Jerky playback on DVD (no framerate conversion)

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Ahum, never thought I'd have to resort to the newbie forum :p I have made a quick search around this forum and the FAQs but couldn't find a straight answer, pardon me if i was too hasty.

Virtualdub 1.4.10:
608x272 source @ 23.976fps, Divx ;-) MPEG-4 Low-Motion codec, progressive.

I have extracted VBR audio and converted it into a standard 44.1khz 16bit WAV file. However, I am making a video with permanent subtitles from an external subtitle file, so I am frameserving the video stream into TMPGEnc.

TMPGEnc 2.58:
Video
Source VirtualDub frameserve & external WAV
Stream MPEG-2 video, 480x480px, 16:9 disp, 23.976fps (internally 29.97fps), 2-pass VBR @ 2350kbps avg, MP@ML, NTSC, 3:2 pulldown when playback, 4:2:0 YUV, 10-bit DC component precision
Advanced
Video source Non-interlaced (progressive), Field order Top field first (Field A), source aspect ratio 1:1 (VGA), Video arrange Center (custom size 480x304), slightly clipped frame for block optimization as suggested by FitCD.
Rest pages
Standard, Audio @ 224kbps

To burn, I'm using Nero. I make mainly standard compliant SVCDs with work fine.

Usually encoding with about these options everything is fine. However,
this is now the second time this has happened to me. The file encodes fine, but upon burning it onto a CD-R and testing it with my DVD player, the outcome is horrible.

The video looks basically like there were two of the same stream on top of eachother, the other misplaced 1/3 to the left and the other 1/3 to the right on the screen. While playing, the picture then "jerks" or "jumps" (i recon frame by frame) from the other side of the screen to the other resulting in a shaky blur.

Is this simply a case of screwing up the field order or is there a setting which is clearly wrong? My DVD player is multi-standard, and so is the TV set, so there shouldn't be a problem with the external equipment.

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Upon testing, the problem indeed proved out to be the wrong field order. And I'm one CD-R poorer!