Hard Drives Speed ?

[badrhino]

Just a simple question here .....I hope
I am a bit of a novice at this but when I make my vcd's they always seem to judder on motion especially when panning, I have read in this forum and altered many settings but to no good.
A friend of mine has made very good vcd's with basic settings, I have a faster pc with 256 mb DDR ram athlon 1.4 cpu but only a UDMA 66 hd running @ 5200 I think, my mate has an athlon 950 with pc 133 ram 256 mb BUT a 7200 hd, could this make a difference in the final mpeg ? I have used his settings on my pc but he still out performs me on final results
Regards.......a very browned off Rhino........!

[poopyhead]

hdd has nothing to do with quality, as long as it's not THAT slow. i personally haven't noticed any hardware that will actually improve the quality of the dvd rip. at best, the CPU affects how FAST it takes you to encode, but not the quality.

also, u may wanna check your source. even original DVDs have some jerkiness during wide spanning scenes.

another possibility is that you're using FORCED FILM in dvd2avi when the source is NTSC, rather than FILM. this has resulted in my dvd rips being jerky also.

one last thing, try not doing anything CPU intensive at the same time as your computer is encoding. that might cause some problems....

[vitualis]

Firstly, the judder effect is on your PC or stand-alone player?

Otherwise, as what poopyhead said. HDD speed has no impact on the quality of a DVD Rip.

Regards.