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PgcEdit v 8.0

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 flag has been replaced by the more standard "Seamless Joint" flag.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
  
  
  • 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.
  
  

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):
  
  
  • 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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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
  
  
  
  • 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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PgcEdit v8.2.1 released!

Sorry, Trace mode is broken in v8.2 when it is activated via the Trace menu. (The shortcut key Control-T and the toolbar icon worked as expected.)

Please download v8.2.1, that fixes this problem.
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A. = Added feature
E. = Enhancement
F. = Fixed bug

PgcEdit v8.3 (June 18, 2007)

• A. PGC Editor -> CellTimes.txt has now a new option to generate the timecodes in the format needed by CCE (HH:MM:SS:FF instead of HH:MM:SS.FF).
  
• A. Added two items in the Help menu to open online web pages on the Regular Expressions syntax.
  
• E. Select a non-hidden button/BOV by default: Better warning or info messages when some cells cannot be processed or do not need to be processed.
  
• F. When trace mode was used before Delete Uncalled PGCs or Delete Uncalled VTSs, the Trace failed with an error message when the DVD was reloaded.
  
• F. Trace: a LinkPTT command caused sometimes the trace to stop working.
  
• F. Remap Title Numbers and Remap VTSs (and all functions using internally those functions, like Delete Uncalled PGCs or VTSs) failed when a VMGM cell with a button command that jumps to a target that must be remapped was reused. The remapping was applied twice, and the target was wrong.
  
• F. Replace VTST Titles: The VMG_TT_SRPT table (global Title Play Map table) was not updated when the titles were replaced, except when there were more replacing Titles than in the original DVD. However, opening the PGC Editor for a replaced Title had the effect to force the update of the table.
  
• F. Select a non-hidden button/BOV by default: The Links to the first cell, PG or PTT with HL_BTN parameter were sometimes converted to GOTOs, instead of kept with a new HL_BTN number.
  
• F. Command Editor: When a Set command was selected, its optional Link command was LinkNoLink by default, even when this link command is illegal in the current domain or pre/post/cell area. Now, the first legal link command is selected by default.
  
• F. Command Editor: It was possible to enter 0 as the TTN parameter of the JumpSS-VTSM command, and the illegal command was not highlighted in pink.
  
• F. Commands listbox: Any valid Set command with a legal RSM sub-command was highlighted in red in the pre/post commands areas.
  
• F. When some IFO/BUP/VOB file names are not in upper case on a FAT32 disc, they were not renamed to upper case due to an incredible Windoze bug!
  
• F. The PGC comments of the PGCs deleted by functions like Delete Last PGC or Remove Menu were not cleared, and were reused if a new PGC was created at the same location.
  
• F. The temporary files needed by PgcEdit are now created with an unique filename to ensure that no conflict exists with another instance of PgcEdit, and are usually automatically deleted after use.
  
• F. Under Linux, Options -> Input/Output -> Select Web Borwser did not work because it expected a filename with the .EXE extension. Sorry Linux fans!
  

Search and Replace plugin v2.0 (June 15, 2007)

• Changes to the original Search and Replace function:
  
  
  
  • It is now possible to specify #N fields in the replace string to copy the Nth. byte from the source string at that position. See help for details.
    
  • It is also possible to replace a specific byte by the result of a math expression enclosed in parenthesis and containing #N fields.
    
  • Added Presets menu to open or save the current Search and Replace strings.
    
  • Added the "Convert SetGPRMMD to Set" hardcoded preset as an useful example of %N substitutions and of the usage of the math expressions.
    
  • The last search and replace strings used are saved as a default preset, and loaded automatically the first time the GUI is opened.
    
  • It is now possible to work in PgcEdit when the Search and Replace window is opened. Handy to copy/paste commands.
    
  • The contents of the edit boxes are now selected automatically when they receive the focus.
    
  • The OK button has been replaced by a Replace button. Now, the Replace window is not closed any more when the "Replace" button is pressed.
    
  • Added a status bar in the window to display the number of replacements.
    
  
  
• Added the new function "Auto Increment" to increment some parameters of a list of several commands automatically. Very handy to create, for example, a list of commands to jump to a specific chapter, based on the content of a GPRM.
  
• New guide, courtesy of Blutach: [URL="http://www.digital-digest.com/~blutach/SRPlugin/Using_Search_Replace_Plugin.htm"]How to use PgcEdit’s Search & Replace Plugin[/URL] (for v2.0)
  

VOBU plugin 1.2 (June 6, 2007)

• The temporary file needed to launch the preview is now created with an unique filename to ensure that no conflict exists with another instance of PgcEdit, and is automatically deleted after use.
  

XiRON plugin 1.2 (June 6, 2007)

• The temporary INI file needed to launch VobBlanker is now created with an unique filename to ensure that no conflict exists with another instance of PgcEdit, and is automatically deleted after use.
  

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