Its not really a DVD program....just a media player. Average bitrate around 6...used DVDA MPEG2 preset.....computer should be fast enough... it has played plenty of my videos in the past..however...all at 29.97fps...not sure if that is the difference...

thanks
jeremiah

I'd try a different software to playback the 24p, see if that happens. It would be wierd if the software can't playback 24p, but stranger things could happen.
The bitrate should definitely be slow enough....does the video card have a decoder on it that might interfere with the stream?

Not to sure on the specs of the computer...I think they even tried playing from the DVD player and software on the computer and it was still choppy. There are 5 videos total...and only three of them have this problem...and again...all work fine on tv...but computer is struggling...

thanks

Possible you have bad media, bad header in the file, weird encode? If you're sure it's not the player, and sure it's likely not the bitrate, I'd be next looking at media, and then the encode integrity itself.

So should I prepare and burn the DVD again...or go all the way back and render them again in vegas?

I'd try a different media, and try another burn. Takes time, but less time than rendering again in Vegas. If the new media doesn't work, then I'd prep/render again. I wish I had a better/more informed answer for you, but it's sorta hard figuring it out without seeing what's there, and even then it might be a challenge.

I will try all of the above....thanks for your help spot

jeremiah

Hre's another thought. You can handle 24p in two ways I think. You can add pulldown and end up with what is to all intents 29.97 standard NTSC and author a DVD as such. This will play out as vanilla NTSC.
Or you keep it pure 24 fps and author a DVD that is just 24 fps. Now it's upto the player as to how that gets output. If you have a capable player it'll playout pure 24fps but not too many display devices can cope with that.
Now I'm wondering if just maybe the two DVDs that play OK have pulldown added so all the player(s) can output is vanilla NTSC. The other 3 are genuine 24p and the player(s) are outputting 24p which the display device is having problems with.
Before anyone goes running off down the wrong track I'm not that much into NTSC and 24p, just throwing the little I've nutted out into the mix here.
Bob.

That's a very good point, whether it's 2-3-3-2 or just 2-3 pulldown. Hadn't considered that, and it's quite possible that's the case.

Its 2-3....should i go with 2-3-3-2?

If it's a player issue, yes. Give it a shot. I'd recommend rendering out a short sequence to save time, burn that to disk first as a test, unless you've got a lot of time.

that could be painfully time consuming, Thank goodness it's Monday! (assuming they would be played on a sunday).

(one of the churches I usually do work for, never used to give me their projects until something like 2-3 days before they wanted to air it - that was a headache. Now they're at least gettng them to me in some basic way about a week out - I'll bet my bloodpressure has gone down a few points just from that ;-)

Dave

Actually, all this needs to be ready by Tuesday. My church puts on big productions...and it starts this week...however, the amazing tech guys only yesterday tested the videos I did, thus the reason i'm scrambling around now.
What makes it even harder is the fact that I am at school thirty minutes away and cant burn a quick test DVD and run up to the church and test it.

What would happen if I rendered the 24p files as 29.97? Or just change the settings in DVDA to 29.97 instead of 23.97?