DVD2SVCD rip is jittery

[Pickngrin]

Hi-
I'm still new to ripping DVDs, and I recently ripped The Piano from DVD with DVD2DVCD (using TMPGENC as the encoder). The resultant SVCDs are sort of jittery and I'm wondering what I may have done wrong.
I used the settings and followed the guidelines contained in the document on this site.
I have not deleted the files from my hard drive. Can I re-encode (with whatever advice I get from this forum) without having to re-rip?

Thanks in advance!

[sych0]

well, this can be any number of things. Its more than likely that either the audio or video bitrate is too high. Mine were stuttering a bit too. Heres a few things you could try, though they may not fix it. Try upping the minimum bitrate. Default is 300, i upped mine to 1000. I played around with the max bitrate and average bitrate, but on my system it didnt matter. It was the low. So try these as well. I have "Audio 1 downsample 48-> 44.1" checked also.

One other thing, if its skipping REALLY BAD, (those were for little skipping) try using an mpeg1 header on the videos. Load up tmpgenc, goto mpeg tools, goto simple multiplex, load up the file, and select mpeg1 video-cd for type and run. It only takes a few mins. It wont completely reeconde, but just write a new header. (im not even sure if thats the proper term for it....the header. Im not sure what it does to be honest I just assume its a header.) This is normally used for dvd players that dont fully support svcd though. If you know yours does, then this may not help. Anyhow, good luck.

[LeeBear]

If you mean you still have the ripped VOB files on your hard drive then you can just re encoded from them and not have to rip it off the DVD again. For your jittery playback problem if it's only jittery on your DVD player and not jittery when you play it back on your computer then it's most likely a hardware issue (ie. bitrate higher then your DVD player can handle, etc). If it's jittery when played back on the computer then it's an encoding issue. Most likely a fraterate difference issue. To fix that we need to know if your DVD is NTSC or PAL. If it's NTSC did you try turning "Force Film On" for DVD2AVI? The field order may also be wrong. You should use Bitrate Viewer to look at the VOB and find out the field order.

-LeeBear

[Pickngrin]

Sych-
Thank you! Now unfortunately, I find myself lost. Since I have the vob files (or are they ifo files? ) on my hard drive, I want to skip the beginning parts of the DVD2SVCD process. But I can't figure out how to do that/which subprogram I need to start with.
I did make the change in the minimum bitrate, but how do I reencode, or re-whatever the dvd to create new .bin/.cue files?

thanks again

[sych0]

Well, i dont think you can just start midway. Unless you do crash recovery, but since you didnt crash, that may or may not work. The easiest is to just reencode the whole thing from scratch. On the conversion tab, click the button next to the cd icon. Thats the browse button. Then browse to your .ifo file. The vob's are the giant 1gb files. The ifo is the small one.

[Pickngrin]

ah ok thanks. problem is i do not have the dvd handy now.

[sych0]

you dont need the dvd. Just so long as you still have the vobs and the ifo somewhere on your hard drive. Just load the ifo in dvd2svcd, and encode.

[burychka]

Here's a possible solution. It fixed it for me: The "Field order" parameter right (A vs B) in TMPGEnc settings. The default DVD template may not be right.

You can use TMPGEnc to check out your source. Here are instructions:

http://hilljack.vampirez.com/fieldorder.htm

[Fistandantilus]

I noticed this happening to just one of mine.I think I have solved the Riddle to it.
When you use DVD2AVI if it says NTSC or Film and the Percentage is 95% or higher you force the film(?can't remember the rest).If it only says Film or NTSC or Interlaced than what you do in TMPGenc is check the telecine box.I havne't tried it yet to confirm but when I followed Doom9's Guide on Converting a DVD to Avi I actually had one of my movies come up less than 95% in DVD2AVI and in the settings he gives you you don't forcethe film but leave the setting as none than later on when you are converting it(not with TMPGenc) he says to mark the Telecine box.
I'll try it out and see what happens.I borrowed Season 1 and 2 of the Simpsons and when I was doing Season 2 I Noticed that DVD2avi was only showing them as NTSC at 85% and they came out jittery after using TMPgenc.I should have checked the TELECINE box to fixit.I'll try yit out and see what happens.

[Fistandantilus]

Okay I tried it out with Sipmsons Season2.I had problems with this but I figured it out
Rip The DVD as you usually do.
Than use DVD2Avi to open up the files.
In DVD2Avi make sure you go to the vido tab at the top and put field operation to none
Than go to audio tab:
and use track 1,as this is usually the one.
output method to decode to wave(AC3,LPCM)
Dolby Digital Decode to Dolby Surround Downmix
48-44.1 KHZ make sure it is off
Normilization-make sure it is checked
now hit F5
a window will pop up make note of:
Aspect Ratio
Frame Rate
Vdeo Type
and Whether or not it is progressive or interlaced
Let it run for a few minutes than go to file stop
If it said in video that it was Film or NTSC and it said 95% or higher and stayed that way than go back into
Video-Field Operation-Forced Film
If it didn't say 95% or higher such as 88% or interlaced than make sure in video it is set up like this:
Video-Field Operation-NONE
Now Got to File Save Project and save it
When Done open up Tmpgenc and use it like you usually do,I always use the wizard as it is the easiest.
If you use the Wizard go to
Settings-Advanced
Make sure that the TELECINE box in the bottom is Marked and that instead of Non-Interlaced you put in Interlaced.
I did this with Simpsons and it turned out perfect.
hope this helps.