PgcEdit 7.2 review
DownloadPgcEdit is a DVD IFO and Menu editor designed to allow the modification of the navigation commands and parameters of an already authored DVD structure.
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PgcEdit is a DVD IFO and Menu editor designed to allow the modification of the navigation commands and parameters of an already authored DVD structure.
PgcEdit is also an excellent tool to learn how a DVD works, with his powerful Trace function.
Since v0.6.0, PgcEdit is also the first program able to burn a Double Layer DVD-Video on DL DVD+R or DL DVD-R, with an interactive interface (including a preview), to select the position of the layer break.
Installation :
• Under Mac OSX 10.3 or more, you should install the Apple's X11User package (located on the OSX install DVD/CDs), and download the MacOSX Starter application once (the latest version includes MKISOFS 2.01). Then, download the latest PgcEdit source files, and put the PgcEdit_source folder in the Starter folder. Note that you may have to rename the source folder to "PgcEdit_source". To launch PgcEdit, double click on the "PgcEdit Starter" icon.
• With the new starter app (v0.5a), the X11 version is started by default. If you want to use the aqua version instead of the X11 version, you must rename the "PgcEdit Starter" file to "PgcEdit Starter aqua".
• To update PgcEdit, simply replace the PgcEdit_source folder by the new version.
• See the "Welcome, Read Me" file in the Starter application for detailed installation instructions.
• Note that the Preview functions are still not available under Macintosh.
• To install Tcl/Tk under Mac OSX 10.2, there are two solutions. The first one uses X11, while the other uses the native Aqua interface. The X11 version is highly recommended, because the Aqua version has many bugs, and is not well supported by PgcEdit.
• Installation of Tcl/Tk for X11
• The easiest way to install Tcl/Tk for X11 is to use Fink. Download Fink at fink.sourceforge.net and install it. Then, open the terminal (or use FinkCommander.)
To install Tcl/Tk, type "sudo apt-get install tcl/tk". This will download the compiled version for MacOSX.
Or type "fink install tcltk" to compile the sources (which takes some time.)
• Installation of Tcl/Tk Aqua
• A Tcl/Tk Aqua compatible distribution may be downloaded at tcltkaqua.sourceforge.net.
There are three different versions : TclTkAquaBI (Batteries-Included), TclTkAqua and TclTkAquaStandalone. It is more easy to use TclTkAquaStandalone, because this distribution allow to launch PgcEdit by clicking on the icon, without the need to open the terminal.
The installation est straightforward : open the disc image, and copy "Wish Shell" on your hard disk.
• X11 or Aqua ?
• What are the differences between the two versions ?
• Tcl/Tk Aqua uses the MacOSX native interface and is more easy to launch. Unfortunately, the Tcl/Tk Aqua project is still in development and there are some bugs in the display and the behaviour of PgcEdit. The Tk-Aqua version distributed by Apple with OSX 10.4 is still very buggy. The PgcEdit's GUI will therefore not always be perfectly rendered. In particular, the 'tearoff menus' are not working correctly. You may need to rezise the window and change the fonts (in the Options menu) to display the interface correctly.
• Tcl/Tk for X11 has a look less "MacOSX", and needs the terminal to launch PgcEdit, but in the other hand the GUI is bug free, and more reactive.
This version is therefore more "robust", and is the best (and only?) way to use PgcEdit under MacOSX.
• MKISOFS: To use the Create ISO function of PgcEdit, you will need to compile mkisofs 2.1 for your system, and install the executable in your path.
• Starting PgcEdit
• Tcl/Tk X11 : launch X11 and type in the xterm window "/sw/bin/wish "full path to PgcEdit.tcl"".
• Tcl/Tk Aqua : launch "Wish Shell", then go to the "File -> Source" menu, and select PgcEdit.tcl.
• See also the "Welcome, Read Me" file in the starter application.
What's New:
E. When the VMGM_VOBU_ADMAP table is present but has 0 entries, the table is now completely removed when the DVD is loaded. Previously, only the empty VMGM_C_ADT, VTSM_C_ADT and VTSM_VOBU_ADMAP tables were removed.
F. Burn DL DVD: When the new advanced option "Modify IFOs only" is ticked and PgcEdit cannot find a suitable cell for the layer break, the GUI was not updated correctly, and it was impossible to close the Burn window.
F. The highlight target feature and the Find Jumps to Nowhere function were unable to mark a JumpTT to an inexistant title as invalid.
F. It was possible to save the DVD or quit PgcEdit when a save operation was already in progress. Now, only File -> Kill can be used during the save.
F. PGC Editor: Remap Vob/Cell ID when using the Create New Cell option was broken in v7.1.
F. The dynamic version of the PgcEdit_preview executable was distributed with v7.x. To work correctly under Linux, the static version is needed.
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