Jump2Pgc Guide
Courtesy of 
Tools used: PgcEdit & Jump2Pgc
Intro
First of all, I would like
to thank jeanl’s PgcEdit guides at Doom9’s
forum for inspiring me for creating Jump2Pgc. And also to r0lZ, for this tool would be
useless without. Thanks! Also to blutach
for his great beta-testing.
Jump2Pgc is a helper
application to be used strictly with PgcEdit.
It speeds up the process of jeanl’s quide by eliminating most of the
manual copy and pasting. You will be
able to edit your backup DVDs with a quicker start upon DVD insert to your Main
Menu’s intro, Main Menu, or even your Main title. For those you are irritated by all those
pesky video clips of warnings, movie ratings, and tons of trailers in-between,
this is a great tool to help you out.
You could also bypass your Aspect Ratio and Language Selection menus
most of the time.
The only thing I won’t go
into is removing any bypassed materials.
There are tools with guides out there like PgcEdit and VobBlanker that
can help you out. In jeanl’s guide, he
also provides guidance to do so. I
suggest you read it too.
With assumption that ALL
your files have been ripped to your harddrive, open Jump2Pgc and let’s begin.
1. Click on toolbar icon,
browse, and open your files in PgcEdit
Inquire on
Unused GPRM (General Parameter)s: Info > Find Unused GPRMs. If you have any at this time, enter it.
If not, click on checkbox
and perform the caution’s remarks. We’ll
be using an unset GPRM after the trace in Step 3.
Checking for commands
jumping to First Play PGC (Program Chain)
Right click on First-Play
PGC and select “Go to calling command”.
The example
below shows there is no commands so that’s good.
But if you do have any, there
is a possibility that you can get navigation errors with Jump2Pgc’s algorithm. You can take a gamble on it if you want to. It might work.
2.
A). Click on toolbar icon to get Trace dialog.
B) Turn on
GPRM monitor (watch) in Trace DVD panel: Watch > GPRMs.
C) Check
Auto-preview option.
Advanced users: If you know where your Main menu resides
at then Toggle PGC playback breakpoint. (Right-click on PGC and it’ll change
font color if enabled)
D) Start
trace at First Play PGC by clicking on Load button.
E) Start execution of commands by click with any of
preferred 3 buttons in Figure 6. It
doesn’t matter which button you use as long as you reach your target PGC
Playback
·
Intro clip to Main Menu
·
Main Menu
·
Title (e.g. Main Movie)
I mainly use Next PB
followed with Step.
Explanation of buttons
-> Step:
Manual execution of single commands
(Next single step)
->> Next PB
(PlayBack): Run to the next playback or breakpoint. Trace will stop after
executing
last pre command prior to video playback.
If
you follow it up with a Step will then start it.
If
you follow it up with another Next PB, then next cell or following commands to
next playback will occur.
Note:
If a LinkCN, LinkPTT, or LinkPGN is encountered in pre commands, there will be
no break in run mode. Video playback
will commence.
->>> Run:
Run to next playback. Toggles with Break. Auto-execution of commands after user
interactivity if menu buttons are
encountered.
->| Break:
Stop run mode and leaving the trace at the last command executed. Toggles with Run.
User
interactive buttons during playback
You may encounter four
common user selection scenarios, depending on what type of current video
content you are playing. It is assumed
that you have checked the Auto-preview option or else you will have to manually
start playback.
Type: Buttonless menu or Title (motion optional). E.g. Blank cell, FBI warnings, movie ratings,
trailers, etc…
Close Preview:
If you had used Step button, prior to playback, trace will stop on following command
. If you had used Next Playback, then either next immediate cell will play or you will run to
last command prior to next playback If Run was used, any following commands
will be automatically executed and then you’ll see next video playback.
Type: Basically it has buttons in it so therefore
it’s a menu. Its Cell’s “still Time” is
not equal to 255 so it’ll most likely
loop.
Preview: By default, if you encounter a menu with
buttons, the captured scene you see is
the first I-frame that was detected with buttons. Clicking on this button will have you preview
the entire menu but you can’t select anything in that new preview dialog.
Skip: [enabled] Wait till the end of cell’s playback
without selecting any button. (Will execute cell/posts commands)
Select & Break: Use
selected button in menu and stop run mode.
Select: Use the current
selected button. If Step
or Next Playback was used prior to playback,
run will stop for next command. If not, following commands will auto-execute
to next
playback.
Type: Still Menu with
buttons. Cell’s “still time” set for
infinite display (255). E.g. Aspect
Ratio menu.
Preview: Same
as previously mentioned.
Skip: This
button is disabled because a selection must be made if you want to
continue.
Select & Break: Same as previously mentioned
Select: Same as previously
mentioned.
Type: Buttonless menus or titles.
Most likely if you have
consecutive cells and you use Next PB, you’ll get this scenario.
Close & Break Trace: Say when you are in your
movie and you have lots of cells playing back to back, this button allows you
to stop playback, close out the preview dialog, and stop running anymore
commands.
Close Preview: Same as
previously mentioned.
3) Stopping
playback at targeted PGC.
Advance users: Since you had set your playback breakpoint
prior to tracing, you will have arrived at your capturing point of your changed
GPRMs. Continue on to next step.
The plan is here is to get
to your target PGC’s playback and break out of your trace at the very first
cell is played. Now, you can actually
break at the end of your last command prior to your playback but for newbies
out there, it’s nice to get a glimpse of what the video content is.
As I mentioned in Step 2E,
there are three types of playback content.
I’ll explain what to do when you get to them.
·
Main menu intro: As soon as you can
confirm that it’s definitely the intro, you will click on your Close Preview button and then your Break
button in your Trace Panel or Close and Break Trace because
some commands will be executed before you have a change to hit the break
button. Either way, we need to break out of our
trace. Now, look in your PGC Selection and check to
see if your Root Menu is highlighted. If
it is, then in Jmp2Pgc, select what is highlighted. If it’s a Root, Sub-Picture, Audio, Angle, or
Chapter menu, then enter it accordingly and the VTSM # too.
If per chance, you are
instead in another unnamed PGC, then mostly likely your Root menu is a dummy
menu. This means the PGC has no video or
audio content within it but it can contain jump or link commands to providing
navigation in the Menu domain. If this
is what you got then enter it accordingly.
Now, the Root menu doesn’t have to be a dummy. It can also contain just a brief blank
cell. Either way, it has no significant
video content to show.
Note: In figure above, notice
that the Root menu is highlighted in yellow?
That means that it has been flagged as being access during the trace.
·
Main menu: Click on Select & Break. The process of setting up Step 4 of Jump2Pgc is the same as explained
for a Main menu intro.
·
Title (e.g. Main movie) : To get
to your Title you want, you’ll have to do extra steps. First, at your main menu, click in display to
select your Play Movie button (highlighted in green). Now, follow it up with clicking your Select
button. Make your way to your movie and
when you get it playing, click on Close & Break Trace.
The setup in Step 4 is
selecting Title and entering your target Title number.
Continuation of Step 1. Check for Unset GPRM
If you have a unused GPRM
then go to next step. This is a
continuation of Step 5 where we will check for a unset GPRM in your watch. I’m confident that you should have at least 1
greyed out. This means that from DVD
insert (all GPRM values are zero) to this point, it hasn’t been set yet.
Input one of your unset
GPRM (0-15) into Jump2Pgc’s Step 2.
4. Copy Change
Registers as commands and Importing them into Jump2Pgc
After doing so, you must go
immediately to Step 5 as you don’t want to erase your copied commands in your
Clipboard.
NOTE: Don’t
close out of PgcEdit. We’ll need it open
later for testing our new inserted commands.
Importing
With confidence that inputs
are correct, click on Import button.
This causes a paste into the visible textboxes below. Jump2Pgc has already prepared your new pre
commands, ready for copying and pasting into PgcEdit.
If you feel that you have
made a mistake, no problem. there is a
Undo button now which well take you back before importing.
5. Pasting new top Pre commands into PgcEdit.
The Copy to Clipboard
buttons are now enabled and you are also given labels on where which commands
should go. There is no order of pasting, just as long as you copy and
paste all of them. I’ll just explain the
process with the first one, First Play PGC.
Note: Ensure that "Automatically renumber GOTOs
cmds upon insert/delete?" is checked in PgcEdit's Options before copying.
Just save your option and you don’t have to worry about later on.
A). Click on Copy to Clipboard button
B). Go to PGC Selection and click on First Play PGC
C) Click on pre commands label (outlined in red
above).
D)
Do a Ctrl + Shift + V for Paste After. You should see something like this. The three
top pre commands, highlighted green, are my new inserted pre commands.
E) Repeat Steps A to D with other visible textboxes.
6. With PgcEdit still open, do a test trace.
7. If it works as plan then click on Save button.
If it doesn’t, you may have
made an error along the way. Just click
on Reset to start again.