Hey
Grantman,
For the templates on the Compatibility Test CD which cause jerky playback on their machines, try encoding with a 29.97fps framerate instead of the kvcd default of 23.976fps and see if that fixes things. For the x3 template, try changing the resolution to 5
44x480 instead of 5
28x480 and see if the picture is no longer a garbled green blocky screen.
My dvd player (Sampo 631CF) has the exact same symptoms you described when attempting to play the KVCD Compatibility Test CD. All of the 352x240 resolution templates play fine on my player (using the templates with their default settings), but all of the other higher-resolution templates require the use of 29.97fps to play properly without skipping/jumping audio and video problems on my player. Yes, it stinks that you'll lose some compression by encoding @29.97fps instead of 23.97fps, but at least it
might solve the problem....and you can still usually fit most ~2-hour movies onto 1 disc at an acceptable quality level with the x3 template (FYI, "acceptable"
to me is no lower than CQ54). The green garbled screen is also fixed (on my player) by using 5
44x480 rez.
Hopefully these tricks will work on your family members' players.
-d&c