I've tried to search all forums for the answer, but can't find it.

Hardware / Software: All Pinnacle Studio v8, DC10Plus card. NEC DVD+RW ND-1100 burner.

Video was of a TV special. Simple stuff.

Video capture was perfect. Took out the commercials, everything played perfectly. Did not add any menus.

I have two problems:

1. If I try to play the DVD on my desktop (using Intervideo WinDVD), it starts out rough from the start (gaps in the image like you see when your digital cable isn't quite keeping up). Then it quickly spirals into armageddon - the picture eventually freezes and the computer is entirely locked up. If I do ctl-alt-del to try to quit the application, I end up with the screen resolution changed, only about 3 colors visible, might even be in safe mode. It's a mess, and it does the same thing every time. Only solution is a restart.

2. If I play it on a normal DVD player, the quality is fine. No apparent problems, except that the image is zoomed in about 15-20%. Does the same thing on two different DVD players. Other than that, it plays normally.

I've checked and cannot find any controls in Pinnacle Studio that would seem to settings for video size or aspect ratio. I ran the capture on high quality, so I'm thinking that it captured a more dense pixel array, and that results in a "zoomed" image on a DVD.

Do the monitor settings that you are currently using when capturing / rendering / burning affect anything?

Can anyone give me some advice?

Thanks