Choppiness on SVCD converted from DIVX

[deejay_silva]

I got a wide screen divx movie (XMEN) about 560 megs in size. I converted it to SVCD using svcd template in TMPGEnc
and vbr settings from the svcd calculator. It was going to go on 2 80min cd's. I also turn it to full screen. So 40 hours later I get a svcd that hickups and stutters, the quality is also a bit poor (lots of blocks)....

Any suggestions.... Oh yeah I used motion search precision on Highest Quality.

Thx........

[deejay_silva]

I was also wondering how I can achive higher quality and reduce encoding time...

[GUTB]

Any movie-length clip that got compressed down that far is going to look poor no matter what.

Check the frame rate of the original clip. If it is 23.9fps, use one of the film templates. I have heard many say that the stuttering is the fault of Detect Scene Change option. You can also turn on block noise filtering, which will smooth the pircutre and help elliminate the the blocks.