Turning Subtitles OFF by
Default v2.0
Courtesy of 2COOL
- 10/10/2004
Tool used: PgcEdit v0.3.5
Intro
So you have unwanted subpictures displaying on your movie Title without you even selecting them? But you really prefer to have them to be turned off. Well, this PgcEdit guide will assist you on this matter. If you didn't know, I came out with my first text guide using IfoEdit. But with PgcEdit, I found it was better for me for editing and also, the algorithm was different than my IfoEdit guide. Now for you newbies out there, subpictures is the technical synonym for subtitles. In PgcEdit, the author, rolZ, decided to shortened subpictures so SubPic was used.
With assumption that all your DVD files have been successfully ripped to your hard drive, let's begin. If you already know which Title(s) to edit, you can skip to Step 4.
1. It is important that we need to work on the right Title because we will be editing it's PGC (Program Chain). It's actually simple to find out. Just play your DVD in any software player that displays Title information. Here are some examples of software players I've used. Look at the highlighted area. Find what Title # you have and remember it.
IfoEdit
PowerDVD
2. Now, run PgcEdit. Open your folder and browse to your folder containing your DVD files.
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3. If loading is successful, you'll get this prompt.
Click OK to
continue.
4. In
your PGC Selection List, single-click on PGC that has your Title #
that you got from Step 1.
e.g.
VTST 1 , 1 TTN 1 (1:31:19) Title 1
Note: Just like DVD Shrink ,the Titles
shown in PgcEdit are also
referenced in VIDEO_TS.IFO.
5. Adding a New Pre Command
You will now see your PGC's Command Table. We are going to add a new pre command after the last one.
Left-click to select last pre-command and then right click for pop-up menu.
6. Select and click on
Add after. >
7. You now have a new last pre command with a NOP (No Operation) command.
8. Editing New Pre Command
We need to edit this new pre command to set your subpictures off so double-click on your new pre command line to bring up your Command Editor.
9. Select Alphabetically > SetSTN.
10. You can set your Audio and Angle here too but we'll just to work with the Subpicture section.
By default, GPRMs is selected but we need constant values. Select this option.
11. Go Sub-picture section and select set to none.
This is what you should be seeing in your Command Editor.
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12. Editing Break commands
Now back in your PGC Command Table, we need to look for any "Break" commands in our pre commands section. When you encounter a Break command in your navigation, all remaining pre commands will be skipped over and your Title's clip will play immediately. In the example below, we have pre command 6 with a Break or as I refer to it, a solid Break.
Other Break command examples to look for, if not a solid Break, will be conditional (if-then) commands like below. Take notice of all Break pre commands.
[00 A2 00 00 00 01 00 00] # if ( gprm(0) == 1 ".." ) then { Break }
[00 22 00 00 00 01 00 00] # if ( gprm(0) == gprm(1) ) then { Break }
[00 22 00 00 00 82 00 00] # if ( gprm(0) == sprm(2:sub-picture stream number) ) then { Break }
[00 A2 00 82 65 6E 00 00] # if ( sprm(2:sub-picture stream number) == 25966 "en" ) then { Break }
13. We need to edit ALL existing Break commands to jump to our new pre command. Double click on your Break pre command to bring up your Command Editor again.
14. Go to Alphabetically > GoTo.
15. Disregard what the Goto line command is if it's not the right one. We'll be correcting that now.
The only thing we will work with in here is the
Remember your new last pre command, input that number. My example
was pre command 8 from Step 10.
Click on
to set exit Command Editor.
16. Repeat Steps 13 to 16 if there are other Break commands to edit. Remember to use the same GoTo line number for all. Back to Step 13.
17. Click on
or Ctrl+S to save.
18. Preview to test. If all goes well, that's it.