Choppy playback on set-top players only...

[Slowburn]

I bought an old classic DVD release, only to find it was a 'colourized' version.

I wanted a B/W copy so I made one and it plays great on the computer player, but is choppy (during fast motion) on my two set-top boxes.

To make the B/W, I used TDA to make one large .mpg file, then opened it in Virtual Dub and used the grayscale filter to make an .avi file. I processed about one third of the file at a time, as the .avi's were huge.

Once I had all the .avi's in B/W, I used Super to convert them to .mpg's and then loaded each .mpg into TDA again and burned a disk. It played great on the computer player, but was not so great on the set-top player when the scene showed fast movement.

Any ideas why this only plays poorly on the set-top players? I used an 8X TY blank, burned at 4X, using ImgBurn.

I tried this process twice with the same results and I'm stumped.

[jman98]

We don't know enough about your process to know exactly what you did, but here's my best guesses.

1) You encoded the wrong field order - you either did bottom field first when you have should done top field first or vice-versa.
2) Your final bit rate may be too high for DVD specs and your standalone DVD player.

Super is OK, but I can't recommend it for encoding to DVD. CCE, HC and TMPGenc would all have been better choices.