How to create none-choppy SVCD/CVD's?

[Thank_god_its_friday]

Hi,

I've been trying to get my home-made videos on a SVCD/CVD by using TMPGenc to do the converting and Nero to burn the discs. I also succeed, but with one problem, whenever there is a scene with panning or fast action, the scene "chops". It is not blocks but the scene just seems to stick-and-move, stick-and-move and so on.

I tried to change a lot of the settings in TMPGenc but it always seems to end up in the same choppy way.

I also tried to burn the samples (SVCD PAL and NSTC and the CVD sample) on this site and I cannot notice choppyness on these samples.

I have no problems in making a VCD but would rather use the MPEG2 technology.

I have a Digital PAL camcorder and try to convert my videos to PAL MPEG2 files.

[Nelson37]

Try reversing your field-order.

[wway]

Try lowering your maximum bitrate especially if you are encoding with variable bit rate (VBR). You may be going over the maximum bit rate that your DVD player supports. This would happen more in the high action scenes. Set your maximum bitrate to 2200. See if that helps.

wway

[Thank_god_its_friday]

Thanks, I have tried those things, but it did not seem to work.

The last thing I have tried now is to use the deinterlace option on the advanced tab, this resulted in a non-choppy SVCD. So it looks like the interlaced source is giving me my problems.

I will dig into this a little more, turning deinterlacing on results in a lesser quality video, and I want the video to be as good as I can get it. I will try to change the input & output interlacing options, because it looks like TPMGenc has problems converting my interlaced DV, to interlaced MPEG2.

Will report my experiences in this thread.

[Thank_god_its_friday]

The only way I can eliminate the choppyness with my homemade videos is by using the deinterlace filer. This is not exactly the way I would like it to happen, it does not give the clear picture I want.

Does somebody out there have the golden tip?

Thx.

[Nelson37]

This seems to be fairly common on home video with panning shots. A Tripod helps, pan slow, etc. Using 720x480 and 3500 bitrate seemed to minimize the effect for me, Deinterlace or Motion Blur were other options.

[Thank_god_its_friday]

Thanks for the answer, I will try the motion blur option and check how this results. I have not had the bitrate over 2520 so I also will give that a try.

A tripod is a good idea, but takes a bit of the spontanity away, it is mainly my two daughter I film, the eldest is now-and-then hard to catch if I would have to pan slowly

[Nelson37]

If you have not used a tripod, GET ONE, I should have emphasized the difference, particularly in a re-encoding situation. Huge improvement. Set it up out of the way and it's ready to go. It's worth the PITA to carry it around.

[SatStorm]

Most of the times, this problem is the wrong field order. A VCR with TBC helps in this matter, but with home videos in generall, you never really know which is the correct field order. Each tape may have top field first or opposite.
Also, multiplexxing is an issue for some DVD standalones. Use a program called bbmpeg, after reading in the guides in the left how to de-muxx, re-muxx and multiplexx a mpeg file