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Last night i tried splitting the R2 version of studio Ghibli's Princess Mononoke into 2 dvd5s using IfoEdit.
The main feature has a multi-angle facility to view storyboards which run in parallel with the feature for it's entire length. Each angle uses a different vob id, (movie = vob id 1 and storyboards = vob id 2.)
I did all the usual stuff in ifoedit, selected split point for the movie titleset (VTS_04) rendered the split title set to new folders, copied the rest of the titlesets, ifos bups etc into each of the new folders, checked puop's were removed, checked removal of region code and finally corrected each disc using "get vts sectors" in ifo edit.
Each of the 2 dvd5s created were checked using media player classic and power dvd and seemed to play fine.
Rendered each layout to iso using imgtool classic and burned two discs (part 1 and part 2) using dvddecrypter.
Tested the discs in a cheap yamada standalone player and to my suprise, the movie's multi-angle selection worked fine. Only problem is that the yamada player always displays the angle selection on screen by default. This distracts from the movie.
When i tried the discs in my panasonic ES-10 the player displays the angles in an interleaved fashion with each segment from the movie program chain followed by the corresponding segment of the storyboard program chain.
I thought it worth sharing with the forum that one player interprets the IFOs correctly while another screws up the playback. I'm aware that trying to preserve multi-angles is a tough assignment and although I like to dabble with these problems as they arise i have to be careful i don't spend too many days fixated on such issues. My primary goal is to learn more about the format of ifo files and understand the dvd-video standard more clearly.
On that basis, if anyone has already encountered the phenomenon i describe above and can enlighten me as to what is wrong with the modified ifo files i'd much appreciate it.
The main feature has a multi-angle facility to view storyboards which run in parallel with the feature for it's entire length. Each angle uses a different vob id, (movie = vob id 1 and storyboards = vob id 2.)
I did all the usual stuff in ifoedit, selected split point for the movie titleset (VTS_04) rendered the split title set to new folders, copied the rest of the titlesets, ifos bups etc into each of the new folders, checked puop's were removed, checked removal of region code and finally corrected each disc using "get vts sectors" in ifo edit.
Each of the 2 dvd5s created were checked using media player classic and power dvd and seemed to play fine.
Rendered each layout to iso using imgtool classic and burned two discs (part 1 and part 2) using dvddecrypter.
Tested the discs in a cheap yamada standalone player and to my suprise, the movie's multi-angle selection worked fine. Only problem is that the yamada player always displays the angle selection on screen by default. This distracts from the movie.
When i tried the discs in my panasonic ES-10 the player displays the angles in an interleaved fashion with each segment from the movie program chain followed by the corresponding segment of the storyboard program chain.
I thought it worth sharing with the forum that one player interprets the IFOs correctly while another screws up the playback. I'm aware that trying to preserve multi-angles is a tough assignment and although I like to dabble with these problems as they arise i have to be careful i don't spend too many days fixated on such issues. My primary goal is to learn more about the format of ifo files and understand the dvd-video standard more clearly.
On that basis, if anyone has already encountered the phenomenon i describe above and can enlighten me as to what is wrong with the modified ifo files i'd much appreciate it.
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