My svcd is jerky on TV why?

[Treebeard]

I am very competent at making vcd &xvcd but am starting to mess around w/ svcd. I have to put use the mpeg1 header trick on my mpeg2 files to get my dvd player to play them. I converted a 30 minute episode of friends that i ripped from the dvd. I used the default settings for tmpgenc's svcd(ntsc). it has a default of cbr. and i change motion search to high quality. What im getting at is why is the movie shake (from left to right) when i play it on my tv? i use nero to burn as vcd b/c my player doesnt like svcd discs. I have played svcd's on my player b/4 with the header trick and it played fine. the picture and sound are perfect when the shaking stops. but that is only for a few seconds here and there. help

[snowmoon]

Sounds like bad field order. Does it shake when their is no movement? If it doesn't the you have the wrong firld order.

Under setting find the field order setting ( second tab ) change it from what it is not to whatever is the opposite. Re-encode.

[Treebeard]

Is the field order going to be the same as when i encode to vcd?

I think it was set at A for the svcd and B for my vcd so maybe that is the problem. ill try that tonight. thanks

[snowmoon]

For VCD's field order does not matter since VCD is a single field stream. Mpeg-2 is a full frame 2 field compression so field dominence is important.

[Treebeard]

I tried encoding with the different fileds first but i never tested on my dvd player b/c when i went to the simple multiplex to put my mpeg1 header on the file it would not read the mpeg file that had filed orderB first. So i guess that field order A is the correct one. Any other suggestions. does the svcd that was shaky was encoded with CBR would VBR change it?

[snowmoon]

The multiplexor should not care... you must have done something else wrong.

You can use bbMPEG to multiplex if you would like to try again.