this new starter app starts the X11 version automatically instead of the Aqua version.
R. Removed the original link to DVD Decrypter's homepage in the Burn Setup dialog because this page is discontinued, and may be monitored by "a major DVD company". Replaced by a direct download link at VideoHelp.
A. Utilities -> Remap Title Numbers function to renumber the Titles. The references to the Title numbers in the VMG are automatically updated.
A. Utilities -> Delete last VTS in DVD function. Use this function only when the last titleset is not referenced!
A. Info -> Find Jumps To Nowhere function showing commands and PrevPGCN, NextPGCN or GoUpPGCN links jumping to non existing PGCs or Titles.
A. Calls Cross References: Added listing of jumps to nowhere references.
A. Added an option to display the PGC labels as text in the context menu of an empty line of the PGC selector.
A. Added shortcut Control+P to launch the PGC Preview.
A. Added the first step to implement plugins for PgcEdit in the future.
A. Added an option to change the default listbox background color to white when running PgcEdit under X11. (Linux, and MacOSX with Tk-X11 only)
E. After 'Clone PGC' or 'New Play All Title', the number of buttons of the new PGC is now displayed in the PGC Selector.
E. Menu Editor: Changed the menu labels Buttons -> Align vertically and Align horizontally to Align on same column and Align on same row.
E. Now, there is no need to select your Web Browser the first time an HTML page is opened under Mac OSX: the 'open' command is used instead.
E. Under Linux and Mac OSX, the config files are now saved in "~/.PgcEdit/". Under all platforms, the leading dot has been removed from the filenames.
F. Burn DVD: The calculation of the size of DVD-ROM files crashed when an empty DVD-ROM directory was present in the compilation.
F. Fixed some bugs in the Find All function: the line number (when the target was a pre, post or cell command) and the cell number (when the target was a button or BOV) were off by 1, and the button group was not always correctly displayed. The GUI has been changed also to avoid the Tcl/Tk limitaiton of the number of occurences that can be displayed in a canvas.
F. Jump to PGC Upon DVD Insert macro: when several LUs were present and the user selected the option to process all LUs, there was a bug in the reconstruction of the commands of the modified PGCs in LU 2 and following.
F. PGC Editor: The color table was not saved after an Import Colors from an IFO file.
F. An error occured when trying to hi-lite the target of a Jump command when the target VTS was not present.
F. It was sometimes impossible to close the "Go to calling command" window.
F. PgcEdit Preview Version 2.0, by jeanl. Fixes 3 bugs. See history below.

Also new on my homepage:

New MacOSX starter app v0.5a, including mkisofs v2.1 (needed for the new Create ISO function)
New guide by blutach: How to burn Double Layer Disks with PgcEdit. (discussion thread)
Updated version of Tobi's PgcEdit Anleitung.PDF and Beispiele.PDF, updated for PgcEdit 0.6.0, including a guide on how to burn Double Layer DVDs.
Alternate set of toolbar icons, by Sweetness.
And much more...

r0lZ · Junior Member Joined: 13 Jun 2004 Posts: 62 Location: be

PgcEdit 0.6.1 released Main changes from latest beta (PgcEdit 0.6.1 beta 12): ImgBurn support. Thanks Lightning UK! New Remap Titlesets function, to rearrange the order of the titlesets (safely! Smile

.) New user's comments support, to document the PGCs. (See the Options menu, too.) And some other minor changes and bug fixes. Main changes from 0.6.0: The main menus have been revamped. There are also some improvments in the GUI of many functions. New functions to create a blank cell in any PGC, and a function to replace a Title domain by an imported one, keeping the menu intact. Improvments in the Trace mode, with some new functions in the State menu, and new keyboard shortcuts. The Renumber GOTOs feature has been improved to work also when copying/pasting commands with GOTOs. Some bug fixes. And much more... Also, there are 4 plugins for PgcEdit availables for download on my homepage. Note to DVDShrink users: I have removed the two DVDShrink specific functions from the main program. They are now availables in the DVDShrink plugin. PgcEdit 0.6.1 version history:

A. = Added feature.
E. = Enhancement.
R. = Removed.
F. = Bug fix.

A. Burn: Added support for ImgBurn. The burn function now uses ImgBurn instead of DVD Decrypter to burn the ISO. Although it is recommended to use ImgBurn, it is still possible to use DVD Decrypter, for backward compatibility.
A. Burn: Added a "Launch ImgBurn" button in the burn dialog to easily examine your blank media before launching the burn operation.
A. The "Fix number of streams" macro is now launched automatically when a DVD is opened (but not when the DVD is reopened). If some discrepancies are found, the user is prompted to fix them. An option to disable this feature has been added in the Options menu.
A. PGC Editor: Added a function to create a blank cell in a PGC. Can be used also in a dummy PGC. You may use VobBlanker to replace the new cell. Useful if you want to add a new clip or a menu page in a domain.
A. New function "File -> Replace VTST Titles" to replace the current VTST domain by an imported one. Can be used to replace a VTST domain after a reencoding or a shrink of a title with DVDShrink in reauthor mode.
A. Trace Mode -> State menu: Added functions to snapshot the current trace position and state, to be able to return to a snapshot point at any time. Also, some snapshot points are automatically saved during the trace. This feature can be used as a limited undo of the last trace steps. Drawback: the 'PGC Played' flags and highlights are lost after a restore.
A. Trace Mode: A special snapshot point is recorded automatically when the user quits the trace mode, and restored when the trace mode is reenabled (and when the current DVD is reopened with File -> Reopen DVD). It can also be restored with State -> Return to -> Trace Mode Closed.
A. Trace mode: Added some keyboard shortcuts, available in trace mode only: - Control-Right: -> Step - Control-Up: ->> Next PB - Control-Down: ->>> Run - Control-Left: ->| Break - Escape: ->| Break
A. Added some keyboard shortcuts in main panel: - Control+Shift+B: Incremental backup, - Control+Alt+B: Restore Backup and one shortcut available only when the command pane is active: - Control-Insert: Append to Scratchbook
A. Added "Display PGCs list as text" function in the Info menu.
A. Added a progress bar in the status bar.
A. Menu buttons viewer: It is now possible to right-click on the Image < and Image > buttons to display the prev/next background by larger steps.
A. New function "DVD -> Remap Titlesets" to rearrange the order of the Titlesets. This function renumbers the JumpSS-VTSM commands automatically.
A. New functions to add, modify, export and import user comments for the PGCs. The comments are displayed in the PGC selector pane, in the current PGC title and in all places where a PGC label is displayed.
A. Added an option to allow PgcEdit to automatically add PGC comments when creating new PGCs or for information purposes. Currently, the Calls Cross References and Import Startup/Intro/Closing Clip functions are able to create comments automatically.
A. Added an option to automatically load and save the PGC comments in the backup folder when a DVD is opened or saved.
E. The Utilities and Macros menus are now removed, and replaced by the DVD, Domain, PGC, Menu and Title menus.
E. The Options menu is now splitted in sub-menus Startup, Input/Output, User Interface and Command Editor.
E. Moved the Plugins menu before the Tools menu. (Was after the Tools menu.)
E. The Return key can now be used to accept all requesters. (Same action as clicking the OK button.)
E. Added an Help button in the Search All results, and in the Go to Calling Command windows.
E. Added several options in the PGC Editor's Celltimes.txt function.
E. It is now possible to delete a range of cells at once in the PGC Editor.
E. In the PGC Editor's subpic streams assignments frame, a message shows now which subpic streams are really necessary according to the current domain stream attributes. Also, in the assign streams GUI, the unused streams are now grayed out, although it is still possible to modify the assignment.
E. It is now impossible to configure the Domain Streams Attributes's video mode with an illegal combination of flags (for example 4:3 + LetterBox or Pan&Scan, or 16:9 without either Letterbox or Pan&Scan or both.)
E. The GUI of the Remap Title Numbers function has been enhanced.
E. Renumber GOTOs option: The GOTO commands duplicated or copied/pasted to the clipboard are now also automatically renumbered.
E. It is now possible to specify the GPRM to use for the Import First-Play Clip and Import Title's Intro Clip functions, and force the macro to continue even if there are no unused GPRMs remaining in the DVD.
E. Added an option in the Import Title's Intro Clip macro to display the intro clip only the first time the title is played.
E. Changed the default settings for the "Enable Navigation Buttons" macro.
E. Trace: Renamed the preview option "Start Preview automatically when playing a cell?" to "Open Preview automatically when playing a cell?".
E. Trace's snapshot menu: The PGC label and pre/post/cell line number are now displayed in the menu items of the Snapshot submenus, and a new "Clear all Snapshots" function has been added.
E. Info -> PGC: Added the Angle number in the cells list.
E. Info -> PGC param and Cells tables: Added the total playing time for each domain, and the total playing time for the whole DVD.
E. PUO editor: added a button to input the PUOs as a value. Can be used to paste the value in the PUO_plugin.
E. Better handling and error messages when an invalid Nav Pack is found when scanning for menu buttons or BOVs.
E. The error message displayed when trying to load an encrypted VOB from the DVD drive says now clearly that it's a CSS encryption problem.
R. The DVDShrink Remote Buttons and DVDShrink Streams Remapping macros are removed. The same functions are now availables in the DVDShrink Plugin , as well as two new functions to launch DVDShrink from within PgcEdit.
R. Burn: Removed the "Download Daemon Tools" button on systems running in Germany and Unided Kingdom, due to legal issues in these countries.
F. Burning double layer DVDs did not work if the "Split ISO image into 1 GB chunks" option was enabled.
F. The VTS_TMAPT table is now updated upon creation or deletion of a PGC in the Title domain.
F. The Title number displayed in the PGC selector was wrong when the TTNs were not stored in ascending order in the title domain.
F. A Set, SetCLnk, CSetLnk or CSetCLnk using a SPRM as the first operand of the IF condition was not flagged as invalid. However, it was not possible to enter such an illegal command in the command editor.
F. Command Editor: Fixed the error opening the Command Editor when the "Start in Trace Mode" option was on and a DVD was loaded via the command line.
F. Fixed a very rare bug in the handling of the Command Editor window size.
F. The PGC Editor window was too small when displayed on a 800x600 screen.
F. Menu viewer/editor: When a menu group has both the Letterbox AND Pan&Scan flags set, the menu was displayed in pan&scan mode. Now, PgcEdit checks the video attributes of the current domain to determine the display mode.
F. It was possible to crash the BOVs menu viewer/editor if the scan for BOVs of the current titleset was interrupted.
F. Trace mode: When the Next Chapter button was pressed when the last program was playing, sometimes the last program was played again, instead of the NextPGCN link or post command.
F. Trace mode: The Title PUOs (in the VMG_TT_SRPT table) were not displayed in the Watch PUOs window.
F. Trace mode: In "Next PB" mode, the playback stopped when entering the post commands of a dummy PGC. Now, the playback stops only if there is a pre/ post breakpoint on the dummy PGC.
F. On foreign window platforms, the config files were saved in the user's home (or in the "Application Data" folder if this folder was present.) Now, the config files are saved in the correct application data folder, even if his name is different.
F. Fixed some little bugs when a VTS has no VTS_TMAPTI table at all.
F. A bug prevented the Create New Blank Cell function to automatically save the DVD.
F. New version v1.11 of PsKill.exe by SysInternals.com (in the bin folder under Windows). The previous version was sometimes wrongly identified as a possible virus by some virus killers.
F. New 'Play All' Title bug: In trace mode, JumpVTS_TT to the new TTN was unable to find the target PGC.

PgcEdit 0.6.1 includes PgcEditPreview v2.1, by Jeanl:

Fixed the overlay buffer pointers that were not set to 0 when "no overlay" was selected.
Now allocating oversized blocks to avoid crashes that have been seen with (probably) faulty mpeg data. (See the Taelon posts on this page.)

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PgcEdit v0.6.2 (December 2, 2005)

E. PGC Editor's cells flags: The Access Restricted and the VOBU Still flags are now availables in the Cells Type Flags editor, rather than directly in the cells list. Previously, only the VOBU Still was available. The Type Flags button contains now two values, one for each byte. Also, some of the flags labels have been changed to reflect more closely the official terminology.
E. PGC Editor: Added tooltips on the cell command number fields to display the current cell command. The cell commands numbers higher than the number of cell commands currently defined are now highlighted in pink. Similarily, the Prev/Next/GoUpPGCN link values are highlighted in pink if the target PGC doesn't exist.
E. Enable All Operations now prompts the user if he wants to remove also the Access Restricted flags on the cells of the current PGC, when this flag is set on some cells. Warning: the Access Restricted flag is especially used by the Sony ARccOS protection. In this case, it should not be removed.
E. Changed the listbox/entry default color to use the Windows default. Added Option -> User Interface -> White Listbox Background also under Windows and Mac OSX.
E. Burn DVD: a new selector button has been added to select the DL media type from the main dialog. The Sectors in L0 value in the Burn Setup window is now ignored when burning a DL+R.
E. Since ImgBurn is now stable and doesn't require the layer break sector number in his settings anymore, the dialog asking if the user wants to copy the layer break value in the clipboard has been removed when ImgBurn is used, and when a DL DVD-R is used.
E. Burn DVD: when the log is displayed, the Save button uses now by default the same filename as the ISO, but with a _log.txt extension.
A. A new menu "Options -> Install -> Install a plugin" has been added to help the novice user to install a PgcEdit plugin.
E/F. The standalone version of PgcEdit now uses freeWrap version 6.1. This solves the problem of the mouse double-clicks being passed through the file open/save or folder selection dialogs to the underlying window.
F. The Kill PGC playback function now appends a LinkPGCN command at the end of the pre-commands when the NextPGC link is non-zero and doesn't point to itself. Without this command, the PGC was sometimes played.
F. Fixed the bug in Remove Cells function of the PGC Editor that caused the function to silently fail in some occasions.
F. The Prohibited User Operations window was sometimes pushed below the main window when the Input Value button was used.
F. Import Title Closing Clip crashed if the current PGC was a PGC without a Title number.
F. Fixed a problem on some Windows systems where the web browser executable was wrongly considered as not executable by TCL/TK.
F. Burn DVD: Workaround for a problem with mkisofs on some systems: Mkisofs reports sometimes an "Invalid node - -m" error when the backup folders are not deleted. Now, when this error occur, a dialog pops-up, asking if you want to delete the backups, continue w/o deleting the backups, or cancel.

DVD Shrink plugin v1.3

Added function to clear the Analysis cache of DVDShrink, to force it to recompute the analysis of the already processed DVDs, or to preserve disc space.

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