Stuttering playback

[Nippy007]

I'm a newbie to all this, but after about two weeks of messing around with ffmpeg I have managed to author my first SVCD - WooHoo!!

The only problem is when I play it back in my dvd player it plays about a second then pauses then plays another second then pauses etc. Is this something to do with framerate? I authored it as SVCD PAL because I'm in the UK, but I don't know what the source avi framerate is because the info button doesn't work.

Any ideas??

[major]

How much it pauses? If it is a very small amount of time, it could be a framerate not matching the source file framerate. Use quicktime to open your AVI and check the framerate in the info panel.

[Nippy007]

OK, quicktime says the framerate is 23.98. So I'm going to change the framerate to NTSC FILM in Video Parameters - This may be a stupid question, but because I'm in a PAL region will I still be able to play my SVCD?

Thanks

[major]

I would say yes at 99% probability.