Hi Everyone.
I have had a PV-256 for several weeks now and have had all sorts of problems with it. The biggest one being that it crashed my computer after encoding for a certain times. Now I have successfully given it it's own IRQ it was able to capture a whole movie for the first time. So I chopped up the files, burnt them to CD using Nero as I always do, then tried to play them back. It played back fine on my DVD player, but not on my portable VCD player - a LOGTEK model. The picture jumps every few second and makes the movie unwatchable. Something about the captures was not VCD compliant and I'm wondering what and if it can be fixed. The portable VCD player has never had problems playing back VCDs regardless of whether they were DVD ripped, bought, pirated or made using the ATI AIW.

I have tried various methods of capturing and cutting. The results are as follows:
1. Capture from card, written with NERO. Result Jumpy playback.
2. Capture from card, converted to DAT, cut with VCD Clipper, written with NERO. Result Jumpy playback.
3. Capture from card, cut with TMPGEnc, written with NERO. Result: playback is fine but lip sync goes out as movie goes on. The same problem I had when using the ATI AIW.

Clearly TMPGEnc does someting with the file which makes it play OK, but the old A/V sync problem occurs again. I have tried fiddling with GOP and stuff but I don't really know what I'm doing. I thought it might be a problem with bitrate, but the TMPGEnc cut files have the same bitrate and they play Ok. Nonetheless I would be grateful if anyone can shead any light on this problem at all, or suggest settings that will work. Incidentally de-mux and re-mux only result in a loss of A/V sync.