Confused!!!!!!!!

[Yelever]

Converted an avi to vcd but the film is very jerky on my stand-alone dvd player. The orginal file is mpeg4 codec at 23.976fps. I used the tmpgenc ntsc film template to convert it. Can anyone give some advice why it`s come out this way. Also when I load the unlock template on tmpgenc it doesn`t unlock the video format and encode mode features. Can anyone help?

[Yelever]

can anyone help? Trying to unlock all features on tmpenc with the unlock template but all the features are unlocking.

[johnnygetx]

have u extracted the audio seperately

[Yelever]

Yes. Extracted it with virtual dub to wave.

[TheLostTimberwolf]

try burning it at a slower rate, in most cases this is the cause for such jerkyness.

ciao

TLTw

[vhelp]

if its jerky, try and just encode the video only. They play in your
dvd and see if its still jerky. If it ain't, then at least you now
know it's due to the way the Audio is encoded w/ the video.

Your next (supposivly) move would be to figure out what's up with
the Audio, read some guides here or doom9 and see from here. But,
at least you'll have the cause in your hands.

Good luck.

-vhelp

[Yelever]

Tried video on it`s own and it`s still jerky. I have had some luck with one film which was mpeg4. Would it have anything to do with that the orignals are encoded with xvid. I have set the plugins to the right settings for xvid on tmpgenc or would it be better to re-encode the orginal file to something like divx or mpeg4 before convert to vcd? The orginals play fine on the pc and if i re-encode how do I find out what orignal biterate is before encoding?

[johnnygetx]

whats the codec ......xvid ?

[johnnygetx]

if it is .... u gotta direct stream copy the audio .... when its finished got to the file ..and rename it .ac3.... then use a prog called Headache to extract the .ac3 file as .wav

[Faceman101]

Could be two things (burning speed being NOT one of them)

Your source is 23.976, did you encode with NTSC Film VCD or just NTSC VCD (which would be 29.976)? That could be one thing.

Another is, if you did burn with NTSC Film VCD and you have a 23.976 VCD, your player may not like it. Only time I have ever found a "Film" VCD to play nicely is on the computer. Standalones rarely like them. They will play fine, then speed up, then play fine, then speed up, etc or just play jerky or stutterly.

If you can play SVCDs you should encode into that format and use Pulldown. MPEG1 can not use pulldown.

[Yelever]

Thanx. I encoded to ntsc film vcd. I`ll try encoding to svcd. Hopefully that will work.

johnnygets: the film is xvid but not ac3 sound but ripped it to wav anyway

[Byranx]

Hey, johnnygetx....what's this program "Headache" that you speak of...I need it to convert an audio .ac3 file to .wav

[Yelever]

Ok. The problem has been fixed by coverting it to svcd. Just wondered why it`s blocky in places? When converted to vcd the picture was clear but now in svcd its blocky in places.

[johnnygetx]

sorry dude been away ..... herse the link for Headache

http://mitglied.lycos.de/darkav/svcdguide/svcd.html

[Kingnog]

You guys are missing an obvious one....the field order! Try switching it...

Also, quote from Yelever:

Trying to unlock all features on tmpenc with the unlock template but all the features are unlocking.

.... Huh?