Video standard detected incorrectly

[PIGSgrame]

There are a few disks I know about where AnyDVD reports an NTSC movie when the disc actually contains a PAL movie.

Examples of such discs are:

• Once upon a time in America, R2 (Germany)
• Ben Hur, R2 (Germany)

I've already reported this issue about one year ago, but it is still present. Attached are logfiles of both movies, but I recently bought the collector's edition of Ben Hur (which does not show this problem) and no longer have the regular disk, so I can only provide an older logfile for this movie.

 

[Webslinger]

I'm not going to bother looking at the logs, but the reason this happens is because the .ifos wrongly flag the discs as being NTSC. With respect to decryption the wrong "ntsc" description doesn't matter anyway, and due to Anydvd working on-the-fly, there's not much that can be done. The bug is actually contained on the discs themselves.

 

[PIGSgrame]

Thanks for your explanation, I wasn't aware of how AnyDVD detects the video standard. When I filed a support ticket some time ago, they just replied they "will look into it", so I expected the problem to be fixed some day. If that cannot be done - well, I agree that there are more important features than this one

 

[Webslinger]

Thanks for your explanation, I wasn't aware of how AnyDVD detects the video standard. When I filed a support ticket some time ago, they just replied they "will look into it", so I expected the problem to be fixed some day. If that cannot be done - well, I agree that there are more important features than this one

The .ifo file says, "I'm NTSC". So Anydvd says, "O.k., you're NTSC".

Anydvd decrypts the disc, regardless.