i know that there have been many posts about this but a i haven't had a clear answer. i just encoded another movie but it still stutters and freezes. i tried lowering the bitrate because some of you said it could be the bitrate, but its still the same. it seems theres no way of getting the stuttering off even if i change the cbr to vbr or cq. i match the frame rate with the source file and i extract the wav file using vdub. i burned using the lowest speed of 4x but still the same results. can you help me out? here's my tmpgenc settings:

480 x 480
23.976(internally 29.97)
cbr 2033
audio bitrate 128
3:2 pulldown when playback