DVD movie stutter and audio issues

[Umfriend]

Hi all,

We purchased a Canon SD camera in 2009 and I am now trying to get our material to DVD. No fancy editing stuff, just trying to get it into a movie.

I got, with the camera, Imagemixer 3 SE for SD (a crime against humanity that software is). All goes well expect that when I play the DVD in one of my two DVD players, after about 1 minutes the movie start to stutter, audio goes silent and, at times, video pauses and sound goes on or the other way around, synchronicity is far from fine.

Is this an issue with Imagemixer? When I play back the 4Gb .mpg through the program all seems fine...WMP playback seems to be fine as well.

Oh, recorded on DVD in PAL, 25fps. 9 mbps video, 256kbps audo, 10.08 mbps total (??)

Should I get other SW? What for really basic stuff? Could it be computer related (Athlo 64 X2 4400+ from 2005. i5-2500 otw)?

[Brian Ellis]

Reduce your video bitrate to, say, 6500 kbit/s and it will probably be OK and you won't see any difference in quality. More Catholic than the Pope syndrome!

[Umfriend]

Will try from highest to high quality. Thanks.

Is it then the DVD players that can't keep up with high bandwidth? (Denon DVD-2900).

[Umfriend]

And I'll wait for the new PC, it is annoying to work like this with crappy SW...

[Evildead666]

Have you tired convertx to dvd ?
Have you checked the correct FPS ?

A denon DVD should be pretty good.
To me it sounds like Buffering/Synchro issues with the file. When encoding, you may have stepped outside of the DVD specs.

[Brian Ellis]

Many (most) DVD players glitch at high bitrates. I presume your blanks are single layer. Dual layer ones are the merde.

[Umfriend]

Yes, single layer. Found that High Quality still runs at 8mbps, going for standard now but the program crashed again. Any simple SW to be advisable (that runs under W7-64 as well as XP)?