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This is baffling me. I bought a new Philips DivX player (DVP5960). I burned the first 7 episodes of Mad Men (avi format) to a DVD-R, and put it in the player. The episodes jitter - as if a frame or two is missing every five seconds. At first I thought it might just be this download, so I tried the first five episodes Pushing Daisies (avi format) - same problem.

I tested a disk I had burned last year - How I Met Your Mother, Season 1 (avi format). Played absolutely smoothly. Tested another from a while ago - Life on Mars Season 1 (avi format) - again, played perfectly.

I thought about what might have changed. One may have been the type of DVD-R I used -- the current ones are Ritek Ridata 8X blank matte; the old ones are Ritek Ridata 8x branded matte (with the big arrow imprinted on the top of the disc). I found an old branded matte disk and burned Mad Men - same jittery result.

My next thought was that I had burned the older stuff with Toast, and was burning the newer stuff with the built-in direct burner in OS X. Went back to Toast. Still jittery.

All of the .avi files play just fine on my computer.

I've tried everything I can think of. Any help? And can anyone point me to a good place to post this question besides my lj?