the screen is skipping up and down

[sunmiztres]

To me it sounds like you could have being watching pal on a ntsc system or visa versa.

[kingko]

i am trying to burn swordfish to vcd and the screen is skipping up and down like when you watch premium channels, but i can watch it fine on my computer , its just when i watch it on vcd i encoded with TMPG and i can watch other vcd's its just this one, i already wasted 3 cd's tryin to get it right!

[kingko]

yea but isent that what im supposed to do? it is 25 FPS so i thaught i had to choose pal?? what am i supposed to choose besides pal?

[cman01]

You are supposed to use NTSC.

[Vejita-sama]

Wait, are you saying you're trying to play a PAL source on your NTSC TV? That just won't happen. NTSC TV material has to be 29.97fps or it won't work (correctly anyway).

You can take your PAL (25fps) source and convert it to NTSC (29.97fps) if you want to play it on your TV. The computer doesn't care what the frame rate is.

[jazzer]

I don't think it's the frame rate that causing the skipping. The PAL standard's vertical resolution is different -- for VCD I think NTSC is 352 x 240 as opposed to PAL's 352 x 288, so it will look as though the Vertical-Hold is out of whack like on an old television set.

Bottom line is that if you want to watch it on NTSC set you've got to re-encode the source material to the correct resolution AND frame rate if indeed it is PAL to begin with.