large pixilation at bottom of screen

[bobarnett]

I just burned my second DVD and although I had good luck with the first one, the second one has these randomly changing, half to three-quarter inch squares of color in the bottom of the screen; sometimes just one or two and sometimes a dozen or so. Any idea as to what happened? I used Roxio's VideoWave to remove the commercials from a movie I recorded onto an Imation 4.7GB DVD+RW disk using a GoVideo VR2940 and then burned the resulting movie using a NEC DVD-burner ( I don't have the model number with me at the moment.

[jimmalenko]

You watching on a settop DVD player or on your PC ?

Does the raw captured footage have these squares ?

Does the edited content have these squares ?


Sounds like your encoding program was using a corrupt codec to me.

[bobarnett]

Neither the raw captured footage nor the edited footage has these squares. They only appear after burning the DVD (with Roxio's DVD-Builder). What does one do about a "corrupt codec"?

[lordsmurf]

Quit using Roxio to edit/author, it's crap.

[scotuk1]

Roxio is bollocks(MACROBLOCKS) USE TMPGEnc DVD AUTHOR

[CogoSWSDS]

Why pay for a DVD authoring tool when there are some that are available LEGALLY for free like dvdauthorgui - unless the one you want has features you don't have in dvdauthor/dvdauthorgui?

Just my US$0.02 worth.

[bobarnett]

:P Maybe I'm not even a Newbie... perhaps Embryo would be more accurate but... I downloaded the dvdauthorgui and attempted to "Add a Title" (an MPG) but got the error message "NAV packets are not detected. Please demultiplex." I have absolutely no clue to what this means. I realize Roxio is not well liked but I've already forked out the dough and only hope to get it to do the simple stuff that I want to do.

[Abond]

Here on the left side of the screen at the top (<-----) under the videohelp logo there is WHAT IS -> GLOSSARY. Look there what is demultiplex.

[bobarnett]

Thank you for the direction. Going to the Glossary Page made me realize that I am in waaaaaay over my head here. I've found one of those "... for Dummies" books that I have now ordered and I will read that to at least give me some sort of basis on which to participate here. Thanks for everyone's time.

[bobarnett]

addendum: I haven't received my "Dummies" book yet but I just went ahead and tried the whole process over and it all worked fine... no blocks of color this time. I really have no clue what the difference between the first and second tries. Oh, well. I got my burned disk.