replace only the DVD firstplay ?

[lordsmurf]

Hacking apart a DVD has become more and more advanced in the past 12 months or so, which is nice, but I've not been able to keep up with all the various techniques and software. Not really needed to.

But I now have a DVD that I would ruin if I tried to re-author it. The only problem with it is a corrupted firstplay that looks horrible. While I could insert a black screen with something like DVD Shrink, I'd much rather replace it with a clean copy of the firstplay.

Did a bit of searching, haven't seen anything yet.

Anybody have any experience in doing this? Let me know what needs to be done.

[HARRYSPADGE]

Have you looked at DVDremake Pro ?

I think you may be able to do it using this ?

[skeg64]

DVDRemake has a "replace block" function. You would need the new clip/still to be a muxed VOB.

Is the first play part of the menu domain, or a separate title?

[cd090580]

VobBlanker can also replace a video by another one (I don't think it work for menus)

[MackemX]

if the original already exists or you have a replacement then you should be able to just replace it after splitting and use Ifoedit to rebuild it

which VOB is this first play in and is it just one cell or has it got multiple cells?

it's a trick I learnt with Ifoedit & DVDDecrypter and it's how DVDStripper partially worked. You simply split the VOB with DVDDecrypter using file mode set to split at Cell ID and then you can do anything you want to any cell

the problem is that Ifoedit will not accept the files after splitting with DVDDecrypter when you try to rebuild them. What you need to do is rename them back to normal DVD standard so Ifoedit then thinks they were originally split at each cell and not something like 1GB. Pretty simple really

of course you have Vobblanker & DVDRemake now but I used to love the hands on approach ages ago so you know exactly what's going on 8)

[trolltuning]

I think this is easily done with pgcedit (free)
A lot of discussion of thi tool in the ifo forum at doom9

[mazinz]

it is very easy to do this with dvdremakepro. It also takes care of all the ifo info and other changes other apps might not do

[vico1]

Ditto on dvdremakepro...I use it all the time for edits, Great app.
Very clean and easy interface and does it very well.


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