Choppy, stuttering sound on AVI->MPG conversion

[Seeker]

I am trying to convert an AVI to MPEG in order to burn to(S)VCD. I should mention that when I tried to play the AVI off the hard drive, the sound was fine, but the video was choppy. As if it was having a hard time keeping up with the sound. I attiributed this to my out of date system (450mhz, with 8 meg video card and 192 mbs of RAM). But, since I usually can run fullscreen video without problems, I tried to convert to MPEG figuring it would help...

At first I tried just TMPGEnc, but soon realized I needed to extract the audio to a WAV using VirtualDub first. After that was done, I tried converting the AVI as the video source and the WAV as the audio. I let it run for a few minuted and checked the results. Now the video is smooth with only a small decrease in quality (which I expected), but the sound is very choppy. No pops and clicks like I have seen other posts mentioning, it just kinda stutters.

Anyone have any suggestions?

p.s. I am new to posting, but I have been reading through the forums for some time now and I would like to thank everyone who helps us newbies. I have learned a lot.

[catnip1]

I am new to all this also but I had a problem similar to yours. Let me ask you this... while capturing and converting do you have all unnecessary programs turned off? This made a big difference for me. My stuttering was actually caused by the virus scanner. When I turned it off the stuttering went away (on new capture or conversion). If you haven't read it yet... read the article on optimizing your system and it should make a difference. If you have already tried these things then I'm not sure what to tell you for sure.

I hope this helps

[Seeker]

If you mean programs running in the taskbar, I may have had a few. I usually have 80%+ of free resources, though. But since I am new at this, I didn't do any multi-tasking while I was converting. I just read today that some people do many other things while converting (play games, burn, etc...).

I'll try looking at how to optimize my system like you mentioned.

Thanks...

[Seeker]

forgot to mention that I didn't capture it. I downloaded the file. I would be surprised if it is a capturing issue. It appears to be great quality (except for my problems viewing/converting of course).