vcd screen skips

[scott2hot_27]

I down loaded red dragon off of kazaa. i then extracted the audio into a wav file. then i used tmpge to converted it to ntcs because the origonal format was 352X240 14.985 fps and this web sit said to convert all odd fps to ntcs. i burned it with nero. it works in my dvd player but the screen
freezes alot for a few seconds then catches back up with the audio. very anoying no way to sit and watch it. the audio is smoth and not a problem.
ok that said i down loaded unbreakable the movie from kazaa it was in 640x272 23.976 fps format did the same thing to it that i did to red dragon except converted it to ntcs film . it works gets a slight skip in video
but i can deal with it. is this skipping normal for vcd or am i doing something wrong i used the steps on this sight wich were great and easy to understand. help for the newbie woulde be great thanks

ok i figured it out the default on tmpge bitrate was 2550 i lowered it to 2300 and the skips were gone. also went to svcd. dont know if that helped or not but the bit rate helped alot . my dvd player was cheap woulde a better dvd player be able to handle the 2550 bitrate any comments woulde be apreciated. thanks.

[bugster]

I guess you are converting to SVCD, as 2520 is rather high for VCD. Actually 2520 is the default bitrate for SVCD in the TmpGenc template but may be a little high for some players (though it really shouldn't be!), so drooping this down a little as you have solved your problem.

Skipping could also be due to a minor media/player incompatibility. i.e, your DVD player may be having some slight difficulties reading the CD and has to re-try occasionally to read without errors. You could try different brand media to see if this helps.

[kjmacke]

Two things your player might not like 23.976 encodes, aleast my apex doesn't. Thats why I encode everything to 29.97. Secondly your movie with the 14.985 might not be enough frames to start with when you try to encode it with tmpgnc.