Copy protection in DVD called Man Called Hero?

[KFactor]

Greetings everyone,

In my first attempt at converting this movie, DVD2SVCD did an automatic IVTC as seen in the log:

Executing DVD2AVI. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\DVD2AVI\DVD2AVI.exe" -IA=1 -CS=2 -YR=1 -EXIT -OF=[C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\DVD2AVI_Project_file] -IF=[C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\..._6.vob]
Analyzing DVD2AVI Project file
Hybrid Film activated. IVTC will beformed and will slow down the entire process!
Framerate: 29970
Saving Subtitle Timecodes.
Permanent subtitles.
DVD2AVI processing done.

This caused the movie to have a slight jerk (I suppose from the few lost frames in IVTC conversion) every 1 or 2 seconds on my PC and standalone DVD player. My next attempt was to use the "off" option in DVD2AVI. After testing out a chapter, the playback was smooth on my PC, so I proceeded to encode the whole movie. After burning the movie to a CD and testing it out on my standalone DVD player, I noticed that the movie had a different type of jerky movement (this time because of a field order problem where fast movement scenes would show a blurring type of effect). I then reversed the field order from top to bottom which should have solved the problem. It did solve the problem, but for that chapter only. After reviewing both CDs I made, I noticed that only the even numbered chapters on the first CD had jerky problem. On the second CD, only the odd numbered chapters had jerky problems. Is this some type of protection to prevent backups? I've encoded about 50 DVDs without any problems aside for the occasional field order problem. Any suggestions? The original DVD plays fine ofcourse. Thanks.

KFactor:confused: :confused:

[dvd2svcd]

Try Force Film on

[KFactor]

Originally posted by dvd2svcd
Try Force Film on

Thanks for the fast reply. I did already try force film on but it caused severe interlacing lines.

KFactor

[dvd2svcd]

Then try using IVTC.DLL instead of Decomb.dll, and set the NTSC Field type to Automatic.

[KFactor]

Originally posted by dvd2svcd
Then try using IVTC.DLL instead of Decomb.dll, and set the NTSC Field type to Automatic.

Thanks again, but it still has that type of jerk that appears every 1 second. In addition, it has interlacing artificacts that the decomb.dll didn't have.

KFactor:confused:

[dvd2svcd]

Download the latest decomb.dll from

http://sauron.mordor.net/dgraft/mine.html#avisynth

And use that. Also you can try to deselect "Upperfield" in the CCE tab.

[KFactor]

Originally posted by dvd2svcd
Download the latest decomb.dll from

http://sauron.mordor.net/dgraft/mine.html#avisynth

And use that. Also you can try to deselect "Upperfield" in the CCE tab.

Just finished testing a few chapters with the latest decomb and still the same as before. Not sure what else to do. It's strange that this DVD was encoded this way. Hope it's not some sort of new copy protection where each chapter is encoded differently (different field orders for each chapter as in this one). I'll probably stick with the IVTC version as the slight jerking every 1 second is not as bothersome as the other type of jerking caused by the wrong field order. Thanks.

KFactor