Silent Hill menu 23?

[fresco]

Hello,

I just wanted to know if anyone else noticed menu 23 of Silent Hill in the full screen version dvd. According to the dvd shrink it contains 12:25 seconds of the movie in widescreen? Why is that there and how come i can only access it via dvd shrink or vobblanker?

Would it be ok if i just use vobblanker and blank menu 23 out? It would save me 489mb for the movie? Or is that menu needed for something?

[fresco]

No one knows what i'm talking about? Anyone?

[manono]

Hi-

No one here watches full screen movies, when they were created as widescreen.

Maybe the video is unreferenced. Maybe it's an Easter Egg. I don't think I'd blank that menu if I wasn't sure exactly what it was, but it's easy enough to still the menu. The menu is 423 MB? You sure it's not 423 MB of black nothing video? Play it and check what it is (Preview it in VobBlanker). If that's what it is, it's unreferenced and it can be safely blanked.

[fresco]

hello,

thanks for your response.

Yea its about 486 MB long and when i preview it, it contains the first 12 minutes and 25 seconds of the movie in widscreen and thats it. It has no sound. Its very weird. I will blank it anyway since the main movie is in full screen.

thanks...

[Noahtuck]

I would check it before burning the final files to a dvdr.

Independence Day fullscreen, the start of the movie is in widescreen then for all the starting credits then after all the garbage is done it changes to fullscreen.
I've seen quit a few dvd's this way so they don't cut off the words before it rolls into the movie.
But i have no idea about silent hill as i have it in WS & never buy fullscreen unless it's really old and not out in WS, Independence Day was an old screwup 8)

[manono]

Hi-

I will blank it anyway since the main movie is in full screen.

I was thinking about this some more later. I've seen quite a few really big black screen menus, but yours is the first I've heard of that actually has real video, but it sounds like the same sort of thing. You said it's in a menu, so if, when you try and blank it, it doesn't warn you about the presence of buttons, you can be sure the blanking is safe. I think you did right. There's always a slight chance you've blanked something important, although it doesn't sound like it in your case, but at least you won't mess up the DVD itself.

[fresco]

Hi-

I will blank it anyway since the main movie is in full screen.

I was thinking about this some more later. I've seen quite a few really big black screen menus, but yours is the first I've heard of that actually has real video, but it sounds like the same sort of thing. You said it's in a menu, so if, when you try and blank it, it doesn't warn you about the presence of buttons, you can be sure the blanking is safe. I think you did right. There's always a slight chance you've blanked something important, although it doesn't sound like it in your case, but at least you won't mess up the DVD itself.

I used Vobblanker to blank out menu 23, it prompts me with a message" The selected PGC 23 has Cell Commands and/or Cell Buttons. Blanking may produce a non-working menu. Do you really want to blank it" I click yes.

I process it and everthing looks fine. The menu still works and the full screen movie works with no problem. Still I wonder why that widescreen clip was even there in the 1st place, especially since I was only able to be access it with dvd shrink or vobblanker...

[manono]

The same thing just happened to me. For the first time I saw active video in an unreferenced menu in the VTS_TS.VOB. 444 MB worth of unreferenced menu. It was just a part of the movie. But when I went to blank it, it didn't complain about there being any buttons, so I know it was OK. In your case, although I'm sure it was OK to blank it, I think I would have opened the DVD in PGCEdit, gone to the Menu Buttons screen for that menu, and tried to find out if the buttons lead anywhere.