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I'm putting in some time on reauthoring the original GOUT discs with the new picture/sound - an infuriating business compared with authoring from scratch, but certainly faster ;-)
a couple of notes - it seems that the cell count is different on these new streams compared with the old - with Empire (the first I'm doing) I got 53 cells in the new video compared with 54 on the GOUT disc. VobBlanker didn't seem to mind, but I was concerned with matching the chapter links so I stripped and rebuilt the stream with the original cell list. It all works just fine now.
I notice that the English subs were already included in the stream (which I was planning on including anyway, if only so the menu button would work!) Out of interest, were these repositioned for 16:9, or just a straight copy of the original?
The most irritating part of this whole thing is the limitations of possible replacements/removals/additions. I wanted to replace the FBI screens with an animated CBS-FOX logo, but that just didn't work - I blanked them instead so the disc just jumps to the main menu. CBS-FOX now comes just before the movie (in place of the Fox Home Entertainment logo).
Even worse, I'm completely redesigning the special features menu, and wanted to link to two trailers - unfortunately the existing links are to one video clip (game trailer) and one simple still menu (game info), so I can't do that (unless someone knows how to successfully replace a still menu with a video clip...)
I'll probably end up just killing the other button, so special features = one trailer. Better than before, at least!
Anyway, I'll upload my modded menus when they're done in case anyone else wants to take the same approach.
Now I'm just looking forward to actually watching these things...