How to remove the language selection menu from BR Disc

[The-One]

I'm looking for information on how to remove the initial language selection menu from multi language Blu-Ray movies but keep the main menu. None of the programs I've been using have this option. I know this was simple with DVDs using PgcEdit but there is nothing equivelent to PgcEdit for Blu-Ray movies yet.

[The-One]

still looking for a way to do this, is there no program yet that can edit the navigation of a BluRay?

[Baldrick]

Tried Clown_BD BD Copier ?

[The-One]

I tried Clown_BD but found MultiAVCHD did a better job. Neither of these however are able to remove the language menu. You can blank the playlist for the menu but it is still there only it's a blank screen. I'm looking for a program that works like PgcEdit. It needs to blank the menu but also fix the navigation so that it's not necessary to select the language at the menu screen.

[Baldrick]

I don't anything like that exists yet. Maybe BDFix but I have not tried and it's not exactly free if you want all features.

[jman98]

You may want to join the forums at Doom9 and ask this question. They may have people over there who know how to do this but I'm not sure that you can do it with any free tools.

[picrade]

Try BDedit.
As was suggested join Doom9 forums. A lot of info there on this.

[jman98]

Try BDedit.
As was suggested join Doom9 forums. A lot of info there on this.

Fascinating. I've never heard of BDedit before but thanks very much for posting that. I'll have to check that program out.

[The-One]

I have tried BDedit but there doesn't seem to be any way to do this with it.

[picrade]

I have tried BDedit but there doesn't seem to be any way to do this with it.

BDedit is a very sophisticated program. It has a full menu editor.
But it is not as simple to use as Pgcedit.
The problem is the program is not very intuitive and there are very few guides for it.

Again check out Doom9 forums. Ask your questions there. Lots of helpful people over there.

[doctorm]

I know this is an old thread, but as far as I can tell the problem has never been solved.

Personally I loved DVDRemake Pro. Bypassing an opening language menu just involved right-clicking one button and selecting the option to blank the menu by autoselecting that button.

That's the sort of think BDs need.

[The-One]

Yes it is the same with PgcEdit, You merely have to right click on the menu and select kill playback then the menu will pop up and you can select the button you want to have auto selected so the navigation continues. It's not just that it's not as simple with BDEdit, There just doesn't seem to be an option to kill playback or blank titles. We really need this for BluRays.

[jman98]

The reason no PgcEdit, VOBBlanker, etc. program exists for BluRay is that BluRay is extraordinarily complicated. BD menus have nothing at all to do with DVD menus. If it was realistically possible to develop such a program for BluRays like PgcEdit, etc., I'm pretty sure we'd have it already. I've always assumed that the coding challenge is so complicated that nobody wants to touch it because it's way too much work to not get paid for it.

[fritzi93]

There just doesn't seem to be an option to kill playback or blank titles.

If there is, I haven't been able to figure it out.

The most I can do with BDEdit is to change audio stream default track, or to turn on/off a subtitle track. No one has come out with a guide, AFAIK, and the author doesn't appear to be interested in making one. Which seems odd, since he has obviously put a lot of effort into it.

Good luck getting anyone at Doom9 to explain any of the functions.

[doctorm]

Blanking titles IS here and free.

multiAVCHD can reauthor discs allowing blanking of titles (not menus), stripping audio and sub tracks, the ability to add extra tracks and lots of other features. http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=151925 It's quite mature, but development may have stopped.

There is also BD Rebuilder the successor to DVD Rebuilder. It's still in beta, but it's pretty far along and 3D support has recently been added. It can strip and/or re-encode audio (including core extraction), remove subtitles, and there is a hidden experimental option for blanking assets. It of course also re-encodes to resize discs to your choice of size. http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=143716

Really, the only thing that hasn't been sorted is giving us control of bypassing and editing menus. Stripped audio tracks are just empty tracks and the buttons still exist. The same for blanked titles.

Still removing warnings, ads and trailers is at least a good step.

[The-One]

Blanking titles IS here and free.

Yes I use BDRebuilder for most of my copies but there is no way to individually blank titles. If you blank a title it blanks the entire playlist, but it is the very best app I've found for transcoding BluRays. I have also used MultiAVCHD which does offer a bit more control over blanking titles however it is time consuming and still lacks the navigation control. I suppose PgcEdit just spoiled me by being able to completely control the navigation and menus. 95% of the time BDRebuilder does exactly what I need but the other 5% leaves me wishing for more. I do greatly appreciate the developers of all the apps discussed here for their work.

[doctorm]

I tried to request the author of BD Rebuilder have a hidden option to unlink assets in a playlist, but he didn't seem interested.

[doctorm]

I tried to request the author of BD Rebuilder have a hidden option to unlink assets in a playlist, but he didn't seem interested.

[doctorm]

Stupid question, but has anyone tried just blanking the playlist (usually the very first) that contains the language selection page using something like Multiavchd?
I don't know what a disc will do if its not there or if it would default to English or not, but just a thought.

[The-One]

Stupid question, but has anyone tried just blanking the playlist (usually the very first) that contains the language selection page using something like Multiavchd?
I don't know what a disc will do if its not there or if it would default to English or not, but just a thought.

You can't just blank the playlist with MultiAVCHD because this will simply replace the video with a small blank clip. That means it will still playback the menu but it will be a blank clip and the navigation will stop at that point just as it would before. There seems to be 2 elements to BluRay menus, one being the video clip which is just the backgroung for the menu. The actual menu function seem to rely on other elements in the BDJO and JAR folders.

[doctorm]

It's a shame. You'd think the menus would be set to time out to a default language, which would have helped us.

I've poked around with BDEdit, but I just don't understand BD structure enough yet.

It is apparent that even on the discs I've checked that even if the menus rely heavily on java, the Language Selection screen appear to be basic IG type menus. That means they ARE editable if we can understand what we're looking out.

[doctorm]

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