Removing Warnings from DVD (manually)

[X-treme]

I know with dvddecryptor you are able to remove the files (with the warnings) within the settings; however, sometimes the files are not removed because they are combined within another chapter.

I stumbled upon someone's 'How to' articles, which explained a way to go around this but changing the command lines in the .IFO?, but it did not FULLY explain how to do it with each movie. It was only for that particular movie he was showing how to do it.

Could anyone help me out?

Thanks

[adam]

The warning screens are usually going to be contained in the VIDEO_TS.vob. So in IFOEdit open the VIDEO_TS.ifo. Scroll down to the bottom and it will have a list of all the cells making up that vob. You can delete playback of any of these by highlighting them and hitting the delete playback button at the bottom. Double click on any of these items to play them to determine whether you want to keep playback of them or not. This is somewhat problematic with warnings since they are so short and IFOEdit often cannot display them. But you can quickly view the entire video_ts.vob in dvd2avi to confirm that there is nothing worth keeping. Generally the only things there will be the FBI and commentary warnings, and the regional and parental lockout menu's.

[jbenj01]

adam,

When you use this method, do you get just a blank black screen for the entire original playback time of the original warning?

If so, this is just as bad b/c sometimes there're like 2-4 warnings that play consecutively for upward total playback time in excess of 1min+ (Columbia-Tristar DVD's are the worse, i think).

[adam]

No, it skips playback altogether. You could skip 50 consecutive menu's at the beginning, it would just start playing right at the 51st one with no pause.

[X-treme]

I see all the .vob files in IFoEdit, but I can't play/preview them. It gives me a list of errors saying that it found filters and that 1 out of the 3 subpicture streams failed. I'm not sure what my next step is, but i'll have to fool around with it

[adam]

You open the VIDEO_TS.IFO file. Don't mess with the vobs. If you scroll all the way to the very bottom of the screen that pops up, it will list all the cells. If I double clicked on the line highlighted in this picture a preview would pop up with the warning screens. If I then hit delete playback, it will erase all the information on that line and the item will not be played anymore.

[X-treme]

adam, Thanks alot!

I really appreciate your help. The step-by-step instructions were simple

Thanks again. It worked!

[X-treme]

Adam (or anyone else who can help),

I've just tried using this method with another ripped dvd from my friend. For this particular dvd, I opened Ifoedit (after believing that I could remove the FBI/Warning images), but could not locate where they were. Out of all the menus to select from, Menu 1 was the only one viewable (the rest were deleted), but it was a black screen for that entire menu.

I found the FBI warning after searching and viewing through all the .vobs, and it is VTS_02_1. I don't know to change and save the setting so it will either skip or permanently delete it.

Any thoughts?

[adam]

Yes occasionally the warnings will be contained in a separate titleset. In any case just delete playback the same way on this titleset and the same result will be achieved.

[X-treme]

Thanks.

I just went into the .ifo for VTS_02_1, and it had a bunch stuff I had to delete. Not just one file. I had to delete ALL of them. It worked, but why did I have to delete 4-5 playbacks in order for it to 'skip'?

Just curious.

Thanks again!

[X-treme]

I should also add that I am now UNABLE to burn to a dvd-r

It when using Instant Copy 8, it says 'List Index out of Bounds 0'.

Problems after problems...lol.. Any thoughts?

[adam]

DVDs will often have multiple language units and different warnings for each. For example if your DVD player's default language is set to English you get the English warnings, and if set to Spanish it plays the Spanish ones. You really only need to delete the ones for your default language, but just delete them all anyway.

If you need to use a transcoder (like InstantCopy) then do that first before modifying any of the vobs. There is a tool called PDI Tool which will let you extract the vobs, IFOs, and bups from an Instant copy pdi image file. Then run IFOUpdate and make your changes. For burning I recommend using ImgTool classic to create a dvd image file then DVD Decryptor to burn. (both totally free and excellent.) Otherwise you will have to find a burning tool that will author a DVD from the raw program streams (vobs, ifos, and bups) like Nero or RecordNowMax. (both not free.)

[waheed]

an easier method of removing warnings (whether in the VIDEO_TS.VOB or as a seperate titleset) is to use TitleSetBlanker. i use it all the time and it works perfectly.