Hello all,

me again, I few days ago I converted a bunch of TV episodes from .avi to .mpg using TmpGenc. The encoding went fine at the newly created mpgs played fine on the PC.

I then DVD authored them and burnt to DVD-R. Put the disk in my Toshiba SD-200E DVD player and the disk played fine, all menu's in tact etc etc.

I watched an hour and a half of the DVD in one go, then all of a sudden the video broke up in the middle of an episode into little squares of bright green and purple that were randomly being placed in between the picture, the DVD still playing then corrected itself for a split second and the picture went back to normal and then broke up again on many occasions making the video unwatchable. During the break up the audio stops playing.

Me sitting there now extremely annoyed as it had taken 6 days to encode all this stuff. Stopped the playback, and played it again... DVD goes to the main menu. I select the same episode... however this time the video break up happened almost immediately on the footage that I had just watched that was perfect!

So it's now doing random image deterioration throughout my DVD for no reason at all.

I took the DVDr Disk out and played it on my PC and it plays fine with no breakups.

Is there something wrong with my DVD player?? Or what can I do? Does it need cleaning is there a disk I need to get that will do this like VHS? I really dont know?