DVD Burning Question

[ARC]

Please help.

I have some movies in SVCD (MPEG2) format on my computer. They are about 700mb each.
I would like to burn them onto DVD.
I have blank DVD's (DVD+R, 8X).
I have used NERO to encode these files into DVD files and I have burnt them onto the blanks.

The problem is - when I watch the film it pauses ever so slightly every few seconds. It is a very slight pause - you can hardly notice it.

You can still watch the film but this is very annoying.

Does anyone know what causes this and how it can be rectified. Also, has anyone had a similar problem...?

[Bandita]

Any conversion like this causes a loss in quality or a variety of other issues.  I have re-encoded stuff with Nero and it just never looks right.  Why not just burn to CDR in the original format?  Most DVD players these days can play SVCD just fine.

[Mr. Redman]

Holy shit! It's ARC! What's up man.

On topic - When I had a mpeg2 file, I just dragged it into my burning software (Toast for MAC) and it' burnt to DVD.

[Edward Rose]

Please help.

I have some movies in SVCD (MPEG2) format on my computer. They are about 700mb each.
I would like to burn them onto DVD.
I have blank DVD's (DVD+R, 8X).
I have used NERO to encode these files into DVD files and I have burnt them onto the blanks.

The problem is - when I watch the film it pauses ever so slightly every few seconds. It is a very slight pause - you can hardly notice it.

You can still watch the film but this is very annoying.

Does anyone know what causes this and how it can be rectified. Also, has anyone had a similar problem...?

I encountered this problem when I had a cheap-o video capture device last year and used it with my first laptop computer. I never understood WHY it was happening, but I DID eventually figure out that there are two types of mpg-2 files. "Field Oder A" and "Field Order B." One of those two will cause the thing you're talking about... especially when action (objects moving quickly in the shot) occur.

Might not help, but that's the deal. I'm reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeealy digging deep through the malted hops and bong resin that coats my brain, but I think Field Order B is the one that won't do it. But this still might not help because the mpg-2 file has to be CAPTURED in the B.