Video stuttering using mini DVDs...help!

[Pr()ZaC]

Hello!
Newbie asking for help!

I've made/edited some small movies (around 4 minutes each) using Pinnacle's Studio 7, rendered as DVD Compatible (6000kbps) and used Ulead DVD Workshop to author and burn a mini DVD (CD-R, 80minutes media).
The mini DVD contains 3 videos.
When I play the CD (using a PC DVD player or a stand alone DVD player) I get stuttering video especially at the beginning of the movie. It stabilizes and plays fine around the middle of the video to the end.
The first and second video play just fine from the beginning to the end (except unnoticiable stuttering from time to time).
The major stutters appears to be in the third video, first half of it.
I've tried various time to make mini dvds, using different media (from HP, SONY, etc), same results...
I've tried to re-encode the Studio 7 DVD compatibile files with TMPGEnc, making it DVD Compatible (6000kbps)...same results.

System specs:
Duron 950
Gigabyte 7ZX motherboard, latest BIOS
On Board sound chip from Creative (SB128PCI)
256MB RAM PC 133
30GB HD 5400RPM
TNT 2
CD-RW LG CED-8083B
DVD-ROM LG DRD8120B
Win98SE fully patched
DX 8.1

Additional notes:
- The mini-dvd plays with less stutters on the stand alone DVD (Philco DV-2000 or something like that). Using the DVD ROM, the results are worse;

- Sound is fine, it's the video that stutters.

- Using the DVD preview in Ulead Workshop, it plays fine

- I've tried both burning driver options (NTI? and Ulead) present in the program, using 1X, 2X, 4X

[kitty]

Try authoring at 4 or 5000 kb/s or use a program like TMPGenc to use variable bit rate encoding. It may be the throughput of the players that can' handle it. As you are doing miniDVD then a CD-RW will do great & you can erase between tries.

[Pr()ZaC]

Thanks for the reply Kitty.

My main targed is playing mini-DVDs on stand alone DVD players and mine doesn't support CD-RW, only CD-R (that's not the problem anyway as CD-Rs are cheap).

If I remember correctly, I've tried encoding and burning the DVD compatible files using lower data rates with no luck.

It could be a software issue...I'll try SpruceUP or NERO ( but I need a tutorial ) if I'll get the chance but if you have other useful infos, please share!

Thanks.

[geek rock]

Why doesnt miniDVD work on a standalone player?

The DVD Player must be able to "identify" the CD-R(W) miniDVD as a ordinary DVD-Video disc, many players identifies CD-R(W) as VCD or SVCD or AudioCD.
and
the high bitrate on DVD requires the CD-R(W) reader in the DVD player support 8x CD-R(W) reading speed, and most support only a maximum of 2x.

that probably has something to do with it..