PgcEdit v7.4: a free DVD commands editor.

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PgcEdit 0.5.1 released

• Menu Buttons/BOVs Editor.
• Wrong display aspect ratio was used in the menu buttons viewer for group types sharing modes "normal" + "letterbox".
• Fixed wrong highlighted target/jump to target in menu domains: the target was always in LU 1.
• Moved the stream's VOB IDs from the Domain Streams Attributes to the PGC Streams assignments GUI, where they should be. The streans IDs are now hopefully corrects.
• Linux standalone executables 0.5.0beta1 to 0.5.1beta1 were broken. The sources were OK. V 0.5.1beta2 is the first working 0.5 standalone exe.
• Fixed a bug in 'Delete last PGC in domain' in title domain. The new total number of TTNs was wrong when a PGC sharing the same TTN number with another one was deleted.
• Small bug fixed that prevented to "Delete Last PGC in Domain" if the PGC was created with "New Dummy PGC" during the same PgcEdit session.

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PgcEdit 0.5.2 released

• Added a Configuration option in the virtual player setup to load the PGN (Program number) instead of the PTTN (Chapter number) in SPRM 7. Many software and hardware players are not standard compliant on this point.
• Added Export and Import options to save and load the color lookup table of the current PGC in the PGC Editor. File format: raw YCrCb color table (64 bytes, with leading 0 before each color) or RGB colors in ASCII format.
  The import function can also import the colors from a Muxman project, or from a VTS IFO file (the colormap of the first PGC is used).
• Added an option to display the popup menus when the right mouse button is released instead of pushed. This option is not recommended, though.
• Added an option to store the PgcEdit_backup in the root folder of the DVD instead of in the VIDEO_TS folder. Useful to launch programs that doesn't work if there are illegal files in VIDEO_TS (like WinDVD).
• Added File->Incremental Backup. Renames the current PgcEdit_backup folder (adds the modification time and date), and creates a new PgcEdit_backup.
• A warning is issued when entering the menu buttons viewer if several sets of menu buttons are found in a cell. Currently, PgcEdit handles only the first set. A new option to optionally scan for multiple sets of BOVs has also been added in the 'Scan for BOVs' dialog, and the scanning for sets of buttons is optimized for speed.
• Multiple errors messages when parsing the VOBs for menu buttons are now suppressed. Take care: one error message means that the whole VOB is not correctly parsed!
• When saving buttons or BOVs, the original highlight status is left unchanged so that the animated highlights (for example, in Spiderman) will now still be animated.
• File->Delete Backup(s) is able to delete the backups created by PgcEdit, VobBlanker, MenuShrink and Windows (Copy of ...), including incremental backups. TitleSetBlanker backups are not supported anymore.
• Burn DVD: Excludes the backups PgcEdit_backup*, VobBlanker_backup*, MenuShrinkBackup* and "Copy of *" from the compilation.
• Better error trapping for file I/O errors (copy, delete, rename, makedir). Now, a dialog pops up, allowing to retry the operation.
• Thanks to the demo version of the Tcl DevKit, the code is now a little bit optimized, and a couple of potential bugs have been fixed.
• The last VTS's title domain BOVs were never saved. Fixed.
• "Can't read "::buttons::butsinfo(*,hlendtime)": no such element in array" (and selendtime) errors when a new button was created are now fixed.
• The total number of menu buttons or BOVs displayed in the PGC selector label was not updated after a Remove Cell. Fixed.
• Trace: When in a button command, LinkNextCell linked to the current cell, and LinkPrevCell linked to the current cell -2. Fixed.
• Fixed a little bug in the "Options/Install/Associate PgcEdit with IFO (or BUP) Files", when the association was already present, but was blank.
• Problem deleting the DLLs in the bin directory when uninstalling PgcEdit is now partially fixed. You will need to delete them manually.

Please note: DVD Decrypter 3.5.4.0 (as well as 3.5.3.0) has a bug when burning ISOs with some burners or medias. If you get an "Unable to recover TOC" I/O error after the completion of the burn, don't blame PgcEdit! I have tested a private beta release of DVD Decrypter, and this problem is now fixed. Please use DVDD 3.5.2.0 or wait for the next version!

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PgcEdit 0.5.3 released

It's principally a bugfix release. Please download it!

• Added an option in Info -> Calls Cross References do delete the commands in the unreferenced PGCs, and to clear the Prev/Next/GoUpPGC links. May be used to find more unreferenced PGCs in subsequent calls to the Calls Cross References function. Also, another option allow to convert unreferenced menu PGCs to dummies, to easily blank them with VobBlanker.
• Added "Delete All Commands" in the Edit (and popup) menu.
• Important bug in v0.5.2 fixed: new buttons created in a cell originally without buttons/BOVs were saved only in the first nav pack of the cell.
• PgcEdit was unable to parse the VTSM_C_ADT table if the table was present, but with no entries defined in the table. Fixed now.
• Fixed a bug in the parsing of the VTS_C_ADT table, occuring in rare circumstances: a wrong Nav Pack number was read, causing the search for menu buttons or BOVs to fail.
• Inport First-Play/Intro/Closing Clip: The cell commands numbers of the imported title are now forced to 0 in the cell playback table.
• Added a little delay when the Open DVD/Save DVD file requester is closed, to avoid a little Tk bug.

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PgcEdit 0.5.5 released

Thanks to jeanl, PgcEdit is now able to use PgcEditPreview.exe under Linux, through wine.

Also, the preview may run under Mac OSX, through darwine. However, it has not been tested yet. I'd like to hear if it works...

Of course, both wine (aka "wine hq") and darwine are free.

• PREVIEW (and menu backgrounds) available for Linux, and probably also for Mac OSX. You must install wine (for Linux) or darwine (for Mac OSX) to be able to use it.
• Added the Preview -> Use Preview option, to allow Linux or Mac users to turn the preview off, in case of problems with wine or darwine. Although not verry useful, this option is available also under Windows.
• Fixed a bug in v0.5.4, which caused the display of 16:9 letterboxed menus in the menu viewer to fail.
• When saving menu buttons, if you answered NO at the "Backup VOB?" request, PgcEdit offered to backup the VOB again and again. Fixed.

PgcEdit 0.5.4 was essentially a bugfix for 0.5.3:

• New PgcEdit_preview v0.7: with option to turn off the usage of DirectDraw overlays to show the preview, and an option to save the menu backgrounds as PPM instead of BMP (internal use only!)
• Added "Preview -> Disable DirectDraw Overlays" (Windows only) option. On some systems, it may be faster to turn off the DirectDraw overlay display.
• Shift-clicking on the "BMP" button in the preview window allow to save an image in PPM format.
• Import First-Play/Intro/Closing Clip macros were broken in 0.5.3. Fixed.

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PgcEdit 0.5.6 released.

A. = Added feature
F. = Fixed bug

• A. New semi-automatic macro "Jump to PGC upon DVD insert". It's a modified version of jeanl's "Jumping straight to the movie (or the menu) with PgcEdit" and 2COOL's "Jump2Pgc" guides.
• A. Added "Swap or Copy Menu PGC" utility, to swap or copy the PGC parameters (cell table, color table, streams, VM commands, ...) from another PGC of the same menu domain with/to the current PGC. Useful to cleanup the menus.
• A. Added the command "Delete All Commands in PGC" in the PGC Selector popup menu.
• A. Added the utility "Delete All Commands in Domain", also available in the PGC Selector popup menu.
• A. Added the function "Delete All Commands in DVD", available only by right-clicking on an empty line in the PGC Selector.
• A. Added the utility "Blank out all Title PGCs in DVD", that calls the "Blank Out All PGCs in Domain" utility in sequence for all title domains.
• A. Added an option to change the default colors of the GUI, requested by a Linux user.
• A. Option "Skip Preview of short cells (< 1sec., without still time)?" in the preview configuration of the trace mode.
• A. PGC Editor: Added an edit popup menu on the audio and subpic streams title label to copy and paste all audio or subpic streams assignments.
• A. Added a button "All" in the search GUI, to display all occurences in a window. You may click on the buttons to jump to any occurence.
• A. Added some icons for Linux users (included in the Zip archive), thanks to M7S.
• F. PgcEdit_Preview 1.8 by jeanl. See history at the bottom of this file.
• F. Fixed a little bug in Kill Playback macro that caused the display of an erroneous warning when killing the playback of a menu PGC with some cell commands (LinkTailPGC...)
• F. A wrong path was used to store the configuration files on some Win XP foreign systems. Fixed.
• F. Fixed a little problem when using an Alt-F# system key under windows: The tool associated with the F# key was launched instead.
• F. Fixed a bug in the error message routine when a DVD cannot be opened successfully.
• F. Fixed a rare bug in trace mode.

PgcEdit_Preview 1.8 by jeanl:

• Fixed a bug in original DVD2AVI code that caused the CELLID to be incorrectly read from the VOB file in some rare instances.
• Enabled the original code to avoid an extremely rare problem where DVD2AVI finds a SEQUENCE_HEADER_CODE in the first navpack.

Thanks to jeanl, 2COOL, blutach and Tobi for the beta testing of the difficult 'Jump to PGC' macro, and especially to jeanl and 2COOL for their guides.

Have a look at the PgcEdit's homepage. There are some new or updated guides, too.

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PgcEdit 0.5.7 released.

• A. PgcEditor: Added an Angle column ("A.") in the cell list. The angle value is computed from the Type Flags. "-" means all angles, "?" means error.
• A. Added a function to remove the current LU from the IFO. The VOB cells are left unreferenced. You may strip them with VobBlanker easily.
• A. Added a button "CellTimes.txt" in the Pgc Editor to generate the list of cell times needed to remux a clip with chapters. You may add an offset to the cell times if you want.
• A. Added an option to hide the [hex codes] in the main commands listbox.
• A. Added an option to go automatically to Trace mode whan a DVD is opened.
• A. Shift-clicking on a PGC in the PGC Selector now toggles the breakpoints on that PGC (without selecting it).
• A. Added a "Documentation" item in the help menu. It tries to open these files: "<PgcEdit install dir>/doc/PgcEdit_manual.chm" (under Windows only) then, if the file is not found, "<install dir>/doc/PgcEdit_manual.htm", then "<install dir>/doc/PgcEdit_manual.txt", and finally, it opens the online HTML version stored at VideoHelp.
  The old, obsolete single text file has been removed from the distribution.
• A. Added an option to tell PgcEdit which web browser you want to use. Now, the homepages, online docs and DVD-Replica online help are available also for Linux and Mac users.
• E. The shortcuts of the context menus of the PGC selector are now displayed in the menu.
• E. Added tooltips on the edit buttons with the keyboard shortcuts.
• E. Added tooltips in PGC Editor's color table to show the color number.
• E. Added some tooltips on the labels of the cell list in the PGC Editor.
• E. Added the Control-Delete shortcut to call the Blank Out All PGCs utility.
• E. The "DVD modified, are you sure?" warning now allow to save the DVD.
• E. New Preview 1.9 by jeanl. In info mode, the buttons outlines are displayed. Also, mfc42.dll is now linked in the executable, and is therefore not needed anymore under Linux.
• F. Bug in the Search function in All mode: the line numbers were wrong.
• F. Menu Editor: The Align button functions where not working as expected when the current button position was previously edited manually. Fixed.
• F. Workaround for a Tk bug under X11 (Mac and Linux): a wrong height is calculated by Tk for windows with menus. Therefore, the OK/Cancel buttons were hidden in the menu editor.
• F. Some display problems fixed under Mac (X11 and Aqua versions.)
• F. Error when blanking a titleset when the preview window is open fixed.
• F. "Save IFOs as" saved the modified VOBs also (in the original folder).
• F. When the option "Store backup folder in parent of VIDEO_TS folder" is ON, the backup folder is saved now in the parent only if the DVD files are in a VIDEO_TS subdirectory.
• F. Trace: LinkTopCell in a menu button linked to the previous cell. Fixed.
• F. Fixed a rare bug when reading the menu buttons informations.
• F. Fixed some english grammar/vocabulary errors.

There are also many changes in the homepage:

• New PgcEdit documentation, available online and downloadable in HTML or Windows .CHM format. See installation instructions on the homepage. Thanks to Blutach for this great work!
• New installation procedure for Mac users, with a starter application. You don't need to install Tcl/Tk anymore. Thanks to Pucklock!
• New guide by Blutach: How to use PgcEdit’s new Jump to PGC Upon DVD Insert Macro.
• 2COOL's Jump2PGC helper application updated to v 1.55.
• Link to a new guide: Menuing DVD compilations easy, by Bjs.
• Updated version of Tobi's Beispiele.PDF.
• Added the links to download the Test-SPRM-7 test DVD, useful to setup the virtual player (used in trace mode).
• And more...

Note that the old ASCII documentation (in english and french) has been removed from the PgcEdit distribution. Have a look at the Installation section on the homepage to learn how to replace it with the new HTML or Windows Help (CHM) files.

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Updated documantation

Version 2 of the new PgcEdit manual by Blutach is available on the homepage. It's for PgcEdit 0.5.7 final.

Also, the german PDF "Das Programm PgcEdit" by Tobi is also updated to v0.5.7.

Thanks Tobi and Blutach!

[yoshi]

Hi r0lZ

I am sorry if this has been diacussed before, but I can't find a place to download "Starter application". Can you please tell me where can I download it? Also a details on how to install on OSX (Tige) will definitely help people like me. I have already installed X11.

I really apprecite your help.

[r0lZ]

Everything is on my homepage (see my signature).
The explanation on how to install under OSX in in the installation section, and the starter app in the download section.
There is also a readme file in the starter app folder.
Good luck.

If you need more help, feel free to post again. But I am not an expert on installation under OSX, since PgcEdit is developed under Windows.

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PgcEdit 0.6.0 released.

• A. Burn DVD / Create ISO support for Double Layer DVD+R and DL DVD-R:
  - The method allow the user to select the layer break in a wide range of cells (actually twice as wide as the 'standard' method)!
  - Added a GUI to specify the Layer Break cell.
  - Added menu "Options -> Burn / Create ISO setup" menu to call the Burn Setup dialog directly from the main window.
  - The Burn Setup window has been modified to include, among other things, the capacity of a single layer DVD and of a double layer DVD.
  - New starter app for MacOSX (v0.5a), by Pucklock, including mkisofs 2.01 (needed for the Create ISO function.) Thanks to Pucklock! Note that this new starter app starts the X11 version automatically instead of the Aqua version.
• R. Removed the original link to DVD Decrypter's homepage in the Burn Setup dialog because this page is discontinued, and may be monitored by "a major DVD company". Replaced by a direct download link at VideoHelp.
• A. Utilities -> Remap Title Numbers function to renumber the Titles. The references to the Title numbers in the VMG are automatically updated.
• A. Utilities -> Delete last VTS in DVD function. Use this function only when the last titleset is not referenced!
• A. Info -> Find Jumps To Nowhere function showing commands and PrevPGCN, NextPGCN or GoUpPGCN links jumping to non existing PGCs or Titles.
• A. Calls Cross References: Added listing of jumps to nowhere references.
• A. Added an option to display the PGC labels as text in the context menu of an empty line of the PGC selector.
• A. Added shortcut Control+P to launch the PGC Preview.
• A. Added the first step to implement plugins for PgcEdit in the future.
• A. Added an option to change the default listbox background color to white when running PgcEdit under X11. (Linux, and MacOSX with Tk-X11 only)
• E. After 'Clone PGC' or 'New Play All Title', the number of buttons of the new PGC is now displayed in the PGC Selector.
• E. Menu Editor: Changed the menu labels Buttons -> Align vertically and Align horizontally to Align on same column and Align on same row.
• E. Now, there is no need to select your Web Browser the first time an HTML page is opened under Mac OSX: the 'open' command is used instead.
• E. Under Linux and Mac OSX, the config files are now saved in "~/.PgcEdit/".
  Under all platforms, the leading dot has been removed from the filenames.
• F. Burn DVD: The calculation of the size of DVD-ROM files crashed when an empty DVD-ROM directory was present in the compilation.
• F. Fixed some bugs in the Find All function: the line number (when the target was a pre, post or cell command) and the cell number (when the target was a button or BOV) were off by 1, and the button group was not always correctly displayed. The GUI has been changed also to avoid the Tcl/Tk limitaiton of the number of occurences that can be displayed in a canvas.
• F. Jump to PGC Upon DVD Insert macro: when several LUs were present and the user selected the option to process all LUs, there was a bug in the reconstruction of the commands of the modified PGCs in LU 2 and following.
• F. PGC Editor: The color table was not saved after an Import Colors from an IFO file.
• F. An error occured when trying to hi-lite the target of a Jump command when the target VTS was not present.
• F. It was sometimes impossible to close the "Go to calling command" window.
• F. PgcEdit Preview Version 2.0, by jeanl. Fixes 3 bugs. See history below.

Also new on my homepage:

• New MacOSX starter app v0.5a, including mkisofs v2.1 (needed for the new Create ISO function)
• New guide by blutach: How to burn Double Layer Disks with PgcEdit. (discussion thread)
• Updated version of Tobi's PgcEdit Anleitung.PDF and Beispiele.PDF, updated for PgcEdit 0.6.0, including a guide on how to burn Double Layer DVDs.
• Alternate set of toolbar icons, by Sweetness.
• And much more...

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PgcEdit 0.6.1 released

Main changes from latest beta (PgcEdit 0.6.1 beta 12):
ImgBurn support. Thanks Lightning UK!
New Remap Titlesets function, to rearrange the order of the titlesets (safely! .)
New user's comments support, to document the PGCs. (See the Options menu, too.)
And some other minor changes and bug fixes.

Main changes from 0.6.0:
The main menus have been revamped. There are also some improvments in the GUI of many functions.
New functions to create a blank cell in any PGC, and a function to replace a Title domain by an imported one, keeping the menu intact.
Improvments in the Trace mode, with some new functions in the State menu, and new keyboard shortcuts.
The Renumber GOTOs feature has been improved to work also when copying/pasting commands with GOTOs.
Some bug fixes. And much more...

Also, there are 4 plugins for PgcEdit availables for download on my homepage.
Note to DVDShrink users: I have removed the two DVDShrink specific functions from the main program. They are now availables in the DVDShrink plugin.

PgcEdit 0.6.1 version history:

• A. = Added feature.
• E. = Enhancement.
• R. = Removed.
• F. = Bug fix.

• A. Burn: Added support for ImgBurn. The burn function now uses ImgBurn instead of DVD Decrypter to burn the ISO. Although it is recommended to use ImgBurn, it is still possible to use DVD Decrypter, for backward compatibility.
• A. Burn: Added a "Launch ImgBurn" button in the burn dialog to easily examine your blank media before launching the burn operation.
• A. The "Fix number of streams" macro is now launched automatically when a DVD is opened (but not when the DVD is reopened). If some discrepancies are found, the user is prompted to fix them. An option to disable this feature has been added in the Options menu.
• A. PGC Editor: Added a function to create a blank cell in a PGC. Can be used also in a dummy PGC. You may use VobBlanker to replace the new cell. Useful if you want to add a new clip or a menu page in a domain.
• A. New function "File -> Replace VTST Titles" to replace the current VTST domain by an imported one. Can be used to replace a VTST domain after a reencoding or a shrink of a title with DVDShrink in reauthor mode.
• A. Trace Mode -> State menu: Added functions to snapshot the current trace position and state, to be able to return to a snapshot point at any time. Also, some snapshot points are automatically saved during the trace. This feature can be used as a limited undo of the last trace steps. Drawback: the 'PGC Played' flags and highlights are lost after a restore.
• A. Trace Mode: A special snapshot point is recorded automatically when the user quits the trace mode, and restored when the trace mode is reenabled (and when the current DVD is reopened with File -> Reopen DVD). It can also be restored with State -> Return to -> Trace Mode Closed.
• A. Trace mode: Added some keyboard shortcuts, available in trace mode only:
  - Control-Right: -> Step
  - Control-Up: ->> Next PB
  - Control-Down: ->>> Run
  - Control-Left: ->| Break
  - Escape: ->| Break
• A. Added some keyboard shortcuts in main panel:
  - Control+Shift+B: Incremental backup,
  - Control+Alt+B: Restore Backup
  and one shortcut available only when the command pane is active:
  - Control-Insert: Append to Scratchbook
• A. Added "Display PGCs list as text" function in the Info menu.
• A. Added a progress bar in the status bar.
• A. Menu buttons viewer: It is now possible to right-click on the Image < and Image > buttons to display the prev/next background by larger steps.
• A. New function "DVD -> Remap Titlesets" to rearrange the order of the Titlesets. This function renumbers the JumpSS-VTSM commands automatically.
• A. New functions to add, modify, export and import user comments for the PGCs. The comments are displayed in the PGC selector pane, in the current PGC title and in all places where a PGC label is displayed.
• A. Added an option to allow PgcEdit to automatically add PGC comments when creating new PGCs or for information purposes. Currently, the Calls Cross References and Import Startup/Intro/Closing Clip functions are able to create comments automatically.
• A. Added an option to automatically load and save the PGC comments in the backup folder when a DVD is opened or saved.
  
• E. The Utilities and Macros menus are now removed, and replaced by the DVD, Domain, PGC, Menu and Title menus.
• E. The Options menu is now splitted in sub-menus Startup, Input/Output, User Interface and Command Editor.
• E. Moved the Plugins menu before the Tools menu. (Was after the Tools menu.)
• E. The Return key can now be used to accept all requesters. (Same action as clicking the OK button.)
• E. Added an Help button in the Search All results, and in the Go to Calling Command windows.
• E. Added several options in the PGC Editor's Celltimes.txt function.
• E. It is now possible to delete a range of cells at once in the PGC Editor.
• E. In the PGC Editor's subpic streams assignments frame, a message shows now which subpic streams are really necessary according to the current domain stream attributes. Also, in the assign streams GUI, the unused streams are now grayed out, although it is still possible to modify the assignment.
• E. It is now impossible to configure the Domain Streams Attributes's video mode with an illegal combination of flags (for example 4:3 + LetterBox or Pan&Scan, or 16:9 without either Letterbox or Pan&Scan or both.)
• E. The GUI of the Remap Title Numbers function has been enhanced.
• E. Renumber GOTOs option: The GOTO commands duplicated or copied/pasted to the clipboard are now also automatically renumbered.
• E. It is now possible to specify the GPRM to use for the Import First-Play Clip and Import Title's Intro Clip functions, and force the macro to continue even if there are no unused GPRMs remaining in the DVD.
• E. Added an option in the Import Title's Intro Clip macro to display the intro clip only the first time the title is played.
• E. Changed the default settings for the "Enable Navigation Buttons" macro.
• E. Trace: Renamed the preview option "Start Preview automatically when playing a cell?" to "Open Preview automatically when playing a cell?".
• E. Trace's snapshot menu: The PGC label and pre/post/cell line number are now displayed in the menu items of the Snapshot submenus, and a new "Clear all Snapshots" function has been added.
• E. Info -> PGC: Added the Angle number in the cells list.
• E. Info -> PGC param and Cells tables: Added the total playing time for each domain, and the total playing time for the whole DVD.
• E. PUO editor: added a button to input the PUOs as a value. Can be used to paste the value in the PUO_plugin.
• E. Better handling and error messages when an invalid Nav Pack is found when scanning for menu buttons or BOVs.
• E. The error message displayed when trying to load an encrypted VOB from the DVD drive says now clearly that it's a CSS encryption problem.
  
• R. The DVDShrink Remote Buttons and DVDShrink Streams Remapping macros are removed. The same functions are now availables in the DVDShrink Plugin , as well as two new functions to launch DVDShrink from within PgcEdit.
• R. Burn: Removed the "Download Daemon Tools" button on systems running in Germany and Unided Kingdom, due to legal issues in these countries.
  
• F. Burning double layer DVDs did not work if the "Split ISO image into 1 GB chunks" option was enabled.
• F. The VTS_TMAPT table is now updated upon creation or deletion of a PGC in the Title domain.
• F. The Title number displayed in the PGC selector was wrong when the TTNs were not stored in ascending order in the title domain.
• F. A Set, SetCLnk, CSetLnk or CSetCLnk using a SPRM as the first operand of the IF condition was not flagged as invalid. However, it was not possible to enter such an illegal command in the command editor.
• F. Command Editor: Fixed the error opening the Command Editor when the "Start in Trace Mode" option was on and a DVD was loaded via the command line.
• F. Fixed a very rare bug in the handling of the Command Editor window size.
• F. The PGC Editor window was too small when displayed on a 800x600 screen.
• F. Menu viewer/editor: When a menu group has both the Letterbox AND Pan&Scan flags set, the menu was displayed in pan&scan mode. Now, PgcEdit checks the video attributes of the current domain to determine the display mode.
• F. It was possible to crash the BOVs menu viewer/editor if the scan for BOVs of the current titleset was interrupted.
• F. Trace mode: When the Next Chapter button was pressed when the last program was playing, sometimes the last program was played again, instead of the NextPGCN link or post command.
• F. Trace mode: The Title PUOs (in the VMG_TT_SRPT table) were not displayed in the Watch PUOs window.
• F. Trace mode: In "Next PB" mode, the playback stopped when entering the post commands of a dummy PGC. Now, the playback stops only if there is a pre/ post breakpoint on the dummy PGC.
• F. On foreign window platforms, the config files were saved in the user's home (or in the "Application Data" folder if this folder was present.) Now, the config files are saved in the correct application data folder, even if his name is different.
• F. Fixed some little bugs when a VTS has no VTS_TMAPTI table at all.
• F. A bug prevented the Create New Blank Cell function to automatically save the DVD.
• F. New version v1.11 of PsKill.exe by SysInternals.com (in the bin folder under Windows). The previous version was sometimes wrongly identified as a possible virus by some virus killers.
• F. New 'Play All' Title bug: In trace mode, JumpVTS_TT to the new TTN was unable to find the target PGC.

PgcEdit 0.6.1 includes PgcEditPreview v2.1, by Jeanl:

• Fixed the overlay buffer pointers that were not set to 0 when "no overlay" was selected.
• Now allocating oversized blocks to avoid crashes that have been seen with (probably) faulty mpeg data. (See the Taelon posts on this page.)

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PgcEdit v0.6.2 (December 2, 2005)

• E. PGC Editor's cells flags: The Access Restricted and the VOBU Still flags are now availables in the Cells Type Flags editor, rather than directly in the cells list. Previously, only the VOBU Still was available. The Type Flags button contains now two values, one for each byte. Also, some of the flags labels have been changed to reflect more closely the official terminology.
• E. PGC Editor: Added tooltips on the cell command number fields to display the current cell command. The cell commands numbers higher than the number of cell commands currently defined are now highlighted in pink. Similarily, the Prev/Next/GoUpPGCN link values are highlighted in pink if the target PGC doesn't exist.
• E. Enable All Operations now prompts the user if he wants to remove also the Access Restricted flags on the cells of the current PGC, when this flag is set on some cells. Warning: the Access Restricted flag is especially used by the Sony ARccOS protection. In this case, it should not be removed.
• E. Changed the listbox/entry default color to use the Windows default. Added Option -> User Interface -> White Listbox Background also under Windows and Mac OSX.
• E. Burn DVD: a new selector button has been added to select the DL media type from the main dialog. The Sectors in L0 value in the Burn Setup window is now ignored when burning a DL+R.
• E. Since ImgBurn is now stable and doesn't require the layer break sector number in his settings anymore, the dialog asking if the user wants to copy the layer break value in the clipboard has been removed when ImgBurn is used, and when a DL DVD-R is used.
• E. Burn DVD: when the log is displayed, the Save button uses now by default the same filename as the ISO, but with a _log.txt extension.
• A. A new menu "Options -> Install -> Install a plugin" has been added to help the novice user to install a PgcEdit plugin.
• E/F. The standalone version of PgcEdit now uses freeWrap version 6.1. This solves the problem of the mouse double-clicks being passed through the file open/save or folder selection dialogs to the underlying window.
• F. The Kill PGC playback function now appends a LinkPGCN command at the end of the pre-commands when the NextPGC link is non-zero and doesn't point to itself. Without this command, the PGC was sometimes played.
• F. Fixed the bug in Remove Cells function of the PGC Editor that caused the function to silently fail in some occasions.
• F. The Prohibited User Operations window was sometimes pushed below the main window when the Input Value button was used.
• F. Import Title Closing Clip crashed if the current PGC was a PGC without a Title number.
• F. Fixed a problem on some Windows systems where the web browser executable was wrongly considered as not executable by TCL/TK.
• F. Burn DVD: Workaround for a problem with mkisofs on some systems: Mkisofs reports sometimes an "Invalid node - -m" error when the backup folders are not deleted. Now, when this error occur, a dialog pops-up, asking if you want to delete the backups, continue w/o deleting the backups, or cancel.

DVD Shrink plugin v1.3

• Added function to clear the Analysis cache of DVDShrink, to force it to recompute the analysis of the already processed DVDs, or to preserve disc space.

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PgcEdit v0.6.3 released!

• A. It is now possible to bypass a menu with buttons with Kill Playback. The user is prompted to select the button to simulate.
• A. Pgc EDitor -> Create new blank cell: New interface. It is now possible to insert the cell at the beginning of the PGC.
• E. Pgc Editor -> Create New Blank Cell: The GUI has been revamped completely. It is now possible to use an existing and referenced Cell from the original VOB file, or, as before, to create a new blank cell. The button to call this function has been renamed from "Create a new blank cell" to "Create a new cell".
• A. Pgc EDitor -> Create new blank cell and Reassign VOB/Cell ID: Option added to reuse the last tiny blank cell at the end of the VOB file (available only when that cell has been created previously by PgcEdit.)
• E. Pgc Editor -> Create new blank cell and Reassign VOB/Cell ID: There is now a Preview button in the GUI to show the selected replace cell.
• E. Jump to PGC upon DVD insert: When the target PGC is in a menu domain, the last title played before the target PGC is now always called (but not played) just before the target menu PGC so that a valid resume point exists when the menu is reached for the first time. This method should fix the (rare) problem caused by the usage of a RSM command in the menu to call the main title. Previously, the title PGC was called before the menu only when it was in the same titleset than the target menu.
• E. When importing titles in a DVD with parental managment, the user is now prompted to remove the parental managment of the original DVD, and when importing a menu, it is prompted to clear the parental managment IDs of the menu PGCs, if there are IDs in the menu.
• E. Burn DVD: Interface revamped, and new option to close automatically PgcEdit after a successful ISO creation.
• E. Burn DVD: The new ImgBurn 1.1 command lines options /CLOSESUCCESS and /WAITFORMEDIA are now used instead of /CLOSE (though /CLOSE is still used if the ISO image is burnt with DVD Decrypter.) Please note that you need ImgBurn 1.1.0.0 or the "Close ImgBurn" option will not work!
• F Burn DVD: The layer break sector passed to ImgBurn or DVDD was wrong when burning a DL DVD-R. (No problem with DL DVD+R.)
• F. Burn DVD: Changed the way the backup files are excluded from the compilation. In v0.6.2, the old method caused harmless errors when the DVD files were moved in the new VIDEO_TS directory.
• F? Burn DVD: Changed again the syntax to exclude the backup files from the compilation to avoid the mkisofs "-m" bug.
• F Burn DVD: A batch file is now always used under Windows to call mkisofs, and the mkisofs command line is split in environment variables to avoid the line too long M$-DOS bug under Win9X.
• F? Burn DVD: Redirecting stderr to stdout doesn't work under Win9X! Workaround: the output of mkisofs is not well checked under Win9X. For this reason, the user should take care of the error messages in the log!
  See the warning under Win9X when the Burn Setup dialog is opened.
• F. Burn DVD: Wrong error message when moving the backup folders in VIDEO_TS.
• F. Burn DVD: Under Windows, it is now impossible to type foreign characters in the output ISO field, because those characters are not correctly translated by MKISOFS, and therefore the file cannot be opened by ImgBurn.
• F. Kill PGC Playback: The Set, SetCLnk, CSetCLnk or CSetLNK command with a Link to a cell, program or chapter were not trapped. Now, a dialog pops up to warn the user.
• F. PGC Editor: Fixed a bug in the Cell preview: A wrong cell was shown after a Vob/Cell ID remapping.
• F. PGC Editor: Toggling the Layer Break checkbox did not change the seamless joint flag value. This bug has been introduced in v0.6.2.
• F. Command Editor - CallSS command: The option to resume at the point where the title was interupted (resume cell 0) has been removed, since this option seems illegal in all cases.
• F. Remap Titlesets: The modified JumpSS-VTSM commands in the menu buttons of the VMGM were not saved during the operation.
• W. Workaround for the pskill.exe problem with McAfee antivirus. It is now encrypted in the standalone executable, so that McAfee doesn't complain. McAfee may still complain when the real file is scanned in the bin folder.

DVDShrink plugin v1.4 released!

• DVDShrink Remote Buttons: Added the options to use the Prev Chapter button and/or the Return button to go back to the beginning of the previous title

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PgcEdit 0.6.3.1 released! (January 29, 2005)

• F. Burn DVD: If the user cancels the layer break selection dialog, the dialog is closed, but the OK and Cancel button of the main burn dialog are still disabled. There is no way to close this dialog, and the user must kill PgcEdit.
  This problem has been introduced in v0.6.3, and is now fixed.

Thanks to Tobi for the bug repport!

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PgcEdit v7.0 released!

As requested by many users (thanks, guys!) I have finally removed the useless leading "0." in the version number. The enormous gap between the latest official version 0.6.3.1 and this v7.0 doesn't mean that it's a particularly major upgrade, or that all bug are fixed.

Release notes:

• A. Added a preview checkbox in the upper left corner of the main window. When ticked, selecting a PGC manually starts the preview automatically.
• A. Menu Editor: New function "Edit -> Copy button position only" to copy the current button position. Paste it with "Paste Current Button".
• A. Menu Editor: New functions "Button -> Increase / Decrease Button Number" to move the current button in the list of buttons.
• A. New function Info -> Jumps from VMG to Current VTS to find out the global references to the current VTS. (This function doesn't show the references from the current VTS to itself.) Useful to verify if the last VTS is still referenced and to reroute the references before removing it.
• A. Preview: In trace mode, it is now possible to blank the current cell from the preview window. In addition, when all cells of the current PGC are blanked, the user is prompted to kill the playback of the PGC.
• A. Kill Playback: When killing the playback of a Title PGC, the user has now the option to blank all cells of the PGC, to easily strip the original cells later with FixVTS or VobBlanker. This function is similar to the option to remove the cells of a menu PGC and convert it to a dummy.
• A. Added the menu Options -> Functions -> Kill PGC Playback -> Always remove or blank the PGC cells, to eliminate the dialog asking if the cells must be removed (for a Menu PGC) or blanked (for a Title PGC.)
• A. PGC Editor: Added a function to delete all multi-angles cells, keeping only one angle. The Angle flags and First ILVU end value on the remaining cells are removed as well. It is then possible to strip the unused ILV cells from the VOB files with VobBlanker. It is necessary to remove all angles from the DVD or the domain that will be processed with VobBlanker, and to enable the "Fix Always VOB SYNCI/SRI Pointers in Titles" option!
  The same function can be used to remove the ILV flags and First ILVU End value in interleaved (mono-angle) PGCs.
• A. PGC Editor -> Remove Cells: Added an option to keep the program numbers in sync with the original cells. However, when this option is enabled, it is possible that several PGs are pointing to the same cell. A warning is issued in this case, since this situation might be illegal.
• A. Added the menu Tools -> FixVTS, to launch FixVTS with the first VOB of the current domain already loaded. Useful to strip the blanked cells from the VOBs after a cells blanking from the preview.
• A. Domain Streams Attributes: It is now possible to remove the audio and subpic streams selectively in this dialog. The streams assignments in the PGCs of the current domain are also deleted automatically. The subsequent streams are automatically shifted if necessary. The SetSTN commands are NOT modified! (Note that this dialogue is now read-only when it is called from the PGC Editor.)
• A. Changed the maximum number of chanels to 8 in the Audio parameters of the Domain Streams Attributes dialog, to take the new formats into account.
• E. Calls Cross Reference and Go To Calling Command: A Root menu (that is normally callable with the remote) is now considered as unreferenced if all titles of the same VTS are unreferenced, or if all titles have the PUO to prohibit calling this menu. For the Subpic, Audio, Angle and PTT menus, all non-dummy PGCs of the same titleset are checked, including the menus. For the Title Menu, all non-dummy PGCs of the whole DVD are checked.
• E. Burn DVD: Support for the new /TESTMODE option of ImgBurn 1.2.0.0 (for DVD-R only!)
• E. Burn DVD: Added a button in the burn setup dialog to use the faster version of mkisofs.exe, now provided with PgcEdit (under Windows only.)
• E. Burn DVD: Added a check to ensure that mkisofs.exe is properly configured in the Burn Setup dialog. Some guys used ImgTool.exe instead!
• E. Burn DVD: Added an option to save automatically the Graph Data file for DVDInfoPro. The file is saved with the same name as the source ISO file, but with the .IBG extension. Requires ImgBurn 1.3 or more.
• E. Burn DVD: Added new burn speeds in the speed selector dropdown menu.
• E. Burn DL DVD: When a suitable cell cannot be found for the layer break, PgcEdit displays now in which cell the layer break should be. You can therefore easily use VobBlanker to split that cell.
• E. Remap Title Numbers: Now, this function searches for SPRM(4:Title Number in Volume) in the VM commands of the DVD. If SPRM 4 is used, a warning is displayed, as it is dangerous to remap the title numbers in this case.
• E. Menu Viewer/Edit Command button: In expert mode, the "Modify the command for the 2 (or 3) groups?" prompt is not displayed anymore, except when the original commands are not identical in all groups.
• E. Read DVD: Added a check for illegal entries in VMG_TT_SRPT table (Title assigned to a non existing PGC or 2 Titles assigned to the same PGC.) If the bad Title is the last one in the table, it is optionally removed, but the user must still fix the VM commands, if needed.
• E. When loading a new DVD, the Fix number of streams in VMGM/VTSI_MAT tables function do not prompt the user any more to fix the Menu domains with one subpic stream defined but never used by the menu PGCs, because it's legal and frequent on commercial DVDs, and this warning confused some users. However, this check is still made when the Fix number of streams is called from the "DVD" menu, and when opening the Domain Streams Attributes GUI.
• E. When loading the DVD, the End Byte pointers of the tables are now verified whenever possible to avoid stupid crashes with badly authored DVDs.
• E. PGC Editor: When editing a menu PGC, only one audio and one subpic stream is now displayed, since more streams in the menu domain is illegal.
• F. PGC Editor - Create New Cell: Disabling the option to create the backup of the VOB file did not work.
• F. The "New 'Play All' PGC" function was broken. Also, there is now a check to warn the user if the number of programs in the new PGC is greater than 127 or the number of chapters greater than 99.
• F. The target of some Jump_VTS_TT and Jump_VTS_PTT was not found by the find target routine. This caused some bugs in the Go to calling command, Calls cross references, Find jumps to nowhere, Jump to target and Highlight target functions.
• F. Trace: When the Title Menu button is pressed during playback of a VTSM menu PGC, the Title menu is now called. Previously, a Resume to Title was made. The correct behaviour in this case is uncertain, because the specs are not clear on this subject, but this behaviour seems logical and many players (though not all!) are doing this. A resume is still issued when the Title menu is pressed during playback of a VMGM menu PGC.
• F. Trace: Small bug fixed: when a cell command was reached, it was necessary to execute it twice, and the command was logged twice as well. However, the cell command was simulated only once.
• F. Small bug in the Jump To PGC Upon DVD Insert function, introduced in 0.6.3 fixed: the resume cell of the CallSS command inserted in the beginning of the pre-commands of the resume title was wrong.
• F. Fixed a bug in the Info -> Jumps from VMG to Current VTS function. The Prev/Next/GoUpPGCN links of the current VTS were wrongly displayed.
• F. Burn DL DVD: When burning a DL DVD saved by DVD Remake v3.4 (without first resaving it with PgcEdit), the computation of the layer break position was wrong. To fix this problem, the DVD (including single-layer DVDs) are saved automatically when the burn function is started.
• W. Added several workarounds for a (possible) bug in TitleWriter: TitleWriter assigns several Title numbers to the same PGC. Now, PgcEdit should support this strange (if not illegal) way to use the VMG_TT_SRPT table.
• W. Under Windows XP, the Windows command TSKill.exe is now used instead of PSKill.exe (which caused false positive warnings of some picky anti-virus programs). However, PSKill is still used when TSKill is not found. (The kill executable is used only by the Burn DVD function to abort the creation of the ISO image when the user clicks on the Cancel button.)

Have fun!

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PgcEdit v 7.1

• A. Burn DVD: New "Seamless Layer Break" option in the Layer Break selection dialogue, allowing to set the seamless flag of the LB cell. Theoreticaly, the Seamless flag must be clear, but it appear that it is possible to set it in most circumstances. However, this method can be incompatible with some old players, but is used on some commercial DVDs (among others, Sony Superbit DVDs.) A pink warning is displayed in the risky cases. Technical info: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=819669#post819669
• A. Burn DVD: New option (under Linux and MacOSX only) in the layer break dialogue to modify the IFO files only, without creating the ISO image. This option can be used to burn the DVD files directly with growisofs.
• A. New function to recompute the VTS_TMAPTI table (Time Map) of the current Title PGC, or all time maps of the current title domain or of the DVD. This function is called automatically when a time map needs to be modified but can also be called on demand via the "DVD" and "Title" menus to fix bad time maps, or to build the time maps of non-sequential titles.
• E. Kill Playback: The first cell command that is normally executed is now included in the pre-commands to minimize the risk of navigation errors (but only if this command is useful and legal in the pre-commands.)
• E. PGC Editor's cell list: When a cell command is defined and the seamless joint flag of the next cell is set, the "Layer Break?" checkbox is now highlighted in pink, to warn the user that the cell command is executed only when this seamless flag is clear (ie, layer break checkbox ticked.)
• E. When a titleset is present on disc but not referenced at all in the IFOs, it is now possible to move it automatically to a special backup folder. Previously, the user has to do it manually.
• E. Improved the VOB desynchronized error check to identify the tiny black cell added by PgcEdit at the end of the VOB files but not referenced in the IFOs. (This situation can happen when the IFOs are not saved by the user after the creation of a new cell.) It is now possible to reuse this cell with the PGC Editor functions "Create new cell" and "Reassign VOB/ Cell ID" with the option to create a new blank VOB cell. Previously, a VOB Desynchronized error message was issued.
• E. Burn DVD: The Shutdown Computer option is not remembered any more from session to session. That was too dangreous.
• F. After an Import VTST Title, Import FP Clip or Import Title intro/closing clip, the number of BOVs were not initialized correctly, which caused some other functions (notably Clone PGC) to crash.
• F. Clone PGC function did not update the TTN internal variables correctly.
• F. Trace: A warning is now issued if a cell command exists, but the cell that follow the current cell has its Seamless flag set. The cell command cannot be executed in this case.
• F. Blank Out all Title PGCs: The cells table was wrong when this function was applied to a Title domain without VOB files present on HDD.
• F. Replace VTST Titles: The streams attributes of the current menu domain were copied from the imported IFO. Now, the table is left untouched.
• F. Remove cell in PGC Editor: When removing the last Program, the PG number was kept in the table, and forced to 0. Now, it is correctly removed.
• F. Info -> Jumps from VMG to Current VTS: Some menu buttons or BOV commands were wrongly included in the output.
• F. Fixed a bug occurring in very rare circumstances: The number of BOVs of the PGC was sometimes wrong after a delete cell from the PGC Editor.
• F. Tools configuration didn't work if FixVTS was not used before calling it.
• F. When a titleset was removed or imported, the parental management table VMG_PTL_MAIT was not updated.
• F. Some minor GUI bugs fixed.
• F. The Download Daemon Tools link was dead. Changed to current one.
• W. Workaround for a little discrepancy in the faster mkisofs.exe program provided with PgcEdit. This exe doesn't set the error level like the original one, and therefore PgcEdit was unable to discover if it has failed.

DVDShrink plugin v 2.0

• A. New function to redo completely from scratch the authoring of a DVD created by DVDShring in reauthor mode.

LU (Language Unit) plugin v 1.1

• A. New function to clone the current LU, with a new language code. Useful to translate a still menu to another language.

Enjoy!

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PgcEdit v 7.1.1 released!

Sorry, the Kill Playback function is broken in v7.1!
Please download v7.1.1, which fixes this bug.

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Sorry, there were 2 important bugs in v7.1.
Kill Playback and the Burn function are broken.
Also, this version was incorrectly named v7.0.1.

If you have already downloaded v7.1 (7.0.1) or 7.1.1 (7.0.1.1), please download v7.1.2, which should be the final 7.1.X release.

Sorry for the trouble!

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PgcEdit v7.2 released!

• E. When the VMGM_VOBU_ADMAP table is present but has 0 entries, the table is now completely removed when the DVD is loaded. Previously, only the empty VMGM_C_ADT, VTSM_C_ADT and VTSM_VOBU_ADMAP tables were removed.
• F. Burn DL DVD: When the new advanced option "Modify IFOs only" is ticked and PgcEdit cannot find a suitable cell for the layer break, the GUI was not updated correctly, and it was impossible to close the Burn window.
• F. The highlight target feature and the Find Jumps to Nowhere function were unable to mark a JumpTT to an inexistant title as invalid.
• F. It was possible to save the DVD or quit PgcEdit when a save operation was already in progress. Now, only File -> Kill can be used during the save.
• F. PGC Editor: Remap Vob/Cell ID when using the Create New Cell option was broken in v7.1.
• F. The dynamic version of the PgcEdit_preview executable was distributed with v7.x. To work correctly under Linux, the static version is needed.

New plugin:

• Time Maps plugin v1.0, a function to verify the VTS_TMAPTI tables of all Titles of the DVD, with an option to rebuild the missing or wrong tables automatically when the DVD is saved.

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PgcEdit v 7.3 released

• F. During the trace, when a menu was displayed, hitting the Prev, Next or GoUp button on the virtual remote had no effect.
• F. PGC Editor -> Create New Cell -> Create New Blank VOB Cell did not create a new cell if a tiny blcak cell previously created by PgcEdit was already present at the end of the VOB file. Instead, the tiny cell was reused.
• F. When using Create New Cell -> Use existing VOB/Cell ID, the cell ID number was always 1.
• F. When using Create New Cell on a non-sequential Title PGC (with several PGCs in the same TTN) and the option to create a new chapter, the new chapter number was wrong.
• F. When using New Dummy PGC on a Title PGC, the modified Title was not marked as non-sequential in the VMG_TT_SRPT table.
• F. When using Delete Last PGC in the Title domain to delete the penultimate PGC of a non-sequential Title (played sequentially), the Title was not marked as sequential in VMG_TT_SRPT. Its time map is now also recomputed when the DVD is saved.

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PgcEdit v7.4 released:

• A. New function Info -> Find Never-Called PGCs, to mark the PGCs and VTSs that are never called explicitely (without having to clear the VM commands and Prev/Next/GoUp PGCNs).
• A. New function Trace menu -> State -> Restart Playback from Exit Domain, to begin the playback at Title 1 instead of at the First-Play PGC.
• A. New Option -> Functions -> DVD-TEXT General Name to set the max length of the Volume General Name string, since the number of characters that can be displayed on screen is player dependent.
• A. Added "%t" and "%l" substitutions in the command line string of the Tools Setup dialog to be able to pass the DVD-Text General Name (%t) and the default DVD label of the burn function (%l) as arguments. Calling ImgBurn with the volume label already in place is now possible with the arguments: /MODE ISOBUILD /BUILDMODE DEVICE /FILESYSTEM "ISO9660 + UDF" /SRC "%d" /VOLUMELABEL "%l" /NOIMAGEDETAILS /ERASE /VERIFY /IBG "C:\%l.ibg"
• E. When a PGC or a cell is never called directly by a VM command or by a Prev Next or GoUpPGCN link, it was previously considered as unreferenced, even if it was referenced in some IFO tables. Now, in this situation, the word "unreferenced" has been replaced by "never-called" to avoid the confusion with truely unreferenced cells (which are never referenced in the IFOs.)
• E. Rebuild Time Map functions: the cell times and the PGC playback time are now updated also in the VTS_PGCITI table. Therefore, after using this function, the times shown in the PGC Editor should be accurate.
• E. Create New Cell and Reassign VOB/Cell ID: New option to rebuild the time map tables. It is now possible to skip the Time Map creation. Useful to speed up things when using those function several times.
• E. The error message "Can't create backup" is not displayed any more when the DVD is loaded from the DVD drive, and is therefore read-only.
• E. Improved Read DVD functions, to cope with some severe authoring errors.
• E. Added a note in the Check DVD-R Size dialog to warn the user that this function ignores the DVD-ROM files in the computation of the DVD size.
• F. Trace mode: SPRM 20 (Player region code) was wrongly initialized with the region code value of VMGM_MAT instead of a bitwise XOR of this value.
• F. Trace mode: In case of arithmetic overflow in Set operations, the result was rounded to 0 or 0xFFFF. Now, the right value, not rounded, is used.
• F. PGC Editor -> remap VOB/Cell ID did not work on a menu PGC if the VOB file was not successfully scanned for menu buttons when the DVD was opened, for example because the menu VOB file was not present or was CSS encrypted. Similarly, Remove Cell did not update the PGC playback time.
• F. When a menu PGC was killed and the video removed, the audio and subpic attributes were not cleared in the PGC.
• F. Kill playback: a warning was sometimes issued when it was not needed.
• F. Little bug fixed when PgcEdit was called with an invalid path as CLI arg.

DVDShrink plugin updated to v2.1:

• F. Bug in DVDShrink Remote Buttons's Always allow the 'Title Menu' button to skip to the next title? function fixed. The Title button was ineffective in some cases.

New VOBU plugin:

• With this plugin, you can change the entry VOBU sector and the last VOBU sectors of any PGC.
  Handy to skip intros, logos or credits embedded in the main movie.
  Please note that this method is not standard compliant, and may fail with some players!

Enjoy!

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PgcEdit v 8.0 released!

A. = Added feature
E. = Enhanced feature
F. = Bug Fixed

• E. Cell Table: The misleading "Layer Break ?" flag has been replaced by the more standard "Seamless Joint" flag. It's now a direct shortcut to the Seamless Joint flag in the cell type editor. Its value is the inverse of the old flag. Therefore, now, the new Seamless flag should theoretically be CLEAR at the LB position and always clear on the first cell of the PGC.
• A. New function Domain -> Remap PGCs in domain, to reorder the PGCs of the current domain. The VM commands and the Next/Prev/GoUpPGCN links are automatically renumbered to preserve the navigation.
  You can preview the PGCs from within the GUI.
  Removed Menu -> Swap or Copy Menu PGC, since this function is now useless.
• A. New function Title -> Re-order TTNs in domain, to renumber the TTNs of the current domain in increasing order. The VM commands are renumbered to preserve the navigation. This function might be needed to be able to delete the last PGC with Domain -> Delete last PGC in domain.
• A. New function DVD -> Delete uncalled PGCs, to delete automatically (almost) all useless PGCs in the DVD. The navigation is preserved.
  Note: Since this function is potentially dangerous, use it with care!
• A. Added the User's PGC Comment field in the PGC editor, to easily type it.
• A. Pgc Editor -> Remove Cells: New "Shorten the chapter table if needed" option, to silently remove the chapters at the end of the chapter table when they are not assigned to an existing program any more after the operation. Use this option with care!
• A. PgcEditor -> CellTimes.txt: It is now also possible to save the celltimes file in Womble MPEG Video Wizard .MLS format. A .MBS file can also be generated when necessary (when there are several VOB files in the domain.)
• A. Removed Info -> Find Unused GPRMs and added Info -> GPRMs to open the new GPRM Labels Editor and to list the usage count of all GPRMs.
  The labels are displayed in the VM commands and the Command Editor exactly like for the SPRMs. The GPRM fields in the Command Editor are now replaced by a dropdown menu button. Right-clicking on a GPRM menu button calls also the GPRM Labels Editor. In Trace mode, added also Watch -> GPRM Labels.
  Clicking on a GPRM label in the Watch window calls also the Labels Editor.
  The GPRM labels are saved in the backup folder, with the User Comments, when the DVD is saved. The menus File -> "Import/Export/Clear user's PGC comments" has been moved to the "Comments and Labels" sub-menu.
• A. Added File -> Recent DVDs submenu, with up to 25 entries. The invalid paths are removed from the list each time PgcEdit is started.
• A. Added View -> Show Log and View -> Clear Log. Currently, only the Load DVD operation is logged, to help discover the origin of a problem when loading a DVD. All status bar messages are also logged.
  Clear Log clears the internal log buffer, but doesn't modify the contents of the Log viewer window. Opening or reopening a DVD clears also the log.
  Note: Double-clicking on the status bar opens also the log window.
• A. Added the keyboard shortcut Control+A to call Domain Streams Attributes.
• A. Trace: Added Log -> Log Filter -> PUOs Details to log each PUO separately.
• E. Trace Watch Window: it is now possible to close any sub-window from the watch window, and to toggle the SPRM labels and the (new) GPRM labels.
  New Watch -> All menu to enable all sub-windows and labels at once.
• E. DVD -> Remap Titlesets and Title -> Remap Title Numbers: Added a preview, available also in the new Domain -> Remap PGCs in domain function.
• E. Jump To PGC Upon DVD Insert has been enhanced so that the target title and the resume target are no more blocked when they are entered directly from the exit domain with the player function to call a Title by its number.
• E. Jump To PGC Upon DVD Insert: Also, the original VM commands are completely removed from the First-Play PGC whenever possible, to leave a chance to delete the skipped PGCs with the new Delete Uncalled PGCs function.
• E. Kill PGC Playback on a menu with buttons (or BOVs) but with a non-infinite still time: added a "No Button!" button to kill playback without selecting a menu button to be simulated, to continue the navigation normally at the end of the playback. DO NOT USE THIS OPTION ON A LOOPING MENU, or you will probably create an endless loop!
• E: Kill PGC Playback improved to avoid infinite loop in some circumstances.
• E. Menu button viewer: When the user clicks on the big button to edit the command and the commands are identical in all groups (or there is only one group), the user is not prompted any more to modify the command in all groups. It is still possible to edit the commands independently when the original commands are different in each group, or with the menu editor.
• E. Improved warning messages when there are several set of buttons in a menu.
• E. The File menu, too big, has been reorganized with new sub-menus.
• A. Added File -> Backups -> Undo last Incremental Backup to automatically return one step back in the backups. In some cases, you MUST use this function instead of restoring the files manually, or your DVD might be totally messed up. This function checks also for FixVTS and VobBlanker backups, and offer to restore them manually. Shortcut: Control+Alt+N
  The shortcut for New Incremental Backup has been modified: Control+N
• E. Restore Backup (and Restore Last Incremental Backup): The VOB files in the backup folder can now be copied or moved back automatically.
• E. Tools -> FixVTS: the FixVTSBackup folder is now renamed automatically when FixVTS is launched from the Tools menu, so that the new Undo Incremental Backup function works as expected when FixVTS has been used several times.
• E. Save DVD: When there are modified buttons or BOVs, the confirmation dialog is no longer displayed. The buttons or BOVs are saved anyway.
• E. Title Play Map table: The user can now modify the Not-One_Sequential_Title flags. Added also a button to compute automatically those flags, based on the characteristics of the titles (random, shuffle, more than one PGC...)
• E. Not-one_sequential_title flag in VMG_TT_SRPT: Added checks in several functions to be sure that this flag does not need to be modified. Now, the not-one_sequential flag is modified automatically (or in some cases after a confirmation of the user) to match the Title characteristics.
  The affected functions are Edit PGC, Rebuild Time Map, Delete last PGC in Domain, etc... Thanks to Jsoto for the idea!
• E. After deleting or blanking a PGC, the streams attributes of the domain are now checked, and the user is prompted to fix them if some streams are no longer needed.
• E. Added Copy/Paste buttons in Domain Stream Attributes -> Audio type dialog.
• E. Added error messages in the status bar when the user types illegal characters in an ISO639 Language Code field.
• E. When the option to start PgcEdit in trace mode was on, the plugins were initialized only after the trace mode was closed by the user. Now, the plugins are loaded and initialized before the trace mode is started.
• E. Improved method to load severely damaged IFO files. (Silent Hill zone 2)
• E. Find BOVs has now a new option to do a deep scan (every 1 VOBU) when at least one BOV has been found during the first pass and the number of VOBUs to skip is greather than 1. When this option is on, it is now almost impossible to miss a BOV, even if the number of VOBUs to skip is high.
• E. Info -> Menu Button Commands: Added the BOVs as well in the output.
  VOB cells without buttons or BOVs are not listed any more.
• E. Info -> PGC (in title domain), and PCG Params and Cell Tables: Added the number of BOVs per cell in the output.
• E. Miscellaneous little GUI enhancements. For example, it is now possible to switch the focus back and forth between the PGC selector pane and the cmd editor pane with the cursor left and right keys.
• E. Uses Tcl/Tk 8.4.12 and freeWrap 6.2 for the wrapped version.
• F. Open DVD: Crash occurring when a VTS without VTS_C_ADT table was read.
• F. The Title number of a multi-pgc Title was not assigned to the right PGC when the entry PGC is not the first PGC of the TTN. (Very rare situation.)
• F. The target PGC of the SetNVTMR command was ignored by the function to find the target of a command.
• F. Fixed some video standard and frame rate mismatches when creating a new VMGM or VTSM menu or the FP-PGC.
• F. Set DVD-Text General Name: Bug when there are more than 30 characters in the label and the VMG_TXTDT_MG table was not defined in the original DVD. This bug caused ImgBurn to ignore the label.
• F. Trace: The PUOs Watch window was not refreshed after a Restore State.
• F. Jump to Calling Command and Find Jumps to Nowhere GUI: The Refresh button did not work.

Plugins

• Update: Prohibited User Operations plugin v 1.4[list:201a772c74]
  
• v 1.3: It is now possible to selectively keep some PUOs when removing them from the VOB files.
  
• v 1.4: Bugfix: A wrong error message was displayed in some rare cases, when the end of a VOB file is padded with null packs.

[*] Update: Time Maps plugin v 1.1

• Bugfix: The Verify Time Maps function crashed if it was called with no DVD loaded in PgcEdit.

[*] Update: VOBU plugin v 1.1

• Added the option to modify also the VTS_C_ADT table.
  
• Added a way to select the sector number from the preview. (Requires PgcEdit v 7.5 and PgcEdit_Preview v 2.4)
  
• Added the "Reset to full range" button to quickly restore the original cell boundaries.

[*] New: Womble plugin v 1.0

• Plugin to create .MBS and .MSL files for Womble MPEG Video Wizard DVD.
  The .MBS files are necessary to open a VTST made of several VOB files in Womble.
  The .MSL files are the Womble chapters/bookmarks lists (similar to celltimes.txt, but more complex.)
  This plugin is useful only for the users of MPEG Video Wizard DVD.

[*] New: XiRON plugin v 1.0

• Plugin to fix and modify DVDs created by a XiRON DVD recorder.
  I wrote this plugin for me, to fix the numerous authoring errors of my cheap and very bad XiRON RW3HDD 80GB recorder.
  I will probably NOT continue to develop it, and I provide no support for this plugin. Use it at your own risk!
  This plugin is useless if you are not un unlucky owner of a XiRON recorder.

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Third-party guides

• How to use PgcEdit’s Remapping and Restoring Functions is an excellent guide by blutach to understand how the major new functions of PgcEdit v8 work. Thanks blutach!
  
• In het neederlands (dutch):[list:201a772c74]
  
• Een Play All script voor een Studio DVD-image met PgcEdit by Johan de Jong.
  
• Switched Menu's met Pinacle Studio en PgcEdit by Johan de Jong.

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[r0lZ]

PgcEdit v8.1 released!

A. = Added feature
R. = Removed
E. = Enhancement
F. = Fixed bug
W. = Workaround

• A. File -> Menu Buttons & BOVs -> Import/Export All Menu Buttons and BOVs. Can be used to save and restore all menu button and BOVs definitions of the current DVD.
  A "menubuttons.but" file is also automatically created in the backup folder each time a new backup is created. The BOVs are NOT saved if the VOB files are not automatically scanned at load time. This file is NOT restored automatically when the backup is restored.
  It is possible to load the buttons file even if the VOB files are not present in the DVD folder.
  Note: If you change the file type in the Import buttons dialog, you can also import a buttoninfo.txt file created by a well known program. However, as some important info is missing in this file, so DO NOT SAVE the buttons!
• A. Added "Help -> Check For New Version" and "Options -> Startup -> Check For New Version At Startup?" to automatically check if a new PgcEdit version is available and to download it automatically (and, under Windows only, to install it automatically.)
• A. Added "DVD -> Delete Uncalled TitleSets". This function is a lot faster than Delete Uncalled PGCs, but less efficient. Use it before Delete Uncalled PGCs when there are many uncalled Titlesets in the DVD.
• A. Added "Title -> PTT (Chapter) Editor", a new editor suitable to edit the chapters of not-one_sequential Titles (with chapters in several PGCs belonging to the same TTN.) The old editor is still available via the PGC editor, but cannot be used on not-one_sequential Titles any more.
• A. Added "Info -> Jumps from VMG to all VTSs". Basically, this new function is identical to Jumps from VMG to current VTS, but is handy to find all jumps to all VTSs, and to locate the VTS that are called only once.
• A. Added "Info -> Find jumps to void PGCs". A PGC is considered void when it has no commands (or only NOPs), no buttons, and no NextPGC link (or when it is out of range.) When a void PGC is played, the navigation stops.
• A. Added a check when loading the DVD to be sure that at least one Title is defined per TTN, and to create a new Title in VMG_TT_SRPT if necessary.
• E. When a DVD is opened, PgcEdit now checks if the IFO, BUP and VOB filenames are in upper case, and offers to rename them if necessary.
• E. The menu of the command editor is now context dependent. The illegal commands for the current domain and current pre/post/cell/button/BOV area are now greyed out. The last menu contains now only the valid jump commands for the current context, and has been renamed to "Jump to...".
• E. The illegal commands for the current domain and pre/post/cell/button/BOV area are now highlighted in pink in the main listbox and in the menu button viewer and editor. (The jumps to a non-existing PGC and the invalid GOTOs are now highlighted in orange instead of pink.)
• E. In the PGC Editor, the Prev/Next/GoUpPGCN links are now also highlighted in pink when they point to another TTN.
• E. Replaced the default system Yes/No/OK/Cancel dialogs by custom dialogs.
  This is needed primarily as a workaround for a display problem under Vista, but the new method has several advantages. The user can now hide selectively some dialogs. As a consequence, the Expert Mode option has been removed, and is now replaced by two new options in Options -> User
  Interface: Display Hidden Dialog Boxes During Current Session? and Restore All Hidden Dialog Boxes.
  "Open yes/no/cancel dialog boxes under the mouse pointer?" allows you to open those new dialogs with the default button under the mouse pointer.
  The content of the dialog can be copied to the clipboard via a right-click context menu.
• E. Save IFOs as: Now, the user can chose to compute the VTS sector pointers using the VOB files from the source folder rather than producing wrong pointers because there are no VOBs in the target folder.
• E. PsKill.exe is no longer necessary for Win9X users to abort the creation of the ISO image during the burn process. PsKill has now been replaced by the kill command of the TclX package. The (erroneous) warning about "potentially unwanted program" displayed by some picky antivirus should not occur any more.
• E. Added shortcut key CTRL-Q on Info -> Jumps from VMG to Current VTS.
• F. Kill PGC Playback: Some cell or button commands copied in pre-commands area were illegal in that area. They are now replaced by a legal suite of several commands.
• F. Some uncalled PGCs were not found by Find Uncalled PGCs and not deleted by Delete Uncalled PGCs.
• F. Clone PGC: When cloning a Title PGC and NOT creating a new Title number, the TTN number of the new PGC was increased, and the one_sequential flag was not set in VMG_TT_SRPT.
• F. Fixed some rounding errors in Rebuild Time Map on long NTSC Titles. Too many entries were created in the table.
• F. Fixed a little problem in Rebuild Time Map. The time map was not rebuild for PGCs shorter than 1 second. Now, the time map is rebuilt anyway, but is empty if the PGC is really shorter than 1 second.
• F. Rebuild Time Maps: Added a check for discrepancies in the SCR time stamps (sometimes caused by VobBlanker when a single cell is replaced by several cells with different VOB IDs.)
• F. Trace: The Break command in post-commands area was not handled correctly.
• F. Little bug fixed in Trace mode: SPRM(4:Title in volume) was not modified when a not-one_sequential Title was entered via a non-entry PGC.
• F. Little PGC comments bug fixed: The quotes of the PGC comment were not removed when a comment was erased from the PGC Editor window.
• F. PgcEdit Preview v2.5 (by Jeanl) included: Made a small change to make the preview behave better in VISTA.

New plugin:

• Play All plugin v1.0. It has 4 functions: "Create a new 'Play All' PGC from VOBs", "Create a new PGC with only unreferenced VOB cells", "Find unreferenced VOB cells in current domain" and "Find unreferenced VOB cells in whole DVD".
  It is mainly intended to retrieve "unreferenced cells" (cells that are present in the VOB files but not used in the IFOs), to be able to include them again in any PGC.
  Take care! The cell type flags of the generated Play All PGC might be wrong, as PgcEdit tries only to guess them, without analysing the VOB files completely.
  Requires PgcEdit 8.1.

Updated plugins:

• DVDShrink plugin v2.2.[list:390b45934a]
• DVDShrink is now launched in the background when the "Launch DVDShrink" menus are used. The exit status of DVDShrink is no more checked.
• Adapted to the new message dialogs of PgcEdit 8.1. Requires PgcEdit 8.1+!

[*] Time Map plugin v1.3.

• Fixed a little bug when the PGC duration is EXACTLY one second. Now, in this case, an empty time map is not considered any more as an error.
• The source DVD path was missing in the log of the Verify Time Maps function.

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[r0lZ]

PgcEdit v 8.2 released.

Although there is a new function and several enhancements, it's especially an important bugfix release (notably for the Kill Playback function.) Get it!

A. = Added feature
E. = Enhancement
F. = Fixed bug

• A. Added "Menu -> Select a non-hidden button/BOV by default", a function to modify automatically the pre-commands of the current PGC with hidden menu buttons or BOVs to pre-select automatically a non-hidden button instead of the default hidden button. (In the menu editor, the adjacent button links of the hidden buttons have been improved also to be able to select a non- hidden button more easily with the cursor buttons of the remote.)
• E. If an IFO file cannot be opened or has not the right identifier, PgcEdit tries now to open the BUP file instead.
• E. When PgcEdit cannot load any menu button or BOV because the VOB files are missing or corrupt, and when a "menubuttons.but" file exists in the backup folder, in the VIDEO_TS or in the main DVD folder, PgcEdit offers now to load it automatically.
• E. When PgcEdit needs to write to a read-only file, it tries now (silently) to set the write permission to the file before writing.
• E. Menu viewer: Added < and > buttons next to the cells selector to easily select the previous or next cell without having to open the dropdown menu. (Those buttons are not available when the Preview -> Small Size option is ticked, and when there is only one cell in the PGC.)
• F. Kill PGC Playback: When the PGC has buttons or cell commands and GOTOs in the post commands area, the GOTOs were not renumbered correctly.
• F. Kill PGC Playback: When the cells with buttons were not removed because there are links in the pre-commands jumping inside the PGC, and when the PGC has been blanked, the button command was not executed. The button command is now added at the beginning of the post-commands area.
• F. Blank Out All Menu PGCs, with option to remove the VOB file: Now, if some cells cannot be removed due to links to cells inside the PGC, the cells are not removed, and the user can choose to blank them instead.
• F. Blank Out All PGCs (under Mac OSX): The command failed because the preview is not available under Mac.
• F. Delete Uncalled PGCs: When a PGC with chapters was removed in the middle of a non-sequential title, the subsequent chapter numbers were wrong in the GUI. However, the chapter table saved on disc was correct.
• F. Delete Uncalled PGCs was unable to delete the last PGC of the unreferenced titlesets when the option "Allow PgcEdit to add automatic comments in the PGC labels" was not ticked.
• F. All remapping functions (and functions using them such as Delete Uncalled PGCs): The trace mode is now closed automatically before applying the changes, as continuing to trace the modified DVD can cause bugs.
• F. Most of the search for uncalled PGCs, jumps to nowhere and void PGCs functions were broken in v8.1 when there is a Next/Prev/GoUp PGCN link pointing to a non-existent PGC.
• F. Trace: When the trace mode was opened automatically at startup and a jump to an non-existent PGC was executed, the trace mode crashed.
• F. Trace: The menu viewer was not closed when the trace was reset by clicking on the Eject icon, and it was impossible to close it manually.
• F. The output of "Info -> Menu Buttons/BOVs Commands" was incomplete if there is a menu domain without cells in the DVD.
• F. Fixed a little bug in automatic blanking of cells, when the cell cannot be added to the VOB file by PgcEdit: the error message was not displayed.
• F. Fixed some problems when computing the true end address of the tables.
• F. Fixed a little bug in autoupdate code. The final version was considered lower than a beta!

Updated plugins:

• DVDShrink plugin v 2.3
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• E. Removed the Cancel option in the dialog of Check Streams Remapping safety, as it was confusing and useless.
  

[*] Play All PGC plugin v 1.2

• F. Calling Find unreferenced VOB cells in current domain with the FP-PGC selected produced an error.
  
• F. The last scanned VOB file was not closed after the process. It was necessary to close PgcEdit to release the lock.
  

[*] Womble plugin v 1.1

• F. Fixed a bug in the generation of the default file name.
  

[*] XiRON plugin v 1.1

• F. The PGC and GPRM user comments (if any) were not saved when the DVD was saved during Fix VMGM VOB IDs.
  

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[r0lZ]

PgcEdit v8.4 released!

E. = Enhancement
F. = Fixed bug

PgcEdit 8.4 (June 26, 2007)

• E. Important change in Tools menu configuration: %v is now substitued by the file name of the first VOB of the current domain (VIDEO_TS.VOB for VMGM or FP-PGC, VTS_##_0.VOB for VTSM if the file exists, and VTS_##_1.VOB for VTST.) Previously, %v was always substitued by the first VOB of the Title domain of the current VTS (VTS_##_1.VOB.) The new syntax is needed to launch DVDSubEdit from any domain, with the CLI argument: -F "%p\%v"
• E. The menubuttons.but file is now created in the backup folder only when some buttons or BOVs have been found in the DVD.
• F. Importand bug introduced in v8.3 fixed in the Command Editor: When editing en existing Set command, the link sub-command was sometimes forced to another link. For example Set ...; LinkPGCN 1 was forced to Set ...; RSM.
• F. A LinkNextPGC, LinkPrevPGC or LinkGoUpPGC command with its target PGCN being 0 was not considered as a jump to nowhere, and caused an error when using Find Jumps to Nowhere, Find Jumps to Void PGCs or Delete Uncalled PGCs or Titlesets.
• E. PgcEdit.exe for Windows is now wrapped with a patched freeWrap.exe so that its friendly name is "PgcEdit - IFO Editor" instead of "Tk DLL" and the version number of the executable is right.

DVDShrink plugin v 2.4 (June 25, 2007)

• Added the function "Fix compilation with 50 or more Titles" to fix the wrong FP-PGC commands produced by Shrink when there are 50 or more Titles in a compilation made in re-author mode. As a bonus, the Title menu button can be used to skip to the next Title.
• Fixed a bug in "DVDShrink Remote Buttons" when there are more than 63 Titles in the compilation and the GoUp button returns to the previous Title.

Search and Replace plugin v2.1 (June 20, 2007)

• When a command is copied from the menu viewer or editor and pasted as the replace string in the Search and Replace GUI, it is enclosed in braces. It was impossible to delete the closing brace before the opening brace.

[r0lZ]

PgcEdit v 8.5 released! (September 24, 2007)

• A. Added "Info -> Jumps from current VTS to VMG" and "Jumps from all VTSs to VMG".
• A. Preview option "Real Time Playback". Enabling this option can be useful to slow the playback down on fast machines.
• E. Kill PGC Playback: Improved detection of the potentially dangerous cell commands. As a consequence, some warnings are not displayed any more in some circumstances, and it is more often possible to remove the PGC cells.
• E. Import Menu: When importing a VMGM menu to a VTSM menu, PgcEdit converts now the Title Menu type to Root Menu, and vice-versa. A warning is issued when a Subpic, Audio, Angle or Chapter menu is imported in the VMGM.
• E. The DVD is now saved automatically after Import VTST Titles, Replace VTST Titles, Delete Last Titleset, Import Menu and Remove Menu, to keep the IFO and the VOBs synchronized on disc. An incremental backup is also made automatically after Import VTST Titles and Delete Last Titleset.
• E. Menu Editor: Advanced options modified slightly to be able to specify the currently selected button as the button to be activated automatically.
• E. PGC Editor -> Create New Cell: When the first cell is created in a menu domain, the user is now prompted for its aspect ratio (4:3 or 16:9.)
• E. Modified PGC Editor -> Del Angles to be able to clear the "First ILVU End" values from cells when the angle flags and the interleaved allocation flag have been cleared manually. This makes possible to remove manually only some angle or interleaved cells in a PGC, and keep the other ones.
• F. PGC Editor: The coloured warnings and tooltips of the seamless joint flags were sometimes wrong in multi-angle PGCs.
• E. Command Editor and command disassembler: LinkNoLink requires a non-zero highlighted button. The editor doesn't allow entering a LinkNoLink command without a button any more, and the disassembly of the LinkNoLink commands generates now an <ILLEGAL BUTTON 0> error when the button is not defined.
• F. Delete Uncalled PGCs and Delete Uncalled VTSs: Fixed an important bug occurring when those functions were called after having used trace mode.
• F. Delete Uncalled PGCs: The Chapter tables were not assigned to the right titles when a title has been deleted before another one in the same VTS.
• F. Delete Uncalled PGCs: Fixed an error occurring when Delete Uncalled PGCs is invoked several times in the same PgcEdit session and needs to detete some PGCs in the same VTST domain each time.
• F. Trace mode: When playing a PGC in random or shuffle playback mode, the cells of the PGC were selected randomly instead of the programs.
• F. Trace mode: When a NextPGCN link was executed after playback of a PGC without post-command, the trace stopped with a Target Not Found error.
• F. Trace mode and highlighting of commands target: A LinkPGCN command in a title domain and jumping to another TTN was not considered as illegal.
• F. Trace mode, under Linux: The preview options "Close and Break Trace" and "Blank This Cell" were not working. PgcEdit_preview.exe v 2.6 has been modified to support those options under Linux.
• F. VOBU plugin: Fixed a bug in PgcEdit (introduced in v8.3) that prevented the selection of the start and end LBAs with the preview.
• F. Option "User Interface -> Play sounds with yes/no/cancel dialog boxes ?". It might be necessary to disable this option if PgcEdit hangs when displaying its dialogs on computers with dual core CPUs.
• F. Some little problems in Import and Export all Menu Buttons and BOVs when a titleset is deleted have been fixed. The useless information about the deleted VTS was still saved and loaded.
• F. Create ISO, under Linux: The file save dialog to select the output ISO filename was not working correctly.
• F. Set Menu Type: When using Set Menu Type to modify the position of a menu (such as the Root Menu) the Entry PGC flag was left on the original PGC.

DVDShrink plugin v 2.5 (August 2, 2007)

• Added "Enhance and fix authoring", a new method to assign navigation functions to the remote buttons (including arrow buttons.)
• Added "Make DVD completely region free", as DVDShrink still prohibits the regions 7 (reserved) and 8 (special intl. venues).
• Corrected some typos.

PgcEditPreview v 2.7, by jeanl (Included in PgcEdit v8.5)

• v2.7: Added key in the ini file (RealTimePlayback) to tell the preview to display videos at the normal video rate.
• v2.7: Fixed a bug in the display of the hours in the time-stamp of the info window.
• v2.6: Added a CLI option to pass the ReturnFilePath in the INI file. This is necessary to support the options Close and Break Trace and Blank this Cell under Linux.

[r0lZ]

PgcEdit v8.6 released!

PgcEdit v 8.6 (January 12, 2008)

• A. DVD -> Clear Jumps to Void PGCs, to replace the pre/post/cell commands jumping to void PGCs by NOPs and to clear the Prev/Next/GoUpPGCN links to void PGCs. Handy to improve the efficiency of Delete Uncalled PGCs and to remove automatically all references to a PGC if you make it void before.
• E. PGC Editor -> Del Angles: Since it is possible to keep several angles with FixVTS or VobBlanker, it is now possible to leave several angles in place. Previously, it was necessary to delete all angles but one.
• E. PgcEditor -> Import CLUT: It is now possible to import the colors defined in Scenarist .SST files. The colors that are not defined are not modified.
• E. When deleting a PGC of a non-sequential Title and that deleted PGC is not a dummy and has chapters, the deleted chapters were always remapped to some remaining programs. Now, the chapters are completely deleted when they are the last chapters of the title. They are still remapped when they are necessary to fill gaps in the chapter table.
• E. Delete uncalled PGCs: Now, when a Title PGC cannot be deleted because the menu of the same VTS is still referenced, the commands of the orphan Title are changed to a CallSS to the FP-PGC. This way, useless commands pointing to nowhere are removed.
• E. Find Jumps to Void PGCs: Added a warning with the void entry menu PGCs that can be called with the remote.
• E. Info -> GPRMs: Added a "Refresh" button to recompute the usage counts.
• E. Suppressed the warning displayed when a DVD is read about wrong time map tables then the VTS_PTT_SRPT table doesn't exist at all.
• E. Added the following hot keys:[list:6bfd751626]
• DVD -> Clear Jump to Void PGCs: Ctrl+Shift+J
• DVD -> Delete Uncalled PGCs: Ctrl+Shift+U
• Info -> Find Jumps to Nowhere: Ctrl+Shift+N

[*] E. Improved some error messages.[*] E. When a DVD is loaded, PgcEdit checks now if the TTN number assigned to a title PGC is not 0, and if it is 0, it offers to assign the TTN 1 instead.[*] E. When a DVD is loaded, PgcEdit checks now if all VOB files are referenced by the IFOs, and offer to remove the unreferenced VOB files. This solve also the issue of unnecessary VOBs left after a Restore Backup operation.[*] F. The number of PTTs was not updated in VMG_TT_SRPT after the use of Title -> PTT (Chapter) Editor.[*] F. PGC Editor: the number of PGs was sometimes wrongly incremented by 1.[*] F. PGC Editor and Replace VTST Titles: When the number of programs of a PGC was modified in the PGC Editor and then, in the same PgcEdit session, that VTS was replaced by another one using the option to keep the data of the original PGC, the number of programs was wrong, and that caused the PGC Editor to crash.[*] F. Trace: Bug when a button or BOV command did not include a jump elsewhere.[*] F. Fixed a bug occurring when the PGC comments or GPRM labels have been modified, the DVD Text General Name contains a character illegal in a file name such as ":" and the option to automatically save the user comments in the backup folder was not enabled.[*] F. Fixed a possible bug under Vista when Roxio and Macrovision Software Manager has been installed. The path to the Application Data folder was wrong.[*] F. Fixed a possible bug with the length of the VTSI_MAT table when its end-byte pointer is (intentonally?) wrong. (Thanks Michael!)[*] F. DVD-Text General Name: When creating a new VMG_TXTDT_MG table, an useless pointer was initialized. It is now set to 0.[*] E. The standalone executable is now wrapped with freeWrap v6.3. PgcEdit should now start without problem under Ubuntu v7.10 Gusty.[*] E. Added the possibility to specify the character encoding needed by some foreign systems with accented characters by defining the system environment variable PGCEDIT_ENCODING, or with the command line option /E=encoding or -e=encoding. Specify /? or -h to see a list of the available encodings. The default encoding is cp1252.[/list:u:6bfd751626]

DVD Shrink plugin v 2.6 (October 3, 2007)

• Enhance and fix authoring uses now the original SetSTN commands defined by the user with the DVD Shrink option "Set Default Streams..."

Play All plugin v 1.3 (January 1, 2008)

• Bug fix: Error when creating a play all PGC from the VMGM domain.
• Bug fix: The check for the minimal version of PgcEdit was wrong, and the plugin was unable to work when the DVDShrink plugin was not installed.

Search and Replace plugin v 2.6 (December 31, 2007)

• Added the options to limit the action of the Search and Replace to a VTS range, to the menus or title domains, and to the pre, post, cell or button areas only.
• Bug: some commands were not replaced due to upper/lower case problems.
• Several bugs introduced in beta releases 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 or 2.5 have been fixed too.

[r0lZ]

PgcEdit v9.0 finally released!

The changes are so numerous that I can't list them all here.
See http://download.videohelp.com/r0lZ/pgcedit/new_in_v9.html.

Please note that there are new versions of the Play All PGC and the VOBU plugins. Please download and install them if you need them, as the old versions may be incompatible with PgcEdit v9.

Also, the Time Maps and Language Unit (LU) plugins are now deprecated, as their functions have been integrated in PgcEdit itself.

[r0lZ]

PgcEdit v9.1 released!

This is a bugfix release. Please download and install it as soon as possible, as I have fixed two bugs that can have consequences on the navigation of the DVD!

• F. DVD -> Clear Useless Set GPRM Commands and Info -> Find Useless Set GPRM Commands were sometimes erroneously considering a GPRM as useless. Clear Useless Set GPRM Commands and DVD -> Remove Useless Stuff were therefore dangerous to use, as they sometimes cleared a useful command.
• F. DVD -> Delete Last VTS produced an error when a PGC of the last VTS was selected when calling this function. The VTS was not properly deleted from disc.
• F. Preview -> Automatically Start Preview Playback produced an error. The menu worked as expected though, and the bug had no consequence.
• F. With the option "Allow tearoff menus" disabled, some entries in the main PgcEdit menu were not enabled when a DVD was loaded.
• F. Fixed the incorrect View -> Toolbar checkmark.
• E. Title -> Title Play Map Table: The headers of the columns no longer scroll when using the scroll bar.
• F. A JumpSS from a VTSM to a menu in another VTS was not flagged as illegal.
• F. PUO Editor: PgcEdit was frozen after having pasted a value in the Input Value dialog.
• F. Trace: The trace was stopped and impossible to continue when the preview was enabled and the VOB files were missing.
• F. Domain Stream Attributes: The new Film/Camera flag was not disabled in read-only mode.
• F. Since the sources of PgcEdit are no longer publicly available, I've removed all references to the GPL license from the program.
• F. Fixed several small bugs.

New plugin:
Hex Bit Operands by Morris/Elysium (aka M_Knox):
- Allows display of bit operations values in hex
- Allows display descriptive bit operands
Note that you need PgcEdit v9.1 to use this plugin!

This excellent plugin modifies the way the commands containing bitwise operators are displayed by PgcEdit. There is an option to display the operand in hexadecimal instead of the standard decimal value, and an option to add a description of the affected bits.

For example, the command:

Set gprm(0) &=(and) 10

can be displayed as:

Set gprm(0) &=(and) 0x000A (preserve bits 1, 3)

Really useful! Thanks M_Knox!

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PgcEdit v9.2 released!

PgcEdit v9.2 (February 16, 2009) changelog

• E. Thanks to M_Knox, there are now nice looking new icons in the standard "yes/no/cancel", "please wait" and "donation reminder" dialogs.
• E. Delete Uncalled PGCs did not delete some PGCs considered as unsafe due to multiple sets of buttons/BOVs, even if all PGCs containing the multiple sets of buttons/BOVs were uncalled.
• F. Delete Uncalled PGCs deleted the uncalled PGCs that were NOT safe to delete due to multiple sets of buttons/BOVs when ALL uncalled PGCs were unsafe!
• E. When Go To Calling Command finds no jump to the current PGC, the PGC is now automatically marked as <uncalled>.
• F. Go To Calling Command: Bugs when the function was launched several times without closing the result window fixed by M_Knox. Thanks!
• E. Delete PGC and Kill Playback (with option to remove the cells) in menu: When all remaining PGCs in the menu are dummies, PgcEdit offers now to delete the menu VOB file and remove the VOB tables from the IFO.
• E. Delete Uncalled PGCs improved for speed.
• E. Info -> GPRM has now an option to search for the commands containing a GPRM in "All", "Read" or "Write" modes, so you can now, for example, find if a GPRM is used in read mode only, but never initialized by a Set command.
• E. Info -> Multiple Sets Of Buttons/BOVs: added a summary with the list of all PGCs containing multiple sets of buttons/BOVs.
• E. Info -> Multiple Sets Of Buttons/BOVs: When the option "Command Editor -> Allow PgcEdit to add automatic comments in the PGC labels" is ON, the comment "<MBS>" is now added to all PGCs containing multiple button sets.
• F. Fixed some typos, and renamed "Exit Domain" to "Exit State".
• F. After having loaded a Scratchbook file in the scratchbook, the sub-menu of Append To Scratchbook (with the scratchbook sections) was not updated.
• F. Trace mode: When playing a multi-angle cell, PgcEdit was unable to identify the correct angle cell to play (except for angle 1), and issued a warning.
• F. Trace mode: The Menu Viewer was not closed when the user selected the GoUp button to resume to the Title domain (when the GoUpPGCN link = 0xFFFF).
• F. Trace mode: The Control+Arrow shortcut keys used to control the trace interfered with the Arrow keys shortcuts in the main window.
• E. Jump To PGC Upon DVD Insert: The explanation on how to use the function was not displayed any more in v9.1 when it was launched from the FP-PGC.
• F. PGC Editor: PgcEdit highlights now in red illegal values of the Prev and Next PGCN links in the Menu domains.
• F. PGC Editor: It was possible to use the PTT Editor on a not-one_sequential Title if the current PGC was a dummy (or a cell has just been created.)
• F. Load DVD: PgcEdit deleted all LUs or all PGCs in a menu domain when a LU or PGC was a clone of another one because its offset pointer was pointing to the other LU or PGC. Now, it deletes automatically the cloned LUs, and prompts the user to keep or remove the cloned PGCs.
• F. Several small GUI bugs fixed by M_KNOX.

New manual, updated for PgcEdit v9.2!

Thanks to Blutach and Wombler, the documentation has been updated. You can consult the online HTML documentation here, here, or here.

There is a discussion thread about the manual here at Doom9.

The compiled HTML documentation file for Windows (PgcEdit_Manual.chm) is included in the PgcEdit_v9.2_winexe.zip file, but not in the Linux archive. You can also download it separately here or here. To install it, create a directory "doc" in your PgcEdit installation folder, and copy the CHM file in that directory. This way, PgcEdit will be able to access it from its Help menu.

If you prefer to install the HTML version, download it here or here. Extract the files and folders in a "doc" subdirectory in the PgcEdit installation folder.

If PgcEdit cannot find the CHM or HTML documentation locally, it will open your browser and display the online HTML doc. Therefore, it is not necessary to install it locally.


German version of PgcEdit v9.1

The German PgcEdit site is closed, but a new translation has been made, and is available via my homepage.
You can download it here or here.
Note that currently, this is still v9.1! V9.2 should be available soon.


Updated Hexbit Operands plugin

Thanks to M_Knox, the Hexbit Operands plugin has been updated to v0.8:

• added option to display hexadecimal values for all Set operations
• added option to display descriptions for IF operations

Have fun!