PgcEdit -> Version History

This is the version history page for PgcEdit, showing the last 20 software updates. You can return to the main page for this software by clicking here.

Index:

• Version 9.3 (Mar 23, 2010)
• Version 9.2 (Feb 16, 2009)
• Version 9.1 (Jan 4, 2009)
• Version 9.0 (Dec 24, 2008)
• Version 8.6 (Jan 13, 2008)
• Version 8.5 (Sep 24, 2007)
• Version 8.4 (Jun 26, 2007)
• Version 8.3 (Jun 18, 2007)
• Version 8.2.1 (May 27, 2007)
• Version 8.2 (May 26, 2007)
• Version 8.1 (Apr 20, 2007)
• Version 8.0 (Jan 23, 2007)
• Version 8.0 beta 15 (Jan 17, 2007)
• Version 8.0 beta 14 (Jan 14, 2007)
• Version 8.0 beta 8 (Dec 21, 2006)
• Version 8.0 beta 7 (Dec 11, 2006)
• Version 8.0 beta 6 (Dec 10, 2006)
• Version 8.0 beta 3 (Dec 7, 2006)
• Version 7.4 (Sep 18, 2006)
• Version 7.3 (Jun 27, 2006)

• Release Date: Mar 23, 2010
• Download(s):
  pgcedit_winexe.zip
• Please refer to this forum thread for a list of what's new

• Release Date: Feb 16, 2009
• Download(s):
  pgcedit_winexe.zip
• Please refer to this forum thread for a list of what's new

• Release Date: Jan 4, 2009
• Download(s):
  pgcedit_winexe.zip
• Please refer to this forum thread for a list of what's new

• Release Date: Dec 24, 2008
• Please refer to this forum thread for a list of what's new

• Release Date: Jan 13, 2008
• Please refer to this forum post for a full list of changes

• Release Date: Sep 24, 2007
• Please refer to this forum post for a full list of changes

• Release Date: Jun 26, 2007
• Please refer to this forum post for a full list of changes

• Release Date: Jun 18, 2007
• Please refer to this forum post for a full list of changes

• Release Date: May 27, 2007
• Fixed bug: Trace mode was broken when called from the Trace menu.

• Release Date: May 26, 2007
• Please refer to this forum post for a full list of changes

• Release Date: Apr 20, 2007
• A. File -> Menu Buttons & BOVs -> Import/Export All Menu Buttons and BOVs. Can be used to save and restore all menu button and BOVs definitions of the current DVD. A "menubuttons.but" file is also automatically created in the backup folder each time a new backup is created.The BOVs are NOT saved if the VOB files are not automatically scanned at load time.This file is NOT restored automatically when the backup is restored. It is possible to load the buttons file even if the VOB files are not present in the DVD folder. Note: If you change the file type in the Import buttons dialog, you can also import a buttoninfo.txt file created by a well known program. However, as some important info is missing in this file, so DO NOT SAVE the buttons!
• A. Added Help -> Check For New Version and Options -> Startup -> Check For New Version At Startup? to automatically check if a new PgcEdit version is available.
• A. Added DVD -> Delete Uncalled TitleSets.This function is a lot faster than Delete Uncalled PGCs, but less efficient.Use it before Delete Uncalled PGCs when there are many uncalled Titlesets in the DVD.
• A. Added Title -> PTT (Chapter) Editor, a new editor suitable to edit the chapters of not-one_sequential Titles (with chapters in several PGCs belonging to the same TTN.)The old editor is still available via the PGC editor, but cannot be used on not-one_sequential Titles any more.
• A. Added Info -> Jumps from VMG to all VTSs.Basically, this new function is identical to Jumps from VMG to current VTS, but is habdy to find all jumps to all VTSs, and to locate the VTS that are called only once.
• A. Added Info -> Find jumps to void PGCs.A PGC is considered void when it has no commands, no buttons, and no NextPGC link (or when it is out of range.)When a void PGC is played, the navigation stops.
• A. Added a check when loading the DVD to be sure that at least one Title is defined per TTN, and to create a new Title in VMG_TT_SRPT if necessary.
• E. When a DVD is opened, PgcEdit now checks if the IFO, BUP and VOB filenames are in upper case, and offers to rename them if necessary.
• E. The menu of the command editor is now context dependant.The illegal commands for the current domain and current pre/post/cell/button/BOV area are now greyed out.The last menu contains now only the valid jump commands for the current context, and has been renamed to "Jump to...".
• E. The illegal commands for the current domain and pre/post/cell/button/BOV area are now highlighted in pink in the main listbox and in the menu button viewer and editor. (The jumps to a non-existing PGC and the invalid GOTOs are now highlighted in orange instead of pink.)
• E. In the PGC Editor, the Prev/Next/GoUpPGCN links are now also highlighted in pink when they point to another TTN.
• E. Replaced the default system Yes/No/OK/Cancel dialogs by custom dialogs. This is needed primarily as a workaround for a display problem under Vista, but the new method has several advantages.The user can now hide selectively some dialogs.As a consequence, the Expert Mode option has been removed, and is now replaced by two new options in Options -> User Interface: Display Hidden Dialog Boxes During Current Session? and Restore All Hidden Dialog Boxes. "Open yes/no/cancel dialog boxes under the mouse pointer?" allows you to open those new dialogs with the default button under the mouse pointer. The content of the dialog can be copied to the clipboard via a right-click context menu.
• E. Save IFOs as: Now, the user can chose to compute the VTS sector pointers using the VOB files from the source folder rather than producing wrong pointers because there are no VOBs in the target folder.
• E. PsKill.exe is no longer necessary for Win9X users to abort the creation of the ISO image during the burn process.PsKill has now been replaced by the kill command of the TclX package.The (erroneous) warning about "potentially unwanted program" displayed by some picky antivirus should not occur any more.
• E. Added shortcut key CTRL-Q on Info -> Jumps from VMG to Current VTS.
• E. Changed the presentation of File -> Recent DVDs menu.
• F. Kill PGC Playback: Some cell or button commands copied in pre-commands area were illegal in that area.They are now replaced by a legal suite of several commands.
• F. Some uncalled PGCs were not found by Find Uncalled PGCs and not deleted by Delete Uncalled PGCs.
• F. Clone PGC: When cloning a Title PGC and NOT creating a new Title number, the TTN number of the new PGC was increased, and the one_sequential flag was not set in VMG_TT_SRPT.
• F. Fixed some rounding errors in Rebuild Time Map on long NTSC Titles. Too many entries were created in the table.
• F. Fixed a little problem in Rebuild Time Map.The time map was not rebuild for PGCs shorter than 1 second.Now, the time map is rebuilt anyway, but is empty if the PGC is really shorter than 1 second.
• F. Rebuild Time Maps: Added a check for discrepancies in the SCR time stamps (sometimes caused by VobBlanker when a single cell is replaced by several cells with different VOB IDs.)
• F. Trace: The Break command in post-commands area was not handled correctly.
• F. Little bug fixed in Trace mode: SPRM(4:Title in volume) was not modified when a not-one_sequential Title was entered via a non-entry PGC.
• F. Little PGC comments bug fixed:The quotes of the PGC comment were not removed when a comment was erased from the PGC Editor window.
  
  A. = Added feature
  R. = Removed
  E. = Enhancement
  F. = Fixed bug
  W. = Workaround

• Release Date: Jan 23, 2007

• Release Date: Jan 17, 2007

• Release Date: Jan 14, 2007

• Release Date: Dec 21, 2006

• Release Date: Dec 11, 2006

• Release Date: Dec 10, 2006

• Release Date: Dec 7, 2006
• 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. A. = Added feature
  R. = Removed
  E. = Enhancement
  F. = Fixed bug
  W. = Workaround

• Release Date: Sep 18, 2006
• 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.
  
  A. = Added feature
  R. = Removed
  E. = Enhancement
  F. = Fixed bug
  W. = Workaround

• Release Date: Jun 27, 2006
• F. During the trace, when a menu was displayed, hitting the Prev, Next or GoUp button on the virtual remote had no effect.
• F. PGC Editor -> Create New Cell -> Create New Blank VOB Cell did not create a new cell if a tiny blcak cell previously created by PgcEdit was already present at the end of the VOB file. Instead, the tiny cell was reused.
• F. When using Create New Cell -> Use existing VOB/Cell ID, the cell ID number was always 1.
• F. When using Create New Cell on a non-sequential Title PGC (with several PGCs in the same TTN) and the option to create a new chapter, the new chapter number was wrong.
• F. When using New Dummy PGC on a Title PGC, the modified Title was not marked as non-sequential in the VMG_TT_SRPT table.
• F. When using Delete Last PGC in the Title domain to delete the penultimate PGC of a non-sequential Title (played sequentially), the Title was not marked as sequential in VMG_TT_SRPT. Its time map is now also recomputed when the DVD is saved.
  
  A. = Added feature
  R. = Removed
  E. = Enhancement
  F. = Fixed bug
  W. = Workaround