Bluray, changing first play ?

[Noahtuck]

I have a bluray import from Japan and when i play the original on my PC or a backup on either of my standalone Bluray players it always starts the movie first and i want to rip it and make a backup so the first play is the main menu.

I have ripped the bluray to my HDD with DVDFab 8.1.6.3 and it plays fine with TotalMedia Theatre 5.

I have BDedit and have been playing around with it but i don't seem to be able to get it to play the menu first.

Has anyone here done this or does anyone know of a tut that shows how to set the first play to the main menu ?

I checked the tut's on the BDedit tool page and the official site but i don't seem to be able to find anything on it.

Man, after years and years of learning all the different aspects of DVD and other video formats, PGC Edit, etc......
Talk about starting from scratch!!!!!!
LOL!!!

[Baldrick]

Have you searched the doom9 forum?

And if you found any other new tool that can do it let me know.

[fritzi93]

Yeah, without a decent guide, BDEdit is a real bastard.

I haven't tried doing what you propose, but maybe this will give you some inkling:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1339393#post1339393

Good luck.

[Noahtuck]

Have you searched the doom9 forum?

Not when i posted this.

And if you found any other new tool that can do it let me know.

Absolutely!!
I have actually submitted a few new tools over the ages

And i surely will if i find something different.

Yeah, without a decent guide, BDEdit is a real bastard.

That's the understatement of the decade!!

I haven't tried doing what you propose, but maybe this will give you some inkling:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1339393#post1339393

Good luck.

Yep!!
That thread helped a LOT!!!

I figured it out in about 2 minutes while reading the post you linked to, made a couple of changes, saved it, tested it, and Voilà!!!

(I may have been able to figure it out alone, but when i was trying last night i had about a pint of straight bourbon in me)


But it set me on the fast path!!

Opened the folder in TMT5 and the main menu jumped right up!!

I am taking screen shots of what i changed, before and after & then i will post them here.

I am going to re-rip the bluray onto a different HDD and retest then burn one to test on my standalone bluray players.

Thanks!!

[fritzi93]

Good deal. I'm glad your disc was doable.

Sometimes BD-J ( java) can make menus fiendishly complicated.

[Noahtuck]

Yeah....

I got lucky!!!

I just ripped "Return Of The Jedi", opened it in BDedit.....

HOLY F*#K!!!!!!

About a million more command lines in the right hand window!!!!!!


LOL!!!!

I am gonna see if i can work this one to skip all the BS at the start and jump right to the main menu.

One thing i have noticed is this program is a bit buggy, for me anyways.....

Every time i am finished using it, it never seems to want to close, and when i was trying to edit some commands in Return Of The Jedi it seemed to just want to keep running forever.

And another weird thing, i have version 0.39b, but i just downloaded it from here the other day, yet the tools page say's it is on version 0.40 since dec. 23rd 2011 ????

Yep, just downloaded it again from the tools page and it's version 0.39b ??

So where is Version 0.40 ??

I even looked at the Authors site and it say's v0.39b

http://pel.hu/bdedit/

[fritzi93]

Boy, funny you should mention the Star Wars Blu-Rays. They're exactly what I was thinking of when I said complicated structure.

You can find the odd mini-guide here and there for doing some specific thing with BDEdit. But I wish someone who really understands it would pull it all together into a comprehensive guide.

Most of what I've learned has to do with subtitles. Like this:

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/339644-Default-Subtitles?p=2112008&viewfull=1#post2112008

This is useful:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=150511&highlight=bdedit

I keep thinking one of these days I'm going to sit down and figure the damn program out, probably over a weekend. But I can't seem to find the time.