Wall-E... remove extras

[gbabione]

I am using ifoedit to remove and/or skip all the extras on Wall-E. At the beginning, there is a clip of disney movies. I can not find it anywhere with ifoedit. Ifoedit shows it is playing title 98, chapter 1. When I exit, it shows that title 98, titleset 2 was played, not 1, and it is located in VTS_02. When I go to VTS_02, VTS_PGCITI, it only shows VTS_PGC_1. Outside of ifoedit, I found the clip to be in VTS_02_01. Ifoedit only shows VTS_02_0. How do I find and skip this PGC?

[aedipuss]

try dvdshrink and re-author movie only.

[ggtop]

IfoEdit is a very good tool if one knows how to use it.
You should use PGCEdit instead. It has a very intuitive GUI and an excellent helpfile.

Give it a try and I'm sure you'll find the titles you want to skip.

[levick]

If help using IFOEdit is still needed I can assist later today...IFOEdit will do exactly what you need to get the perfect movie only...

[redsandvb]

I am using ifoedit to remove and/or skip all the extras on Wall-E. At the beginning, there is a clip of disney movies. I can not find it anywhere with ifoedit. Ifoedit shows it is playing title 98, chapter 1. When I exit, it shows that title 98, titleset 2 was played, not 1, and it is located in VTS_02. When I go to VTS_02, VTS_PGCITI, it only shows VTS_PGC_1. Outside of ifoedit, I found the clip to be in VTS_02_01. Ifoedit only shows VTS_02_0. How do I find and skip this PGC?

Vobblanker can get rid of it, you could try that...

[levick]

My copy of Wall-E is very different, the main movie title is 53 each is aligned to VOB 8 however the menus belong to VOB 17 which
means a really cool authoring job done here...

Ifoedit shows the following for the main movie.. VOB id 2-7 are for sector removal... everything after VOBID 126 can be removed.
And more importantly remove one of the angles which appear to be there just make life interesting.

after extracting the main movie cleaning it up, you would use PGCEDit to load the menu on to the main movie. Some command work
will be needed to get everything to work correctly but it can be done with just the two programs...

[gbabione]

Thanks for all the help. I haven't learned much about PGCEdit yet, but I used it to fix 3 movies already. I was able to find the part of Wall-E that IFOEdit couldn't, and skipped it. Mona Lisa Smile was jumping over movie after clicking on PLAY MOVIE. I was able to put a jump command in to get it to go to play the movie. I don't remember the problem with Nights in Rodanthe, but I think I put 2 jump commands in to get it to play. They all work great! Now if I can find out what makes movies play in some players and not in others, I could fix that to make them play in all.

[r0lZ]

Usually, in multi-lingual DVDs, a preview is played or skipped due to the language configuration of your player, as it doesn't make much sense to show you a preview of a movie that doesn't exist in your language.

The main movie itself must be played in all players, unless the original is protected, and the protection has not been correctly removed. For example, the main movie can refuse to play if the DVD detects that the player is not of the right zone. However, that kind of protection is easy to remove, and as far as I know, all rippers can remove it.

All versions of Wall-e are heavily protected with RipGuard. That protection is difficult to understand and to remove completely, but it is designed only to make it difficult to rip the DVD to HDD. If you have been able to rip the DVD with a good ripper, the main movie should play normally, unless the ripper did something wrong when it has removed the protection.

You can verify if there are remnants of the RipGuard protection easily. Load the DVD in PgcEdit, double-click the movie, end examine the first cells in the cells list. If there are tiny (usually less than 1 second) cells at the beginning of the movie (in chapter 1), then the protection has not been fully removed. (That doesn't mean that the movie cannot play, but only that the ripper has not made its job completely.)
You can try to remove that tiny cells with PgcEdit, but be sure to work on a copy, as removing them without understanding exactly how the protection works can be dangerous. If you want to remove them, use the preview to find the first cell with real video content (it's usually the last cell of chapter 1, but in my version of Wall-e, there are many multi-angle cells in chapter 1), and remove all cells that are before that cell. Then, use the trace to verify that the movie can be played normally. If it's not the case, you have to modify some pre, post or cell commands in the movie PGC, but that's difficult to explain without the IFOs. When everything is OK, you can remove the tiny protected cells from the VOB files with FixVTS.