I have some .avi Xvid files that I've been trying and trying to get to work correctly on a DVD. The most common result that I get is that the frames play a little bit fast and then skip briefly, while the audio plays fine. It seems like it has something to do with the framerate.

I initially tried the DVD ffmpeg preset. I changed the video bitrate to 2500, the autosize to DVD 16:9, lowered the AC-3 bitrate to 128, channels to stereo and encoded. The resulting videos play fine on my computer. But on a DVD player hooked up to an NTSC TV, it has this weird skipping/stalling problem. My burning process is dropping the .mpg file into Toast 7 (and in the Toast settings choosing re-encode=never).

I went back into ffmpegX and in the video tab, the Framerate said "NTSC FILM" which, from my supposed knowledge, is 24 frames per second or something. NTSC is something like 29.97 fps. So I kept the same settings and changed the framerate to NTSC 29.97. As a result, I never got audio with my .mpg file, nor did I get any elementary streams.

I switched over to the DVD mpeg2enc preset, thinking it might have something to do with 3:2 pulldown (which I still don't fully understand). This time I changed the video and audio bitrate again, and chose Set 3:2 in the options and to decode with mplayer. This time the video still skipped, but it was sped up along with slightly faster audio. Weird.

Again, the same preset and this time I chose Undo 3:2. Same problem as the first time, as if I had never selected any 3:2 options.

What am I doing wrong? The video files play fine on my computer but it does the weird skip thing it at least 4 DVD players! Help!

Edit: I know that Toast 7 has the ability to comvert AVI files into DVD with menus and everything, but I can only get 3 episodes of my 42-minute show. With ffmpegX, if I set the video bitrate to 2500 I can fit 5 episodes, or 3.5 hours on a single disc. It just won't play correctly! Grr! The reason I'm using Toast to even make the discs is for the menus, since I can't ever get Sizzle to work.