tpmg stuttering problem

[kasanova]

Hello everyone this is my 1st message I am posting as I am at my wits end. A couple weeks ago I finally picked up a 10x afreey dvd rom as it will only $45 and I have heard good things. Anyway on to the problem I am ripping using smartripper and using dvd2avi to run a d2v file. The problem I am having I believe lies in the encoder to mpeg part. No matter which settings I use about 10-30 minutes into the movie I get a bad "stuttering" problem in ONLY the video. It is tough to explain but the video ships back a few frames then playes then ship frames back again. This is not even played on a dvd player only through media player but when played on a pioneer 333 it confirms the problem. If anyone has suggestions I would love to hear them. System is a athlon 700 w/256 megs of ram 15gig 5400 maxtor etc. I will provide more data if needed I am just really frustrated in this.

Thanks in advance

Great site

--Nick

[hitechjunkie]

what's the framerate and video bitrate of your final mpeg before burning to disc?

[kasanova]

this is for ntsc and the framerate is at 29.97 and the bit rate is at 1150. I just cant think of what I am doing wrong.

I have tried so many ways such as svcd xvcd etc and I get the same problem

any help would be greatly appreciated

--Nick

[lcnkap]

It sounds to me that the problem is, your video is interlaced. When you are encoding with TMPGEnc, go into filters and choose deinterlace. Pick "even frame" and test if that helps; if that doesn`t, choose one of the other settings in deinterlace. Make sure you have the deinterlaced checkmark checked.

[kasanova]

I wil try that reccomendation it was not checked so maybe that will help. i am also going to tinker with the panasonic program to see which I like better. I still want to use tpmg though as it seems to have more features and svcd capability plus it is easier to get help with it.

Thanks again

I will keep you guts posted

[lcnkap]

Make sure you double click on the deinterlace filter, in order to set it up properly.

[kasanova]

I tried your suggestion and i am getting the same thing still. The movie in question is next friday and I split the file up at 50:30 well it playes great up until exactly 25:29 and actually the problem almost seems worse this time. I keep thinking it is something with my computer but I dont know. Perhaps I should start at that point and encode from there to see what happens. Is there a program that will cut my mpeg to where I want it to be?? Is it better to make more smaller files maybe that would help. Damn this is frustrating. I really want svcd but before even getting vcd to work I dont know. Any ideas out there???

Thanks again to all the patient people here

--Nick

[RCP]

I don't know if I can help, but I'vs seen this happen befor. Did you try playing the movie usuing your PC and WINDVD? I kinda thought it was a read error. Try burning the cd at a lower speed.

[kasanova]

I tried picking up a new mpg right where the old one had a problem and right from the start there is a problem. I am wondering, could there be a problem when I run dvd2avi that is making the source d2v file bad and tpmg is just encoding it the way it sees it.

Oh the frustration

I will keep on it though

[AntnyMD]

Is this problem happening when you play the video from your hard drive, or from a CD?

I get stuttering video and the most bizarre artifacts on CD-RWs that I've used a hundred times, in addition of tossing them across the room, spilling champagne on them, letting them get all scratchy and other general abuse.

But I still use them to burn tests.

[kasanova]

nope this is on hard drive playback as well as playing back on a cd-r or cd-r/w. I just done tget it. I know at 25:30 into the movie it kicks in but I just cant figure out why. I am starting to think the problem lies somewhere other than tpmg but I just dont know where. I really want to be able to create vcd's I know the vid quality isnt that great but for audio it is much better than vhs. In my view. Any other ideas would be greatly appreciated I am willing to try anything. I am thinking to try flask mpeg to see what happens

Take care all

--Nick

[AntnyMD]

Seriously defragment your hard drive. Although this isnt an issue in most cases, I'm just guessing here. But do it anyway.

[city hunter]

i conveted next friday to vcd and had no problems. maybe it could be the disc or the dvd-rom or even the way it was ripped. Try different rippers and see if that helps.

[khai]

Did you try to playback the mpeg before you split it? Was it skipping then also?

[kasanova]

I have defragmented the hard drive before doing this and I have had the same problem. I usually dont encode the whole movie at once as i generally split it up into at least 2 files. I was making a 50 minute file and the problem it at 25:30 is this a coincidence or what. I will try a different ripper though as a suggestion. I was using smartripper and then dvd2avi. Ughh I am just totally baffled by this. Oh yeah it is not just next friday I have tried several others and thay have all done the same thing sometimes as soon as 10-15 minutes into the movie.

Thanks again

any more ideas???

[kasanova]

Hey guys I think I found the problem Special thanks to the people that suggested changing rippers. I have no idea why smartripper does not want to coopertae but I am using clad dvd 2.0 and I did 50 minutes of back to school which also gave me probs about 10 minutes into the movie and the whole 50 mintes were great. So I am assuming the problem is solved. Now I need to know how to make the dvd player display the time instead of just pbc play. I am thinking one way os to use multiple mpg files to split it up like a poor man's version of dvd chapters. Well enough for now. Thanks again for everybody's help i will keep you posted.

Take care All

--Nick

[AntnyMD]

I, too, have three rippers on my computer at the moment (SmartRipper, my favorite; cladDVD, my least favorite, but it works in even the most difficult cases; and DVDDecrypter, which really has a bad GUI and I rarely use it anymore). I even still have a copy of the old DeCSS, although my "upgrade" to Windows Me totally disabled it.