DV to Mpeg2 problem

[Aaron407]

I have a sony DCR-TRV310 Digital 8 camcorder that I capture video with using Ulead 5.0 DV. The video captured looks okay but not very good when played back in Windows Media Player, there's distortion and choppy edges when any motion appears. It's alright when directed back to the camera and played on a tv, but not on playback on the computer. I figured this was just a media player playback problem, so I encoded it into an svcd with tmpgenc. The resulting mpeg was a little choppy when played back and it seemed the interlaced lines weren't lined up when there was motion. I put it on a cd to play in my two dvd players and the video looked terrible on both of them. The interlace lines were fine, but the video seemed extremely shaky (I don't know how else to describe it). Each individual frame was good and slow motion was fine, but playing at normal speed any motion was very unstable and shaking. I don't have any idea what the problem is as I have encoded downloaded files into svcd without this problem before. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated if you've experienced this before or know the solution.

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[Aaron407]

ok, I figured something out, the problem deals with the interlace lines. I deinterlaced while encoding and it worked pretty decent. Next, I tried using an interlaced encode with the field set to B first. The output mpeg was incredibly smooth and exactly what I wanted. The weird thing is that the dv video is field A and the encode worked better with it set to B. Could anyone clear this up for me?

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