Hi all,

This is my first time posting on this forum. Hello!

I'm trying to burn SVCDs from VHS videotape. I'm using a WinTV card. When I cpture a television segment and burn it, it plays fine in my DVD player. But when I capture from tape using the same settings, the playback stutters - and if I use the slowest fast-forward it stutters less.

Anyone know what I could do to make these VHS captures work better? Thanks in advance.

Are you capturing from home VHS tapes or "Hollywood" VHS tapes?
The reason I'm asking is because it sounds like you maybe running into a Macrovision copyright issue. This normaly causes the picture to look twisted and distorted. But, maybe in your case its causing it to studder??

gammer

Macrovision Usually Manifests itself as the Picture getting really Dark and then Bright and then dark ,You get the Idea..What It sounds like to me are Interlaceing artifacts Like Possibly the Wrong Field Order...Maybe try Useing a De-Interlace filter when you encode your Captured files.....Cheers

specifically of my band and other bands.

I will try a couple with the different interlace options, and see what happens. If you think of other possible issues, please let me know. Thanks!

Sounds to me like you've got the field order the wrong way around. If there is an option somewhere to select either Top or Bottom field first (AKA Odd and Even field) then try both and see what happens.

When I create an mpg with Tmpgenc I always check the field order first using the "Project Wizard" which can check it automatically. I then exit the wizard, go back to the manual mode and set Top or Bottom field as appropriate.