PgcEdit 0.5.5 Menu buttons don't work on hardware player

PgcEdit 0.5.5 Menu buttons don't work on hardware player 

I have successfully reauthored a PAL dvd with PgcEdit 0.5.5. Menus I remuxed new. It works fine on PC, but on my players the menu buttons don't work. Philips DVDR520H: no button colours, buttons unvisible but cmds work. SEG Hollywood II (Omega chipset): no colours, no function. Navigation and start not possible :( Do the menu buttons defined by PgcEdit only work on a PC? What's wrong?

no, they should work everywhere. There must be something wrong somewhere. Can you give us more details? What did you use to mux the menus? More details will help... jeanl

Sounds like you haven't defined the buttons colours in the palette. Regards

I have reauthored a NTSC dvd to PAL. Demuxed some menus with VobEdit. Muxed with MuxMan. Exported the buttons with PgcEdit and reimported, then edited the position (for height 576). Colour table is redefined. Button text is on the background and the areas are coloured by pressing a button. I cannot find any issues in the streams with VobEdit. And now the news: All buttons work fine in IfoEdit player and Nero Showtime but not in PowerDVD 5 PowerDVD has the same behavor as my hardware players. No colours but the button commands work. ??

apparently, you have a problem with the subpic packs... Did you use muxman to mux them in? I've seen highlights not showing when their PTS didn't match the PTS of the video frame they were supposed to be with. Try running menushrink on your menu and see if the result has the same problem. If so, then send it to us (blank the titles, zip and send the rest with ). post the download link here so we can take a look... Maybe one of us can spot something wrong in the packs... jeanl

In the past, I have experienced a similar behaviour with some players. I've found that the problem was a wrong value in the VTSI_MAT table of the menu's VTS. In VTSI_MAT, at offset [00000155], the number of sub-pictures streams in VTSM must be 1, and the following entry must holds the correct sub-picture attributes. Also, in the VMG_VTS_ATRT table in VIDEO_TS.IFO, the Number of sub-pictures streams in menu must be 1 for your menu's VTS (at offset 69 for VTS 1). Could you verify that with IfoEdit? Also, with PgcEdit, verify that the subpic assignments are correct in the menu PGCs. For every menu PGC, the first subpic in the list displayed in the PGC Editor must be initialized, and must holds something like "0 0 0 0" for a 4:3 menu, and "0 0 1 0" for 16:9. These values should normally be the same ones than the original values in your NTSC DVD.

I didn't demux and mux the button pattern subpics because I cannot resize them to PAL. What a pain.. The players MUST have a substream for buttons!!!?? They make OR/AND operations to overlay the button colors. IfoEdit player and Nero ShowTime don't care about a pattern stream when not defined. PgcEdit saves buttons and color tables but not the pattern subs. I thought the buttons worked right if I only use highlighting areas. But it doesn't work, the buttons stay invisible. My workaround: I mux the old NTSC pattern subs and set the pattern colors to the same of background. That works for highligting the background of buttons. But is there another way?

The Ifos have that menu subpic entry Code:

frank, I'm guessing you resized your video to convert from NTSC to PAL, right? It would seem to me that you would need to do that as well for your subpics, no? Otherwise, the highlights will not match the buttons... Am I missing something? In any case, I'm not sure what program can resize these guys for you... Jeanl