Jerky playback of Xvid file, even after encoding to MPEG2

[5t3v3]

The Xvid clip I downloaded has jerky playback when played through Windows Media Player or my DVD playing software (MSI DVD), however, if I play it with the DiVX Player 2.5, it plays fluid with no skips or jitters at all.

The problem is, I want to convert the avi to DVD, but when I convert it to MPEG2 with TMPGEnc, it has the same judderyness as when playing the original avi through media player or MSI DVD.

The source is 23.976fps, and when converting in TMPGEnc I used the 3:2 pulldown flag with the framerate set at 23.976 (internally 29.97). I tried changing the framerate to 25fps in virtual dub, and then encoding as PAL in TMPGEnc, but still has the same jerkyness.

I noticed however when playing the source file in Virtual Dub it plays fluidly.

Any ideas why I cant encode it as MPEG2 without jerkyness?

Cheers

[5t3v3]

Ive managed to get around this problem now. I was able to get VirtualDub to to frameserve TMPGEnc, so im encoding with TMPGEnc as 23.976fps with Inverse 3:2 pulldown flag (for 29.97 internal framerate) and the output playback of the m2v file is fluid

I havent been able to get frameserving with VDub to TMPGEnc to work before, so initially I didnt think to do this (since VDub played the video smoothly aswell), but I discovered earlier that it was to do with the length of the server and .vdr file names I was using that TMPGEnc didnt seem to like. Keeping the names to 4 characters or less seems to allow it to work for me now.

Hopefully this post might come in handy for someone in future.