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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 Now, in this situation, the word "unreferenced" has been replaced by "never-called" to avoid the confusion with truely unreferenced cells (which are never referenced in the IFOs.)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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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.
  

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PgcEdit v 8.5 released!

• 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.
  

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