Jumpy films

[Twizzle]

I have been burning VCDs for a little while now and most have been low quality films I have downloaded so I never expect the quality of the VCD to be great.

However, I now have a couple of films that I want to make good VCD copies of. They are DVD rips and so far I have been using TMPG to convert into a onc disk VCD (as per the guide on here) and then Nero to burn. I lower my burn speed to 8x (from a max of 16x) and I leave the computer well alone while it is doing all of this.

The VCDs I am ending up with are ok (the picture quality isnt wonderful but im putting that down to the fact it fits onto one cd) but they are also very jumpy. They seem to freeze for a couple of seconds and then resume and sometimes miss a minute of so of the film. If I play the film again, the freezes are not always in the same place either.

Is this down to the quality of the CDs I am using or the fact that I am trying to cram so much info onto one disk? Or is it something going on during the encoding or burning stage?

[buddymann]

Just what happens to me!! If you look at my posting in the review of Philips DVD762 you can see what I have to do when the freezing/playback results in audio sync problems. I'm of the opinion that the main truble is with my DVD player and not the movies I've burned - otherwise why would the freezing be at different places?
Philips have some upgrades on the web to stop DVDs freezing but I don't know about other makes. I've written to Philips asking if I can download the available upgrades and put them into my player but jave no reply as yet.
My main point is that the problem may well be with the capacity of the player and not the actual movies.

[musicnyman]

it depends on your player as well. some dvd players can only handle low burn speeds. try burning at 2x and see if that helps. also, some players have a hard time handling high bit rates. make sure if you're creating an SVCD, it's under 2520 and i don't remember the max bit rate for VCD's since i don't deal with VCD's, only SVCDS