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PgcEdit Description

The Swiss Army knife of DVD editing

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 its powerful Trace function.

Updated! PgcEdit v9 has a new function to automatically simplify the DVD, remove useless PGCs and commands, convert useless menus to dummies, etc... The resulting DVD is usually simpler to analyze and understand.

The possibilities of PgcEdit are so numerous that it is simply impossible to list them all. Just try it, and see!

PgcEdit is free. However, to boost the donations, a nag screen is displayed during some seconds at its startup. The donors will receive a code to disable it.
As a consequence, the source code of PgcEdit is no longer available. It will be released later, but only a previous version will be available. If you want to run the latest update, you must donate. Sorry.

PgcEdit runs under all versions of Windows (including Vista), and with some limitations under Linux.

Installation of PgcEdit

PgcEdit is written in Tcl/Tk. Tcl/Tk is an interpreted scripting language. It is therefore necessary in theory to have a Tcl/Tk interpreter to use PgcEdit. Windows doesn't have such an interpreter natively.
PgcEdit.exe is an executable containing the Tcl/Tk interpreter and its libraries, as well as the scripts constituting the PgcEdit application. It is not an installer.

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Installation of PgcEdit.exe (under Windows)

To install PgcEdit, simply copy PgcEdit.exe in a folder of your choice, such as "C:\Program Files\PgcEdit\".
Then, launch PgcEdit.exe and see the 'Options/Install' menu: it allow to automatically create the shortcut icons and the files associations.

Note that the first time PgcEdit is run, it will create a "bin" directory in the same folder as PgcEdit.exe. Therefore, you need write permissions on the install folder, at least when PgcEdit is run for the first time, and when a new version is run for the first time.

To install a new version, just overwrite PgcEdit.exe with the new file. The bin directory will be updated automatically the first time the new version is run.

To uninstall PgcEdit, simply use the 'Options/Install/Uninstall PgcEdit' menu. This will remove the shortcuts, the files associations and the configuration files. Then, delete PgcEdit.exe.

Note: On some foreign systems (for example Korean systems), the executable may not start when you double-click on the icon. To fix this problem, you have to put PgcEdit.exe in a path containing only standard ASCII characters.
You can now also use the command line arguments or an environment variable to specify the character encoding scheme needed by your system. See the Command line arguments section below.

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Special note for Windows Vista users

Microsoft has released its very bad Vista operating system. Unfortunately, some guys want to use it!
Although PgcEdit works relatively well under Vista, there are some things you should consider.

o The standard system yes/no/ok/cancel dialogs are now handled differently by Vista. As a consequence, some PgcEdit dialogs are now too big to fit entierly on small screens, and the buttons are outside the screen! PgcEdit has now a fix for that problem. The standard dialogs have been replaced by new dialogs I have written myself.
o The "faster mkisofs.exe" used by the burn function of PgcEdit doesn't work under Vista. It is recommended to burn your DVD-Video files with ImgBurn, as it has now all features of the burn function of PgcEdit. However, if you still want to use PgcEdit to burn your DVDs, you have to replace mkisofs.exe by the original version requiring cygwin1.dll. That version of mkisofs is available in the ImgTool Classic (not ImgTool Burn!) package, available here. Be sure to change the path to mkisofs.exe in the burn setup dialog, and leave sygwin1.dll in the same folder, as this DLL is required by this version of mkisofs.
o Let me know if you find other problems with Vista!

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Installation of PgcEdit (under Linux)

There is now a standalone executable for Linux. With this standalone, you don't need to have Tcl/Tk installed anymore. You may copy the executable in a directory (preferably somewhere in your path), then do "chmod a+x PgcEdit" to make it executable.

To use the preview, you have to install also Wine(hq).

New! The Linux executable works well, but unfortunately, due to a bug in the recent Linux kernels, the preview doesn't work well under wine any more. It is therefore recommended to install wine and run the Windows executable of PgcEdit. In this case, the preview works as expected.

Note that the first time PgcEdit is run, it will create a "bin" directory in the same folder as the executable. Therefore, you need write permissions on the install folder, at least when PgcEdit is run for the first time, and when a new version is run for the first time.

To install a new version, just overwrite the executable with the new file. The bin directory will be updated automatically the first time the new version is run.

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Installation of the documentation (all platforms)
The old, obsolete English and French text files are not included in the PgcEdit distribution anymore.

The new documentation files should be placed within a "doc" folder in the PgcEdit installation folder. This way, you will be able to launch the documentation from PgcEdit's Help -> Documentation menu.

Under Windows, if a file called PgcEdit_Manual.chm is found in the doc folder, it is used.

Under all platforms (including under Windows if the CHM file is not found), the file doc/PgcEdit_Manual.htm is used.

If that file cannot be found, the file PgcEdit_Manual.txt is used instead. (This allows French users to place the old French doc file in the doc folder, and use it instead of the new English doc.)

If PgcEdit cannot find one of these files, it will display the online HTML documentation stored on the VideoHelp homepage.

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