Problem when watching selfmade DVD's

[NoClue]

Hi everybody,
this is a wierd problem and I have to tell a little story (sorry). I started making DVD's (with Sonic MyDVD and Showbiz) to save my VHS Tapes. And to watch them on TV I used my PS2 as I didn't have a DVD-Player then. Everything was fine, DVD's were looking good. Then I bought a DVD-Player put in the same DVD's and they looked horrible. When ever something was moving fast or I turned the Camera, the picture moved robotic (difficult to describe). The movements were not smooth anymore, more jerky. I returned the DVD-Player and got a Panasonic S31 who could play those DVD's withou problems. Now I made my first DVD with pictures and movie in it and sound and I have the same problem again. The new DVD is looking good on PC but not on the Player. After reading in this and other forums I found that it could maybe a an encoding problem, but I don't understand much from encoding. The are two things different from the first DVD's i made. One is that I added a mp3-sound file with ShowBiz to the movie and second is that I had to install Windows Media Player 7 with encarta. Maybe there is a problem?
Config is:
Windows 2000 Pro
P4 3,06Mhz 1GB RAM
I capture my movies either with MyDVD directly into .mpg or with showbiz into .avi

Any help would be highly appreciated.
Thanks
Oliver

[influenza]

If it looks fine on your computer, but not on your standalone it sounds like the player can either not cope with the dvd media you're using (which was the prblem with your old player I think) or has problems with the way it's encoded. i have both a PS2 and a standalone player. on the PS2 region original 1 movies (i'm in r2 myself) are played flawlessly, while on my standalone they look terrible (a lot of blocking, stops). strange thing is that a backup of the same r1 movie plays flawlessly on both the ps2 andd standalone after reencoding :confused:

[influenza]

Field order can be a problem ofourse, but that would not explain why a dvd would look ugly on one standalone and that the same disc looks great on an other standalone.

[NoClue]

Thanks a lot for the ideas. I have no clue about field order but I will search for it. But in my software "MyDVD" there are no settings for that (there are not much settings at all). What would be another software I could use to make a movie without being a pro.
Thanks
Oliver

[influenza]

Field order is a setting when encoding video ;)

[mustardman]

Almost certainly the field order is wrong. I did the same trick - I encoded a video and checked it on my laptop, everything was good, so I erased the source (videotape capture). But when I played it on a standalone player, whoa, really bad. Capture again, swap the field order, encode again (+ much swearing). Plays fine on both now.

What are you using to capure? Most analog input cards are top field first. DV & DVD is bottom field first.

To fix the order if you process with VirtualDub, just shift the picture down (or up) ONE line.
Chow,
Mustardman