Picture looks like a puzzle of 1000s of small blocks

[Twheels]

I am having trouble getting DVD files to work on actual DVD players.

I have successfully captured Macrovision VHS tape to .avi format, converted same .avi file to dvd format on my hard drive. These files play perfectly in GomPLayer from my hard disk. The rub comes when I create the video DVD and play it in a dvd player, where the sound plays but the picture is a myriad collection of thousands of shifting bitmaps, squares or blocks, resembling a mosaic puzzle, which bears no resemblance to the recorded material.

My hardware includes a Haupagge WinTVGo capture card installed on an Intel dual core system with 4 gigs of ram, running WIndows XP. The software I have used includes Dscaler for capture (with Huffy codec), DVDFlick for conversion to dvd format. My DVD Burner is a LiteOn that's about 2 years old. All other movie and data files recorded on this drive are flawless, so I doubt the possibility of drive failure.

Thanks in advance for your help.

TW

[hech54]

I'd never go from uncompressed AVI to DVD via DVDFlick.

[Twheels]

May I ask what you use?

[Baldrick]

Try a better mpeg2 encoder like hcenc (or together with a gui like avstodvd).

[Twheels]

"Try a better mpeg2 encoder like hcenc (or together with a gui like avstodvd)."

So, it is necessary for some .avi files to be converted to .mpeg2 for a good dvd? Is that true? Is this a background process in DvdFlick that operates poorly for my purpose?

I'll try the other programs you told me about. It is very interesting that these dvd conversions, out of all the others I have done, have failed so miserably.

TW

[hech54]

May I ask what you use?

TMPGEnc Plus for me.