Interlacing and Stuttering?

[Sturm]

I asked this question in the Newbie Conversion forum without a reply (so far), so I'll ask it here.
Well, here's the rundown: I captured directly from my DSS source signal to a segemented AVI in VirtualDub (using Huffyuv compression) ready for CVD (352x480). Trimmed the video and then started the frameserver. Got into TMPGEnc, loaded up the source video&audio, set it for the usual CVD settings (352x480, 48000KHz, 2520/2350/1200, closed GOPs). Encodes fine so I then use TSCV (I've also tried VCDEasy) to add chapters and burn the sucker. Burns great. Plays back great on my software DVD player. HOWEVER. When I place it in my Pioneer DV-343 DVD player, it plays, but not very well. The video appears to have some interlacing in it and "stuttering" as well as the audio not quite continuous... Very annoying.
I'm sure there must be some setting in TMPGEnc that I have to change to get it to work right or filter I need to apply. Unless, of course, my DVD Player just doesn't play CVDs very well. I'm guessing that TMPGEnc made the correct choice automatically when it scanned the AVI file and said it was "Bottom Field First". It might even be some incorrect setting in VirtualDub during the initial capture. So many possibilities... Any ideas? Thanks, and take care.

[Barnabas]

I don't know if your problem is CVD's not playing correctly on your DVD player, but an easy way to tell if it's the field order or not is to encode a short 5 minute clip in TMPGenc with the other field order. Instead of encoding interlaced, try the Inverse 3:2 pulldown option.

[Sturm]

I think I may have discovered the problem. In TMPGEnc, inside the "Setting" button is a tab called "System". On that tab is an option to let you choose "Stream Type". The default I had it on was MPEG-2 Program (VBR). I changed it to MPEG-2 Super VideoCD (VBR) and it works nicely now. I also tried the "Inverse 3:2 pulldown" option as Barnabas suggested, but it didn't make any difference that I could see. I also tried many other settings, such as Non-Interlaced source, Various I,P,B GOP settings, etc. Now if only I could find a way to get better quality without increasing the bitrate beyond 2520/2350/1200, I'd be a happy man... Unless of course, I'm getting the best possible quality as is anyway. Thanks, Barnabas!!