Parental Control?????

[Bronx]

Can a DVD disc can be encoded with a Parental Management Level?

It is a home made movie not suitable for children.

[corrax]

I would suggest a good hiding spot. Or maybe a locking cabinet.

[Bronx]

Well I was expecting a smart ass remark. You were the first one. Thanks. But I was also expecting some real answers.

[andkiich]

What's wrong with that answer? It seems perfectly legitimate to me.

Or perhaps you feel it is not your duty to take care of your own children and monitor what they have access to? (P.S. That was a smart-ass remark)

[Bronx]

I know it is my duty to take care and monitor my of my children.
I know I could keep the movies where they don't have access to.

The dvd a play contains a play that uses a lot of vulgar language.

I was asked this question by several of my friends.

I thought this was the place to get a good answer. Well a better one than
above.

[MACCA350]

I dont believe there is any way other than keeping them out of reach of your kids, I have a lockable cabinet which worked fine until the lock broke

not much else you can do

[corrax]

Just kidding around, dude. No need to get bitter about it.

I'm sure there is some way of modifying the video_ts.ifo file to take advantage of your DVD player's parental control settings, but it's probably a lot more trouble than just physically putting the disc somewhere that your kids can't reach it.

Check out IFOEdit. A lot of people on here find it useful. I personally can't get it to do anything for me, but you might have some more luck. Check out the guides on the left under "How To".

[Bronx]

I apoligize for sounding so bitter

[haloblack]

Also consider the fact that if your kids are at all computer literate they could remove the parental controls with about three mouse clicks.

The dvd a play contains a play that uses a lot of vulgar language.

If your kids are anything like most of the ones I know, just mark the disc with a big label that says "THIS IS A PLAY." Odds are they'll never go near it. If they do then you have children who are interested in theatre, which is always a good thing.

[guns1inger]

This came up in another forum here recently, although it was from someone wanting to remove the lock instead. I guess the theory holds, just in reverse. You would author as normal in the package you feel comfortable with, then use IFOEDIT to make the changes to set the lock.

The discussion in question is here https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=216987&highlight=parental

[housepig]

good to know - does anybody have any reference for what these "parental lock levels" are? he mentions in that thread setting the value from 8 to 0 - what happens at value 4? value 6?

[Bronx]

guns1inger,

thanks for that link, I Will try ifoedit and I will post my results soon.....

[corrax]

he mentions in that thread setting the value from 8 to 0 - what happens at value 4? value 6?

I'm guessing they correlate to some level of violence/sex/language in a movie. If you set the threshold on your player to be 5 for instance, it will prevent playback on discs that have a setting of 5 or higher unless you provide a password.

[guns1inger]

I have never turned this function on, so I don't know if any of the (many) disks I have do in fact have ratings applied. There seems to be no indication on the packaging whether or not a rating is in place, and if so, what the rating is. This goes for all my region 4 and region 1 disks.

Does anyone have a disk with a rating printed on the cover ?

[jimmalenko]

Can a DVD disc can be encoded with a Parental Management Level?

It is a home made movie not suitable for children.

Damn, I was hoping it was of the X rated variety too

[Sillyname]

You could try the Keypad that DVD-lab suggests for "hidden" features. Just have it at the beginning of the DVD.

Or you could start it with a clip of you and your spouse getting it on. That'll make the kids shut it off, QUICK!!!

[Bronx]

My wife and I getting it on as the first clip. [/url][/code][/list]

[housepig]

he mentions in that thread setting the value from 8 to 0 - what happens at value 4? value 6?

I'm guessing they correlate to some level of violence/sex/language in a movie. If you set the threshold on your player to be 5 for instance, it will prevent playback on discs that have a setting of 5 or higher unless you provide a password.

now I'm wondering if there is a site that goes into detail on this - I'd like to know what makes a movie jump from 4 to 5, etc...

[Capmaster]

Or you could start it with a clip of you and your spouse getting it on. That'll make the kids shut it off, QUICK!!!

Do you really think so?

[Josef K]

now I'm wondering if there is a site that goes into detail on this - I'd like to know what makes a movie jump from 4 to 5, etc...

Quite boring, really...

[thor300]

In a few years your kids will crack the parental management anyway, so why try to stop it? The first reply was right, hide it, or move to north korea.

[housepig]

Quite boring, really...

thanks for the link! now I know to recode all my pr0n to "1", and then make "Strawberry Shortcake" labels for them, and leave them next to the grade school..

[indolikaa]

Quite boring, really...

thanks for the link! now I know to recode all my pr0n to "1", and then make "Strawberry Shortcake" labels for them, and leave them next to the grade school..

RTFLMAO!

And I was going to post something to the effect that parental control means swallowing...

[disturbed1]

Yes, parental management is built into every DVD Player.

Enter your setup menu (on the dvd player), first you need to asign a password, then choose Ratings or Parental level.

Level 8 is the highest, and is for R rated movies. Set the level to something below this.

Each time a disc is inserted with a level 8 (R) rating, your player will prompt for a password. Unless the password is entered correctly, the disc will not play.

Then you need an authoring program that uses the parental controls. Can't be added in IFO Edit, if it exists, it can be changed, but not created.

Most high level authoring programs have this feature (Maestro, Scenarist), DVD Author has it too, but you'd have to create the XML yourself, as I don't know of a GUI that takes advantage of this yet.

[Bronx]

Then you need an authoring program that uses the parental controls. Can't be added in IFO Edit, if it exists, it can be changed, but not created.

You are right.

[Guddi]

I've been searching all over for a solution to this! I had the same problem but i wanted to remove the restrictions.

I finaly solved the whole thing by opening the VIDEO_TS.IFO in a hexeditor and removing the entire byte (eg the VMG_PTL_MAIT table).
The trick is to know which byte to remove:

open VIDEO_TS.IFO in ifoedit -> go to VMGM_MAT and scroll down to start offset of VMG_PTL_MAIT, write down the number after.

Now open the file in a hexeditor, go to line C0 row F (it should have the number you wrote down earlier) and change the number to 00. On the next line (D0) decrease all numbers by one.

Now, we are ready to remove the byte from the file, first you have to now which lines to get rid of. All you have to do is use some simple math.
if the number was 4, your byte starts att line 2000,
if it was five it starts att 2800
6, its 3000
7, its 3800
etc etc...

you can find a table of the sector numbers here http://www.posunplugged.com/How_To_Guides/txt_data_sec1.html

when you've found you offset, delete everything until the next byte.
for example, if you number was 4, delete sector 2000 to 27F0.

save the new file, open it up in ifoedit and press "Get VTS sectors"

that should do it

my suggestion to you Bronx, copy the sectors from a movie that works the way you want it, and then paste it to the VIDEO_TS.IFO file of the new movie and increase your numbers at the start of the file! I don't know if it works if there are a different set of VTS in the movies but it's wort a try i think

[Bronx]

my suggestion to you Bronx, copy the sectors from a movie that works the way you want it, and then paste it to the VIDEO_TS.IFO file of the new movie and increase your numbers at the start of the file! I don't know if it works if there are a different set of VTS in the movies but it's wort a try i think

I was thinking of using a paste and cut method your way sounds much better. I will give a try as soon as i get an opportunity.

thanks.