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richard-courtney wrote on 2/4/2004, 9:49 PM
You can do it a couple of ways....

If your presentation is roughly 20 minutes or less make it your background
video/image and also include it as your background audio. (There is a file
limit of 1GB) Delete the "MAIN MENU" text.
Make sure Looped is selected and Auto-calculate length. Burn your disc.

When you place the disc in the player it should startup automatically and loop.


If it is longer than 20 minutes you will need a program IFOEDIT and
change a POST command to jump to the PGC of the video and not the
main menu PGC. (If your presentation is longer than 3 minutes most
people move on to the next booth at trade shows)
jetdv wrote on 2/5/2004, 11:10 AM
A third way is to just hit repeat on the DVD player.
thatrobguy wrote on 2/21/2004, 5:15 PM
RCourtney--

Can you provide more detailed instructions on how to do what you described (looping video) with IFOEdit? That program is pretty hairy.

Thanks,
Rob
johnmeyer wrote on 2/23/2004, 12:00 PM
I provide extensive instructions, in "cookbook" format, on how to use IFOEdit to create "end actions" in DVDA. The instructions can be found here:

End Action Workaround

Make sure you scroll down to my second post, which is the final version of my cookbook.

What you are asking for is for the end action to go back to the same video clip, rather than the next video clip. However, you can use my instructions, exactly as given in the above link, to go back to the same clip. All you need to do is change the lines at the end of the instructions in step #10 to point to existing clip. Since the instructions point to the next clip, all you need to do is decrement by one, the number shown in the directions.

Thus, the directions in step 10 currently show this:



PGC Command Table: 

[000000ec] Number of Pre Commands 8 [0008]

[000000ee] Number of Post Commands 0 [0000]

[000000f0] Number of Cell Commands 0 [0000]

[000000f2] Size of Command table in bytes 71 [0047]

[000000f4] 1.Pre Command If GPreg<11> == (cmp-val)<0><' then Break [00 a2 00 0b 00 00 00 0a ]

[000000fc] 2.Pre Command Set GPreg<11> mov (set-val)<0> [71 00 00 0b 00 00 00 00 ]

[00000104] 3.Pre Command Set GPreg<10> mov SPreg<title number in volume (TTN)> [61 00 00 0a 00 84 00 00 ]

[0000010c] 4.Pre Command If GPreg<10> == (cmp-val)<1><' then Goto line# 7 [00 a1 00 0a 00 01 00 07 ]

[00000114] 5.Pre Command If GPreg<10> == (cmp-val)<2><' then Goto line# 8 [00 a1 00 0a 00 02 00 08 ]

[0000011c] 6.Pre Command Break [00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 ]

[00000124] 7.Pre Command (JumpSS VMGM) Jump to VMG PGC: 3 [30 06 00 03 00 c0 00 00 ]

[0000012c] 8.Pre Command (JumpSS VMGM) Jump to VMG PGC: 4 [30 06 00 04 00 c0 00 00 ]


To go to the same clip, just change the last two lines to this:



PGC Command Table: 

[000000ec] Number of Pre Commands 8 [0008]

[000000ee] Number of Post Commands 0 [0000]

[000000f0] Number of Cell Commands 0 [0000]

[000000f2] Size of Command table in bytes 71 [0047]

[000000f4] 1.Pre Command If GPreg<11> == (cmp-val)<0><' then Break [00 a2 00 0b 00 00 00 0a ]

[000000fc] 2.Pre Command Set GPreg<11> mov (set-val)<0> [71 00 00 0b 00 00 00 00 ]

[00000104] 3.Pre Command Set GPreg<10> mov SPreg<title number in volume (TTN)> [61 00 00 0a 00 84 00 00 ]

[0000010c] 4.Pre Command If GPreg<10> == (cmp-val)<1><' then Goto line# 7 [00 a1 00 0a 00 01 00 07 ]

[00000114] 5.Pre Command If GPreg<10> == (cmp-val)<2><' then Goto line# 8 [00 a1 00 0a 00 02 00 08 ]

[0000011c] 6.Pre Command Break [00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 ]

[00000124] 7.Pre Command (JumpSS VMGM) Jump to VMG PGC: 2 [30 06 00 02 00 c0 00 00 ]

[0000012c] 8.Pre Command (JumpSS VMGM) Jump to VMG PGC: 3 [30 06 00 03 00 c0 00 00 ]


Of course, this was just an example for a two-clip DVD. As the full instructions given at the above link show, you can adjust this to as many clips as you have. I use this technique all the time to create DVDs from as many as 25 individual clips.

I curse Sony for not fixing this sooner, every time I do this ...
richard-courtney wrote on 2/25/2004, 7:47 AM
If you still need more info and visited john's link please let me know
if you will have an indroductory video (example: Copyright Screen)

You may have a single button menu to play the video, we will fix that
and will not be seen.
KDB wrote on 2/25/2004, 5:37 PM
I'm trying to loop a Single Movie DVD, no intro video. It doesn't loop in the preview. Will it loop when it plays on a DVD player, or will it just stop and/or eject when it's done?

John's example for a multi-movie title shows (in #7) that there is "no PGC command table". The single movie has one, which looks like this:

PGC Command Table:
[000000ec] Number of Pre Commands 3 [0003]
[000000ee] Number of Post Commands 0 [0000]
[000000f0] Number of Cell Commands 0 [0000]
[000000f2] Size of Command table in bytes 31 [001f]
[000000f4] 1.Pre Command Set GPreg<1> mov (set-val)<1> [71 00 00 01 00 01 00 00]
[000000fc] 2.Pre Command Set GPreg<2> mov (set-val)<1> [71 00 00 02 00 01 00 00]
[00000104] 3.Pre Command (JumpSS VTSM) Jump to TitleSet(vts): 1, Title (ttn): 1, chapter-menu [30 06 00 01 01 87 00 00]

Can I just edit "3.Pre Command" to make it loop? (If it's not already, that is?)

Big thanks,

KDB
richard-courtney wrote on 2/26/2004, 7:52 PM
In this example, a single movie without an introductory "copyright" video,
you should only need to edit one line in the PGC command table in the VTS_01_0.IFO file.
Find the POST command under the VTS_PGCITI section VTS_PGC_1 entry.
It should be a NOP.
Right click and select EDIT.
FInd "(Jump_VTS_TT) Jump to Title in this titleset"
in the pulldown. Use Title nr. 1.
Save the file and test the DVD.


NOTE: If you are putting this in a kiosk running 24/7 be prepared
to replace the player in about 6 months of use.
richard-courtney wrote on 2/26/2004, 9:01 PM
For a single movie with an introductory video, make the same change in the
VTS_02_0.IFO file.
KDB wrote on 3/1/2004, 12:44 PM
Worked like a charm... Big thanks again!