Jerky Svcd beacuse of different framerate?

[Dauid]

When I encode a vcd or svcd and play it back, the movie is "jerky". It´s only noticeable in moving scenes.
Could this be because I use a NTSC source and encode to PAL?

When I encode to Svcd it looks super! Most of the time you can´t tell the difference between the Svcd and a DVD. Only thing bothering me is the love jerkiness!

I´d be very thankful if anyone could help.

[Dauid]

Why does my post say "love" when i wrote d-a-m-n?

[willem]

It's indeed the conversion from NTSC to PAL. There are a couple of options to avoid/solve it.

First you can try creating a (S)VCD with the same framerate as the source. This works fine if you play your (S)VCD's on your PC and when your standalone DVD player and TV support playing back NTSC. If they don't, it will be played in black and white. PC's don't care about NTSC or PAL.

If you really need PAL without jerky video, then it is a bit more complicated to convert. This is what I do when converting 23.976fps DivX's to PAL VCD's:

1) Open the DivX in VirtualDub
2) Select Audio -> Full processing mode and compression -> None (PCM Wav)
3) Save Wav (under File)
4) Select Audio -> No audio
5) Select Video -> Direct stream copy
6) Select Video -> Frame rate -> specify a 25fps frame rate
7) Save AVI (under file)

These steps give you a big uncompressed wav file and a videostream of 25fps. If you play both you'll notice that the duration of the videostream is shorter than the duration of the audio stream. If you would put them together now, there would be audio async increasing towards the end of the film. You'll have to speedup the audio stream to correct this. It may sound weird, but this is the way pro's do it too apparently.

1) Open the audio stream in CoolEdit2000
2) Select convert -> time/pitch
3) Specify a percentage of 104.271
4) Select high precision and preserve pitch
5) Save the result as a PCM wav file

Now you have an audio stream that has the same duration as the video stream, ready to put together. At step 4 you can select low precision. This is about 10 times faster, but the quality is less. Especially in music. In dialogs you won't notice a difference in quality. Now you have the ingredients you can feed into TMPGEnc to create a (S)VCD. Just select the 25fps videostream as video source and the PCM Wav file saved in CoolEdit as audio source.

This procedure takes some time and about 3GB of harddiskspace but the result is a smooth 100% PAL compliant VCD.

[Dug]

You can also check to see if your HD setting is for DMA. I had jerky video and sound until I selected this on my HD. All you can do is try - it can't hurt. Setting is under System Properties, Device Manager, Disk Drives, (select the HD), Properties, Settings. You'll have to restart your comp but that's norm for Win.

[Greg12]

A moderator removed your hate and replaced it with Love.

All my PCI master controler for my HDD has is IDE channels.