Using Remote on DVDRemake Processed DVDs

[old-hack]

I completed a DVDRemake/DVDRebuild processed DVD and everything worked as I expected in PowerDVD. However, when using the remote control for my DVD player, the DVD hung when I clicked on "Menu". This remote button set me to the "root menu". So my basic question is what do you adjust/modify in DVDRemake Pro to ensure your remote control doesn't try to access options that you have stripped out? I'm not talking about hiding buttons. Apparently there isn't a "root menu" option in Star Wars Episode 1. If I press the "title menu" I'm sent to the menu system I kept out of the 3 that were available.

[DimadSoft]

Pressing "title" menu should call "title menu" PGC in the VMG. Star wars select menu randomly. You may need to change commands for this random selection to go to the menu you've kept. Just do a search in this forum - there was a discussion about this somewhere.

[MackemX]

a simple way could be to change the VOB/CELL ID's for the 2 removed menu's to the menu you kept so no matter what you will always see the menu you kept I'm busy playing with Episode 1 and Episode 2 and have managed to merge them it starts with SW1 menu and clicking the Star Wars.Com button takes me to a SW2 menu and vice versa so I can switch between main menu's. It's taken about 6 simple mods so far and if all goes well I'll do a simple flash guide seeing as dual layer is around now I like DRM the more I play with it

[DimadSoft]

[MackemX]

nothing really as it's working just fine . I'm quite new to all this command stuff as I have only done basic stuff but I'm a very fast learner . I basically added the main movie VTS from SW 2 onto 1 and it created all the extra titles etc automatically . so adding stuff is OK. Problems only arise for me when you create a blank VTS and try to add anything to it but that's not needed for this I am looking forward to remembering all of what I did as you know what it's like when you do something the first time . I didn't expect it to take a short time so I just kept going at it instead of making notes it's been quite easy as the DVD's are virtually identical so the SPRM & GPRM are also similar if not identical when switching menu's so the command editing has been rather simple and straight forward in most parts. If they were different then I would imagine I would have to use Mark's tray player and make a note of the values and then add 2 blank PGC's (one for each menu) in the VMG which I can use to change the values before switching to the relvant main menu's. That's if a simple switch didn't work like it seems to with SW. I can see the Friends DVD's being exactly the same as they are DVD-5's so they would be cool to put 2 DVD-5's onto a dual layer DVD and I'll hopefully get a guide done for that also. Most Series DVD's will probably have the same menu structures I suppose one thing that would be really cool, is the ability to be able to edit the just the commands without having to export. Similar to the way you would do it in Ifoedit (or is this already possible?) this would be ideal as once the video is trimmed etc then you can concentrate on fine tuning the IFO's to suit the DVD playback if it doesn't turn out right first time as I've just been using Ifoedit to change maybe 1 or 2 commands as it's a little quicker than exporting the whole thing again(using DRM to browse tho as it's much faster and easier to navigate through the DVD ). Even test export takes a few minutes each time and this adds up when you are doing it a few times doing a mod here or there the only issue I am having is the resuming of the movie if I switch between 'DVDs' during playback. I can bypass that issue by deleting the resume command in the IFO's so it resets when you go to the main menu on either movie. One drawback to this fix is that it affects the audio/subs menu's resume's as they then do not resume . I would need to change the current title/chapters values in the SPRM as the current title/chapter is stored in there Is it possible to change SPRM values in the IFO's as if you can I can't recall how, probably as it's time for bed

[MackemX]

if anyone wants to know how to select any one menu in SW1 then check out VTS_01/PGC 9 and you will see 3 values in 3 similar commands (if (r[11]==r[0]) link PGC xx 10-33, 34-57 & 58-81 are the PGC's groups that contain the 3 menu's so you can delete whichever and then change the 3 values to the same as the menu you keep so to keep the 1st menu you would set them all to 10 and delete all the PGC's onwards from 34 SW2 is in VTS_01/PGC 12 and is exactly the same type of layout

[MackemX]

lol, it's even easier than above in both DVD's look in the Video Manager at Menu/PGC_2 first Pre Command where it says R[11]= random 3 just change that random 3 to the menu you want, so menu 1 would be 1 If you like 2 of the 3 menu's and still want to randomize between the 2 selected then change the random value to 2 instead of 3 (remember to change the values in above post that point to PGC's in case you remove menu 2) You could change the removed menu's pointer to your favourite one so it has 2 chances of being selected

[DimadSoft]

[MackemX]

bad grammar on my part so I think you misunderstood Dimad when I read it again I was trying to suggest that if a user likes 2 out of 3 of the menu's and not the actual number 2 menu edited so it's hopefully a little clearer

[old-hack]

I see the beginnings of something I'm interested in doing with Pearl Harbor. It's a 2 disc set that is easily shrunk to fit on one DVD without the menus. But what I'd like to do is merge the disc 2 menus and VTS with disc 1. Is that sort of the same thing MackemX is trying to do? Thanks.

[MackemX]

I'm merging the 2 DVD's but keeping the individual main menu's and I've edited one button on each main meu to jump to the other one. It just acts as if you are physically swapping the DVD's everything works perfectly except for 1 thing I can see. If I start playing one movie then call the Root Menu and switch to the other movie menu and click Play then Resume is called into action. This would normally just result in it playing the movie from where you have seen up to my issue is that the current Titleset is wrong after switching so it's confusing itself and hangin but only if you have switched movies while watching it. Resume works fine within the same movie and the same goes for jumping to the Audio/Subs menu . If you stop the playback or use the chapter selection then playback is OK a simple bypass is to disable the resume but then it starts playing the movie from the start again so you lose the resume option I'm playing around adding a couple of compare commands in the Play button now to check which menu it's playing and what the current VTS is so I can hopefully get the Resume to work if you switch menu's. It looks easy enough in theory but even now I'd be happy with the merger as this can hopefully be used on other DVD's and SirQUK had a little play with my test DVD last night and liked it (I think ) @old-hack, If your Pearl Harbour is simialr to my 4 disc set where there main movie is split then I don't see why it cannot be possible to join it somehow either with 2 main menu's or merging the chapter selection menu's I'm busy writing the main guide for a complete merger and will probably add other little guides to it to show how I removed angles, extra menu's etc

[MackemX]

[DimadSoft]

[old-hack]

I'm at work so this is from memory. Just some modified info for Region 1 SW Episode One that I have. The random command is r[5] =random 6. The starting PGCs are 12, 39, & 66. If R[5] = a number other than 1, 3,or 5 it jumps to one of the 3 starting PGCs. For example, I know if R[5] = 3 it goes to PGC 39. If R[5] = 1 it goes to PGC 12. If R[5] = 5 it goes to PGC 66. So if R[5] = 2 or 4 it will go to one of the 3 starting PGCs (don't recall which goes to which). It does not have 6 different starting menu PGCs. If you highlight the root menu (expand menu under title set 6 and select PGC 1) the commands show you where it goes if R[5] = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6. If you hightlight the audio menu same thing. If you highlight the chapter menu the same. This allows you to figure out which PGCs to remove if you choose to keep only one menu set. I made R[5] = 3. So I kept PGC 39-65 and hid blocks for 12-38 and 66-91.

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