SVCD Jerkiness?

[chinky]

I used the Sevy’s DVD2AVI DVD conversion guide v 1.1(Thanks Sevy). Instead of using Sevy’s xSVCD template, I used the original SVCD template found in TMPGEnc 12e. After I converted the file to MPEG-2, I cut the file in two using MPEG TOOLS, Merge and Cut to fit on two 700 Meg CD’s. So far no problems. I burned the first portion of the movie, which by the way was Dinosaur, using Nero 5.5 with all the updates. So far so good. Although the picture quality is as good as the original DVD, the film is a little jerky only during the fast portions of the movie. If you’ve seen the movie, the whole movie has very quick scenes so it’s pretty much the same throughout movie. I’m still impressed with the quality of the SVCD. For your information, I did not change anything in any of the program settings and it’s only jerky watching it both on my Pioneer 106 and my Hitachi stand-alone. Looks outstanding using the MPEG-2 file with WinDVD 2000.
I hope I'm on the correct forum and there’s a cure for this specific problem. Also, if there is a solution to this problem already on the forum, I apologize for not finding it. Your help is much appreciated and I’m looking forward to hear from all of you on this great forum. Thank you in advance.

Vic

[sunmiztres]

If it is jerky you probably have your field order backwards. Encode it again using the opposite field order you used the first time. Upper field or lower field under the advanced page on tmpgenc. You have a 50% chance of getting it right so i would encode a small part to see if it is the right field order before encoding the whole video. Hope this helps.

[chinky]

Sunmiztres, you hit it on the button. The jerkiness has disappeared!! Yea!! The movie looks great! Now there is some pixellation in the dark scenes, nothing that would bother me to much except I have this terrible desire to get this project of mine perfect. I recorded the movie as you said but I also change the “Motion search precision” to the Highest Quality (slow). I am going to try “soften block noise” next and hopefully this will keep the pixellation to a minimum. Would you happen to have any other ideals on this matter?

[sunmiztres]

It sounds like you are heading in the right direction. Using those filters will help alittle with the blockiness or upping your bitrate a bit. Now that you got something that you are satisfied with all you have to do is keep playing with it to get it like you want it. I don't know it seems no matter how good people get it there is always something to try to see if it could get even better. HAVE fUN!!!