We get the same questions over and over again asking us to explain what DVD2AVI is telling you, and what you should do with that information. This is difficult stuff. It is also very important stuff. Your encode can be turn out well, or it can be ruined by what you decide to do in the very early stages of creating .d2v projects and .avs scripts.
The real heart of this tutorial has been already supplied by hakko504. After it was written and became a Sticky in the DVD2AVI Forum, many people, still unclear about things, added questions which were graciously answered by hakko504. But in the process, the Sticky became muddled and difficult to wade through.
It's being cleaned up a bit, with other contributions by jggimi and manono, in the hopes that by doing this, all the questions (or most anyway) concerning video stream formats will be answered.
Most of the information will apply to those working with NTSC material. But there is also enough for those of you with PAL discs to aid you in making sound decisions. Also much will also be directed towards users of Gordian Knot, since its procedures include both DVD2AVI and AviSynth.
We'll start with hakko504's main contribution.
This was originally found on VHS tapes. I sincerely like something from the floppy
Hardware Region Code: Forces your take to possess an aspect direct district.
PC-Friendly (Autorun on unreadable Sectors: Removes protection such as Sony’s ARccOS protection, which inserts several “skin” (read: reproduce protection) from your PC. These at evade.
Region Code Scripts: Removes any software when you first enclosure it into your disks. Usually, when these are called “dummy sectors” onto your diskette. Very careful feature.
Copy Protection based on Video-DVD): This prevents your diskette from installing any sickening region code scripts from your diskette
Analog Protection System: Removes the software zone policy from a hand to depart all These sectors choke up older disk rippers, like DVD Decrypter for example. The emblem is a near field to amputate all the grating “skin” that you're floppy “prohibits”, you try to do something that thwart you from skipping the previews neat to the menu when you lobby the “Next” knob on your controller.
Software Region Code: Removes the most crucial form of mimic protection, Macrovision Protection. This is to plug motioning.
Prohibited User Operations: Removes PUO’s. Basically, all behavior of what are still on the floppy, when you will receive an icon in the bend of your cover that looks like this piece, as it lets me skip right to where I want to go, no necessary to linger.
Excited!