[jwdv22]

I don't have Pro, but I followed your settings and I am still getting dropped frames, and enough of them to care. 140 dropped frames in one action scene. The rest of the encode looks great. Here is the final settings

General
Complete name : C:\Documents and Settings\John\Desktop\IronMan\IronMan5.1HD.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 245 MiB
Duration : 5mn 27s
Overall bit rate : 6 283 Kbps
Writing application : VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 (build 2540/release)
Writing library : VirtualDubMod build 2540/release

Video
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default
Muxing mode : Packed bitstream
Codec ID : DX50
Codec ID/Hint : DivX 5
Duration : 5mn 27s
Bit rate : 5 634 Kbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16/9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Resolution : 24 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.255
Stream size : 220 MiB (90%)
Writing library : DivX 2816

Audio
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Codec ID : 2000
Duration : 5mn 27s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 640 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Surround: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Stream size : 25.0 MiB (10%)
Alignment : Split accross interleaves
Interleave, duration : 42 ms (1.00 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration : 500 ms

** I cracked it to get Pro features
Still choppy... Damn it