Hi all

I use TMPGEnc for more than a year now but the following issue is present in all versions I used intil today.
I have a PAL source and use the standard VCD and SVCD templates. There is no framerate conversion. It is 25fps all the way.
After encoding my PAL AVI file to MPEG1 (VCD) or MPEG2 (SVCD) and playing it on my standalone DVD player I notice occasional hickups. Most of the time they are not present, but often when de picture gets dark (movie is playing a night scene) a frame is skipped.
First I thought it was my standalone DVD player, but bbMPEG and LSX encoder do not have this issue.
I altered allmost all of the settings in TMPGEnc, but none of them helped.

It is not only at dark scenes, but also when the background is more or less an uniform color. I made some sample movies with a black, white, red, blue, green and a picture as background. In front of the background I placed a moving object. The object skips a frame when a black, white, red, blue or green background is used but not when I used a picture as background.
The MPG file is OK when played on a PC, it is only the stand alone DVD player that skips a frame. Remember bbMPEG and LSX encoder do not skip frames with any sort of background. Their quality is less so I do not want to use them.

I burn my (S)VCD's with VCDEasy and only with TMPGEnc it keeps complaining "strange (possibly non-compliant) user_data seen... (not a problem, usually a sign of TMPGEnc)". Maybe this is my problem, but I can't get rid of it.

Any suggestions?