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    gang I need some education here. I have good dvd's, retail-purchased, and good equipment and have ripped backups to both mp4 and mkv formats [and avi way back a few years], but the 'dense' action sequences always have a predictable stutter. very maddening.
    no matter what sort of system/hardware I playback on, no matter whether the file is played local or across my LAN, the result is precisely the same. I haven't stopwatched it but to the eye it looks like it is rhythmic - like 3 seconds of smooth, then a hiccup, then another 3 sec or so.

    I have used freemake [will not longer use - high risk] and handbrake. I have tried using big files, no compression in order to not lose much in the process, but the result is the same. everything else is great: good image quality, good fidelity, good everything except the irritating stutters.

    what am I doing wrong?
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    What is the bit rate and CODEC when you see the stutter?

    You could use MediaInfoXP to get the info.

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    The bitrate doesn't matter...it's probably the framerate, 24fps, 25fps, 23.97fps with 3:2 pulldown that might cause problem

    Have you just tried make a mkv without any reconversion at all. Use MakeMKV.
    What is your dvd source details? PAL, NTSC ?
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    thank you friends for help.
    my dvd's are NTSC
    I had not heard of mediainfoxp before so I will download that and figure out how to use it.

    No, I have not made a conversion using makemkv. have it downloaded and wanted to come here and ask these questions before creating more big files with the same old issues again. I tried my best to understand instructions on both Handbrake and Freemake to do [I think] as you suggest: original frame rates etc no compression to reduce size. but, I very well may have botched something.

    i'll post back with mediainfo results
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    attached is an example file - Fellowship of the Ring "platinum extended" disc 1 converted to mp4
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    There's your problem: VFR. That is a Hollywood movie which runs at 24FPS (possibly 23.976 from the transfer),and it shouldn't be anything but that. At CFR. You have lost a good portion of the fluidity with the reduction in your frame rate.

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    In handbrake under the Video tab set the Framerate(fps) to Constant Framerate.
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    ah! thank you so much.
    I did make a backup using makemkv and it looks fine except on ipad air 2 but that's an issue of finding a better lan/streaming player. on the pc devices it looks like the dvd.

    so, I should not have problem compressing to say mp4 if I use 'constant frame rate' switch, using handbrake? I have plenty of space on the server and will store 'full' backups in mkv for the inevitable damage to the original dvd media but a smaller file size for the streaming in home would be appropriate.

    is avi dead at this point?
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    oops...

    just to end this thread from a year ago: I find on very close exam of the VOB files that the issue appears there also, just not as exaggerated as what I see downstream in conversions based on the decrypted .VOB's. so the issue must have been with the original rip.

    no response needed.... thanks all
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