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Among other things, IfoEdit allows you to modify the commands associated with PGCs (Program Chains). On this precise point however, it suffers from many limitations: it knows only some of the 41 existing commands, manages only some of the parameters of these commands, does not allow to create structured programs with conditions, branches etc... Moreover, it is very difficult to have an overall vision of all the commands of the DVD, because those are disseminated at various places in the DVD, among large amounts of other data.
I wrote PgcEdit to supplement IfoEdit. PgcEdit is a program much more limited than IfoEdit: it only enables editing the commands and modifying certain parameters of PGCs (Program Chains). On the other hand, it does not have the same limitations as IfoEdit: it allows one to edit all the commands with all their parameters, without other limitations than those imposed by the standard, and the philosophy of PgcEdit offers a better overall picture of the programming of the DVD. I have also added some functions as a bonus.
Changes in PgcEdit 8.4 :
- 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 an 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.
- E. PgcEdit.exe for Windows is now wrapped with a patched freeWrap.exe so that its frieldly name is "PgcEdit - IFO Editor" instead of "Tk DLL" and the version number of the executable is right.
• Related downloads:
- IfoEdit: allows you to strip audio and subtitle streams you don't need, to get rid of certain menus and extras but still preserve the general DVD structure.
- VobEdit: tool for joining, cutting, de-multiplexing DVD VOB files.
- MenuShrink: is a small application that lets you compress DVD motion menus.
- FixVTS: allows you to adjust your DVD files into better DVD compliance, so they can be opened in DVDShrink or VobBlanker.
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