I've ripped several NTSC DVDs in the past with no problems. I'm currently trying to rip a 4:3 PAL DVD to SVCD, and can't seem to get rid of a jumpy picture. I'm using Smartripper to rip, DVD2AVI to frameserve, and Tmpgenc to encode. The picture jumps & skips around during quick action scenes such as people walking or a camera panning. I had a similar problem with a previous NTSC DVD rip and fixed it by changing the field order. Unfortunately, that didn't work on this.

I'm not trying to convert the video to NTSC standards at all, I'm content with leaving it as a PAL SVCD since my DVD player (Apex 3201) can handle the PAL/NTSC conversion. I've tried several PAL DVD's so I don't see why this would be a problem.

At first I had a jumpy picture and the audio was a few seconds off. I then got the audio problem fixed, but not the visual. In both instances (bad audio+video, or just bad video) the resulting MPEG2 file played fine on my PC, but lousy on the standalone DVD player.

1. What are the proper PAL settings I should be using in Tmpgenc? I've changed them a dozen times, but may have just not had the right combination.

2. Would I be better off converting this to an NTSC disk?

3. Is it possible that this is actually a problem with my player, being that the MPEG2 file played ok on the PC?

thanks
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An added note: After watching these files closely on my computer, I can see the same jerky motion as was apparent when watching on the DVD player. Its just a bit less obvious on a PC screen as on a large TV.