Jitter problems when i play DVD backups

[seni4]

I've wasted several blank dvd's so i hope someone can help me. I rip the movies with dvd decrypter , or smartrip, i create the d2v file with dvd2avi, i re-encode with TMpeg, and i author with dvd maestro someone please tell me what i am doing wrong, the chapters work fine and the whole movie is present i just have this weird jitter going on.

[crusty]

Is that Spruce DVD Maestro? If it is there is no need to re-encode just drag your .m2v file and your .ac3 file into the program and author it.

[Aerohead]

Is the jitter happening when there is a lot of motion onscreen? It sounds like the order of the interlaced fields may have been reversed. I accidently did this using CCE, and the resulting video was jittery whenever the camera moved. Very annoying to watch! Do you know if your d2v file is top or bottom field first?

[johneboy]

Is the jitter happening when there is a lot of motion onscreen? It sounds like the order of the interlaced fields may have been reversed. I accidently did this using CCE, and the resulting video was jittery whenever the camera moved. Very annoying to watch! Do you know if your d2v file is top or bottom field first?

will DVD2AVI tell us if its top or bottom field ? im having the same problem with The Ninth Gate

[Aerohead]

To be honest, I haven't used DVD2AVI yet, so I can't answer your question. However, the following link has some good information about determining the field dominance.

http://www.lukesvideo.com/classifyhighres.html

If you have the time, you can always burn to a test DVD-RW the MPEG file re-encoded with the field order swapped to check out whether or not this fixes the problem. I've heard that DVDs can have either field be the dominant field, so it's just something that has to be checked out before encoding.

Good luck!