Garbage blocks on captured video DVD

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I have a PVR-250 that I used to capture a 2 hour VHS movie. The source is PERFECTLY clear. When viewing the resulting captured mpeg file it looks near perfect as well. I use a variable bitrate of 4000-6000 at 352x480. I've used several other settings with the same results. I use the included WinTV software.

I use the mpeg in ULEAD DVD Movie Factory and put the DVD into my standalone DVD player. It plays perfectly fine until you try and FF and skip chapters. Once you do that you see lots of garbage blocks over the screen. Only for a few seconds, then things look perfectly fine again. Usually they are in the form of long horizontal bars that look like garbage. Kind of what it would look like if you made a bad VCD burn or something. It's not ALL pixellated garbage, just a few small lines of it. But if you just play it regularly the movie does not have these.

If you view the DVD in a DVD-ROM drive the garbage blocks do not appear. I've tried to play the disc in 3 DVD players (Even a standalone DVD recorder) with the same results.

It's not a case of garbage in, garbage out. It's also not a bad burn because i've tried 3 types of media and other DVD writers. Is there something in my software causing these lines to appear? It's very annoying and have done lots of research and can't come up with a solution.

Any ideas?

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I found out what the problem was...stupid me figured that Ulead really wouldn't touch the mpeg file and convert it. It didn't really but did enough to it to be the cause of the problem. Tried using Nerovision Express and it took 2-3 times as long to create DVD Video files from an MPEG file but the results were very good. Not any pixelization or anything.