As far as the video being choppy, I'm not seeing that on my computer, is anyone else?
The frame rate I used is NTSCFilm and is the true frame rate of the original film. By converting to that it removes the 4% speed up commonly found in PAL video. By tweaking a flag NTSC DVD players will play it as 29.97 so everyone is happy.
Unfortunately there is likely no way to get the raw AVI files from Moth3r even if he still had them, but there doesn't seem to be much vid quality lost. Like I said, is anyone else finding choppy video?