DVD ???

[mem_user]

I am new to this and was just wondering about something.

How come my SVCD/XSVCD that I make are sometimes choppy with broken sound, yet the bitrate and other settings are less than that of a DVD and you dont get that bad quality stuff with DVD's.

Did that make any sense..???

[Vejita-sama]

Well there are a lot of reasons you x(S)VCDs could be choppy or skip:

1) Encoded using the wrong field order. TV display interlace video (checkout http://www.inwards.com/~dbb/interlace_myths.html for more info). It's possible that you need to encode the even lines first instead of the odd.

2) You used the wrong template or changed the framerate. TV video is 29.97fps interlace, while films/movies are 23.976fps progressive. In order for your TV to play a film source it has to be converted to 29.97fps, this process is known as telecine or 3:2 pulldown. However, some DVDs (esp anime DVDs) are hybrids with mixes source material on them. Depending on how they are encoded you get get a lot of strange errors.

3) Under TMPGenc do you have 'detect scence changes check?' If so TURN IT OFF!

Not sure what you mean by 'broken sound' if you mean sounds that skips or starts and stops, there could be several reasons. I would first suggest encoding the video and audio seperately then muxing them with bbMPEG. To encode the video just use TMPGenc/CCE/etc. as normal but do not load any audio files. Do this to generate a MPV file. To encode the audio use tooLame to generate a MP2 file.
Then use bbMPEG to mux the MPV + MP2 -> MPG, and burn as normal. If you have trouble ff/rew/goto with your SVCDs on your DVD player try making an image of the MPEG with VCDImager or one of it's GUIs (eg. TSVC http://www.ttool.org) and burn the image.