Some sort of interlacing problem

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I captured video from my Hi8 camcorder to 704x480 AVIs. Then I converted them to 740x480 Mpeg2 using the DVD template in TmpegEnc. They look fine and work great on my PC. When I burn them to DVD-R and play it in my standalone DVD player, the video is jittery. As I watch it, it will go jittery, and then play normally, and then go back to jittery, and back to normal. It can go back and forth anywhere from 1 to 5 minutes. Some clips are fine, others stay jittery the whole time. I have a feeling that the interlacing fields are getting messed up or something.

Any suggestions as to what is causing this, and what I can do to fix it? Thanks

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I figured it out...finally! This may help anyone else with strange interlacing problems.

I found out that the reason for the herky-jerky mving video on the DVD player was because I had the interlacing fields reversed. Certain files have field order A and certain ones had field order B. If you have the fields reversed, it looks really jumpy, almost like 12fps or something. To figure out which field order you need to use on your interlaced AVI, in TmpegEnc go to the Advanced settings. Go to Deinterlace and click and hold the right scroll button to "play" back the video, with the filter enabled. If it moves smoothly, the field order is right for that clip. If not, go back to the advanced tab and change the field order from A to B or vice-versa. Then try the deinterlace scroll thing again to make sure it moves smoothly.

It looks like I'll finally get a perfect DVD now. This was my last problem and all is well now.