Video jumps up and down 1 or 2 lines each frame of DVD

[drinklime]

This is my first time making a dvd and capturing, please help. I have an ATI X800 pro with VIVO. I used the S-Video in from my cable box. I captured with VirtualDub into an .avi at 352x480. I trimmed some stuff and saved it in direct stream copy mode. Then I went through the wizard in TMPGEnc and encoded the movie. I think i set them to interlaced on one of the screens, but it was confusing. Then I put my dvd together and made menus and all that jazz in DVD Lab Pro.

Here is the problem. When I play it on my DVD player on my tv, there is a flicker. When I hit pause and move frame by frame, the picture moves up one frame then down the next.

I did some research and thought the field order was reversed, so I used Restream to set it bottom field first and tried playing that. That was even worse. The flicker was horrible then and when i went frame by frame, i could see it was now playing the frames out of order.

So I guess the field order was right in the first place, so what is the problem? I stayed 480 horizontal the whole time.

I dont know if it matters, but all the menus and stuff are rock solid and there is no flicker. Please help.

[drinklime]

no one knows what the problem could be? I've got 6 hours of video i cant watch on a tv

[guns1inger]

Post a sample so we can see the problem. 10 seconds should be enough.

[drinklime]

What would be the best way to clip off 10 seconds of video to show you without changing the encoding/characteristics of the file? And would it be the m2v file? Thanks.

[drinklime]

help

[Shadowmistress]

I still think it's a field order thing, but don't quote me on it cause I don't do captures. What I would do if I were you is try reencoding 10 seconds of the original capture with the proper field set in tmpgenc. Hell, for 10 seconds, try it with both top and bottom fields. Then see frame by frame if either is an improvement.

I wouldn't trust something like restream if it didn't reencode and especially if not from the original avi.

EDIT: Set start and finish positions 10 seconds apart under the source range filter in tmpgenc.

[Sillyname]

Only the x1000 series are supposed to work with VIVO...I believe I read it somewhere...

[jagabo]

Use VirtualDub in Direct Stream Copy mode to copy a few seconds of the original AVI with obvious motion. Post it somewhere and tell us where.

Or use TMPGEnc's Merge and Cut Tool (File -> MPEG Tools -> Merge & Cut.

[Marty2003]

Only the x1000 series are supposed to work with VIVO...I believe I read it somewhere...

You're thinking of AVIVO

[Sillyname]

Only the x1000 series are supposed to work with VIVO...I believe I read it somewhere...

You're thinking of AVIVO

I thought he just spelled it wrong.