PgcEdit v8.4 released - 26 June

[r0lZ]

BTW, this thread is here.

[fatstrat]

I just stumbled on PGC Edit a few weeks ago and all I can say is wow!! Thanks rOlZ!

Strat

[r0lZ]

[ripper123]

easy complete set up

when are you guys going to set up like the old pgcedit with the easy complete set up

[blutach]

What easy complete setup? PgcEdit is a self-contained program which needs no setup.

Regards

[r0lZ]

PgcEdit v8.1

PgcEdit v8.1 released!

A. = Added feature
R. = Removed
E. = Enhancement
F. = Fixed bug
W. = Workaround

• A. File -> Menu Buttons & BOVs -> Import/Export All Menu Buttons and BOVs. Can be used to save and restore all menu button and BOVs definitions of the current DVD.
  A "menubuttons.but" file is also automatically created in the backup folder each time a new backup is created. The BOVs are NOT saved if the VOB files are not automatically scanned at load time. This file is NOT restored automatically when the backup is restored.
  It is possible to load the buttons file even if the VOB files are not present in the DVD folder.
  Note: If you change the file type in the Import buttons dialog, you can also import a buttoninfo.txt file created by a well known program. However, as some important info is missing in this file, so DO NOT SAVE the buttons!
• A. Added "Help -> Check For New Version" and "Options -> Startup -> Check For New Version At Startup?" to automatically check if a new PgcEdit version is available and to download it automatically (and, under Windows only, to install it automatically.)
• A. Added "DVD -> Delete Uncalled TitleSets". This function is a lot faster than Delete Uncalled PGCs, but less efficient. Use it before Delete Uncalled PGCs when there are many uncalled Titlesets in the DVD.
• A. Added "Title -> PTT (Chapter) Editor", a new editor suitable to edit the chapters of not-one_sequential Titles (with chapters in several PGCs belonging to the same TTN.) The old editor is still available via the PGC editor, but cannot be used on not-one_sequential Titles any more.
• A. Added "Info -> Jumps from VMG to all VTSs". Basically, this new function is identical to Jumps from VMG to current VTS, but is handy to find all jumps to all VTSs, and to locate the VTS that are called only once.
• A. Added "Info -> Find jumps to void PGCs". A PGC is considered void when it has no commands (or only NOPs), no buttons, and no NextPGC link (or when it is out of range.) When a void PGC is played, the navigation stops.
• A. Added a check when loading the DVD to be sure that at least one Title is defined per TTN, and to create a new Title in VMG_TT_SRPT if necessary.
• E. When a DVD is opened, PgcEdit now checks if the IFO, BUP and VOB filenames are in upper case, and offers to rename them if necessary.
• E. The menu of the command editor is now context dependent. The illegal commands for the current domain and current pre/post/cell/button/BOV area are now greyed out. The last menu contains now only the valid jump commands for the current context, and has been renamed to "Jump to...".
• E. The illegal commands for the current domain and pre/post/cell/button/BOV area are now highlighted in pink in the main listbox and in the menu button viewer and editor. (The jumps to a non-existing PGC and the invalid GOTOs are now highlighted in orange instead of pink.)
• E. In the PGC Editor, the Prev/Next/GoUpPGCN links are now also highlighted in pink when they point to another TTN.
• E. Replaced the default system Yes/No/OK/Cancel dialogs by custom dialogs.
  This is needed primarily as a workaround for a display problem under Vista, but the new method has several advantages. The user can now hide selectively some dialogs. As a consequence, the Expert Mode option has been removed, and is now replaced by two new options in Options -> User
  Interface: Display Hidden Dialog Boxes During Current Session? and Restore All Hidden Dialog Boxes.
  "Open yes/no/cancel dialog boxes under the mouse pointer?" allows you to open those new dialogs with the default button under the mouse pointer.
  The content of the dialog can be copied to the clipboard via a right-click context menu.
• E. Save IFOs as: Now, the user can chose to compute the VTS sector pointers using the VOB files from the source folder rather than producing wrong pointers because there are no VOBs in the target folder.
• E. PsKill.exe is no longer necessary for Win9X users to abort the creation of the ISO image during the burn process. PsKill has now been replaced by the kill command of the TclX package. The (erroneous) warning about "potentially unwanted program" displayed by some picky antivirus should not occur any more.
• E. Added shortcut key CTRL-Q on Info -> Jumps from VMG to Current VTS.
• F. Kill PGC Playback: Some cell or button commands copied in pre-commands area were illegal in that area. They are now replaced by a legal suite of several commands.
• F. Some uncalled PGCs were not found by Find Uncalled PGCs and not deleted by Delete Uncalled PGCs.
• F. Clone PGC: When cloning a Title PGC and NOT creating a new Title number, the TTN number of the new PGC was increased, and the one_sequential flag was not set in VMG_TT_SRPT.
• F. Fixed some rounding errors in Rebuild Time Map on long NTSC Titles. Too many entries were created in the table.
• F. Fixed a little problem in Rebuild Time Map. The time map was not rebuild for PGCs shorter than 1 second. Now, the time map is rebuilt anyway, but is empty if the PGC is really shorter than 1 second.
• F. Rebuild Time Maps: Added a check for discrepancies in the SCR time stamps (sometimes caused by VobBlanker when a single cell is replaced by several cells with different VOB IDs.)
• F. Trace: The Break command in post-commands area was not handled correctly.
• F. Little bug fixed in Trace mode: SPRM(4:Title in volume) was not modified when a not-one_sequential Title was entered via a non-entry PGC.
• F. Little PGC comments bug fixed: The quotes of the PGC comment were not removed when a comment was erased from the PGC Editor window.
• F. PgcEdit Preview v2.5 (by Jeanl) included: Made a small change to make the preview behave better in VISTA.

New plugin:

• Play All plugin v1.0. It has 4 functions: "Create a new 'Play All' PGC from VOBs", "Create a new PGC with only unreferenced VOB cells", "Find unreferenced VOB cells in current domain" and "Find unreferenced VOB cells in whole DVD".
  It is mainly intended to retrieve "unreferenced cells" (cells that are present in the VOB files but not used in the IFOs), to be able to include them again in any PGC.
  Take care! The cell type flags of the generated Play All PGC might be wrong, as PgcEdit tries only to guess them, without analysing the VOB files completely.
  Requires PgcEdit 8.1.

Updated plugins:

• DVDShrink plugin v2.2.
  • DVDShrink is now launched in the background when the "Launch DVDShrink" menus are used. The exit status of DVDShrink is no more checked.
  • Adapted to the new message dialogs of PgcEdit 8.1. Requires PgcEdit 8.1+!
• Time Map plugin v1.3.
  • Fixed a little bug when the PGC duration is EXACTLY one second. Now, in this case, an empty time map is not considered any more as an error.
  • The source DVD path was missing in the log of the Verify Time Maps function.

[Calimari]

I've been waiting for this one. Nice to see a freeware tool updated these days. And once again, a quite impressive changelog. I was focussing on the new VTS-stuff, but the rest seems very interesting too. My friday eve is reserved

So, to the master: THANK YOU!!!

[Dialysis1]

This made my day!
Thank You!

[r0lZ]

Thanks for the thanks!

I hope it's not the last version of PgcEdit, as there are a lot of wonderful programs missing these days!

[blutach]

Thanks a million r0lZ

Regards

[soup]

That's not a changelog, it's an encyclopedia, WOW! way to go.

[r0lZ]

[Calimari]

I hope it's not the last version of PgcEdit, as there are a lot of wonderful programs missing these days!

When that happens, PgcEdit has earned its place among the other legendary freeware tools. It'll live forever, but it would be a shame to see it not getting updated anymore. I've just read the bad news about another friend of ours. I hope he's not into big troubles. Sad to see 'they' aim their arrows also at tools that have nothing to do with ripping or circumventing copy protections, or better "able-to-watch-it protections" as $..y now screwed up playback of their latest movies on their own players.
A tool like PgcEdit is an excellent tool for understanding and learning about DVD structure.

Anyway, I'm going through the changelog and testing some new features. Man, you've done a fine job once again!

[locoeng]

I hope we have your program for a long time coming and you dont fall as another victim. Thanks rOLZ

[jm1647]

Thanks for the thanks!

I hope it's not the last version of PgcEdit, as there are a lot of wonderful programs missing these days!

r0lZ for another fantastic update!!!


The way programs are disappearing I don't think I can ever listen to Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust" again