Small NTSC/PAL question regarding DivX

[Kaj]

Let's rephrase; the last one wasn't very good.

I've got a little problem; I have a rather large collection of fansubs in the DivX-format, and I wanted to tape some for a friend of mine.
When I play an episode of Love Hina for instance, the picture on my monitor runs smooth, but the picture on the TV-monitor seems to drop frames. It stutters a bit on a regular basis, and is mostly annoying at actionscenes and slow cameramovement.
Could it be that the episodes (taped in Japan, from a NTSC-source, I guess) lose frames when played back on a PAL monitor? Or is it my system? Or does the whole NTSC/PAL-thingy disappear when encoded to DivX?
I don't have any NTSC-DVD's yet, so I can't test my theory.

I have an AMD TB800 on an Abit KT7 with 256MB Infineon PC133, the file is played from a Seagate UW SCSI-disk through my G400DHmax. Currently running Win98SE. PD version 6.51.014; videodriver 4.12.01.1810

I hope that anyone of you can help me with this.

[dZeus]

of course it drops frames

NTSC is 30 frames (=60 fields), and PAL is 25 frames. So when you lpay back a NTSC video over PAL output, each 6 frames 1 frame is dropped. Sometimes NTSC material is only 24 frames (film based), and in these cases one frame will be doubled every second, giving an even more annoying stutter (try to enable 3:2 pulldown in the player to avoid this).

With PAL60 output you could potentially avoid the stutters with NTSC, but I don't think that PAL videorecorders can record PAL60 (probably only the videorecorders from some countries in the southern americas, where they use PAL60 as broadcast standard, and those VCRs can probably _only_ record in PAL60). However, the G400 doesn't support PAL60 in the drivers, so this is not really an option anyway.