help me with svcd stuttering!

[jaysison]

almost all encoded svcd's ive made have had stuttering problems. i was so desperate that i even tried to rip off a bin of an original svcd movie i had and burned it again. there was no stuttering on this one though? what am i doing wrong? im just loading the template for svcd ntsc film in tmpgenc and changing the bitrate for audio and video. help me out.

[macleod]

what do you mean by stuttering?

1) choppy video
2) frame(s) freeze and then start again

Please answer:
frames per second from original and frames per second final product
burn speed
conversion from what to what

[Nelson37]

To WHAT VALUES are you changing the audio and video bitrates? This may very well be the cause of the stuttering.

Is the stuttering very intermittant? probable excessive bitrate problem.

Is the stuttering only noticeable in motion scenes? Does it seem to involve a hesitation rather than a skip forward? probable field order problem.

You are using a FILM template. Have you tried using the standalone PULLDOWN.EXE to insert the flag? Some players have problems with the way TMPGENC does this.

[jaysison]

it becomes choppy thoroughout the movie. its not the whole movie though, it just occurs in random. i convert from divx/xvid to svcd. fps of both avi file and mpg file are both 23.976. the burn speed is 12x. i use 2033 video bitrate and 128 audio bitrate. i turn off the error protection from audio. im not sure when the stuttering occurs but i think it's in motion scenes. what is field order anyway?

[jaysison]

i know now what the cause of this stuttering is. you have to enable noise reduction in tmpgenc in order to take stuttering off but it takes too long to encode. does anyone know if there is a noise reduction filter in vdub just like in tmpgenc so that i'll just re-encode the avi use it in tmpgenc and never have to turn on the noise reduction in tmpgenc?

[jaysison]

can you give me typical settings for an svcd that wouldn't stutter?

[Nelson37]

It is almost certain that Noise Reduction is not solving the problem, just masking its effect.

There is a Field Order setting in Tmpgenc. There are only two choices, try the other one.

I would also try reducing the burn speed. There is no good reason this works but many have reported that it does indeed solve some problems.

Your settings are within the normal range of what usually works. There are too many variables to describe a "typical" disk that works. You might try using CBR and/or absolutely standard bitrates.