Narrowing down my field / interlace encode mode problem

[dinkob]

Just noticed it should be "narrowing" (I attempted to edit it, should be ok now)

On shorter captures at 352x480 I am able to go now for probably about 10 mins without a dropped frame. Then out of nowhere there is 1 dropped frame that makes me go completely nuts, but I still choose to continue capturing (b.t.w if you would like to post your capture statistics please do so > example 0 frames drops per 30 mins etc. etc. 2 frames per 10 mins, etc etc.)

Whenever a frame drops (it's more like a doubled frame - scene freezes for one frame) very often, mostly on NTSC captures (amazingly) and then converted to DVD with CCE Basic (Tmpgenc would do the same thing) during playback on DVD player I get a field order screw up.

Up to that point it will be fine but afterwards it will start shivering (flicker alike, trail effect (similar to > use virtualdub > filters > swap fields).

So now I attempted to overcome this issue since I can't avoid dropped frames to separately encode 1 portion of avi file then the other.

Newly split file will play right in my DVD player but amazingly on Power DVD it wont.

What the heck does one do when you have a 40 min avi with 5 dropped frames and field order messed up in the original captured file?

Simple way would be to deinterlace it but I would like to encode it as interlaced mpeg-2 so it just looks right.

TIA

[lordsmurf]

What card?

[dinkob]

Hauppage WinTV PCI (the one that has S-video instead of RCA input).

It's old and I would preffer to keep VFW drivers with it.
I also have Pinnacle PCTV Pro so I am thinking about switching to this card and using VirtualVCR (someone at other forums suggested that his hauppage has poor VFW Support, so maybe mine does too).

Well whatever works.

[dinkob]

Just a quick update.

It looks like this is something CCE related.

If my DVD players play it right, and Intervideo DVD, then it must be something that PowerDVD doesn't see or it does see, and plays it wrong.

This happens if they are straight burned to DVD with DVD Author (GUI) .

Also another strange thing happens with both PowerDVD and Intervideo DVD . They tend to screw it up also when multiplexed with bbmpeg and tmpegnc. Must be something that also "Those" two multiplexers see what DVD player doesn't. So this leads me to just one conclusion > CCE Basic.

I dunno, maybe the cce basic update will become available soon.