I have recently (finally) had some success with capturing and converting my old VHS episodes to DVD compliant MPEG's. I have to give thanks to TXpharoah and the site listed in his posts for helping me immensly. I did make some changes to the TMPGenc settings listed, but followed most everything else to a T. Thanks to all who have posted for your help! I am blessed enough to have a DVD player (Daewoo 5000N) that will play raw MPEG files off of CD-R so I do not have to waste my DVD-R's on archive stuff like this. Once again, thanks!!