Choppy Result

[darkdog]

Hi,

I have an 8min WMV video that I need to use in a presentation.

I am trying to make a standard DVD for a DVD player.

Every-way I try to encode this, the video result is choppy. This is true even before making the _TS etc. objects.

The choppyness sometimes includes the audio and sometimes the audio is just fine.

Choppy means that the video starts out fine and every 2.5-3 sec the video just seems to pause, then moves on. This is true throughout the 8 minutes.

If I use MPEG-Streamclip to do the conversion, the video quality is quite nice, but I can't figure out how to make the necessary video folder structure with FFmpegX tools because FFmpegX doesn't like any format I can create with MPEG-Streamclip.

I'm sure this is all just user error.

Thanks for any and all help with this (simple) on-time project.

[tomlee59]

This can be caused by several things. Perhaps the most common is a pulldown-related issue. If the video is authored at film rates, you need to set the 3:2 pulldown flag for stutter-free NTSC playback. It's a checkbox option in ffmpegx. Try that and see if life gets better. If not, post back.

As for mpegstreamclip, it produces files that contain some additional metadata, apparently, that some tools don't like. You can often repair that by using ffmpegx's demuxing/remuxing tools. Demux the mpegstreamclip-produced file, then remux. That should clean things up from ffmpegx's perspective.