devede/Devede — Issue #5: DVD doesn't play fluently
Author: sciurius
Created: 2011-10-11 08:14:59+00:00
State: open

Given a video (AVI) I want to create a DVD from it. DeVeDe does the job nicely but the resultant DVD, when played on my DVD player, doesn't play fluently. It is hard to describe exaclty what goes wrong, but it seems to play for 600ms (estd.) then the video pauses shortly for 100ms (estd.), plays, pauses, and so on. The audio plays without interruptions. The times are very rough estimates.
Note that it is not related to a physical DVD; it's the conversion that DVD does.

Not all videos show this behaviour but I have not been able to relate this behaviour to a specific codec or other parameter.

I've uploaded two sample files, 60 seconds each:.
http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/xfer/previewfile_01_01.avi (14M, source)
http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/xfer/previewfile_01_01.mpg (37M, result)

previewfile_01_01.avi is the input to DeVeDe. previewfile_01_01.mpg is the generated preview that shows the staggering.

My platform is Fedora 14 with all patches as of today.
DeVeDe is 3.17.0.
Mplayer is 1.0-0.119.20100703svn .