I just made a 3 hour wrestling dvd I captured from a vhs. I used the mjpeg codec and the capture was 8 gigs. Ok then I'm using 352x480 for quality reasons. I encoded the capture to dvd with CCE with a 2-pass vbr of min=0,average=3550kbps,max=9000kbps. I saved the wav with virtualdub first before I encoded then I converted that to ac3 which I heard should be used in the final product when making a dvd. So anyway the resulting file after muxing in tmpgenc dvd author is 4.2 gigs so that's fine. My problem came up when I tried to play this in my apex 660 dvd player on my sony wega 24inch tv. First there was baddddd macroblocks and pixels like a mofo, But I also had no sound at all. I thought this was odd and I'm not sure why because I have my player hooked up with composite and s-video straight to the tv and the sony wega has dolby digital and all that stuff built into it already. So I tested it out on my ps2 which is hooked up with composite to the sony wega and it had sound but was still heavily pixelated. Well I tried it on my girlfriend's dvd player in her room with her normal 13 inch tv and surprise no pixels,damn good quality and sound too. How come my tv displays too many pixels and I have no sound coming from the dvd player? Other dvd's work fine, even another one I made but with pcm sound had sound. does my sony tv have too much definition compared to a normal tv? It's a flat screen and everything but how come my encodes turn out blocky on it? even vcd's I've created long ago that looked crystal clear on a normal television ( a 27 inch GE) show up so blocky on this on? thanks