ifoedit and Adjust Ilvu/Angle point

I'm trying to split The Matrix dvd using mikewillnot's and 2COOL's guides with ifoedit at and This is my first split and I want to keep all the features and extras. My problem is that the ripped movie doesn't seem to keep all the multi angle / seamless branching info. Some scenes repeat where it shouldn't. Is this normal or is ifoedit supposed to be able to handle this. I have these settings checked: X Remove P-UOps X Remove Macrovision X Adjust Ilvu/Angle point. X Adjust Vob-Unit pointers X Adjust Audio/Subp point. Is 'Adjust Ilvu/Angle point' supposed to work with something like this?

IfoEdit has a well known bug: some infos are lost in the Cell Tables after a strip. If the angle flags are lost, it might be the problem. Try to verify the angles flags for all cells of the PGC in IfoEdit or PgcEdit.

I'm afraid pgcedit/ifoedit is still a bit new to me, where can I find the angle flags in pgcedit?

Ok, I think I found it. There's an 'Edit PGC' button. In the 'Type Flags' collumn are a bunch of values - are these the ones I have to check?

Yes. Specially the values in the Type Flags column (the angle definitions are here), and the Cell Cmds.

Nope, the rip looks the same as the original, so this is probably not the problem. One question: The new version of pgcedit has those very convenient play buttons for every cell. When I preview a cell, I see the scene repeated like the faulty backup. Is the scene supposed to play correctly when I preview? I don't know much about multiangle vobs, but maybe the vobs are not written correctly. I could only preview the backup because my original rip is still on my linux box without the preview function.

The multi angle sells are mixed together in the VOBs, to allow seamless playback of whatever angle is needed. You will see all the angles when you preview a multi-angle cell in PgcEdit. This is a known limitation of the preview, and is therefore not a good indication that something is worng in your IFOs or VOBs. I can't help much more. Sorry.

ivanova It looks like you have problems with the angles. If you see scenes repeat, this means the DVD is playing the VOB as if there weren't any angle groups, even though there should be. Here's how angles work (thanks to r0lZ for the explanation) if I'm not mistaken. In the vob files, you can have vob cells that correspond to various angles that are interleaved. The cells corresponding to a given angle will have the same VOB/CELL ID. You can check that by previewing the PGC in PgcEdit with the info panel on, you'll see the VOB/CELL ID change each time a scene is "repeated". If the PGC cells (the cells you can see in the PGC info) are grouped in an angle group, the DVD player will only play one of the cells in the group. Your problem is they're not, so the player sees them as normal cells and plays them all in a row, even though it's not supposed to. So the player plays in a row: Snippet 1 Angle 1 Snippet 1 Angle 2 Snippet 1 Angle 3 Snippet 2 Angle 1 Snippet 2 Angle 2 Snippet 2 Angle 3 ... instead of playing this Snippet 1 Angle 1 Snippet 2 Angle 1 etc. I"m not sure if you want to fix this by hand (if you have many cells, this will be tedious), but you probably can using PgcEdit (because all you need to do is adjust the angle flags in the PGC editor). If you only have a couple scenes where you get the problem then you're fine. If you have many it'll be bad. Let us know if you want to try it by hand, and if you do, post the PGC: Info you get when right-clicking on the problem PGC. THen we might be able to help you figure it out. But you'll need to know how many angles there are (how many times a scene repeats)... Jeanl

Oh, another option is to transfer the IFO files from your unix box to your pc, and then compare the backed up IFOs with the original ones, and reproduce exactly the angle flags in the backedup IFOs. That way you won't have to second-guess what's going on. SHould be pretty easy if you don't have too many multi-angle PGC cells... Jeanl

Thanks for explaining ;) That is exactly the problem. However I don't think the angle flags are wrong, as it is the same as the original. That is if I'm looking at the right info ;) The following is the info from the ripped/splitted pgc. As I said it is exactly the same as the original until it is split. There are 38 chapters, but chapter 19-38 all point to program 18. Code: