When I rip and record with MovieJack3 my cd's play back as if they are a VCR-tape trying to adjust the tracking. I have a good clear picture that is a little jumpy and the sound is off as well. Same thing happens when I rip with MovieJack and then burn using Nero-6. Burning as SVCD. Proper codecs are installed. Running an after market DVD-Rom and CD-burner with Windows 2000 Pro. NOTE: I have converted AVI to VCD and SVCD with success, that is a good picture and sound. Any thoughts?

You are Useing a Pretty Mickey Mouse Method for converting DVD to SVCD...Most poeple use this Simple method for converting DVD to SVCD...you will need 3 Programs , Smartripper or DVD Decrypter, you will need "DVD2AVI 1.76" to Frameserve the Vob files and you will need "Tmpgenc" to encode to SVCD/Mpeg2 Format.. First you Rip the DVD to your Hard drive, then Load the VOB files into DVD2AVI and set "Audio" to "Dolby digital" to "Decode" and set it to "Track #1" and check "Dolby Surround Downmix", Now just go to "File" to "Save Project" and give the Project a Name and save it...Now in a Few Minutes DVD2AVI will Leave you with a D2V file and a Wav audio file...Now you Run Tmpgenc and choose the SVCD template and then Load in the D2V file as the Video source and the Wav file as the audio source and then encode...Now in a Few hours you will Have a SVCD/Mpeg2 file that you just need to burn to CD-R with any software that supports Burning SVCD"s....Cheers

Thank you very much for your help. The method I am currently using was recommended by a friend because it is a one stop method, so to speak. He swears by MovieJack and has used it for sometime. With that program, you insert the DVD and the blank CD, bring MovieJack up, and if it is already set-up, click the button to begin and walk away. I will, however, give your method a shot. Thanks again.