Help! Choppy motion converting AVI to MPG

[mojo]

Hi gang

I just burned my first few VCDs, and man this is fun! And very addicting

Anyway, I've downloaded some short films and am making VCD compilations of them. Some of them are already 352X240 MPGs, so I can just load them into Nero and go and they look great.

However, some of them are AVIs, so I've been converting them with Tmpgenc (using the default template for VCD).

But when played back on my VCD, the quality of the resulting file is pretty poor compared to the ones I downloaded as MPGs. They're a little softer (is this simply because I had to recompress them?) but mainly the problem is the motion! It's VERY choppy and strobes A LOT.

Is there anything I can do to fix this? It seems like a shame because these original DiVX AVI files look really nice!


Thanks
Mojo

[Truman]

https://www.videohelp.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?topic=69831&forum=3

[mpack]

I don't know why you pointed him there: your reference points to a discussion about SVCD whereas mojo asked about VCD. Even for SVCD its pretty pathetic: it doesn't exactly touch all the bases!

Mojo: you can get stuttering VCDs for several reasons, the most popular of which are (1) the source framerate is wrong, (2) the source is interlaced but you didn't tell your encoder that, hence it didn't deinterlace. (3) you are deinterlacing but you used the wrong field order, (4) you are encoding to too high a bitrate and your player can't read from VCD that fast.

[Truman]

I pointed him there, because that link gave the same answers like you did.