During my trial for a better quality VCD/video, I was playing with various options. I was using CDRW. I captured VCD resolution but higher bitrate clip. Then I burned it as MPG(not XVCD) and my DVD player(Daewoo 5000N) played it fine. I reencoded the clip into VCD, and burned and the player played it well although the quality dropped. Then, I burned XVCD with Nero by turning off the compliance check. The bitrate was 3000kbps. The quality is excellent but while playing 30 mins clip, I get around 4 -5 times some black blocks on the TV screen.

Intially I thought that this may be due to bad capture. But, my original clip sitting in my harddisk does not have those black blocks. Then I thought that my DVD player is having problem running a high bitrate clip. But, then I played the clip off my CDRW using windows media player and the blocks are still there, but if I play the clip which is on the Hard drive, then there is no problem.

Hence, I concluded that burning is adding those blocks. Is this because of low reflectivity of CDRW disc. I have erased that disc around 7 times so far. If the problem is reflectivity, then writing on a fresh disc should Help. But, I thought I would ask gurus on this forum, if they have some idea.

thanks,