I made a DVD from a VHS tape and every time there was a slight blip on the tape the DVD copy paused, the audio messed up, and part of the picture turned into blocks. It got so bad that the DVD won't play after 26 minutes.

I used Canopus ADVC-100 as the capture hardware, and Pinnacle Express to edit, convert and burn it. The AVI looked fine, I can't check the MPEG because every time I try my computer freezes, restarts, and says I need to update the drivers. After I had seen what was wrong with the DVD I used Pinnacle Studio 7 to convert the part of the video that was really messed up from the AVI to MPEG and it played fine on WinDVD.

So, my question is what could be messing it up? I don't know if I should spend the money on quality software if it is the VHS tape that is messing it up and I can't do anything about it.

Dorian