Jaggedness in DivX > SVCD

[xerox]

Hi people I have been trying to convert divx movies to SVCD, I alwas find that there the movie will have like an jaggedness or is not smooth stops for a couple of split seconds here and there (not sure of the techinical term).

I have followed the guide and have found that most movies i try to do from Divx to svcd give me the same problem. Sometimes it will happen after every 5 seconds or so the picture will stop for like a split second and carry on doing it through the movie. Any ideas on what the problem could be?

many Thanks tou you all for your help

[Conquest10]

what do you mean jaggedness? do you mean jerky playback? or is the image jagged?

[xerox]

Yes it is Jerky playback, that was the word I was looking for
Any ideas?

[Hardcoreruss]

What is the framerate that you are coming from and going to ?

[xerox]

This divX is being converted to VCD the FPS is 23.976 and i have not messed around with the output of the frame rate. The directshow setting is at 1, I dont know if this has anything to do with it. The film is watchable but the motion is jerky which is really irritating. I cannot notice it on 25FPS movies, but it does happen now and then. I have tried to extract audio using Vdub like explained in one of the guides here, still much the same.

[antoniosgubba]

If your 25fps (PAL) play smoothly then why not convert your 23.976fps (NTSCfilm) movies to 25fps before encoding....I do this with every 23.976fps movie I get, because I too find that 23.976 plays back jerky.

Follow the instructions I give in this post:

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=147457&highlight=ntscfilm+pal+convert

You might think it looks hideously complicated, but after a few tries it really is quite simple to do, and only takes about 30 mins extra in preparation time.

[Conquest10]

i've also noticed that some dvd players cannot play 23.97 without the 3:2 pulldown.

[xerox]

Guys thanks for all your help. I managed to sort out the problem. I had DirectShow setting at 1 so I decreased it to 0 and extracted audio using VirtualDub, tested on DVD player, works wonders. Strange but I did not think that would sort it out. The jerkyness was on the PC by the way. I did not test it on the DVD player until the jerkyness was gone away when viewing it on the PC