From: cmadams@cmadams.net (Chris Adams)

Once upon a time, Jeffrey Kaplan   said:
>No, I'm not.  I do know that Pavtube examines the disk and "filters"
>looking for the movie file.  I suppose it's possible it's reading the
>disk menu and assembling the titles based on that.

Probably so.  A video DVD is a bunch of chunks of video and audio, and a
title is basically a playlist for those chunks (some movies, like IIRC
"Terminator 2", allow you to watch multiple cuts of a movie this way
without including multiple complete video streams).  If they'd put
multiple copies of the episodes on the DVD, they would have had to
compress them significantly more to fit, and somebody would have noticed
that long ago.

I would have thought DVD ripping software would notice that and figure
it out, but maybe there's something about the authoring that tripped up
detection.

>But then why would some of the seasons have the episodes presented out
>of order and some not?  It's not a per-disk effect I'm seeing there,
>it's a per-season thing.

It could be that somebody had an out-of-order episode list when the DVDs
were initially authored, and they just shuffled the menu entries after
the fact.  It could also be something as simple as the original raw
files were named by episode (or something random), the disc authoring
software sorted them alphabetically, and then the menu authoring put
them in the desired order.

>BTW, just popped season 5 disk 1 in, and the episodes are in the
>correct order.

They may have changed software or procedures in between.
-- 
Chris Adams 


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