Scrambled output of my DVD on TV

[rchopra]

Experts,

i have created a DVD (my personal one) and I am not able to display on TV thro' VCR. If i play it directly to TV, it works great but thro' VCR i get scrambled video, very much like som of the DVDs i rent. Why do i have protection enabled in this personal DVD which i created. Also, i use Verbatim DVD -R. Also, i can only play -R on my DVD player. None of the -RW, +RW works which is fine with me.

I am kinda stuck with this issue and desperately need an answer.

Thanks in advance.

[Tommyknocker]

Sounds like your VCR is on the wrong channel. To make sure, you may want to connect your camcorder to your VCR to see if the problem goes away when your VCR displays on the TV your camcorder output..

[kuranuk]

It might not be protection... I have a 1/2 D1 resolution DVD that I made from a VHS tape and DVDMaestro... and recently when I tried playing it on a 16:9 Theater screen, the output was strangely garbled.

Perhaps it simply has something to do with the way the MPEG-2 streams are encoded?

[geek rock]

It might not be protection... I have a 1/2 D1 resolution DVD that I made from a VHS tape and DVDMaestro... and recently when I tried playing it on a 16:9 Theater screen, the output was strangely garbled.

Perhaps it simply has something to do with the way the MPEG-2 streams are encoded?

he can play it on his TV though.

[rchopra]

Can some one recommend me what type of encoding i should do? I just use the default that comes with Arcsoft Showbiz. And help on how to change the encoding also would be great.

Thanks

[txpharoah]

Sounds like Macrovision. Home software can add it, though I'm only aware of a few programs that'll do it. It may just be a bad VCR.