Oddest authoring of an anime dvd ever

[MasterYoshidino]

When I look at the region 1 DVD of Ah My Goddess OVA, many media players fail to understand that the intro is consisting of two cells intertwined (especially if I try to play it from my hard drive). DVD2AVI will fail to understand this and will try to extract both the untouched english soft credit version and the hard coded credits of the japanese cells. Its like a multi angle dvd except it is not changeable in any way other than the dvd menus itself. The actual episodes are all just one cell id, strangely. Call it oddball authoring. :rolleyes:

soft credits = subtitles in english overlay the credits (can be turned off)
hard credits = hard encoded into the mpeg2, the japanese credits as they would appear on TV in tokyo tv

The only way to properly encode this would be to extract a cell / angle via vStrip. Mere decrypting will utterly fail.

[auenf]

Originally posted by MasterYoshidino
Its like a multi angle dvd except it is not changeable in any way other than the dvd menus itself.

which means they have disabled the angle changing thru PUO, but its still physically multiangle on the disc. there are benefits of doing this, and for a specific language selection, its perfectly reasonable to force you onto one stream.

i think some big name dvds do the same for the european releases, so they can have the opening and closing titles in different languages.

Enf...

[mpucoder]

It's quite common in movies in R1 as well (especially Canadian movies, like Red Planet). But there is no way to change between the streams on the fly, as they are non-seamless angles. The interleaving works the same as seamless angles, but they are linked in a different way, so the angle button will not change them.
Pick a PGC, and rip by it, the two angles have different VobIDs.