xvid to dvd.. choppy video.. and I tried it all!

[fritzi93]

I have my suspicions about codecs as well. The only AVIs I've had such symptoms with were XviDs. Most of you know there are a number of builds of this open-source codec, would you install them all for every possible crap XviD you may download? And you know the havoc which codec conflicts can cause. That's why I have no Xvid decompressor on my machine, DivX will generally handle the job all right. Better than having a slew of XviD codecs ready to fight each other. (I do have an up-to-date XviD compressor). I also suspect that VirtualDub is much more capable and tolerant than most other software. Running the video through and recompressing has worked for me before.

But I do this as a hobby, and rarely, for an old film I can't seem to find otherwise. Objectively, downloaded videos aren't worth the effort. If you're like me, you'll fight with this until you fix it, just for fun. If not, why bother? And, of course, the video may be screwed whatever you do. The guy who encoded it may not have known what he was doing.

[reboot]

Oh so true! How many time's I've fought with some obscure problem, just to say, in the end, "I got it!".
Fixing id10t's encoding/capturing mistakes is not my idea of a great afternoon, but stuck indoors, immobile for the most part, at least I get some sense of accomplishment and enjoyment learning new tools and techniques to get the result I want

[X-treme]

Because WMP (and other players) will hide imperfections, it's possible the original DOES have a skipping/jerky problem every 10 seconds, you just can't see it on the computer.
After some trial and error, I have a workaround that may help.
Extract audio in virtualdub, save .wav
Run the video through vdub, and change the framerate to 29.97 (or 25 in PAL land).
Convert the wav to mp2 in tmpgenc. (optional)
Remux during encoding.
If you try and change the framerate WITH audio, it could get miles out of sync.

I'm not sure if I grasp everything you want me to do, but I'm in the process of encoding right now. The only problem I think I may have is that after switching the frame rate to 29.97 in vdub, and opening this new file in tmpgenc to convert to m2v, I had to choose the setting 24FPS (29 internally) OR I could leave it at 29FPS and disable the 3:2 pulldown.

I don't know why, but I just picked the 24 FPS (29FPS internally) and kept the 3:2 pulldown because I thought I might as well give it a shot, nothing else seems to be working. I didn't see why I would go BACK to FPS, but I thought 'what the hell, what do you gotta lose... you've wasted countless hours on this stupid movie anyways'.. lol

Thanks for the advice. I hope this will work