jerky playback

[dcapp1]

Hi, the svcds I have been making have been playing back jerky during motion scenes(little or a lot of motion). Actually they are xsvcds. I capture at 704x480 using PicVideo with a quality of 18. I then encode using my own template:

MPeg 2 video
480x480
29.97 frames per second
10 bits Dc precision component
Motion estimate search (fast)
CBR at 3500 bps

Everything else I leave the same. My question is to avoid jerky playback should I use normal or high quality on the motion precision setting or is there some other setting I should change? Thanks for all of the help.

[chewyshaun@hotmail.com]

First I would check that your DVD player can actually play SVCD or XSVCD as my old player used to skip and jump with XSVCD but not with SVCD. You can find details on the dvd player list on the left of this page

[Nelson37]

You must test player with incremental bitrate changes to determine whether your particular variety of XSVCD will work.

I would try the higher Motion Search Precision setting, also try reversing field order.

Make one change at a time, do some 2-3 minute test encodes, full up a CDRW with samples, test.

Also try multi-pass VBR encoding to reduce filesize and/or increase quality.

[dcapp1]

Thanks for all of the suggestions. I have tried all of them, but nothing is working. One thing I forgot to mention in my original post is that my old vcr went bye-bye so I had to buy a new one. Could it be the new vcr because actually the movie I did with the new vcr is the only movie that is jerky. Thanks