The DVD tab in DVD Catalyst’ Global Settings contains a few advanced options specific to DVD handling.
*Automatic Movie / Episode recognition. If this is enabled, DVD Catalyst will filter through the found DVD content after scanning, and if it thinks it’s a movie DVD, it will enable just the Movie track for conversion, and if it thinks it’s a TV episode DVD, it will enable only the individual episodes. While it works with most DVDs, due to the enormous amount of different ways DVDs are organized, it is not 100% full-proof. To enable tracks for conversion that are wrongfully disabled, just click on the track, and checkmark the “enable for conversion” option.
*Minimum playtime for DVD selections. Most of the users of DVD Catalyst use it to convert movies and TV episodes. Because of this, DVD Catalyst uses this option as a filter to eliminate most trailers and special features from appearing in the conversion queue. If you are converting an “Adult Swim” DVD, it is likely that episodes will not appear, due to the play length of shows like ATHF and Robot Chicken only being 5 minutes or so. Or, if you want to include special features and such with your converted files, change the value of this to something like 1 minute.
*De-interlace. This removes “jagged lines from videos during conversion, at a price of conversion speed. More info can be found here.
*DVD as VOBs. A very special option, intended originally for some The Teaching Company DVDs, but can be used for other functions as well. Rather then to convert a DVD on a “per track” basis, this will convert the individual files separately. This option works with unprotected DVDs only.
*Nicer subtitles. This tells DVD Catalyst to use a different way of accessing the DVD when converting, which is less compatible, but offers nicer looking subtitles.
