After my run of bad luck with HCEncGUI and DGIndex, I encoded an avs script (with assumefps 23.976) in FreeEnc after adjusting the ini file to get a higher bitrate. The file had the right NTSC running time in GSpot at 23.976 and then after I used DGPulldown. When I plugged it into DVDAuthorGUI, I got the error "too many dropped frames -exiting". Just muxing it with Imago Muxer didn't bring up an error but it quit at approximately the same place.

The threads I got looking this up have mostly to do with dropping frames during capture and some have suggested using ReStream to correct the problem. Can ReStream of any other program do anything about whatever this new issue is?